Loneliness and sadness, tears always flow on my face, just like pear blossoms with rain in spring. Pear with rain means like pear with rain drops. The original description of Yang Guifei's crying posture. Later used to describe the beauty of women.
From: Song of Eternal Sorrow by Bai Juyi in Tang Dynasty
Original text:
She pushed open the pillow, got dressed, shook off her drowsiness, opened the pearly curtain, and then opened the silver screen. Because she left in such a hurry, her muddy hair ornaments hung aside, and when she came along the platform, her flowered hat was loose.
The wind blew the fairy's robe, as if she were dancing in a rainbow skirt and feather coat. Tears rolled down her sad and pale face, just like the spring rain on pear flowers.
But when she asked him to thank her monarch, her eyes shone with love. Since they separated, her form and voice were unfamiliar to her. Because happiness ends in the courtyard of the sun, the moon and dawn become long in the palace of Xianshan.
But when she turned to look down at the earth and tried to see the capital, there was only fog and dust. He expressed his love for the old man and sent him back a shell box and gold hairpin through his special envoy.
However, one branch of the hairpin and one side of the box were kept, and the gold of the hairpin and the shell of the box were broken. "Our souls belong to each other," she said, "just like this gold and this shell." Somewhere, at some time, on earth or in heaven, we will be together.
She sent him a message through his messenger, reminding him that only the hearts of the two of them knew the oath. On the seventh day of July, in the Palace of Eternal Life, we secretly told each other in the quiet midnight world.
We hope to fly in heaven, two birds become one, grow on the earth, two branches of a tree ... the earth lasts forever, and the sky lasts forever; One day both will end, and this endless sadness will last forever.
Translation:
Put on clothes, push the pillow out of bed, and the bead curtain and the silver screen are opened one after another. I just woke up with a cloud on my head and came out of the hall with a wreath before I could dress up. Gentle fairy wind fluttered the sleeves slightly, just like China's court music and dance. Lonely and sad, tears are always flowing on my face, just like pear flowers with rain in spring.
Gazing at the emissary of the son of heaven with emotion, I deeply thanked the king, and after a long farewell on Mawei Slope, there was no sign of him. The marriage of Zhaoyang Temple has long been cut off, and the lonely time of Penglai Palace is still very long. Looking at the world from fairyland, you can't see Chang 'an, where dreams linger, but only the vast dust and fog. I can only express my affection with the keepsake of that year. You can take that box of gold hairpin to the king as a souvenir.
The gold hairpin and the cymbal box are divided equally, and the king and I each keep half. I hope our loving hearts are as loyal and hard as Huang Jinbao's, and there will always be opportunities to meet each other in heaven and on earth. When I left, I politely asked the messenger to send a message to the king. Only the king and I know the oath in the letter.
On the seventh day of July, in the Palace of Eternal Life, there was no one in the middle of the night, and we vowed to each other. In heaven, I would like to be a bird flying with me. On earth, I would like to grow branches together. Even if it lasts forever, there will always be an end, but this life-and-death feud will never end.
Extended data:
This passage is about Xuanzong sending alchemists to look for Yang Guifei's soul, focusing on the loneliness of Xuanzong and the sad memories of his past love life. The poet used romanticism from heaven to earth, and finally let the imperial concubine reappear the fairyland on the illusory fairy mountain with the image of "tears falling down her sad white face like spring rain hitting pear flowers".
The catharsis of "emotion" has gone beyond the emotional entanglement between emperors and concubines, and is more of a poet's subjective ideal element, which has already gone beyond the scope of historical facts, showing the contradiction and conflict between subjective desire and objective reality. Finally, "the earth exists, and the sky exists; One day both will end, and this endless sadness will last forever "is the sigh and cry of love."
Unfortunately, love is spread by fate and destroyed by political ethics. This hatred has transcended time and space and entered an infinite realm. In this way, the poet expressed eternal love with "everlasting regret", that is, pointed out the theme of the whole poem.
Song of everlasting regret is a famous poem by Bai Juyi. In this narrative poem, the author describes the love tragedy of Xuanzong and Yang Guifei in the Anshi Rebellion with refined language, beautiful images, narrative and lyricism: their love was destroyed by their own rebellion, and they were endlessly eating the bitter fruit of this spirit.
Tang Xuanzong and Yang Guifei are both historical figures. Poets do not stick to history, but rely on a little shadow of history. According to the legend of the people at that time, the singing of the neighborhood has degenerated into a tortuous and touching story, which is described and sung in a reciprocating and touching art form.
Because the stories and characters in the poem are artistic, and they are the complex and true reappearance of people in reality, they can ripple in the hearts of readers in past dynasties.
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