Thoughts on Reading Song of Eternal Sorrow

Traditional, classical, perfect and idealistic love came to the extreme here. The word "long hatred" in the Song of Eternal Sorrow is actually "should not be long hatred". The story happened in the prosperous Tang Dynasty. Under the wise and promising emperor's rule, the world is prosperous and enduring. Such an era will easily become dull. In fact, only in this era can such an eternal beauty be born without the appearance of peerless beauty. It was Tang, and the beauty was Yang Guifei. One is an emperor who cares about the country and the people, and the other is a godsend and a charming child who cannot be concealed. Lord and beauty, everything is like a match made in heaven. From then on, the prosperous Tang Dynasty was inlaid with gorgeous rose lace. "As long as she turns her head and smiles, there will be a hundred spells, and the makeup of the sixth house will go up in smoke." Yang Guifei's beauty is unparalleled: "His mistress in spring, his tyrant at night, but his love of 3 thousand is concentrated in one body", and the love with Tang is unprecedented. More than ten years of kindness, infatuation, love, and true feelings remain the same until death do us part. It happened to an emperor who is worshipped by the people all over the world, which is enough to make those vulgar people in easy virtue feel ashamed, who are capricious, like the new and hate the old, and do not devote themselves to love. If such love happens to us ordinary people, it should be regarded as the most beautiful and enviable happiness! However, in the home of an emperor who is above all others, everything is arranged by God. When an emperor was faced with the dilemma of "duty to his subjects" and "seeking true love", he chose the latter without hesitation, and the balance of the empire tilted. It is said that when Mr. Bai Juyi and his friends bet on writing this poem, they also had the original intention of "allegory", but they accidentally wrote a love carol. Really "unexpected"? I think if we look at this sincere love for the emperor from the perspective of a scholar and human nature itself, Bai Juyi is obviously deeply moved. Bai Juyi could have started with the emperor's greed for the country and the disaster of beauty, talked about the arrogance and extravagance of the emperor in the Tang Dynasty and the charm of Yang Guifei, and then ended up with the fall of the emperor and the culprit of beauty, trying to exaggerate the regret for the decline of the Tang Dynasty and the ruthless flogging of the witch. Or, you can add something like celebrating the change of Ma Huaipo. However, he didn't write like this. On the contrary, Bai Juyi, with a stroke of his hand, forcibly created an invisible world for the pair of Marriage Requisitions, and made a more sad and touching pursuit of true love appear in front of him. In fact, when we are faced with the beautiful exposition of Li Yang's happy love in Song of Eternal Sorrow, the exquisite brushwork of Where Are You Going and the magnificent imagination of Meet the Ghosts, there is absolutely no need for us to guess Bai Juyi's personal feelings as a writer. In fact, if you calm down and chew the full text carefully, I believe that anyone with feelings will inevitably breed a deep pity and infinite compassion. I'm afraid Bai Juyi is not the only one in Sima Qing. The traditional picture of China's love is often circulated among talented people and beautiful women. For thousands of years, the weak literati has been occupying the leading role in love literature, which seems too monotonous. Literati are "humble" and certainly dare not expect American love songs. No wonder they find fault with the love life of beautiful women and stubbornly let them accompany the national disaster. This is somewhat suspected of "sour grapes". Besides, it's unfair to women. Therefore, Bai Juyi's Song of Eternal Sorrow is obviously a great rebellion. He completely separated the sincere pursuit of human love from the complex bondage of human nature, wrote a hymn of seeking true love with its holiness and purity, and revealed the eternal essence of human love: "true love is priceless." Thousands of years ago, Helen appeared on the head of the Trojan, and the Trojan could immediately decide to fight for her for another ten years. Westerners regard this as the pride in their bones. Then, when Emperor Tang Ming also drifted away from the world for the woman he loved and turned a blind eye to the world of the Tang Dynasty, what reason do we have to criticize him? Because it is true love, at least he should not regret it; Because it is true love, at least we will feel it. This has touched the extremely fragile and hypocritical side of our national psychology. When the wheel of history goes astray at a certain moment, our first thought is not how to try our best to change and perfect it, but to look around and find a scapegoat to show our vigilance. When we really can't find a more stupid shield than ourselves, we will mercilessly blame women, especially the beautiful and refined women among absolute beauties. This is a very gloomy place for our national psychology. When a woman, because of her beauty, is involuntarily pushed into the whirlpool of power, and then falls helplessly and sadly, I think that when Yang Guifei "died in front of Emei", her mood must be extremely painful, or she may be expressing the lament that "beauty has been unlucky since ancient times". She is just telling the story of eternal love to those who love her. That's all. Of course, after reading Song of Eternal Sorrow, don't indulge in the misunderstanding that love is supreme. In addition to our sincere admiration for Li Yang's true love story, we should also make some rational reflections on our view of love today in addition to our regrets over Yang Guifei's unfortunate experience. We can't pursue this story of imperial eroticism, but we will still be deeply moved. For true love itself, for true love itself, fame and fortune can be floating clouds, life and death can embrace each other and last forever. And take a look at our real society, and see how much true love still exists in the real society under the impact of market economy and driven by the temptation of selfish desires, fame and wealth and material interests. When love is paid as the pursuit of personal interests, it is already too vulgar, or devalued. As students, we are not qualified to talk about all kinds of love stories in society. However, when faced with the university campus that was once considered as the pure land of the soul that breeds pure feelings and true love, we were surprised to get more. Let's see how many games there are on campus that are very much in love, and how many endings there are. There was once a slogan "I don't want to last forever, I just want to have it once", which was loud and clear on campus, and undoubtedly put on a lonely compensation or extremely utilitarian color for love. Compared with the emotion of "we want two birds to fly in the sky with the same wing, to live and grow together on the earth, and to be two branches of a tree". Are we so-called "noble" intellectuals too vulgar between Tang Minghuang and Yang Guifei? When the oath of love becomes a tool to deceive feelings, when the dedication of love becomes an exchange of fame and fortune, when love can be easily gained or lost, we can only ask heaven, where can we find true love in the world? I remember a philosopher said that true love only wants one thing, that is, to hold each other's hands tightly, let them change and never let go. Obviously, Li Longji did this, so it will be deeply touched by future generations. What about us? I long for true love. Love is in my heart, and there are too many perfections and idealism. I admire Li Yang's love story, which can give birth to an immortal legend. I appreciate the song of everlasting regret, if there is true love in this world; I appreciate Song of Eternal Sorrow because I firmly believe that love is sacred. In a word, long hatred has songs, and true love is priceless.