Rain Lane: People in China have a deep affinity for Lane. Northerners call it hutong, while southerners call it alley. Mr. Wang Zengqi said in Hutong Culture that Beijing Hutong "not only makes people feel nostalgic, but even a little sad" and "makes people feel disappointed"; Alleys in the south can give people a similar feeling. The nostalgia for these traditional images is actually the poet's unique yearning for a leisurely, lonely and barren living environment. This is also the typical mentality of China traditional literati. Dai Wangshu has typical traditional literati characteristics in traditional literature (when most writers blindly abandon tradition and create new literature, he writes poems with traditional images, so unsociable, but so precious)-melancholy, depression and nostalgia. The long, vicissitudes and coldness of the alley are the best lodging for the poet's lonely mood. The rainy south alley is less crowded, more lingering and more vulnerable.
In the rainy season in the south of the Yangtze River, drizzle floats in the lane, misty and rainy. The combination of rain and lane constitutes a unique image, which was initiated by Dai Wangshu. No wonder Ye Shengtao called him "Poet in Rain Lane". Rain Lane is more affectionate and sad than the single Rain or Lane.
Oil-paper umbrella: This is a common thing in rainy season. Because of the rain, the oil-paper umbrella has covered the poet's world. Because of the oil-paper umbrella, the poet has another melancholy that he can't see the distance. The rain outside the umbrella is the sky with rain in its heart. The light yellow oil-paper umbrella was soaked in the rain, which added a touch of light yellow pain to the delicate heart-this is a common thing, but it is rare in traditional poetry.
Lilac Girl: Lilac is a unique and precious flower in China with a long history of cultivation. Flowers bloom in April, with white or purple flowers, fresh and elegant, and rich fragrance. Lilacs are often favored by poets who live a clean and honest life because of their not frivolous colors. Lilacs bloom in mid-spring and wither easily. Poets often hurt spring with lilacs, saying that lilacs are the product of sadness and a symbol of beauty, purity and sadness. Similarly, Chunfeng has its own worries. Li Jing's "The bluebird doesn't spread the news outside the cloud, and the lilacs are sad in the rain", Lu Guimeng's "Diligently untie the lilacs, scatter the branches and spring" and He Zhu's "Deep affection is like a clove knot, but it's hard to show a banana heart" ... are all the sorrows of lilacs, and they are always sad when entangled in tightly woven love.
Dai Wangshu inherited the traditional cultural connotation of lilac in Rain Lane, and made the meaning of lilac more emotional, making lilac feel deeper melancholy. What's more, the poet described the "Lilac Girl" in the rain, which was quiet and quiet, adding a bit of loneliness. The poet greatly downplayed the external form of lilacs and used the radical phrase "girl with lilac knot" to make "lilac girl" an image different from the traditional meaning. This new image is a real person-a girl, but it is also an abstract image. We feel in a hazy alley, and the poet describes his poems and his emotional flow in a rainy alley. People blend with each other, things blend with me, and the delicate state of mind is integrated with the agility of nature.
Such a girl, such a lilac, such a "lilac-like girl", the poet is eager to meet her, even if she is only "sad and confused like a dream" and only has "sighing eyes", even after that, she can only look forward to meeting the "lilac-like girl" again indefinitely.
Rain alley, oil-paper umbrella and lilac girl, Dai Wangshu prefers these images, because they can reflect the poet's heart, show his temperament, show his anguish and show his mind.
The poet is in troubled times and the times are chaotic. Like other literati, he can't fully see the trend of the times, and his hesitation is inevitable. He is kind-hearted, and he is more prone to depression and hesitation in troubled times. Alleys in the south of the Yangtze River are vicissitudes in beautiful scenery, while alleys in the rain are flowing vicissitudes. Ordinary people's oil-paper umbrellas have also become a catalyst for poets' poems, while lilacs in the rain are tender and delicate. Meeting a girl like Lilac in the rain lane is a girl who fell in love at first sight, a life lost in the wind and rain, and a poet's spiritual sustenance. Therefore, the poet always expects to meet a girl like lilac in the rain lane.
Only in such a melancholy rain lane can a poet have such understanding, gratitude and pure poetic language.
The rainy lane is dignified and long, and the oil-paper umbrella walks with it. Lilac girl may meet it. These three images, the rain lane is dark and heavy, the oil-paper umbrella is light yellow, and the lilacs appear in light green, forming a flowing, hazy and enjoyable picture, which seems like a dream in front of me.
Dai Wangshu himself once said: "Poetry is not a kind of enjoyment of official feeling, but something with official feeling or super-official feeling." Through the analysis of the works of the French symbolist poet Gomon, Dai Wangshu is more convinced that poetic images directly lead to readers' "subtle to subtle feelings". With excellent images, the poet's "ingenious brushwork" will become "the ultimate exquisiteness-the exquisiteness of the soul and the exquisiteness of the feelings"
In Rain Lane, the poet created a girl with a lilac knot. Although this is inspired by some works in ancient poems, it is a traditional expression in China's ancient poems to use lilac knots, that is, the buds of lilacs, to symbolize people's worries. For example, Li Shangyin's poem "Giving Gifts" has a poem "Bananas don't show lilac knots, and the spring breeze is sad in the same direction".
Hand-rolled pearls hook jade, lock the heavy building to shine in the spring. Who is the master in the wind? Take it easy!
Jade birds don't spread the news beyond the clouds, and lilacs are empty and sad in the rain.
In this poem, the lilac knot in the rain is used as a symbol of people's sadness. Obviously, Dai Wangshu absorbed the artistic conception and method of describing sadness from these poems, and formed the artistic conception and image of Rain Lane. This kind of absorption and reference is obvious, but can we say that the artistic conception and image of Rain Lane are the expansion and dilution of the modern vernacular version of the old poem Lilac Knot in the Rain? I don't think so. In forming the artistic conception and image of Rain Lane, the poet not only absorbed the fruit juice of predecessors, but also created his own. First, the ancients used the lilac knot itself as a symbol of sadness in their poems, while Yuxiang imagined a girl as sad as the lilac knot. She has the image of lilacs disappearing in an instant, which is different from the old classical poems written by the poet in his early days and other works full of old poetry. It shows more flavor of the new era. Lilac knot in the rain can't arouse people's hope and disillusionment even more than the girl who is as sad as lilac. This image is a rare creation in the field of expressing the sorrow of the times. Second, in ancient poetry, the lilac knot in the rain is based on real life scenes. The poet added his own imagination according to his own life experience. It is a better artistic imagination than life.
He's lonely. In the drizzle, he "walked alone with an oil-paper umbrella in a long, long and lonely rain lane". In such a gloomy and lonely environment, he had a vague and painful hope in his heart: "I hope to meet a girl who complains like a clove." The girl was endowed with beautiful and sad colors by the poet. Although she has the color of "lilac, lilac", she also has "lilac-like anxiety" Her heart is full of indifference, sadness and melancholy. Like a poet, she is "sad and hesitant" in a lonely rain lane. Moreover, she was silent, drifting past her like a dream and walking through this lonely rain lane.
In poetry, these images are independent in form, but they make us feel that they have some connection and have something in common with * * *. Images constitute a special relationship. What does the author want to express in this hazy image?
Some people say that Rain Lane is the poet's "self-liberation" to cover up the ugly truth with a beautiful "imagination", and it is "deceiving himself and readers with a gorgeous illusion like soap bubbles". Apart from artistic harmony and beauty, it is "worthless in content". Some people say that this poem is just like China's freehand brushwork in ink and wash, only exaggerating emotions to the extreme and spreading his troubles and worries.
The summer when Rain Lane produced 1927 was the darkest time in the history of China. The bloody slaughter of revolutionaries by reactionaries caused a white terror that enveloped the whole country. Young people who once enthusiastically responded to the revolution suddenly fell from the climax of the fire into the abyss of the night. Some of them can't find the future of revolution. They are lost in pain and eager for new hope in disappointment. Looking forward to a gorgeous rainbow floating in the haze, Rain Lane is a portrayal of the mood of some progressive young people. Dai Wangshu was only twenty-one or twenty-two years old when he wrote this poem. More than a year ago, he worked with his classmates Du Heng, Shi Zhecun and Liu Naou.