"Dashi Diao·Qing Xingzi·Cheng Huai" is a Yuan Dynasty prose piece written by Zhong Sicheng. The following is the original text and annotations of the Yuan song "Dashi Diao·Qing Xingzi·Cheng Huai" that I brought to you. Welcome to read it. Dashi Diao · Green Apricot · Cheng Huai
Author: Zhong Sicheng
Huayue Restaurant Building can be a joyful and sad autumn [1]. It is common for joy and sorrow to come and go, with bright eyes and white teeth, singing and dancing birds, each showing off his tenderness.
[Yupian] A handsome man cherishes his romance, but owes his past life of wine, illness and flowers. The debt of lovesickness has not yet been fully resolved, carrying the clouds to catch the rain, criticizing the wind and cutting the moon [2], taking precautions everywhere.
[Rapid beat] I love the brocade dove sleeping among the flowers, but I hate the white gull sleeping alone on the water. The moonlit night spends the day, the big banquet is arranged for Xue Wei Niang [3], and the drinking party steals the fragrance of Han Shou [4]. Holding a wine cup with red sleeves, a jade-fiber horizontal pipe [5], silver armor playing a zither, and wine ordering poems. The song becomes a poem, the rhyme harmonizes with the rhythm, the emotion is moved and the soul disappears, and the manuscript is searched [6]. The favor should be accepted[7]. Narcissus, mountain ghosts, and moon-enchanting flower demons, if you encounter them again, you are not allowed to rest [8]. It will be ambush but never leaked [9].
[Part 1] All the flowers gather together, old friends are many and distinguished [10], and when I return from my dream, I will be green, fat, red and thin [11]. When prosperity is too great, sparseness can be seen; when wealth is extensive, intimacy can be seen. Admiring the new and thinking about the old [12], leaving the hairpin untied [13], breaking the mirror and breaking the hairpin [14], bees are jealous and butterflies are ashamed. It is difficult to save bad karma, chronic diseases will appear [15], karma will be overflowing [16], and hard work will be done [17]. Frozen meals are heavily stuffed [18]. Swords and swords, kisses and lips, spears, single-handed attack and decisive victory, no worries in melee, nothing can be achieved without falling into the trap [19].
[End] Spread the levy flag and let anyone go, and the temple's divine fortune tellers will respond. With a pen in hand, I dare to challenge Sun Wu to a battle [20].
Notes
[1] Two sentences of "Huayue Restaurant": It means that the life of socializing with the geishas in the tavern includes happiness and sadness.
[2] Two sentences of "Carrying clouds and pulling out rain": Clouds, rain, wind, and moon were often used in ancient times as synonyms for sexual intercourse between men and women. These two sentences refer to associating with geishas.
[3] Hui Xue: Hui Feng dances in the snow, describing the erratic and light dancing posture. Wei Niang: Du Weiniang, a famous singing girl in the Tang Dynasty.
The daughter was given by the emperor to Jia Chong in the Western Regions, and the fragrance was a gift of longevity. Later, Jia Chong discovered her and married her daughter to him. Here it refers to a romantic man.
[5] Jade fiber: women’s white and slender fingers. Horizontal pipe: refers to playing the flute.
[6] The secretly beating the belly manuscript is a combination of the three sentences above. The main idea is that the poems and music are so harmonious and moving because they have been painstakingly conceived.
[7] Deserve the favor: It means that the geishas have been kind in the past life and should be repaid by them. This is a superstitious statement.
[8] Four sentences of "Narcissus Mountain Ghost": refers to the fact that these beautiful and intelligent singing girls became entangled with him as soon as they met him.
[9] Being able to ambush without revealing it: refers to the fact that each other is secretly in love but does not reveal it to the outside.
[10] Two sentences of "Qunfang gathers their heads": It means that he is the leader and old friend of the singing girls. The beauty and the beauty are all compared to the singing girls.
[11] Green, fat, red and thin: Li Qingzhao's poem "Ru Meng Ling" writes that after a storm, "green, fat, red and thin", with more green leaves and fewer red flowers, spring has passed. Borrowed here, it refers to the good old days.
[11] Admire the new and miss the old: Doubt should be regarded as admiring the new and abandoning the old, which means being greedy for the new and hating the old.
[13] The interpretation of hairpin (zan): give the jade hairpin on your head and the accessories (sachet, jade, etc.) on your body to the other party to express your love.
[14] Broken mirror: Meng Qi's "Poetry of Poem" records: When Chen Jiang died in the Southern Dynasty, Xu Deyan, the consort, expected that his wife, Princess Lechang, would be robbed, so he broke a bronze mirror when they parted. Keep half of it as a certificate to see you again one day. Dividing hairpins: In ancient times, when couples separated, the woman often gave the hairpin on her head to the man as a souvenir. This sentence means that the couple divorced.
[15] Chronic disease: a disease that is difficult to treat for a long time.
[16] The karma will be full: the sin will be full.
[Seventeen] Work hard to show your head: the meaning is unknown.
[18] Cold meals are filled with stuffing, and the stuffing is suspected to be swallowed, which means eating cold rice again. From "Enjoy the new and miss the old" to this sentence, the meaning is not very clear. It may mean that because some singing girls like the new and hate the old, some men are abandoned and in a pitiful situation.
[Nineteen] If you don’t get it: No. 机彀(gou): trap.
[Twenty]搦(nou): challenge. Sun Wu: refers to Sun Wu in the Spring and Autumn Period and Wu Qi in the Warring States Period. Both of them were proficient in the art of war and were good at using troops.