In the history of China literature, folk songs in the Southern and Northern Dynasties are an important part, and many well-known works are amazing to read. Among them, one lyric poem is particularly eye-catching, that is "Xizhou Song".
Xizhouqu
the folk songs of the northern and southern dynasties
Miss Mei wants to go to Kau Xizhou and break plum blossoms on the north bank of the Yangtze River.
Thin clothes are as red as apricots and hair as black as crows.
Where is Xixi Jiao? The two oars on board can be placed at the ferry pier of the Kau Xizhou Bridge.
At dusk, Shrike came and the wind blew the tallow.
Under the tree is her home, and her emerald hair is exposed in the door.
She opened the door and didn't see her sweetheart. She went out to pick red-violet flowers.
Autumn, autumn Nantang, she is holding a lotus seed, and the lotus grows taller.
With his head down, he fiddled with the lotus seeds in the water, which were as green as the lake.
Hide lotus seeds in your sleeve. Lotus seeds are red and transparent.
Miss my husband, but not yet. She looks up at the swan in the sky.
The sky was full of geese, and she went up to the tower to see her husband.
Although the tower is high, she can't see her husband. She leans against the railing all day.
The railing bent and bent into the distance, and her hands were as bright as jade.
The curtain is so high, rippling like sea water, empty and generally dark green.
If the sea is as long as a dream, then you are sad and I am sad.
If Nanfeng knows how I feel, please blow my dream to Puxi Island.
This poem is about the lovesickness and love of a beautiful girl in the south. She wrote at the beginning that when she saw plum blossoms, she wanted to go to Xizhou, fold a plum blossom and give it to her lover. She is young and beautiful, dressed in apricot red, and her hair is black and bright. In order to meet her lover, she pretended to go out to pick red-violet flowers. But in the end, I didn't see the person she missed so much. After coming back, she was still homesick and sad. In desperation, she can only entrust Nanfeng to bring her affection to his lover.
The style of the whole poem is beautiful and graceful, and the girl image is naive, shy and affectionate, picturesque and intoxicating. Someone once regarded the poem "There are good sentences but no good ones" as a great regret. For example, Xie Lingyun's "Climbing the Pond and Going upstairs" is not a first-class work, although there is an eternal famous sentence "Spring grass grows in the pond and willow turns into a songbird". And let's look at this song of the west. It can be said that you can't find a dissatisfied sentence in the whole article. I'm afraid it's an exaggeration to say it's perfect, but I'm afraid no one will object to saying it's a rare "masterpiece"
Mr. Zhu Ziqing's masterpiece "Moonlight on the Lotus Pond" once quoted this poem, "In autumn, lotus is picked in Nantang, and the lotus is over the head. Bow your head and get lotus seeds, lotus seeds are as clear as water. "I think many people learned about this work from here." "Being favored by the literary master Zhu Ziqing is naturally not an ordinary product.
Everyone has different preferences for literary works. Personally, I think a poem like Xizhou Song is the most appropriate. The language is plain, but patchwork, affectionate, but flashy, and the words are fair and beautiful. Some works pursue flowery rhetoric excessively, but in the end they are obscure and difficult to understand. The great poems of the Han Dynasty are carefully chosen, and their literary thoughts and talents are really detached, but after all, they are deliberately piled up, which is not as good as the aesthetic experience of a beautiful poem.
It is well-deserved to regard Xizhou Song as a model of folk songs in the Northern and Southern Dynasties. Art comes from life, and works from the people often have their most authentic artistic vitality, just like a tree that lives forever in the soil of years.