First of all, Li Qingzhao is a representative figure of graceful and restrained ci writers in Song Dynasty. Among her many graceful words, The Sound Slow is a poem that is recognized as a combination of musical beauty and literary beauty, and the poet constructs the beauty of sound and emotion and the beauty of words from multiple dimensions.
Li Qingzhao used her talent to develop the rhythm of the epigraph "slow voice" to a suitable position. The whole article is haunted by a touching and desolate rhyme, which makes this slow word both in form and spirit, and it comes from reading but moving. It can be said that Slow Sound is a masterpiece of the artistic level of Li Qingzhao's ci works. The original words of "Sound Slow" are as follows:
Looking around, lonely and sad. It's the hardest to stop breathing when it's warm and cold. Three glasses and two glasses of wine, how can you beat him? It's late and urgent! Guo Yan is very sad, but this is an old acquaintance.
Yellow flowers were piled all over the floor, withered and damaged. Who can pick them now? Looking out the window, how can you be black alone! Indus is raining in Mao Mao, dripping at dusk. This time, what a sad sentence!
Slow Sound is a work of Li Qingzhao in his later years. The first group weaves natural reduplicated words, giving people a sense of beauty with rhyme. If this rhyme is accompanied by the intermittent autumn rain, it is a perfect rhythm in the rain.
When people listen, taste and appreciate this poem, they will be infected by the bleak lyric effect in the poem, and deeply intoxicated by the beautiful melody and gorgeous lyrics. This is the so-called "we can feel her feelings at that time, even before she plays".
Li Qingzhao's Sound Slow has received rave reviews since its composition. In Song Dynasty, Zhang thought that Li Qingzhao's slow voice was like "Gong Sundaniang's sword dance". Zhang used an appropriate metaphor to illustrate Li Qingzhao's skill in using reduplication and her natural conception.
The first sentence at the beginning of "Slow Whispering" is "searching, cold and lonely, sad and miserable". The poet used fourteen overlapping words in succession. While expressing his feelings in words, the rhythm of music also appeared. The beauty of words and music are intertwined, which is the unique feature of this word. It is precisely because of the natural and free brushwork of these seven groups of overlapping words that they won the praise of "This is Gong Sundaniang Sword Dancer".
The word "Xun" is the source of the poet's emotion and brushwork. All the emotions in the whole word are centered on these four words and ripple around the origin like ripples.
Facing the reality and lonely life after crossing the south, the poet tried to find those unforgettable and beautiful memories in life, eager to find spiritual sustenance and hope of life. But the reality is "cold and clear, sad and miserable", and cold and clear is also a portrayal of the poet's situation and life at this moment. How can this not make the poet feel sad and sad?
Whenever this feeling rises in the poet's mind, her mood plummets and her sadness deepens to a certain extent. This is her first emotional turning point in this word: searching hopefully, but the result is only the cold and helplessness of reality.
What is she looking for? What she pursues is not wealth, but a warm and stable life that will not be displaced. What she longs for is peace and stability, a warm home and Zhao Mingcheng's company. What Li Qingzhao is looking for is very simple, just the most basic and simple need as a woman.
She may think of her past with her husband Zhao Mingcheng, taking Qi Mei as an example, and the good times when she played with her husband and enjoyed artistic treasures such as stone paintings and calligraphy. The time before Du Nan was a happy time in her life and a precious memory.
In the contrast between memory and reality, beauty and loneliness, she had to stop looking and face the real bitterness in reality. Li Qingzhao only used fourteen simple overlapping words to express her own situation and the tragic deterioration at that time, which is another feature of Ci.
The first impression of art is always much more brilliant than the most successful memories later. Often in the first emotional generation, it reaches a height and beauty that can't be achieved later, and it will also bring incomparable brilliance to future generations because of the original painting, thus becoming a precedent that affects future generations. The combination of overlapping words at the beginning of Li Qingzhao's Sound Slow has such an artistic effect.
At this time, Li Qingzhao was wandering around and had no fixed address, which embarrassed the poets. Under such circumstances, she thought of wine that could make her temporarily forget the painful memory, and the poet's already disappointed mood seemed to find hope, and his feelings surged again. She wants to borrow wine to resist the night breeze and escape from the unbearable reality, so as to obtain a short peace.
But last night, the wind blew all night, causing the temperature to drop a lot. The damp and cold atmosphere around can be resisted by this "three cups and two glasses of wine", and a few glasses of wine can't melt the cold. The poet wanted to drown his sorrows in wine, but it was the wine that made him sadder.
The poet suddenly looked up and saw a line of autumn geese passing by the window, which evoked her infinite memories of the past. The root of Li Qingzhao's pain lies in her loss of true love on earth.
"The geese are sad, but they are old friends." Seeing the geese instinctively evoked Li Qingzhao's feelings of missing her relatives in her hometown.
Wild geese come and go from south to north every year, shuttling through the sky; Although you can write from time to time, there is no one you can trust anymore. This seems to be the poet's feelings about the things in front of him, but in fact it is a memory of pure love in the past.
The beautiful love has long gone, and it has become a dusty memory of the poet. The scene of caring for her husband, Zhao Mingcheng, and taking Qi Mei as an example can no longer be reproduced, perhaps only in a dream.
The sight of geese flying by reminded the poet of the past. The poet is like opening a yellowed photo album. The familiar and vivid pictures make her remember it vividly and let her relive the good old days.
However, recalling the past will only make her more sad and empty, and will only add helplessness. So the poet closed the photo album of memories and simply came to the courtyard, where she saw the withered yellow flowers.
"Yellow flowers are piled all over the ground", and "yellow flowers" refers to chrysanthemums. Chrysanthemum is a traditional image in China's ancient literature, which can be a representative of leisure and seclusion, such as Tao Yuanming's poem "Picking chrysanthemums under the east fence and seeing Nanshan leisurely"; It can also be an endorsement of suffering, such as Li Bai's "Chrysanthemum is too bitter, and it is the Double Ninth Festival".
In Li Qingzhao's works, the yellow flowers all over the ground are a portrayal of his own situation, a portrayal of depravity, being ignored by others and not being concerned by the world.
At this time, Li Qingzhao has passed through the world and experienced many vicissitudes. She no longer has the former carefree sorrow of only lovesickness, but is as sad as this yellow flower falling all over the ground. At this time, her sadness, which had gradually calmed down, was evoked again. Facing the scattered yellow flowers and the lost time, she then asked, "Who can pick them now?"
Li Qingzhao loves flowers, and she loves plum blossoms. She once said that "plum blossoms are often drunk in the snow every year"; She likes sweet-scented osmanthus and once said, "Why light blue and deep red? It is the first among flowers "; She also likes arranging flowers. She once put flowers on her temples to surprise her husband. But it's all good old times.
In this late autumn season, what the poet saw, heard and felt was: chrysanthemums withered, petals fell, piled all over the floor, and flowers withered. Can't bear to see the flowers fall. But now who can pick flowers for themselves?
In this sad autumn season in Leng Qingqiu, her husband is gone, and she can only watch the withered chrysanthemums wither one by one.
When the petals leave the flowers, the faint fragrance remains, and disappears after the wind and rain. How much this scene resembles your own lonely wandering situation. Here, the poet's feelings gradually melt in the fallen flowers. She touched the scene, compared herself with the flowers, felt sorry for the flowers, and made her feel dejected.
For Li Qingzhao, nothing scares her more than darkness. "Look out the window, why are you alone?" Her mood fell again, becoming the second pole of Li Qingzhao's mood decline. The sadness here is a link between the preceding and the following, a reflection on the fate of flowers, and the source of emotions contained in the next scene outside the window.
"Look out the window, why are you alone?" This is the most authentic life experience of Li Qingzhao. The word "black" implicitly and accurately expresses the poet's suffering of birth, aging, illness and death. How many nights, the poet was lonely and sleepless, and how many nights, the poet woke up in a dream, and loneliness became the poet's lingering nightmare. At the same time, the word "black" naturally leads to the following melancholy "how to get a sad word", sigh and take care of the beginning.
The rain in Wu Tong has aroused the poet's bitterness. Coupled with Dusk and Drizzle, Li Qingzhao's mood has experienced twists and turns again, from a slightly calm state to a completely sad state.
Li Qingzhao mainly writes sounds here, and uses sounds to set off feelings, especially the overlapping word "dribs and drabs", which is full of rhythm and charm in the rain. When Li Qingzhao felt sorry for the fallen flowers and worried about herself, it rained again. Raindrops pattered on the plane blades until dusk.
The word "Geng" embodies another sharp turning point in her feelings. Although everything in front of me is just a little Mao Mao rain, it will last forever, and I don't know when it will stop. Intermittent light rain often makes people more irritable and causes people's sadness.
The poet only wrote that raindrops hit the plane blades, but the sound of raindrops hitting the plane blades was like hitting the poet's heart. Drop by drop, it wrapped around the poet's heart and hit the poet's heart. The rhythm and melody in the rain are so sad and strong that she can't help it.
Finally, the poet said, "How can I get a sad word this time?" The sadness of the whole word reached its peak. In literary works, people often use metaphors to express their worries. Li Bai used "three thousands of feet white hairs" to describe his worries, and Li Yu also used "like a river flowing eastward" to describe his worries.
Qian Qian's emotions, countless sorrows and dark nights can't be summed up in a single sadness. A word "sorrow" contains the poet's life experience and situation, and also summarizes the bitterness and suffering he suffered during his wandering years.
"What a sad word", in Li Qingzhao's almost desperate cry, the meaning of the word came to an abrupt end, but it left people with unlimited imagination. Words can't be finished. Li Qingzhao's unspeakable sadness and mood, the sadness and sadness that can't be resolved and almost desperate, have actually been poured out.
It can be said that the word "slow voice" reflects Li Qingzhao's complicated life experience and contains her rich emotional experience, which is a true portrayal of the poet's wandering life, twilight life and bleak evening scenery.
The beauty of rhythm, phonology and words between the lines of Slow Sound is like listening to a sad song in the rain, and the melody is touching.
The Sound Slow also vividly expresses Li Qingzhao's feelings of living in the wandering years. The emotion in words is not only personal sadness, but also the voice of that era. This kind of emotion is not achieved overnight, but gradually deepened step by step. The unique writing structure and arrangement enrich the poet's emotions, and at the same time, it is easier to arouse the readers' emotions.
Li Qingzhao's "Sound Slow" links personal sorrow with the times, laments life experiences and misses his hometown. His feelings between the lines are not achieved overnight, but are composed of different levels of sadness.
"Slow voice" is the sound transmission and literary expression of Li Qingzhao's tragic situation, expressing the helplessness of the poet living in a wandering place and the sadness of time passing. Such feelings are progressive in his poems, forming the main line of sadness of change, which makes the word full of artistry.