The image of Yang Guifei portrayed in Song of Eternal Sorrow is particularly prominent, especially the poems describing Yang Guifei's portrait are wonderful.
"If she just turns her head and smiles, there will be hundreds of spells cast, and the six palaces will fade into nothing." These two sentences were written by Yang Guifei when she first entered the palace. "If she just turns her head and smiles, there will be hundreds of spells", which reminds people of "looking forward to beautiful eyes and smiling skillfully" in the Book of Songs.
However, the Book of Songs is still too brief. Bai Juyi's "smile with eyes wide open" is extremely concrete and vivid, especially the word "look back" before "smile with eyes wide open", which is particularly worth pondering. "Bai Mei Sheng", let them read it.
A dreamer can exert his imagination to the extreme. If you can imagine how beautiful the imperial concubine is, how beautiful she will be.
"A gust of wind filled her cloak and fluttered with her movements, as if she were dancing with a rainbow skirt and feather clothes." These two poems are the wonderful "appearance" of the imperial concubine in Haixian Mountain, which is very imaginative in a romantic way. This poem does not describe the true identity of the imperial concubine.
Beauty only describes the clothes of the imperial concubine, but readers can still imagine the incomparable beauty of the imperial concubine, and this "gust of wind filled her cloak and fluttered with her movements" even naturally reminds people of flying in Dunhuang Mogao Grottoes. Writing and wearing are different.
Focus on the whole, but only write sleeves, but this captures the most typical image, long sleeves are good at dancing, which naturally leads to the following sentence "as if she danced with rainbow skirts and feathers." President Mao Zedong's speech "Reply to Li Shuyi" includes
"Lonely Chang 'e puts on her sleeves, and Wan Li dances for the soul in the sky", which also focuses on the "sleeves" of clothes and rests on the word "dance", perhaps influenced by these two poems by Bai Juyi!
From these two poems, we may recall that the description of Qin Luofu's beauty in Shang Mo Sang by Han Yuefu is not directed at people, but about Luo Fu's dress: "Qi Qi is in the lower skirt and Zi Qi is in the upper skirt." But readers can still imagine.
The beauty of Luo Fu. Bai Juyi wrote Yang Guifei's "A gust of wind filled her cloak and fluttered with her movements", which may be used for reference. But "Shang Mo Sang" is a folk song about working women picking mulberry, so this poem is rooted in reality and written simply. but
Bai Juyi's "Song of Eternal Sorrow" is about the imperial concubine. Li Yang's love is a sad legend, so he wrote about the imperial concubine. Although she is still alive, she is a little more fairy and romantic.
The sentence "She seems to be dancing with a rainbow skirt and feathers" not only fully shows the beauty of the imperial concubine, but also reminds readers of the scene when the imperial concubine was in favor before the Anshi Rebellion, which makes people fall into deep thinking about history.
From "sleeve" to "dance", readers can easily associate it with the kung fu of actors dancing sleeves on the stage of Beijing opera. The author's writing of "The Imperial Lady" really has the aesthetic characteristics of our nation. China's traditional operas respect Tang as their ancestors, while the traditional opera world.
Also known as the Liyuan, opera performances, especially the corner performance of Beijing Opera, and water sleeve kung fu are particularly valued, all of which are related to Tang, Yang Guifei and Song of Eternal Sorrow, and deserve our serious consideration today.
These two poems were originally about the surprise, sadness and tears of the imperial concubine when she saw the arrival of the emperor's envoy. However, although she is a tearful imperial concubine, she still presents a kind of beauty.
The metaphor of "pear flower falls Spring Rain" is really amazing. At the same time, this poem will also have many associations. This association has a history, such as Tang Xuanzong training Li Yuan's disciples; It is also aesthetic, comparing people to pears,
This is beautiful and novel, but the author further describes it as "spring comes and rain comes", which is even more beautiful, and it is also very suitable for the situation that the imperial concubine "tears float down her sad white face" A few years ago, there was a Peking Opera "Song of the Tang Dynasty".
Princess, its theme sings: "pear blossoms, spring rain sends." Pear flower falls, spring is in the mud. This life is only for one person, saying that he is also crazy about the king. But grace cannot be hidden, who hates an eternal fan and an eternal thought. " No doubt this song
The lyrics are also beautiful, but if you taste them carefully, you can also feel the lyrics' reference to Song of Eternal Sorrow, especially "tears flow down her sad white face, just like the spring rain falls on pear flowers".