Excerpt from Song of Eternal Sorrow by Tang Dynasty poet Bai Juyi, original excerpt:
The emperor of China, eager to shake the beauty of an empire, has been in office for many years, searching and never finding it.
Until a child of the Yang family grew up in the inner room, almost before she grew up, and no one knew her.
However, due to the gift of heaven and no concealment, it was finally elected royal one day.
If she just turned her head and smiled, there were a hundred spells, and the powder and paint of six palaces disappeared without a trace.
Translation:
Ming Di favored beautiful women in the Tang Dynasty. After becoming emperor, he searched for beautiful women for many years, but found nothing.
The Yang family has a daughter who has just grown up and is very delicate and charming. She was brought up in a boudoir, and outsiders didn't know that she was absolutely beautiful.
Natural beauty and beauty made it difficult for her to be buried in the world, and soon she became a concubine around Tang.
She looked back and smiled, charming and moving; The concubines of the six officials are all eclipsed.
Precautions:
1, Emperor Wu of Han Dynasty: originally referred to Liu Che, Emperor Wu of Han Dynasty. This refers to Li Longji, Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty. The literary creation of Tang people is often called Tang in Chinese.
2. Yu Yu: Controlling Yu Yu means ruling the world.
3. The Yang family has a daughter, and the secretariat Yang Xuanyan has a daughter, who was raised by his uncle since childhood. At the age of seventeen (in the 23rd year of Kaiyuan), she was conferred as the concubine of Li Mao, the son of Xuanzong. At the age of twenty-seven, he was canonized as a imperial concubine by Xuanzong. Bai Juyi called it "born in the inner room, no one knows her", and the author deliberately avoided it for the emperor.
4, beauty: beautiful posture.
5, Liu Gong powder: refers to all the concubines in the palace. The ancient emperor set up six palaces, namely the master bedroom (where daily government affairs were handled) and the Yan bedroom (where people rested), which were collectively called the six palaces.
6. Make-up: Make-up is originally a cosmetic product for women. Powder is used to wipe face and make eyebrows. This generation refers to the women in the sixth house.
7. No color: It means that by contrast, everyone has lost their beautiful appearance.
Extended data
Creative background:
In the first year of Yuanhe (806), Bai Juyi was appointed as county commandant (now Xi zhouzhi county). One day, my friends Chen Hong and Wang Zhifu and I visited Xianyou Temple near Ant, and talked about Li Longji and Yang Guifei. Wang Zhifu believes that something as outstanding as this will disappear with the passage of time if it is not polished. So Bai Juyi wrote this long poem.
Appreciate:
In this narrative poem, the author describes the love tragedy of Xuanzong and Yang Guifei in the Anshi Rebellion with refined language, beautiful images, narrative and lyricism: their love was destroyed by their own rebellion, and they were endlessly eating the bitter fruit of this spirit.
Tang Xuanzong and Yang Guifei are both historical figures. Poets do not stick to history, but rely on a little shadow of history. According to the legend of the people at that time, the singing of the neighborhood has degenerated into a tortuous and touching story, which is described and sung in a reciprocating and touching art form.
Because the stories and characters in the poem are artistic, and they are the complex and true reappearance of people in reality, they can ripple in the hearts of readers in past dynasties.
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