Lu, a poet in the early Tang Dynasty, has such a famous sentence in Chang 'an Ancient Meaning: "Why don't you give up your life if you succeed?" You would rather be a mandarin duck than a fairy. "Legend: Flounder, with a flat body and only one eye, must be put together to form two eyes before it can travel, like a couple who share joys and sorrows. In addition, Yuanyang is a beautiful waterfowl, swimming around in the water all day, never leaving. It is said that as long as one of them is caught, the other one will be lovesick to death. Willing to be a matchmaker and a mandarin duck is the affirmation and desire of many women in the world for love. What do immortals envy? You can lose your life! Just like Jiao Zhongqing and Liu Lanzhi, the hero and heroine in the long narrative poem Peacock Flying Southeast in the late Han Dynasty, the husband and wife loved each other deeply, but were separated by their bossy mother-in-law. Finally, Lan Zhi drowned himself, Zhong Qing hanged himself, and they were buried together after their death. The phoenix tree crossed the grave and flew away as a pair of mandarin ducks. In the novel Jiao Hong Ji, Shen Chun and Wang Jiaoniang, two affectionate men and women, could not get married before their death, but also became mandarin ducks after their death. As for the story of Liang Zhu's double suicide, he turned into a butterfly at the same point after his death, which was constantly staged in Chinese dramas and movies, and I don't know how many tears of sympathy he earned.
In addition, "Luan Jing" is also a common image in Tang poetry, which is used to express loyalty to love. Bai Juyi said in Taihang Road: "What's more, my heart hasn't changed in the mirror." The article "Bodhisattva Man" also said: "Who knows the mirror and the flower branch?" The legendary phoenix bird, male and female are always inseparable, in pairs. There is a story in Liu's "Different Garden" in the Southern Dynasties: King Bin had a phoenix, which lost its spouse and didn't sing for three years. His wife told him, "It is said that this kind of bird can sing when it sees its own image", so she hung a mirror to see it. Sure enough, when she saw herself in the mirror, the phoenix bird began to sing, singing sadly, and crashed into the cage in the middle of the night and died. This kind of bird loyal to love, which the ancients cast in the mirror, is the "Luan mirror" that often appears in poetry.
My Fair Lady, Gentleman, Love Poems in the Tang Dynasty, as vast as the sea, are not only numerous, but also have a wide range of themes and unique styles. Or you can talk about love, or you can talk about resentment, or you can write about the love between men and women, affection, lovesickness and romantic love. ...................................................................................................................................... mentioned at the beginning of the Book of Songs that "my fair lady is a good gentleman". Once upon a time, our lover's smile made us "unable to sleep, unable to think" or even "tossing and turning", and finally we got married successfully. This poem is known as the eternal swan song, and even Confucius praised it as "joy without lewdness and endless sorrow"
People's dating after dusk is not all about "affection and ceremony" In traditional society, "dating" seems to be very unacceptable, so Ouyang Xiu has the saying that "the moon is at the tip of the willow, and people date after dusk". Yuan Zhen, a poet in the middle Tang Dynasty, wrote a famous biography of Yingying, including a poem called Answering Zhang Sheng:
Under the west wing of the moon, the windward door was half open. The flowers on the wall are moving, and it is suspected that they are jade people.
This poem is very famous, and the name of the adaptation of The West Chamber comes from this poem. It means: standing under the west wing, the door of the moon rises and the flowers reflected on the wall shake back and forth. Is my lovely lover there? It deeply depicts the psychology of women in love. Another example is Li Shangyin's "I spent a night as a guest in Qin Lou and peeped at the flowers in the Prince's Garden" and "What is the life of an angel but a dream, and my sister-in-law has no A Lang alone", which makes the state of mind of men and women cheating very real.
Generally speaking, the love expressed in poetry is more implicit. Only in novels and operas can we see Hongfu's daughter running to Li Jing at night, or Bai Niangniang actively pursuing the avant-garde female image like Xu Xian.
Girls fall in love with spring, while old women don't marry Liu Xiyi, a talented scholar in Tang Dynasty. In his poem "A Woman on a Spring Tour", the girl looks charming and lovely, but flowers bloom and fall, and youth is wasted, which only increases sadness. And his "Luoyang children cherish the color and sigh when the flowers fall." The color of flowers has changed this year, and who will bloom next year "shows that women are afraid of getting old and hurting Chun Qing. Du Qiuniang has a work The Witch:
I advise you not to cherish noble Yi, and I advise you to cherish youth. There are flowers that can be folded straight and must be folded, and flowers without branches.
In a word, the theme of this poem is "Don't have fun". Although his feelings are simple but strong, they linger in his heart and have incredible charm. Because of the relatively open society in the Tang Dynasty, women also dared to pursue love. Chun Qing, who belongs to the boudoir, did less, like The Book of Songs? The old maid who has passed marriageable age in Plum Blossom has a sad face, or is as bold and generous as the folk song "An old woman doesn't marry, and the earth calls heaven", which seems to be rare in Tang poetry.