Songji
Stepping into the moonlit night and feeling the moonlight like mercury, people will naturally think of Beethoven, Debussy and Chopin. However, in this world, I think the distance between Su Dongpo and the moon should be the closest. They are not impromptu hugs and melodramatic intimacy, but a natural fusion.
If music is used to compare life, Su Dongpo undoubtedly belongs to a symphony. This is not only because of his talent and ups and downs, but also because of his flexibility, tension and colorful spirit. So, what is the cadenza of this symphony? I don't think it's the glory of his success as a teenager. Being the first and meeting the emperor is not the kind of light and graceful minuet. Nor did it soar at the age of human destiny, from the seven-product satrap to the glory of the three-product Hanlin-not the kind of melodious and magnificent waltz, but the time when he was exiled to Huangzhou after being relegated to prison-it was his movement wandering under the red cliff moon, and it was an adagio for flute and violin. Lonely red cliff, lonely river, melancholy moon, perhaps waiting for a thousand years, finally waiting for the poet, Su Dongpo with a big beard and a little drunk. Su Dongpo may have searched for most of his life and finally found Chibi, Dajiang and Mingyue. Since then, their scenes have merged and complemented each other. Su Dongpo transformed a rock wall into a culture, while Chibi sublimated a life into a spirit.
Although Su Dongpo later left Huangzhou Chibi, he first went straight to the top of the mountain, then suddenly fell to the bottom of the valley and was exiled to the ends of the earth, but his life has been fixed in Huangzhou Chibi. Huangzhou Chibi always belongs to Su Dongpo, and Su Dongpo always belongs to Huangzhou Chibi. Even after a thousand years, on a bright moon night, you come to Chibi, Huangzhou, or stand, or walk, or go boating, and your ears can't tell the waves of the river from the songs of poets; Your eyes can't tell which is loose posture, which is crane shadow and which is Dongpo layman. What about the bright moon overhead? You must be familiar with it, because you have read it in Dongpo's articles and poems.
The moon in the poem always likes to walk. However, in most people's poems, the moon is just an ornament, just like a woman's brooch or a man's tie clip. Li Bai was the first person to regard the moon as a friend. He raised his glass and invited the moon to drink with him. It was not until Su Dongpo that the moon really realized its aesthetic significance and philosophical value-Su Dongpo's moon is half poetry and half philosophy.
"But the breeze on the river and the bright moon in the mountains are audible to the ears, and the color of the eyes is inexhaustible ..."
"People have joys and sorrows, and the moon is full of rain or shine. This matter is ancient and difficult ... "
In Su Dongpo's paintings, the moon is omitted from the painting, or hidden outside the painting to peep. Moonlight dances on a thin bamboo leaf in the breeze, and the looming moonlight seems to be interpreting emptiness and reality, the world or life that exists and does not exist.
Su Dongpo's blasphemy against the moon is inseparable from the poet's love complex for the moon. He always likes walking, drinking and singing in the moonlight. On a moonless night, he will wait for the moon while drinking. When the moon was still dressing up behind the Dongshan Mountain, he "recited the poem of the moon, the chapter of graceful and restrained music" and invited the moon. Facing the moonlight everywhere, he was worried that his steps would disturb the tranquility of the moonlight, destroy its perfection and defile its purity, so he simply lay on the side of the road and waited for the dawn. ...
However, Su Dongpo is more than just a poet. Imagine if another person, brilliant and famous in the world, was demoted, imprisoned or exiled because of the political vortex or the success of the villain. He may have three choices: first, he will destroy himself and resist the dark forces by ending his life. This is Qu Yuan's way. The second is self-destruction and drunkenness, which is Li Bai's way. The third is self-transformation, raise your hand. "Can't I take it?" Bow to the villain. Whose way is this? Su Dongpo chose the fourth road, that is, self-transcendence, which should perhaps be called the road of Tao Qian. Su Dongpo used "empathy Dafa" or "emotional transfer" to transfer his feelings from politics to culture, from society to nature, from the real world to the ideal world and from the material world to the spiritual world. Therefore, the world that belongs to him is not narrow, but broad and lofty. What he lost was depression and bondage, but what he got was relaxation and freedom. Therefore, we can't read resentment, find hatred, hear complaints and only feel beauty in his articles and poems. People have an illusion that Su Dongpo is not living in exile or exile in Huangzhou, but on vacation.
Su Dongpo enjoys the moon from the unique perspective of poets and philosophers. Is the moon also admiring Su Dongpo, with her pure and holy eyes? What kind of feeling will the moon feel when reading Su Dongpo's wandering figure and drunken eyes? Does she regard Su Dongpo as a friend or a lover? Maybe they just talk to each other and comfort each other. However, Su Dongpo's maturity and sublimation are definitely related to the moon and the moon in Chibi, Huangzhou. From laughing at the world to laughing at yourself, from smiling on the surface to laughing at the bottom of my heart, it must be related to the moon. Walking in the moonlight, filtered by the moonlight like water, makes the poet clear inside and outside, and his courage is ice and snow. Everything in the world, such as humiliation, gains and losses, gratitude and resentment, and even life and death, is washed away by moonlight. At this moment, the poet is the moon and the moon is a poet. The moon is a poet in the sky, and the poet is the moon on the earth. The poet walks hand in hand with the bright moon, and the bright moon dances with the poet.
Su Dongpo's life has always been met with envy and blows from men, while women love him. Besides the love of two ladies-in-waiting, the worship of geisha and the secret love of his cousin, he was also taken care of by three queens. One is Empress Injong. Su Dongpo, who is brilliant and sharp-edged, always feels like a sore throat when facing the disadvantages of current politics and the suffering of the people. I got caught throwing up a hundred times. The detractors at that time insisted on killing Su Dongpo. It was Empress Injong who stepped forward and pulled Su Dongpo back from the line of death. This is Su Dongpo's luck and Su Dongpo's sorrow. Fortunately for him, I didn't expect Queen Injong to lend him a helping hand at the time of disaster. To his sorrow, it was a pair of women's hands that could save his life in such a big court.
The other is Empress Yingzong. Su Dongpo rose step by step after Huangzhou was reinstated and lived in exile there. In a blink of an eye, he came to Zhezong and became the emperor's secretary, operated by Empress Yingzong. Although Empress Yingzong told Su Dongpo that his rapid promotion was not his own credit, nor the favor of the emperor, nor the recommendation of ministers, but the legacy of the first emperor. She also said that Zongshen often praised Su Dongpo as a wizard, and he wanted to reuse it, but unfortunately he died before he could use it. In fact, Empress Yingzong must have lied. If Emperor Zongshen really valued Su Dongpo, he could at least protect Su Dongpo from relegation, imprisonment and exile, even if he did not promote Su Dongpo through public discussion. The emperor is fully capable of doing this. Why did he wait until he died to "work hard"? Is it that Emperor Zongshen exiled Su Dongpo to exercise in the countryside? Queen Yingzong told a political lie. On the one hand, she wanted Su Dongpo to be grateful to the late emperor and devote himself to DaSong. At that time, Emperor Zhezong was only nine years old and snuggled up to his grandmother all day. The imperial court in Song Dynasty needed talented person Su Like Dongpo to support him. If Su Dongpo is angry with the late emperor, can he still serve DaSong wholeheartedly? On the other hand, Empress Dowager Cixi also used the former emperors to put pressure on the ministers, so that everyone believed in Su Dongpo's promotion, so as not to gossip and gossip. Su Dongpo became the secretary of Zhezong, and often stayed in the palace at night to draft letters for the little emperor. It was cold, so Queen Yingzong sent someone to bring Su Dongpo a pot of hot wine. For Su Dongpo, this kind of humanistic care is more gratifying than any political splendor, or a ray of harmonious moonlight sprinkled on Su Dongpo's heart.
There is also a Zongshen Empress Dowager Cixi. When Su Dongpo was exiled for the second time, it was the Queen Mother Regent Zongshen who recalled Su Dongpo from Hainan. Otherwise, Su Dongpo, who is over 60 years old, will be buried at the ends of the earth.
I don't know if this is the equation of character and fate, or whether the poet is related to the moon woman. But what is certain is that in the eyes of poets, the moon must represent brightness, simplicity, peace, tolerance and fraternity; It represents implication and femininity, elegance and nobility, freedom and romance, emotion and art, childlike innocence and dreams, humanity and humanity.
Chopin's moonlight music is imitating nature, Debussy's moonlight music is depicting dreams, and Beethoven's moonlight music is interpreting love. So, what does Su Dongpo's moonlight music interpret?