Song Dynasty: Xin Qiji
It takes time to laugh when you are drunk. Recently, I began to feel that ancient books are completely useless.
Matsumoto was drunk last night and asked Matsumoto how drunk I was. I only doubt that I will come to help when I am loose and push away with my hand.
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When I am drunk, I will laugh for a while. How can I worry all day? Recently, I feel that ancient books are really unbelievable at all!
I was drunk by the pine tree last night and asked Song how drunk I was. I suspected that the pine branches were dangling to help me, so I quickly pushed them with my hands and said, "Go!" " "
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The title of this word is "Xing Xing". Literally, it seems to express a leisurely mood. But in his bones, he reveals his thoughts and feelings of dissatisfaction with reality and his stubborn attitude towards life.
In the first movie of Ci, the poet said that he was busy drinking and laughing. But with the word "harmony", what is revealed between the lines is that this kind of "smile" is more sad than "cry": the poet can't relieve his inner anguish and sadness, but just wants to forget his sadness by laughing after drunkenness. This profoundly reflects the poet's inner sadness, which is deeper, more vivid and more credible than using mountains and rivers to describe sadness. Then two sentences further express the angry mood. Mencius once said, "It is better to believe in books than to have no books." You can't believe everything in the book. The poet, on the other hand, said that he only recently realized that nothing in ancient books is credible. If he believes it, he is completely wrong. On the surface, it seems to deny all ancient books. In fact, this is only the poet's deliberate and radical remarks to vent his dissatisfaction with reality, aiming at the situation that the court in the Southern Song Dynasty reversed right and wrong. Xin Qiji advocated the war of resistance, opposed surrender, demanded the reunification of the motherland and opposed separatism. These are just karma and wise sayings in ancient books, but they are all said by the authorities in the Southern Song Dynasty, which just shows that the truth in ancient books doesn't work now. The poet raved after drunkenness, and clearly pointed out from the opposite side that the rulers of the Southern Song Dynasty completely violated the lessons of the ancient sages.
The next paragraph of this word is about more specific ways of getting drunk. "Loose edge drunk", this is not a small drunk, but a big drunk. He treated the pine tree like a human being and asked him, "How drunk am I?" In a trance, he still felt that the pine tree was moving and wanted to help him. He pushed the hand and refused. These four sentences not only write a vivid drunkenness, but also write the author's stubborn character. Only twenty-five words constitute a fragment of the script: dialogue, action, expression and characterization. This poem has never been so rich in content.
"Pushing hands and letting go" is the syntax of prose. In Mencius, there is "Yan Kefa?" A sentence that says "yes", Han Shu's Biography, pushes Chang Yue with his hand: "Go"! "sentence. The use of prose syntax and historical allusions is one of the characteristics of Xin Qiji's bold and unconstrained ci style. Previously, people who opposed it thought that it was "blunt" to use prose syntax to input words, and it was "a book bag" to use classics and history. They believe that it is reasonable to use graceful style, familiar vocabulary and easy-to-understand language in writing, but forget generosity, avoid using allusions and historical vocabulary. Because ci was written in the late Tang Dynasty and the Northern Song Dynasty to match songs. Most of the singers at that time were women, so the lyrics should be graceful and graceful to match the singer's voice; Singing should be easy to understand and avoid using allusions and historical vocabulary. However, in the Southern Song Dynasty, when Xin Qiji lived, Ci developed obviously, with rich and complicated content and improved style, and was no longer written exclusively for songs. Especially a great writer like Xin Qiji, his creative spirit is not bound by all conventions. This is because his political ambition and life experience are different from those of ordinary poets. If the works of this great writer are measured by convention and the style of ordinary poets, it is not from the perspective of development.
The language of this word is vivid and vivid, and the expression technique is novel and strange, which reflects the author's beautiful and elegant style in his later years.
Extended reading: the early experience of characters' life
When Xin Qiji was born, the north had fallen into the hands of the Jin people. Although his grandfather Xin Zan worked in the State of Jin, he always hoped to have the opportunity to take up arms and fight to the death with the Jin people, because Xin Qiji's ancestors had sworn enemies with the Jin people, and he often took Xin Qiji to "climb high and look far" (from "Ten Theories of Meiqin"). At the same time, Xin Qiji also witnessed the humiliation and pain suffered by the Han people under the rule of the Jin people. All this made him set his ambition to restore the Central Plains and serve the country when he was a teenager. Therefore, he has Zhao Yan's chivalrous spirit and chivalrous spirit.
When Xin Qiji was a teenager, he was also studied by Liu Zhan (Song Shi Cai Bojian) with the Party, and was called "Xin School".