As we all know, the story of Tanabata is about the granddaughter of the Emperor of Heaven, the Weaver Girl, who came to the world for many years. I stopped knitting after I married the cowherd in Hexi. How can a weaver girl who can't knit be a weaver girl of the Emperor of Heaven? So the Emperor of Heaven was furious and ordered her to be separated from the Cowherd, and they were only allowed to meet once a year on Tanabata (July 7th).
Bai Juyi wrote Tanabata, "Clouds and bright moons are in the sky, and silver, Han and autumn are the same." How many joys and sorrows, and on this night every year. "Sadness and parting, the tragedy that lovers can't be together, whether it's heaven and earth, whether it's ancient or modern, whether it's legend or reality, are constantly happening, constantly deducing, and constantly repeating love and hate.
There is also a "Song of Eternal Sorrow", "On the seventh day of the seventh month in the Eternal Life Hall, we secretly told each other in the quiet midnight world. In heaven, let's be two birds flying together forever, and on earth, let's be two trees linked together forever. The earth endures, and the sky endures; Sometimes both will end, and this eye is endless. " It seems to be about Li Longji's yearning for Yang Yuhuan. In fact, it is more about Bai Juyi's resentment that his first lover can't be together, and his constantly chaotic thoughts.
Bai Juyi's long and heartless life covered up his infatuation with romance and his lifelong love for bohemian. It is said that Bai Juyi has 33 domestic geishas, among which the most famous ones are "the cherry in Su Fan's mouth and the willow in the waist", Su Fan and Xiao Man. However, Bai Juyi spent his whole life, and only his neighbor Xiangling really loved him and loved him to the old age.
Bai Juyi was originally born in a bureaucratic family in Xinzheng, Henan. Because of the war, he settled in Suzhou R&F and met Xiangling, a girl next door who is four years younger than him. Bai Juyi wrote a song "Neighbor Daughter" when he was nineteen? "Have a graceful demeanour fifteen wins the immortal, Chang 'e day dry land lotus. Where to teach parrot language, under the screen window and in front of the embroidered bed. "One of them is good at poetry and the other is good at music.
But Xiangling is just an ordinary peasant girl after all. /kloc-when she was 0/6 years old, she sang a song "endless grass on the grassland. With the seasons coming and going, wildfire never devoured them, and they grew taller in the spring breeze"? How to match Bai Juyi, who surprised the Tang Dynasty and stunned Gu Kuang? Who's Gu Kuang? Tang people regarded him as Du Li's successor, and he was a literary master that students all over the world were eager to pay tribute to. So Bai Juyi's mother strongly opposed it and stopped it.
His mother, Chen, married her uncle at the age of 4 15, and died of a disease of her young son. The twisted marriage and current situation made Chen Pin pin all his hopes on this talented teenager. Realizing her son's love for Xiang Ling, she was quite annoyed:
"My White House is a noble, three generations of officials, scholarly family. You are a peasant woman who dreams! " In order to kill this relationship, Bai Juyi was sent to his uncle's house in the south. It was three years after he traveled to Beijing from his uncle's house that Bai Juyi returned to Liv.
Unfortunately, when I returned to my hometown, I found that Xiangling's family had disappeared. Seven or eight years later, Bai Juyi was studying by the lake one day and met the Xiangling family who had returned home from other places. Originally, they planned not to come back. Because Xiangling's father missed his hometown, he had to return. This time, Bai Juyi and Xiangling stole the forbidden fruit "Flowers are not flowers, fog is not fog, come at midnight and go at dawn". Speaking of spring dreams,
Disappear like a cloud and can't find a place. "It's about their private meeting at midnight.
Later, when her mother learned about it, she was furious and moved to Xiangyang by force, even refusing to give her a chance to say goodbye to Xiangling. Overnight, the White House disappeared. Bai Juyi wrote a poem "Dive away" on the road.
"Don't cry, dive away; No words, dark acacia; "
I dare not cry, dare not say, I can only say goodbye to you secretly in my heart and miss you secretly.
"Although the river is turbid and the sun is shining, Aconitum is black and white."
Xiangling, my mother will change her mind one day. You must wait for me.
After returning to Xiangyang, Bai Fu died of illness. The Xiangling family, in the face of rumors, can only fly away again.
Bai Juyi studied hard for Baijia and Xiangling and went to Beijing to catch the exam. It was extremely difficult to enter the Tang Dynasty. In the year when Bai Juyi participated, more than 3,000 people only passed the exam 17. He is the youngest one? "Sheenta is the youngest among 17 people." Bai Juyi was in high spirits, and the White House lantern hung high, but there was a lonely lamp in Xiangling room, sobbing in a low voice. Bai Juyi found Xiangling and dragged her to kneel in front of her mother, hoping to fulfill them both.
Mother said coldly, "you are a student in cloth, but she doesn't deserve it." Now that you are a pupil of the son of heaven, she is even less worthy to wear shoes for you! " At this time, Xiangling was twenty-five years old, and all the girls of the same age had their own children, around their knees. Struggle for so many years, silly waiting for so many years, infatuation can't move the world, but the gap between them is getting bigger and bigger.
Bai Juyi will go back to Beijing to participate in the selection of the official department. At the parting ferry, Xiangling gave Bai Juyi a pair of thousand layers made by herself.
Shoes in pairs, people are lonely. Shoes can still go both ways, but people have to live far away.
Bai Juyi is deeply grieved. "Nanpu is sad, and the west wind is autumn. I can't go back at the sight of heartbroken! " Time makes everything I love you regret.
After arriving in Beijing, Bai Juyi met Yuan Zhen, who wrote that "once the sea is difficult for water, it will always be amber". However, this ungrateful man abandoned everything and bleached his ruthless life with an infatuated poem. Bai Juyi read "Cui Yingying" written in a shameless prototype and remembered his Xiangling: "I owe you one day, but I miss my century-old wife." If you call yourself stupid, be careful not to treat others lightly. "
Xiangling seems to have disappeared from Bai Juyi's life. Bai Juyi, whose heart is dying, began to be crazy about prostitutes. He used to be a degenerate,
Spare no effort to destroy yourself to bury love and regret for Xiangling and resentment and hate for life.
In the Tang dynasty, with his official system, only three domestic performers could be retained. But Bai Juyi alone accounted for more than 30 prostitutes. He treats all women in the world as playthings, changing them every three years, and being fired when he is old. "After ten years, the spring crow will become a warbler's tongue, and after three years, the ugly will become a flying moth eyebrow." But he refused to get married. In his mind, no woman is worthy of his wife except Xiangling. However, Xiang Ling disappeared when her elderly mother piteously forced her to death. He gave in again and married Yang at the age of 37.
However, his heart only has Xiang Ling, and Yang is just a decoration. He felt that he was not worthy of all the honors she had won because of Bai Juyi. A person has been denied before he appeared, and no matter how hard he tries to please and how he gives up on himself, he can't get the slightest attention. Looking through his clothes, he always thinks of Xiang Ling involuntarily. "People just walk in pairs, how can they be similar?" If you want to forget, you have no reason to go. "Why isn't she a bedside person? Such a life has always disappointed her, and he has been living in the long-term regret of lovesickness.
When Bai Juyi was 53 years old, he returned to his former residence to find Xiangling, who was still in his heart. When we met again, Xiang Ling was still unmarried.
Although Xu Niang is over 500 years old, her charm remains the same. When Bai Juyi was unmarried, there was an insurmountable wall of filial piety between them; Today, he is an important official of the court, with many wives and concubines, but she always sticks to her life and never gets married. He still can't give her a wife's name, so he can only abide by that respect.
After Bai Juyi left, he told Ling that if he wanted to keep his promise, he had to become a Buddha. Ten years later, Bai Juyi, who was over 60 years old, summoned up his courage again and came back to find her. This time, he thought, he would stay with her anyway. But Xiang Ling didn't even look at her because she didn't want him to see her old age. What's more, there is a wall between them. Bai Juyi was ashamed and hated, and he couldn't say it if he wanted to.
She wrote a letter to Bai Juyi:
"It depends on parents' understanding and support, so I can stick to my lifelong commitment not to marry you. After my parents died, my brothers understood me very well and I was able to stay in the Buddhist temple. For thirty years, I have been used to chanting. I don't even remember the world of mortals,
You, don't come to me again. "Bai Juyi always wrinkled his hand and pinched the letter, and his five internal organs were cracked. The woman he loved, read, thought and failed all his life finally missed goodbye.
He wrote a poem to Xiang Ling:
"Don't come to the eldest brother's bitter monasticism, refined to ashes. I've been thinking about this problem all my life. Why did I dream last night? "
If you have forgotten me, why did you appear in my dream last night?
Xiangling gave a wry smile. She just asked her brother to deliver the last word for her. "Since we met in a dream, let's say goodbye. See you in heaven. "
Bai Juyi left with a broken heart. Liv met at the beginning of Mid-Autumn Festival. When he met Lang Jun, he missed his life. I thought time could repair all the resentment. I thought that the Buddhism with five empty meanings could pass through my soul, but I didn't expect that even if I fasted for 30 years, I still couldn't understand "color is empty" in the end.
Later, he got tired of fighting, fired all domestic prostitutes, and finally realized that the best life for him was just:
"There is a bamboo play in front of the window, and there is wine to sell outside. How to treat a gentleman is a pot. "
He will never forget Xiang Ling. At the age of thirty-six, he borrowed stories from Li Longji and Yang Yuhuan and wrote Song of Eternal Sorrow. He can't directly complain that his mother has delayed her lifelong happiness because of her cousin's opinion, and she can't get rid of the heavy pressure that Xiangling has suffered because of him in her life and devote her life to fulfilling her promise. I can't forgive myself for disappointing the only person I love in my life. He doesn't understand why people who clearly love each other can't be together. All kinds of things are concentrated on one "hate". He wrote Xiangling in Song of Eternal Sorrow, and her beauty is no less than that of the imperial concubine. "As long as she turns her head and smiles, there will be a hundred spells, and the powder and paint in the sixth palace will all go up in smoke." Maybe she is not a stunning beauty in the eyes of the world, but she is the most beautiful woman Bai Juyi has ever met in his life. He is as sorry and powerless as Xuanzong? "The earth lasts forever, and the sky lasts forever; One day both will end, and this endless sorrow will continue forever. " He gave a wry smile. Perhaps the most helpless oath in the world is, "Our souls belong together," she said, "just like this gold and this shell." Somewhere, at some time, on earth or in heaven, we will. "In fact, he knows that somewhere, at some time, on earth or in heaven, we will definitely. Xiangling doesn't care, all she wants is to be with him for life.
He also wants to ask her if she regrets knowing him all her life.
I think Xiangling will say, no regrets.
In this life, when I meet you, all my deep feelings are doomed to disappointment. But you've thought about it for so long that you can't forget this mutual affection between us. I am devoted to my life and I am unmarried. You buried your affection with your indulgence. I am an ordinary peasant woman, and meeting you, a talented person of Datang, is the greatest satisfaction in my life; You used your talent to miss my life and exhausted my life's luck. Instead of meeting anyone casually and living a life of fireworks, it is better to live a lifetime together, maybe a husband and wife are dull, maybe a strange strange bedfellows. I married my whole life to the first meeting and to the appearance. If you were not famous in Beijing, my father and brother would not easily promise me never to get married. Since I can't be together in this life, I'd rather be accompanied by yellow axis and blue lights, and I'll listen to each other in the morning, bell and drum, and sincerely convert to Buddhism.
I was forced to leave you all my life, but I always adhered to my original intention according to my own wishes. Don't live up to your family, and don't be disappointed by your family. Although there is no chance, there is love. It's better than being tired of being together for a long time, or watching you move on, or marrying a prostitute.
As far as Bai Juyi is concerned, cowherd and weaver girl can still meet each other on the seventh day of July every year. He and Xiangling have never been together in their long lives. He doesn't know whether to envy them for a certain period of time each year, or to grieve for them and miss each other for 360 days. Parting is always so long, but gathering is so short. I advise you to cherish the people in front of you. It is an enviable thing to be together and be together, and it is also a blessing that I don't know how many generations can be repaired.