The beautiful pipa was once the first in the teaching workshop; The poet was brilliant and became famous for a time. Now that we meet on a passenger ship that has fallen to the ends of the earth, how can our aloof and lofty hearts not produce a trace of disappointment and sadness?
It is often said that the Tang Dynasty was indeed a fantastic and magnificent era. At the end of last century, a group of "avant-garde" boys clamored to "dream back to the Tang Dynasty". Nowadays, it seems difficult for people to associate the Tang Dynasty with the word "sentimental". However, after all, history has its own laws, not to mention Tianbao's elegy and Anshi's rebellion. Nearly half a century later, Bai Juyi, who was demoted to Jiangzhou, felt the helplessness and bitterness of the times more deeply. Several Pipas touched the injustice that the poet had been trapped in his heart for a long time. Because of injustice, the poet feels lonely; Because of loneliness, poets are eager to communicate; Because of communication, the poet is comforted; Because of this rare comfort, the poet's two lines of clear tears soaked his dark blue shirt uncontrollably, even though he was faced with a Jianghu singer who had never met before.
For Bai Juyi, who was born in 772 AD and lived in Chang 'an for a long time, he is familiar with and yearns for the romantic life in the prosperous Tang Dynasty, but at this time he is in the most frustrated stage of his life, and he may not dare to imagine the peace and leisure in the future. In his later years, Bai Juyi had a bamboo play in front of the window and a wine sale outside the door. In the material environment, there is a feeling of snow in the dusk outside. Would you rather have a drink? In a leisurely mood, do you occasionally think of the pipa girl who made him cry many years ago? For Bai Juyi, the sadness of that night may only be temporary, because five years later, the poet returned to Chang 'an, where he missed day and night, and saw the kind emperor again (although the emperor changed). What about the poor pipa girl? More old and haggard-people's fate is different.
According to the ancient Greeks, poetry hides all the secrets of a nation.
The autumn wind sighed outside the window, and I sat quietly under the desk lamp, thinking, what is the "password" of pipa? -it's "fate" (this is the inscription on the stone tablet found by Hugo in Notre Dame de Paris). I don't remember the master saying that second-rate writers tell stories and first-rate writers tell fate. Poets are no exception.
Bai Juyi intends to unfold a picture of the fate of two characters for us in clear and accurate language. The fate is mysterious, but Bai Juyi's language is clear, which makes people wonder-the background of the story is just the cold autumn favored by China literati, and the cause of the story is just the reluctant departure of "ecstasy", plus a slim singer who used to be a beautiful actress but now lives alone on an empty boat, and it is the popular clank of iron that undertakes the performance task at that time.