At present, it also refers to poems and songs that express mourning and mourn the deceased relatives or friends in a broad sense, which conforms to the meaning of western mourning poems.
Basic information
Chinese name
dirge
author
Pan An
dynasty
Jin Dynasty
Types of works
poetic sentiment
region
China
Spread out completely
brief introduction
It is no accident that Pan An's mourning poems are highly respected. Women in China have always been diligent and thrifty, and have paid a lot of work for raising children and managing housework. Because men are superior to women in society, their achievements are often ignored. Besides, don't people in China all talk about "reservation"? It is customary to keep feelings secret, especially between couples. Looking through tens of thousands of ancient poems, it is obvious that there are very few works that deeply express the feelings of husband and wife. Perhaps because of the arrival of death, the feelings accumulated in my heart suddenly broke out, surging and overwhelming. Once written in words and sung as a mourning poem, it often causes the soul to sing. Besides, Pan An is a master of writing mourning poems, and his specialty in love will undoubtedly contribute to the spread of mourning poems.
Since then, there have been mourning poems in almost all dynasties, among which three poems by Yuan Zhen, a poet in the Tang Dynasty, are very famous: "This is a sorrow that all mankind must know, but it is not as people who used to be poor together know!" "Only you will keep your eyes open all night, which is a lifelong worry in your brow!" The narrative is true, the emotion is crazy, and the language is sincere, which is recognized as a masterpiece in mourning poems. Wu Meicun's "Regret for the Past" is also a sincere and good poem;
The autumn wind is empty, the wine wakes up and the clothes are full of tears. Trying to * * * tastes too early, and leaving is the same result. I'm still here because I'm ashamed of my relatives. Life and death are always right. The saddest thing is to look at a girl and a window lights up. The poet's wife died in the fourth year of Shunzhi (1647). At this time, it was only two years since the Qing soldiers invaded Nanjing and Wu led the whole family to avoid chaos. As the saying goes, the greatest sorrow in life is the loss of mother in childhood, wife in middle age and children in old age. This year, the author was only thirty-nine years old, and it was the middle age when he lost his wife, and the country broke his wife and died, which was too great a stimulus to Meicun. "Autumn Wind", "Emptiness" and "Worse", in the bleak environment, the poet wakes up drunk and thinks of his dead wife who lived together day and night. He can't help but shed tears on his skirt and can't sleep at night.
Although people are dead, the traces left by the passage of time are still vivid. Young Wu was successful. At the age of twenty-three, Lian Jie was ranked second, and he was awarded the editor's post in the Imperial Academy. Emperor Chongzhen gave him a special gift and let him marry in Guilin. It was this virtuous jade lady who married him. What an honor it is! At that time, his teacher, Zhang Pu, wrote a poem to congratulate him: "All the goodness in the world belongs to the son, and the achievements in the world are worthy of Confucianism. Wealth does not forget the beginning of the family, and sages can be friends. " (Send Wu to Marry) Indeed, fate seems to have arranged everything for Wu, and the bright future is fascinating. "All the good things in the world return to children", and Meicun is indeed at the luckiest moment in her life.