A Brief Analysis of Li Shutong's Farewell: Thank you and God bless you.

Yes, of course, outside the pavilion of Li Shutong and Farewell, beside the ancient road, the grass is beautiful. The evening breeze blows the flute, and the sunset is beyond the mountain. The horizon, the horizon, intimate friends are half scattered; A ladle of turbid wine makes me happy. Say goodbye to Meng Han tonight. Outside the pavilion, beside the ancient road, the grass is blue. The evening breeze blows the flute, and the sunset is beyond the mountain. -Li Shutong's Farewell Most people who can sing in China can sing Li Shutong's Farewell. 19 15, Li Shutong, a teacher of Hangzhou No.1 Normal University, wrote this famous song "Farewell". It belongs to "School Music Songs" written by Li Shutong in his early years. The so-called "school music songs" refer to a group of ambitious intellectuals in the late Qing Dynasty and early Ming Dynasty, who preached the great role of music in ideological enlightenment and actively advocated setting up music classes in schools. At the same time, some young students studying in Japan filled in new words and created new songs with tunes popular in Japan and Europe and America at that time. In addition, "School Music Songs" often fill new lyrics with China's classical poems. Li Shutong's "Farewell" has these distinctive characteristics of "school songs": one is to write lyrics in the style of classical poetry, and the other is to choose American pop tunes for music. If you don't understand these backgrounds, you will inevitably feel confused and puzzled about some characteristics of Farewell that are different from modern songs. Writing poems to bid farewell to friends is a basic motif of China's classical poems. Farewell poems are an important part of Tang poetry and Song poetry. In Li Bai's Farewell to Friends, "I will think of you in the clouds, so think of me in the sunset." Wang Wei: "I advise you to drink a glass of wine, and there is no reason to go to Yangguan in the west." ("Send Yuan Er An Xi") Wang Bo's: "Friends in the sea, neighbors in heaven." ("Farewell to Vice Governor Du to Shu" Wang Changling: "Friends and relatives in Luoyang ask each other, and there is a piece of ice in the jade pot." (Farewell to Xin Jian at Furong Inn) are all famous sentences in farewell poems. As for Bai Juyi's "Farewell to Ancient Grass": "The vast grass crosses the plain and comes and goes with the seasons. Wildfire can't burn it out, but the spring breeze can revive it. Weeds and wild flowers are all over the ancient road, and the end of the grass in the sun is your journey. Oh, my friend's prince, you left again, and I heard them sigh behind you. " There are many similarities with Li Shutong's Farewell. The image and language of farewell are basically the inheritance of China's classical farewell poems. Drinking in the pavilion, seeing off the ancient road, folding willows to bid farewell, waving at sunset and leaving fragrant grass are all common images in farewell poems for thousands of years. But Farewell condensed all these images with a short lyric, which strongly shook the "collective unconsciousness" of China people's parting with a "comprehensive" impact. Therefore, farewell has become a cultural and psychological symbol of China people's parting. Ancient farewell poems were generally written to bid farewell to a friend and were real people. But what is intriguing is that, according to the current materials, it is not clear which friend Li Shutong's "farewell" is addressed to. In my opinion, Farewell is not written to a specific friend, but a symbolic farewell poem, which Kubinashi obviously refers to. Farewell is divided into three paragraphs. The first paragraph is "writing scenery", describing the specific scenes of farewell outside the pavilion and by the ancient road; The second paragraph is lyric, expressing the sadness of knowing yourself and yourself and falling into the end of the world; The third paragraph is a repetition of the first paragraph, but it is not. It is the repetition of words and the sublimation of meaning: I experienced "seeing my friends off" and realized that life is short, like the sunset, full of biting cold. The whole lyrics are filled with a strong sense of emptiness in life and a deep hint of epiphany. In a word, "Farewell" actually conveys Li Shutong's consciousness of seeing friends off, understanding life and seeing through the world of mortals with a symbol with no clear meaning. Therefore, "Farewell" is not just a farewell eulogy among friends; But a "prelude" for Li Shutong to become a monk.