Excerpt from Yan Er Shou Shang —— Wei and Pi
Short songs cannot be long.
The bright moon shines on my bed, and it's still early for the stars to flow west.
Cowherd and Weaver Girl look at each other from afar, and you are alone in the river beam.
The vernacular translator took the guqin and fiddled with the strings, but it was sad. The short song sang softly, as if it were still broken. The bright moonlight shines on my empty bed, the milky way flows west, and the sleepless night is long. Cowherd and Weaver Girl, facing each other from a distance. What crime did you commit? It was blocked by Tianhe.
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1, the creative background of Yan's two songs (I)
Yan was the name of a vassal in the Western Zhou Dynasty and even in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, and its jurisdiction was about in today's Beijing, northern Hebei, southwestern Liaoning and other regions. This is the border area between the Han nationality and the northern minorities. Since the Qin and Han dynasties, wars have often occurred, so rulers of all dynasties have sent heavy troops to guard here. In the 12th year of Jian 'an (2007), Cao Cao's northern expedition to Wuhuan took place in the northern part of this ancient Yan state, which is now Xingcheng, Liaoning.
Cao Pi's Ge Yanxing is the inheritance and development of this kind of literary works in ideological content. There are no ancient words in Ge Yanxing, and this tune may have originated from Cao Pi. His works reflect the historical phenomenon of 400 years since Qin and Han Dynasties, and also reflect the social reality of Jian 'an period which he approached.
2. Appreciation of Yan's two songs (I)
This is the first of two songs written by Cao Pi. Ge Yanxing is a Yuefu theme, which belongs to the category of Pingdiao of Xianghe Song. It is similar to Xing He Xing, which reflects the life in their respective regions and has their own musical characteristics. Yan was the name of a vassal in the Western Zhou Dynasty and even in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, and its jurisdiction was about in today's Beijing, northern Hebei, southwestern Liaoning and other regions.
This is the border area between the Han nationality and the northern minorities. Since Qin and Han Dynasties, wars have frequently occurred. Therefore, the rulers of past dynasties have sent heavy troops to guard here. Of course, there are many services such as building a city and transferring traffic. There are no ancient words in Ge Yanxing, and this tune may have originated from Cao Pi. This work reflects the historical phenomenon of 400 years since the Qin and Han Dynasties, and shows the author's concern and sympathy for the sufferings of the lower classes.
Xing's two poems have an important position in the development history of seven-character poems, which we should know. The Book of Songs is basically a four-character style, with seven sentences occasionally, but the number is very small. "Songs of the South" is a style of songs of the South, with seven sentences, but most of them have the word "Xi", which is different from the seven-character poem in format and charm.
Writers in Jin and Song Dynasties wrote seven words, and they continued to walk a long way. Later, through the efforts of Bao Zhao, Yu Xin and others in the Southern Dynasties, in the Tang Dynasty, Lu, Wang and others appeared magnificent works with rhyming lines, and the seven-character ancient poetry entered a new stage of development. It can be seen that Cao Pi's pioneering work cannot be concealed.