Everyone who has watched the TV series "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms" remembers this theme song:
The rolling waters of the Yangtze River pass eastward, and the waves wash away the heroes. Right and wrong, success or failure turn around in vain. Aoyama is still there, How Many Suns.
The white-haired fisherman and woodcutter on the Nagisa River are used to watching the autumn moon and spring breeze. Happy reunion over a pot of turbid wine. Many things in ancient and modern times are all talked about with laughter.
Who is the author of this poem? To put it bluntly, this question seems to be very simple. I think about 90% of people will answer: It is Luo Guanzhong, the author of "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms". The average Three Kingdoms enthusiasts will answer: Mao Zonggang. In fact, both answers are wrong. This question not only stumps ordinary readers and fans of the Three Kingdoms, but according to Mr. Liu Shide, the president of the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" Research Association, in a book, even some old gentlemen who are proficient in classical poetry cannot answer it. The first answer to Luo Guanzhong's is that if you look through Luo Guanzhong's original version of "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms", you will find that this poem does not exist in the book at all. The second answer is also incorrect. There is indeed this poem in the front volume of Mao's version of "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms" However, it would be a big mistake to think that Mao Zonggang did it.
After being held up for so long, who is the author of this poem? This poem comes from "History of the Ancient Dynasties", written by Yang Shen, a writer of the Ming Dynasty.
Yang Shen (1488-1559) was a writer of Ming Dynasty. The courtesy name is Yongxiu, the nickname is Sheng'an, and he is from Xindu. The son of Ming Prime Minister Yang Tinghe, he was born in Beijing. He was smart and eager to learn. He could write poetry at the age of 11, and wrote "Ancient Battle Essays" and "On the Passage of the Qin Dynasty" at the age of 12. Everyone marveled at him and called him a "child prodigy". In the sixth year of Zhengde's reign in the Ming Dynasty, he was awarded the No. 1 Scholarship in the Hanlin Academy for editing and compilation. He successively participated in the revision of "Tongkao of Literature", the compilation of "Records of Wuzong", etc., and served as the "Lecturer of Jingyan Banquet" for the emperor's discussion of classics and history. He has an upright nature, must write everything down straightly, is loyal to the country, and has outstanding talents. In the first year of Jiajing, he was appointed as the lecturer of Jingyan. In the third year of Jiajing's reign, he became a bachelor of Hanlin. In order to compete for the great gift, he and his ministers admonished Shizong, and led a group of loyal and upright people to lie down at the left gate of the palace and "shake the door and cry loudly, everyone cried, and the sound shook the court" to show their resistance to violence and tyrants. Emperor Shizong was furious and sent the Yongchang Guards to Xu Yunnan twice. In the autumn of the same year, he left Beijing, accompanied by his wife Huang E, and traveled south at the age of 37. He was demoted and expelled until his death at the age of 72. He did not receive "pardon" for 35 years. Only when his father Yang Tinghe died was he allowed to return to Sichuan for the funeral. From then on, he either lived in Shu, lived in Huicheng, Yunnan, or stayed in Xu, and finally died in the place where Xu was sent. There was no way to serve the country, so he became a scholar, writer and poet in the Ming Dynasty. In his spare time, he read all the books. In the Ming Dynasty, he was ranked first for his extensive memorization and rich writings. His poems have a tendency to imitate ancient times, and many of his poems are written with anger. He pays great attention to folk literature by being able to write poems and Sanqu. His work on ancient archaeology is extremely broad in scope and sometimes contains omissions. His writings are extensive, with more than 100 miscellaneous works of poetry and prose, including 81 volumes of "Sheng'an Collection", 100 volumes of "Waiji Collection", 26 volumes of "Yiji" and many other miscellaneous works, including "Danqian Miscellaneous Records", " "Continued Records" and "Remaining Records" are particularly famous. Later, his disciple Liang Zuo deleted the same ones and revised them, classified and compiled them, and published them as "Danqian Zonglu".
Poem analysis:
[Creative background]: "Twenty-one Historical Tanci" is a popular historical rap work written by Yang Shen in Yunnan in his later years. The original name is "A Brief History of the History of Ten Dynasties". ***Ten paragraphs, one paragraph is equivalent to one episode. This word is the opening line of the third paragraph. In the early Qing Dynasty, Mao Zonggang and his son moved it to the first volume of "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms".
[Content Analysis]: "Right or wrong, success or failure will turn around in vain" is undoubtedly a depressing and depressing statement. But it is also a sad and emotional statement. Moreover, isn’t it a thorough expression of emotion? The understanding of time, space, people, and things is not something everyone can achieve. Yang Shen's life experiences were too many and profound. He was proud of being a high school student who was a son of an eunuch. But looking back, the 72-year-old man was detained in a border garrison for 35 years. Too complicated and too painful will turn into simplicity: once you see through life, everything can be put aside. It is true that this kind of "penetration" is the natural state after experiencing bone-breaking pain and mental and physical exhaustion. "Turn your head back and feel empty" is actually indignant, nothing more than the white-hot anger that has lost its color. "The green hills remain the same" is the constant in the transformation of time and space, while "several sunsets are red" is the passage and change. "There are so many things in ancient and modern times" that all pass away in the relative movement of change and immutability. The older Yang Shen gets, the more he realizes this. He takes the "white-haired fisherman" as his incarnation, and his wine is "turbid" and his heart is "pure". "Getting used to seeing" means getting used to seeing and taking it for granted, so you are freed from the entanglement of "right and wrong, success or failure" and come to life. Therefore, it is true that plain language, relaxed language, and transcendental language are not something that everyone can speak, speak well, or speak profoundly. The profoundness of plain language is by no means a matter of writing skills, but it must rely on the skill of writing with ease. What seems careless is often the so-called "no skill" state.
[Annotation for difficult words]: Jiangzhu - a small island in the middle of the river.
. "The green mountains are still there, and the sunset turns red several times." This sentence fully describes the vicissitudes of the human world, and it can be called a masterpiece.
However, "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms" is based on Confucian culture. As a great tragedy, "so many things in ancient and modern times" may not be "all laughable".