Are Wei Zhuang's five poems of "Bodhisattva Man" representative works of men as boudoir singers?

No.

The idea of ??a man acting as a boudoir is used to summarize the literary phenomenon in which male literati pretend to be women and use women's identities and voices to create literature. Although Wei Zhuang's poems were influenced by Wen Tingyun's poems and mostly expressed women's boudoir, grudges, farewell and lovesickness, he subjectively and directly described his own emotions and expressed his thoughts directly, thus having a distinctive personality and strong lyricism.

Wei Zhuang's five poems in "Bodhisattva Man" change Wen Tingyun's paradigm of "men acting as boudoir voices". Instead, they directly use the tone of the male lyrical protagonist to directly express the sadness of his own experience and the society. The feelings of life thus increase the appeal of the words and form its unique artistic style.

These five poems are self-contained and interlocking. Although they were written in different periods, each poem has different styles and expression techniques, but the thoughts and feelings expressed are the same, all with deep and sincere feelings. Affectionately writes about his homesickness and homesickness for his country.

The first song is mainly written from a man’s point of view when he parted with the beauty on a farewell night at the Red Mansion, expressing his longing for his hometown when he was living in the south of the Yangtze River. The second song is straightforward. The language expresses the life when wandering in the south of the Yangtze River and the love for the south of the Yangtze River.

The third song is a review and emotion of the past, tactfully expressing his loneliness and melancholy of having a family and being unable to return; the fourth song shows the bitterness of the host and guest trying to force themselves to be happy when they invite the guests to drink, and it contains a deep meaning. Sadness; the fifth poem is a summary of the whole group of five poems, and is a memory of the farewell night in the Red Mansion.

Extended information

Wei Zhuang was a literati who was good at poetry and lyrics in the late Tang and Five Dynasties. He was also an important representative of the Huajian School. "Wen Tingyun is equally famous and is also called "Wen Wei".

Although Wei Zhuang's poems were deeply influenced by Wen Tingyun, their content mostly expressed the sorrow of spring and autumn, and emotions of separation, with women as the main body. However, his poems paid more attention to the expression of personal feelings in terms of content and expression techniques. Line drawings are mostly used in the poems, forming a unique style of poetry that is clear, elegant and sparse. Later generations called the poems "the unique style between flowers".

"Flower Room Collection" contains 48 poems by Wei Zhuang and 19 tunes.

In 940 AD, Zhao Chongzuo of the Later Shu Dynasty of the Five Dynasties compiled 500 poems by eighteen writers including Wen Tingyun, Huangfusong, and Wei Zhuang during the late Tang and Five Dynasties periods, and compiled them into a collection called "Huajian Collection", which is also my country's first collection of literati's poems.

Because their style of writing was generally the same, most of which were rich and gorgeous erotic words, later generations called it the "Huajian Ci School", and Wen Tingyun was revered as the "originator of Huajian".

Huajianci are mainly lyrics that are given to singing girls and dancers to sing during the singing and drinking banquets. The content is mainly about the emotions of separation, love and palace resentment, and expresses the life affairs centered on women. , the words are gorgeous, the writing is charming, and the style of writing is rich and gorgeous.

Ouyang Jiong summarized the background and main features of the creation of Huajian Ci in the preface of "Huajian Collection": "There are young masters of Qiyan, beautiful ladies in embroidery, handing out flower notes of leaves, and Wenyan. Beautiful brocade; holding up a slender jade finger, patting the fragrant sandalwood on the table. There are many beautiful words, and it is used to express a charming attitude."

Amidst the dancing on the stage and the banquet with stringed music, the young ladies and gentlemen gathered together. To add to the fun of the gathering, the scribes took out the most beautiful colored papers, wrote the most beautiful words, and then put these beautiful words The lyrics of the song were given to the singers on the spot to sing, so the singers raised their slender hands and sang to the beat with sandalwood boards. The words they sang were fresh and beautiful, which could perfectly express the charming attitude of the singers.

The content of Huajian Ci is mostly about entertainment and pleasure, and thoughts about boudoir. Although the subject matter is narrow and the artistic value is not very high, it is still useful for understanding the extravagant life and thoughts of the ruling class at that time. Reference function; although most of the poems are erotic, they directly influenced the graceful school and laid the foundation for the maturity of the poem in the future; although the poems are gorgeous and the style is rich, there are also a few simple, fresh and stripped-down works.

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