Recently read the Qing ren word selection, to Wu Zao, a song of red words, highly condensed summary of the growth and development of Bao Dai's love, until the whole process of destruction, deep meaning, let people feel a thousand emotions. The full word is as follows:
"Milk Swallow Fly" (Reading dream of the Red Chamber)
What to use if you want to make up for the day. Exhaust the soul, the depths of the Red Chamber. CuiWei incense embraces, the girl is worried, and the day is bitter. Ask who is the true kind. There are spirits and immortals and hatred in the stubborn stone, and only silk and candle tears are three lives together. Hooked, too vain.
Chattering to the moss. Like Yiyi, on the head of The Jade, the tonghua Xiaofeng. The idiom of loess silk yarn dispels the heartache of beauty. Where to hang and bury incense. Flowers fall and blossom people do not see, weeping spring breeze, tears and flowers mourning. The flowers were silent, and tears were gushing.
The lyrics are deep and intense, and at first reading, it feels like an affectionate reproduction of the classic plot in the book.
"Chattering to the sky of the moss", written the twenty-sixth time, Dai Yu to Yi HongYuan, knocking on the door was rejected, regardless of the cold of the moss, sad relatives weeping alone; "Loess Qiansha idiom", recalling the seventy-eighth bao yu Qingwen incident; "where to hang, bury the incense tomb", wrote Dai Yu funeral flowers.
Not really.
If we understand the life of the lyricist, we will not regard this song as an ordinary "Dream of the Red Chamber" after reading the feeling. It is not so much a eulogy as it is more like a lyricist borrowing someone else's wine to pour a block in his chest.
Let's look at the life of a songwriter.
Before marriage: She is Fu Qiufang
Wu Zao, a famous female lyricist in the Qing Dynasty, called herself Yu Cen Zi, lived next to the FengQiao in the east of Renhe County, Hangzhou.
Wu Zao's father was a silk merchant on the rich side at that time, and he was particularly interested in elegant things, so since he was a child, he hired a famous teacher to teach his beloved daughter to read and learn words, compose poems and fill in words, play the piano and compose music, and draw and paint.
In Wu Zao's time, "Dream of the Red Chamber" was already a super bestseller, and it was naturally her first choice for extracurricular must-read books.
Since she was a child, she has been full of poetry and books, and has been guided by famous teachers, and the talented Wu Dacai daughter has a very high self-esteem, and is influenced by romance novels, of course, like Daiyu, to find a treasure jade-like talent confidant, before she is willing to marry.
Helplessly, in Xiaorenhe County at that time, it was difficult to find such a talented and well-matched man, so Wu Dacai's daughter was delayed until she was twenty-two years old, and only then did she marry the son of the Huang family, a silk merchant in the same city.
Her marriage history of this elderly leftover woman naturally reminds us of Fu Qiufang's encounter in "Dream of the Red Chamber":
Only because that Baoyu smelled that Fu Qiufang had a sister, whose name was Fu Qiufang, who was also a QiongYu Xiuyu, who often heard people and legends and was full of talent, although he had never seen it in person, his reverie was very sincere, and he did not order them to come in, afraid of Diluting Fu Qiufang, so he hurriedly ordered them to come in. That Fu Test was originally an outbreak, because Fu Qiufang had a bit of a posture and was very smart, and that Fu Test was at ease with his sister to marry a rich nobleman, and refused to lightly allow people, so it was delayed until now. Fu Qiufang was twenty-three years old and had not yet been allowed. Those rich nobles also felt that he was poor and had a shallow foundation, and refused to ask for a match.
The mother's husband's family are all businessmen, full of business experience, full of talent, Wu Zao, the favorite is to compose poetry and fill in words and other elegant things, after marriage, the husband, but only recognize the account book, naturally even when her readers are not qualified, let alone Zhiyin. Fortunately, her husband still unconditionally supported her literary talent, literary and artistic creation, and admired her five bodies.
After marriage: She is a celebrity
Soon after the marriage, Wu Zao, through her husband and girlfriends, began to contact some literati in the society, and her lyrics slowly began to pass to the hands of the literati in Hangzhou At that time, and they praised her talent.
Shortly thereafter, Wu Zao began to be invited to attend poetry and wine parties held by some literati scholars in Hangzhou.
In order to make it easier to participate in poetry gatherings, Wu Zao began to boldly try women to dress as men. Changing into a scarf robe, with a tall head, plus a folding fan in her hand, she looks like a beautiful teenager.
Once when she went to the Fengyue Building to drink flower wine, a prostitute surnamed Lin actually had a soft spot for her, and she also gladly wrote lyrics for her as a man:
Shanshan's bones, like a bicheng fairy, smiled and forgot to talk. The town picks flowers and leans on the bamboo, the green sleeves are cold, and the empty valley wants to see a yi yuxu. Lan Needle took a low picture, gambled on wine and commented on poetry, and sang Jiangnan's broken intestines. The same sweep of eyebrows, partial to my madness, to dispel the jade people's hearts. It is the spring of the five lakes in the desert, waiting to buy a red boat and carry Qing qing with me.
Ten years after Wu Zao's marriage, this way of life of Wei and Jin celebrities who are spontaneous and completely liberate themselves is easy to remind us of the famous words of Shi Xiangyun in the forty-ninth time of "Dream of the Red Chamber":
What do you know! "It's the real celebrity who is self-indulgent", you are all fake qinggao, the most disgusting. We will eat and chew a lot, but when we come back, it is a brocade embroidery.
Look at Shi Xiangyun's dress mentioned above:
Only to see that he was wearing a half-new color three-set leader autumn incense color plate gold five-color embroidered dragon narrow sleeves covered the silver rat short jacket, inside a short piece of aqua red satin fox folds, tightly tied around the waist of a long spike five-color palace tapestry, also wearing small suede boots, more and more bee waist ape back, crane mantis shape. Everyone laughed and said, "He only likes to dress up as a child, which is more beautiful than his daughter."
In the book, this boy dressed up, drank and slept heavily (drunken peony medicine), Shi Xiangyun, who laughed a lot, and Wu Zao after marriage, with the unconditional support of her husband, Sheng Sheng moved the plot of the novel into real life one by one.
Wu Zao's mentor Chen Wenshu commented on her, "A famous scholar in the past life, a beauty in this life", we think that before marriage, she was a beauty and a talented woman; after marriage, she was both a beauty, a talented woman, and a famous scholar.
However, such a comfortable life has only lasted for ten years. Ten years later, her husband fell ill and died.
The rest of her life: She is Shi Xiangyun
Middle-aged widowed Wu Zao, there is no man and half woman under her knees, she began to miss this lifelong did not understand her, but all her life to respect her love her husband to protect her, this behind the deep love of her life of the man.
For the first time in her life, she wrote for him:
The water outside the door is sparkling, and the spring color has been divided into two minutes. The old rain does not come with listening to the rain, dusk, cutting candles at the west window less people. A small illness warmed itself, and a cloud flew from twilight. If you ask the lake and mountains to disappear the collar, the piano is like a bottle, and the lanzhou is only waiting for the king.
It turned out that she had to wait until she was lost forever, and she knew that the person who would hold her son's hand and carry her to the old age; the person who accompanied her to cut candles in the west window and go to the orchid boat; the person who, in front of her sickbed, asked for warmth, brought water and medicine, and accompanied her for a long night, would never come back in this life.
She has missed all the beauty in life, although she is only thirty-two years old, but she has reached the late autumn of life, and since then, there has been no spring in her life.
After the widow, Wu Zao later moved alone to the sparsely populated South Lake, guarding a large plum blossom forest by the lakeside, quietly reading the Tang poems and song poems and the Lotus Sutra, and living an isolated and secluded life.
During her stay in Nanhu, she sorted out her own lyrics one by one and compiled them into two collections, one is "Flower Curtain Words", which collects her words before she was thirty years old; the other is "Xiangnan Xuebei Words", published in Daoguang twenty-four years ago, and collected her works after the age of thirty.
Because of the publication of these two collections of words, Wu Zao's fame far and wide, and she is still alone, quietly guarding the South Lake, immersed in the practice of Buddhism.
Wu Zao, who lost his husband in middle age, and then guarded the empty fast alone, and the desolate scene in the evening, was surprisingly consistent with the tragic fate of Shi Xiangyun in the novel, who first married the prince Wei Ruolan, and then Wei Ruolan died prematurely due to illness. And look at the song "Sorrow in Music" related to Shi Xiangyun:
In the swaddling, the parents sighed and died. Who knows how to live in that Qiluo Bush? Fortunately, he was born heroically and magnanimously, and never slightly cared about his children's private feelings. It was like a beautiful sight, ji moonlight and wind shining in the jade hall. He is talented and beautiful, and he has won a long time, and he is about to fold to the bumpy shape of his childhood. For a long time, the clouds scattered high Tang, and the water dried up the Xiang River. This is the number of long in the dust, why should we be sad!
If there is no such flower face, full of poetry, and unique talent, if she is just an ordinary woman who grew up in the rich Jiangnan and the family of the merchants, she will not be unable to live a stable and rich life of a young grandmother with her children around her knees and a husband and a son.
For more than thirty years of long and desolate loneliness, she may also listen to the window, on the banana leaves, the sound of the rain, the cold curtain, the infinite sadness of the low low words, I want this wisdom what is the use? What is the use of my extraordinary talent?
A volume of "Leaving the Troubles", a volume of scriptures, ten years of heart and ten years of lights, a few autumn sounds on the banana leaves! If you want to cry, you can't laugh, you have no choice but to learn to forget your feelings, and mislead people are still smart.
In the eleventh year of Qing Xianfeng, the Taiping Army conquered Hangzhou. At that time, Wu Zao and Zhang Yingchang's close friends Wei Qiansheng and Zhou Qin lived together in Hangzhou.
Zhang Yingchang's "Yanbo Fishing Song" has a "Southern Song", in which the inscription says: "Before long, all of them were killed, and the female Shi brothers (referring to Wu Zao and Fenxiang) died together.
Some speculate that Wu Zao may have died in the winter of that year, after the Taiping Army invaded the city of Hangzhou. According to the Chronicle of Hangzhou, vol. 85:
(Xianfeng) Eleven years of winter and December, heavy snow and ten years. The flat ground is five or six feet high, and there are several feet in the mountains. The inhabitants avoid the mountains, have nowhere to forage, and starve to death.
Wu Zao, a talented woman of the old and frail, sheltered from the chaos of the mountains, and only a single shadow, may have died in the catastrophe of this war in the cold winter of December, when the snow was flying in the snow that "fell on a white expanse of land and was really clean".
She was sixty-four years old. After being widowed at the age of thirty-two, she lived alone for another thirty-two years.
Wu Algae, the word Pingxiang. Perhaps, there is a wind at the end of Qingping, she is the fragrant lotus leaf in the mouth of Xiangling, which seems to be absent but refreshing.
She is a beautiful person, she is a talented woman, and she is also a thin person. She loves to read the Red Chamber, but how do she know, Qing Ben is a dreamer in the red chamber.
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