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Zhang Xian: Su Shi's old friend, a rare high-life lyricist in the Song Dynasty

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The water tone is several times and the wine is listened to, and the afternoon drunk wakes up sadly. When will I send Spring Back? The evening mirror, the wounded scene, the past late empty memory province.

On the sand and on the poultry pond, the clouds break the moon to make flowers and shadows. Heavy curtains cover the lights, the wind is uncertain, people are quiet at the beginning, and the red of the sunset should be full of paths.

Several singing voices of Qingyue came, as if a few stones had fallen into a deep pool, breaking the tranquility of the afternoon and the drunken dream of a person. Zhang Xian woke up drunk and misty-eyed, still holding a cup with residual wine in his hand. He listened intently, only to hear the sad song, and he heard that the title of the song was "Water Tune".

Zhang Xian: Su Shi's old friend, a rare high-life lyricist in the Song Dynasty

The reason why Zhang Xian is famous, in addition to his lyrics, is not unrelated to his young friend Su Shi. Zhang was quite unhappy in the first half of his life, but the second half of his life was Qingyun Pingjing, and in his later years, he traveled between Huzhou and Hangzhou, with a good life, and he was a rare high life among Song Dynasty poets, and he was envious of others. In the Northern Song Dynasty, ziye words are on a par with the willow words that can be sung where there is well water to drink, and are popular in the Qin Chu Hall and the Getai Dance Hall. If the prostitute receives the word Ziye, the price of the voice is multiplied.

Although Zhang Xian is old, he is old and flowing, and it is true that he is afraid. It is said that when Zhang Xian was old in Hangzhou, he often wrote lyrics for official prostitutes. One of these official prostitutes was named Liang Liang, and seeing that Zhang Xian had written words for many of her sisters, none of them were for herself, so she was anxious. Liang Liang wrote a poem to Zhang Xian: "The heavens and the Qunfang are ten like each other, and the color alone is unbearable." Peony peony medicine people are full of questions, and they are like drum flowers. "That is to say, why did you write words to my sisters, but did not write them to me, is it because I am inferior to them, like ordinary drum flowers with low flowers, not as good as those peonies and peonies?" Zhang Xian saw the joy, and then he also wrote a poem for Liang Liang as compensation.

Zhang Xian: Su Shi's old friend, a rare high-life lyricist in the Song Dynasty

Zhang Xian's lifelong poetry and wine are common among the Song people, but because of a poem by Su Shi, he became the spokesperson for the Chinese version of "Lolita". Zhang Xian lived to be eighty-nine years old, and he was still buying concubines when he was eighty-five years old. To this end, Su Shi made a poem "Zhang Ziye Nian Eighty-Five Shangwen Buy Concubines Shu Gu Ling Poem", ridiculing Zhang Xian:

Mr. Jinli laughed at himself, and did not deceive the nine-foot sideburns. The poet is old and the warbler is there, and the prince returns to Yan Yan busy. Xiangjun under the pillar still has teeth, and the history of Jiangnan thorns has no intestines. Pingsheng falsely made an Changke, and slightly sent Peng Xuan to the back hall.

Related to this story, there is another version that has been widely circulated. Legend has it that Su Shi heard that Zhang Xian was eighty concubines, so he wrote a poem to congratulate him, and the content of the poem was different from the above:

Eighteen brides eighty lang, pale hair against red makeup. Mandarin ducks are lined up in double nights, and a tree of pear blossoms presses begonias.

Zhang Xian: Su Shi's old friend, a rare high-life lyricist in the Song Dynasty

If this poem was really written by Su Shi, I would have to reacquaint myself with Su Shi himself. The poem is written to the extreme, like a pear plaster flower, alluding to the white-haired bridegroom; Taking the rouge begonia as a metaphor for a bride in her prime, the difference between the two colors is extremely large, just like the two are not matched. The use of the word "pressure" is even more imaginative, and the spring color is boundless, although there is no directness in Niu Zhao's "Bodhisattva Man" that "must be mixed for a lifetime, and do your best to rejoice today", but it is also extremely explicit. Although this poem spread wildly and became more and more true, it was not written by Su Shi, but from the Qing Dynasty Liu Tingjie's "Magazine in the Garden".

One day, Liu Tingjie happened to meet the begonia blossoms, and thinking of the old man's concubine, he wrote this poem. "Mandarin ducks are turned into double nights", Liu Tingjie is "fu dove laughing into the mandarin", the content is slightly different. The poems written by Su Shi himself, although not without ridicule, only say that "the poet is old and the warblers are there, and the prince returns to Yan yan busy", compared with the latter, it is still more subtle.

The poem "A tree of pear blossoms pressing begonias" has nothing to do with Zhang Xian and Su Shi, and somehow it was buckled on the heads of the two. The story of Zhang Xian's old cow eating tender grass has also spread more widely and become something that everyone on the earth knows. Whoever speaks of an old man and a young wife must be able to think of Zhang Xian. If Zhang Xian had lived until now and knew that there were such consequences, I am afraid that he would disregard his friendship with Su Shi, pull down his son, and go to court to su Shi for slandering his personal reputation. In the Song Dynasty, the eighty people who bought concubines were not only Zhang Xian, but it was because of Su Shi that Zhang Xian's deeds were passed down through the ages, and they will continue to be passed down. Zhang Xian really wanted to cry without tears.

For this "Heavenly Immortal", The Qing ren Shen Qian believes in the "Miscellaneous Sayings of Filling Words" that the sentence "on the sand and on the bird pond, the clouds break the moon and the flowers come to make shadows" is not as good as "counting the rain sounds and the wind is about to stop, and the hazy and light moon clouds come and go" (Li Guan's "Butterfly Loves Flowers." Haruka Tinggao Idle Walk"). In fact, the mood of the two words is different, the former is biased, the latter is quiet. The main scene of the former falls on the three words of "flower shadow", the moon is out of the clouds, the flowers and branches are shadowed, and the birds in the sand are amphibious, and there is movement in the stillness. The main scene of the latter falls on the word "hazy", the drizzle first stops, the moon is dewy, and the clouds are light and clear. If we want to talk about the superiority of the two, it can be said that "the benevolent see the benevolent, and the wise see the wise".

Zhang Xian: Su Shi's old friend, a rare high-life lyricist in the Song Dynasty

Moon dew tree branches, lamps and candles jumping, heavy curtains, the writer returns to sleep. Just bored to pass the day's loneliness, but the more lonely it feels. How to spend tomorrow's time? Again, day after day? It's just that the sunset will probably be more, covering the entire path, and the writer will also grow older.

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