Guan Hanqing was a famous dramatist of the Yuan Dynasty, and together with Bai Pu, Ma Zhiyuan and Zheng Guangzu, he was called the "Four Greats of YuanQu". Regarding Guan Hanqing, we are most familiar with his creation of "Dou E'er Grievance", which can be described as one of the most classic scripts in the yuan drama, and it is still enduring to this day.
Guan Hanqing's life, not only created a lot of drama, but also wrote a lot of beautiful songs, this "Great Dege Winter View" is one of them, at this time it is the snow season, we may wish to follow the footsteps of Guan Hanqing, feel the most beautiful winter in the eyes of the people in the song.
Snow powder Hua, dancing pear blossoms, no longer see four or five smoke villages. Closely sprinkle pictures, watch the forest noisy evening crows. Yellow reeds cover the Qing River, and the fishing boat is obliquely cabled.
When Guan Hanqing composed this piece, it was during the Dade period, that is, between 1297 and 1307 AD, when the Yuan Dynasty had already unified the world, but the Han literati at that time were not valued, and some literati had to live a life of Tianya in order to make a living.
A heavy snow that turned everything in the world into a glass world wrapped in silver. Snowflakes, flying in the sky, as if countless pear blossoms are competing to open, as Cen Shan wrote in "White Snow Song Sends the Military Judge Back to Beijing": "Suddenly like a night spring breeze, thousands of trees and pear blossoms."
The sky is full of snow, covering the earth, looking at it from a distance, you can only faintly identify the four or five households in the village, the snow, the more dense it is, fluttering and sprinkling, like a beautiful picture of the idyllic river snow.
In the sparse woods, a few late-returning jackdaws wandered in the forest, constantly making noises and mournful cries. The reeds on the shore had withered yellow and swayed in the north wind. A small fishing boat leaned quietly over the river, as if listening to something.
This small order depicts the snow scene in the countryside on a winter evening, fresh and indifferent, detached, and between the lines, you can feel that the author is very eager for that stable and peaceful life, and also let us feel the sigh of the Literati of the Yuan Dynasty for their own destiny.
Reading Guan Hanqing's "Great Virtue Song", I will always think of Liu Zongyuan's "Jiang Xue", both poems are very "lonely", but the poem "Jiang Xue" is spotless, there is silence and stillness in loneliness, and this "Great Virtue Song" can feel some confusion and wandering in loneliness.
For Guan Hanqing, although the scenery is beautiful, his heart is sad, and he can only silently feel the taste of life in the vast snow.