The man standing in the first echelon of the Tang Dynasty poetry circle, Du Fu's "Moon Night":
The incense mist clouds are wet, and the qinghui jade arm is cold. When to lean on the false pretense, double photo tear stains dry. (Excerpt)
Completely different from the love poems of other poets, because the ancients were bound by ethical thoughts, they rarely wrote their wives into poems, not to mention that these two sentences like Du Fu were written very beautifully.
(The image of the wife) is endowed with a strong sense of sensual beauty and sensibility, presenting the delicate texture of the female body in smell, touch, and vision, leading to a category of primitive lust. —Ou Lijuan, "It turns out that Tang poems can be read like this"
When the posterity chanted, he was also touched by his deep affection for his wife.
Wang Wei, who was also the first echelon of the Tang Dynasty poetry circle, like Du Fu, in that dynasty of three wives and four concubines, only married one wife in his lifetime, and after his wife died at the age of thirty-one, he spent the rest of his life in the green lantern ancient Buddha, and there was no continuation. Comparison with Cui Hao:
"Whoever takes a wife but chooses beauty, and Russia abandons it, and whoever marries four or five." - New Book of Tang
There are two extremes. Therefore, some people speculated that Wang Wei's wife should be an extremely perfect woman who "once was shipwrecked in the sea, except for Wushan mountain is not a cloud", and also tried to find relevant works from Wang Wei's works as evidence of Wang Wei's deep affection for his wife.
"Red beans are born in the southern country, and a few branches are sent in the spring." May the king pick up more, this thing is the most acacia. ” - Appreciation Dictionary of Tang Poetry
I think that such a deep affection should be Wang Wei's lovesickness written to his wife. But, is this really the case?
This content is like a poem of love, is it really about love?
"Red Beans", another title is titled "The Year of the Li Turtle on the River", and its content also has multiple versions (such as the "Wang Weiji School Notes" published by the Zhonghua Bookstore as "Autumn To Send Several Branches", and the more primitive versions such as "Yunxi Friendship Discussion", "Tang Poetry Chronicle", etc. are all "Autumn LaiFa Several Branches") Of which the more common ones are:
"Red beans are born in the southern country, and the old branches come in autumn." Advise the king to pick it up, this thing is the most lovely. ” —Hong Mai's "Ten Thousand Tang Dynasty Sentences" / "Quan Tang Poems"
It is true that the red beans are square in autumn, and the content version should also be more appropriate than "autumn coming".
Judging from the title, this "Red Bean" should be a poem written by Wang Wei to Li Guinian, and as for Li Guinian, which sounds very familiar, it actually appeared in Du Fu's poem "Jiangnan Feng Li Gui Nian". Being able to be written into the poem by the two poets of the first echelon of the Tang Dynasty shows that Li Guinian himself is good enough.
Li Guinian was born in Zhao County. Good at singing, he is also good at blowing the stalk, good at playing karma drums, and also good at composing music. The "Weichuan Song" composed with li pengnian and Li Henian brothers was appreciated by Tang Xuanzong, so he was the royal musician of Tang Xuanzong. And Wang Wei, "strangers like jade, the prince is unparalleled in the world", as the noble prince of the Taiyuan Wang clan, is one of the few geniuses in the entire Tang Dynasty who can write poetry, painting and music.
The two are also famous and prestigious, and they are difficult to find confidants, and they have a very strong friendship.
In the last year of Tianbao, the Anshi Rebellion broke out, Emperor Xuanzong of Tang fled west, Wang Wei was detained by the rebels of An Lushan, and Li Guinian also fled in a hurry to Jiangnan.
This poem came into being in this context. It is written that Wang Wei and Li Guinian are separated, and it is written that they are parting from sorrow and the pain of lovesickness.
The first sentence, "Red beans are born in the southern country", a pun. "Nanguo" is not only the source of red beans, but also the place where Li Guinian is located. "Autumn comes to the old branches", autumn has arrived, and the red beans have also borne fruit. "Advise the king to take a break, this thing is the most acacia", because he has collected this acacia with Jun, afraid that jun will be sad and nostalgic for the past, and in vain.
The whole verse is not far from the red bean, but it is made up with the smallest details and the most bland tone, although it is subtle and euphemistic, it expresses the love of lovesickness into three points. This also confirms the fact that in life, the most affectionate words are often simple and unpretentious, but naturally wonderful.
Writing about a friend who can still be so affectionate, but let posterity go through its collection of essays and fail to find only a few words about his deceased wife, it is probably some love, not enough with outsiders, only suitable for growing in the heart, and the body and soul together. Although he was speechless, he spent the rest of his life practicing loyalty to his wife: he was alone for thirty years, and there was no further marriage.