Enjoy Li Shangyin's "Mo Shuo": Who is the plum in the snow with, Mo Shuo still has his own time of sorrow
"In the snow plums and with whom, plums and snows and ten thousand branches."
If there is no boat in Shicheng, Mo Shuo will still have his own time of worry. "Tang Dynasty Li Shangyin," Mo Shuo
This is a small poem that cannot be tired of reading. Under what circumstances would Li Shangyin see this plum blossom forest with ten thousand trees flying snow?
You can see that when Li Shangyin saw this blooming plum blossom forest, it was a kind of ecstasy, and the snowflakes and plum blossoms in the sky took care of it, forming a magnificent and lonely sea of flowers, plum blossoms and snow layers on top of each other, looking at each other, ten thousand branches are the grandeur of the snow, and there are many plum blossoms.
This is the only poem by Li Shangyin to write that plum blossoms bring him extreme happiness.
Li Shangyin's plum blossom memory is full of cold bitterness and bitterness. In a song "See the Morning Plum in the Wind World in November", he saw the plum blossoms in the mountain forest blooming early, and instead of rejoicing, he was miserable, saying that it was "for whom to become an early show, not to be a nianfang", in another "Remembering plums", he said that "the cold plum is the most hateful, often as last year's flowers." They all expressed his love and hatred for Plum Blossom and his sadness about his own life.
Only this plum blossom, getting rid of that sense of pain, was the brilliant plum blossom under the snow and wind, which touched him.
The opening sentence is very atmospheric and full of vitality, which is the work of Li Shangyin when his life was relatively stable after entering the jinshi dengdi. At least this stability is directed at the bitter cold and stress of life in his youth and youth.
At this time, Li Shangyin had already married the daughter of Wang Maoyuan, the envoy of Jiedu, and although his career was frustrated, his relatively stable family life still made up for the trauma caused by the previous cold and suffering, so the poetic style moved from poignant to a kind of thickness.
However, Li Shangyin's pressure still came from his career, because he was jealous of the Niu and Li parties, and for several years after passing the examination, he was deliberately suppressed by Xuezang and went to serve as a county lieutenant in a small place in Henan, where he was subjected to various difficulties, and Li Shangyin, who was nearly 30 years old, could not bear it, resigned from his official post, and lived idly for a while.
Therefore, he went to Zhong Xiang in Jiangling Guchu to relax his heart, and in Jingchu in winter, he saw the grand scene of thousands of plum blossoms opening up in the snow here.
Here is the real hometown of the ancient legend of Mochou, Shicheng, where the folk customs are simple, there are many rivers and lakes, and there is the most beautiful legend of Mochou. Legend has it that she is the daughter of a fisherman, romantic and optimistic by nature, beautiful and fresh, often singing mountain songs on the boat, and has also been loved by many people. Mountain songs, wooden boats, and free life constitute the image of the water fairy Mo Shuo.
The plum blossoms here in winter snow and the simple Chudi style make Li Shangyin happy and full.
This stone city of plum blossoms and thousands of trees, flowing water around the city, if it is a Mo Shuo girl, there is no boat that represents her freedom, you can arbitrarily between the plum blossoms and the flowing water, to appreciate the plum blossom tree, to wait for your lover to enjoy the wind and snow plum blossoms, only afraid that Mo Shuo this girl will not really be happy.
Then it can be known that Li Shangyin's Mo Shuo here is the Mo Shuo girl of ancient Chudi, and having a boat means her freedom and romance.
But conversely, what if this free girl was stripped of all this and was stranded somewhere?
In fact, at this time, Li Shangyin, less than thirty, his life is relatively stable, but the future is slim, and this is his wind and snow plum blossom years, on the road, he is extremely prosperous, but the wind and snow are buried, the enthusiasm of the snow to neutralize life overflows into the poem, but there is a big sense of loneliness. For there is no true confidant and no one who appreciates him.
He is also like this living Merlin who was thrown into the wilderness, more like Mo Shuo, who was trapped without boats and boats, full of talent could not be reflected, and the greatest ambition and happiness of men were suppressed.
Li Shangyin has a very cramped sense of life, he knows very well when he is in the best state, for example, now, the boy is close to the age of standing, it is the time to do things, and the first half of his life of bitter cold also gave him the ability and confidence to control his talents, what he lacks is just an opportunity to be appreciated.
He may know that he was deliberately suppressed by Xue, but the enthusiasm of youth made him unwilling to end his expectations for his career, after all, here is his dream as a man, to display his talents and settle the country, with the expectations of his mother and family, and more pressure from marriage, because the festival makes Wang Maoyuan willing to marry his beloved little daughter to him, not only to see the two of them have a good relationship, but to believe that Li Shangyin's talent is the guarantee of his daughter's life.
So this time out of the trip, he seems to be carefree, in fact, there is still a lot of pressure inside.
The burning of these ten thousand plum blossoms in the snow brings people a magnificent vision, and also arouses the wildness and enthusiasm of life. Li Shangyin was this thousand trees and flowers at this time, but who could understand the surging and lonely feeling in his heart? But at this time, Li Shangyin still believed in his youth and enthusiasm in the faint, which is also a special majestic and beautiful temperament of this poem, Mei Xue and ten thousand branches, that is, the flower of his life is blooming.
It is also the vague uncertainty of the future that ends with the phrase "mo worries are still worried about their own time" to express his dissatisfaction with the current situation.
In fact, Li Shangyin's fate is also in this poem.
His life from the age of 30 to 40, like plum blossoms in the snow, he constantly found a way for himself, but these ten years were consumed in turbulence and waiting, and finally because of the death of his wife, he could no longer afford to wait for the opportunity with the enthusiasm of life, gave up all the possibilities of the career, only for the sake of the child in the Shogunate in Sichuan for a few years, and then died at the age of forty-six.
Among the officials of ancient times, there were many people in their forties who started their careers, but Li Shangyin consumed himself in waiting, like a huge plum blossom, withering in early spring.
It is the regret of life and the regret of Tang Shi.
And this poem, written in his 30s, has become a footnote in his life, plum blossoms in the wind and snow, empty of enthusiasm and talent, withering in the sorrow of waiting. The three sad words run through this poem, and also run through Li Shangyin's life, the youth is poor, the youth is sad, and the middle-aged life is also sad.
And his grandeur remains in the poem. Wang Anshi, a famous minister of the Northern Song Dynasty, liked Li Shangyin, and when he was old, he liked it even more, because he knew better the kind of life that was suppressed by the great talent, the kind of real nostalgia that did not meet, and the kind of qu zi sadness.
Hatsuyoshi Katsuyuki interprets the love and beauty in the poems for you. Image from the web.