Affectionate style, reminiscing about love, Zhou Bangyan's "Youth Tour"

Towards the clouds desert scattered light silk. Pavilion light spring posture. Willows cry, the mud on the Ninth Street is heavy, and the swallows outside the door are late.

And now the Sun Ming Golden House, spring color in the peach branches. Unlike at that time, the small bridge was raining, and the two people hated to know.

Zhou Bangyan was a Northern Song Dynasty poet who belonged to the Euphemistic sect. Emperor Shenzong of Song appreciated him very much and named him Taixuezheng. Taixue is not of high grade, and is particularly respected because he is a teacher in Taixue. Zhou Bangyan's filler words pay attention to the rhythm, and there is a sense of beauty of quli elegance. This "Youth Tour" is one of his masterpieces, describing the love story of his youth.

"Young Tour" uses flashbacks and interpolations in the writing method, so it needs to be recited several times to understand the timeline and logical context. The time is a rainy day in spring, the place is a small attic, the character is Zhou Bangyan, and the memory of "she". By straightening out the basics, it's easy to understand the content.

Misty clouds, sparse rain. In an attic, gaze at the spring landscape. In fact, at this time, there was only Zhou Bangyan alone. When he touched the scene, it was as if he had traveled back in time and space. He used to be in the same weather as his lover, watching the drizzle and the willow flowers drifting.

Willow and "stay" are homophonous, and willow flowers flutter zero to hint at the scene of lovers separating. It was a story of goodness and sadness, and Zhou Bangyan was crying, so he felt that Liuhua was also crying. Sad people feel sad when they see everything, the rain is getting heavier and heavier, the ground is muddy, and the swallow feathers are wet and it is very difficult to fly.

Meeting in this kind of weather implies that the two are going to break up. Under normal circumstances, even if a man and a woman in love encounter a rainy day, they will reschedule and make a date. Through this detail, Zhou Bangyan implicitly expressed that this was a tragic result. There is a characteristic of the euphemistic words, the aftertaste is endless, and it is necessary to ponder slowly. If you understand, you will be sad and happy; if you don't understand, you really haven't understood.

At this time, I returned to my head and looked at the word "Youth Tour", and I inexplicably felt extremely sad. Teenagers are fascinated by love and have a courage to ignore it. Young people are also afraid of setbacks, and once they encounter ups and downs, they will be overwhelmed. Just looking at Shangyan allows the reader to enter Zhou Bangyan's emotional world and empathize with him.

Zhou Bangyan's pen turned sharply, describing the happy life of the moment. The weather is clear, the sun is shining, the golden house is hidden, and the peach blossoms are blooming. In the face of the beautiful scenery, reminiscing about the pain in the feelings of the past, there is a taste in the heart. Zhou Bangyan is reflecting that now life is better, but there is a lot less fun. He prefers to reminisce about the past.

How to understand Zhou Bangyan's "masochistic" psychology? To be divided into two levels, first of all, from the perspective of literary creation, it is easier to write sorrows to produce a sense of substitution. The sense of substitution is more able to meet emotional needs. Secondly, according to Zhou Bangyan's experience, his career was bumpy. If you let him describe the smooth sailing, it will feel unreal. He is more willing to face pain calmly than to live a calm and uneventful life.

Creation stems from life, and life teaches Zhou Bangyan the method of filling in words, allowing him to contribute to the development of euphemisms. Later generations would say of him, "Bring it together." Zhou Bangyan lived in the late Years of the Northern Song Dynasty, and he inherited the clever techniques of his predecessors in his writing skills, and carried forward euphemisms.