"Breaking the Line: Giving Chen Tongfu a Strong Word to Send" is a representative work of the famous Lyricist Xin Shuyi of the Southern Song Dynasty, which was included in the chinese textbooks of primary and secondary schools. There is a sentence in the word, "But the king is in the world", which is now considered by some to embody the "foolish loyalty" of the ancients, which is not appropriate, so they ask to remove it from the textbook. In fact, the people who make this request can be described as "not learning nothing" and "taking things out of context", because they have not read it at all.
"But the king of the world" must be interpreted together with the "winning the name of the front and the back" in the back. To put it simply, it is equivalent to "but your business, win my name", the emphasis is on the back. In fact, it is not what they think, but for the king to go to the world, which is a great misunderstanding of the word.
I. What does Xin Abandon's "Broken Line" say?
Born in the Jin Dynasty and attributed to the Southern Song Dynasty, Xin was a famous patriotic lyricist of the Southern Song Dynasty. At the same time, he was also a military man.
In the tenth year of Emperor Gaozong of Song's reign (1140 CE), Xin was born in northern China, which had fallen into the hands of the Jin Dynasty, and his grandfather was burdened by the family business and was unable to follow Emperor Gaozong of Song south during the Jing Kang Crisis. However, from the time he was very young, his grandfather took him to travel through the mountains and rivers, witnessed the people's livelihood, and cultivated his patriotism.
When Xin was twenty-one years old, he gathered two thousand men and horses to participate in the anti-Jin uprising led by Geng Jing. Later, Geng Jing was killed by traitors, and he rode fifty horses deep into the tens of thousands of enemy soldiers and horses, captured the traitors, and handed them over to the Southern Song court for disposal, and he also returned to the Southern Song Dynasty.
However, after his return, Xin's career was not smooth. After several ups and downs in the eunuch sea, he was once an official to "undertake the will of the Privy Council", but because of the cowardice of the Southern Song Dynasty court, he was always ambitious and difficult to reward.
In 1207, at the age of sixty-eight, Xin died of illness. Before dying, he was still chanting "Kill the thief!" Kill the thief! ”
This song "Broken Line" should be composed when he returned to the Southern Song Dynasty and lived idly in Xinyang. The content of the word describes the scene of a general who wakes up with wine pouring sorrow and goes into battle in a dream to kill the enemy.
The phrase "pick a lamp and look at the sword in a drunken state" means that in the dead of night, he traced the past and wiped the weapons in his hands while drinking wine. Why "look at the sword"? Because the sword was his old comrade-in-arms, even if he could not go to the battlefield now, he would always caress it, wipe it, let it always shine, not rust.
The general grazed his sword as he drank. After drinking too much wine, I unconsciously got drunk and fell asleep. In the dream, the general came to the school field to "point the troops". It was autumn, and the cow was named "Eight Hundred Miles," and I watched as I roasted its flesh and distributed it to the soldiers. At this time, the school field sounded the sound of hu strings that only existed outside the plug.
The battle began, and the soldiers rode on fast horses like "Lu", rushed at the enemy and pulled the bowstring, "banging", like thunderbolts. In an instant, they solved the affairs of the king and the world, and also won the honor of each other's life and death. In an instant, it was as if there were flags waving in all directions, and the triumphant song was joyful.
Then, the general woke up, only to find that this was just an illusion, and then looked at himself in the mirror, his hair was white, where was the name?
Second, people have some misreadings of this song "Broken Line"
For Xin Renjie's "Broken Array", the controversial one is the sentence "But the king of the world is a matter". Some people misread it as "for" the king but the world is doing things.
In fact, the correct understanding should be: understand the king's wishes, calm the world's wars, let me and the king get their own places, and win the honor before and after me.
Xin's wish was not only to fulfill the wish of the Emperor of the Southern Song Dynasty, but also to unify China in the Northern Expedition. From his experience as a teenager, our grandfather, who was originally an official in the Jin Dynasty, took the initiative to defect to the Southern Song Dynasty by launching a peasant uprising.
Xin abandoned the disease at the age of twenty-one when he returned to song at the age of 21, and from youth to twilight, he never gave up the ideal of resisting gold in his life. He repeatedly wrote to the north, asking for troops to the Northern Expedition, and even to his death he was still shouting "kill thieves."
He lived to be sixty-eight years old, and he knew very well the psychology of the Southern Song Dynasty court's desire for partial security. So he wanted to kill the thief, not just for the sake of "kingship."
Because the king's mind was too complicated, he wanted to fight and want to make peace, and the most important thing for Xin Tonyi was to think about "the world's affairs".
In ancient China, under the whole world, the king was the symbol of ancient sovereignty. Therefore, Xin Abandoned Disease juxtaposed "the affairs of the world" and "the affairs of kings". After all, whether the Song Emperor wanted to fight the Jin Dynasty or not, the dispute between the Southern Song Dynasty and the Jin Dynasty was a big problem. If one day, he was allowed to lead a group of sharp archers, ride a fast horse like "Lu" to kill the past, and destroy the enemy, wouldn't it be a beautiful thing of "once and for all" and "killing two birds with one stone"?
At that time, the emperor no longer has to worry about the invasion of the golden soldiers in the south, and the people of the world can also live and work in peace and contentment, and I, the general, like the emperor, will win the supreme glory in front of and behind you, which is really a great joy for everyone! China is unified, the emperor is the "lord of ZTE", and the general is also the "minister of ZTE", which is what the author wants to express.
Admittedly, the protagonist of the word is a general with a good "name". The ancients fought in the army and became officials, just like the literati who entered the army, all for the purpose of "sealing the wife and shadow". On the one hand, to make meritorious contributions to the country, on the other hand, to establish a career for oneself, this is bright and upright, and there is nothing to blame.
The connotation and feelings expressed in a poem cannot be determined solely by the likes and dislikes of individuals. Otherwise, you will find that most of the ancient texts and ancient poems cannot be selected into the textbook. For example, Zhuge Liang's "Table of Renunciation" is obviously "foolish loyalty"; for example, Lu You's "Shi'er", "Wang Shi Bei Ding Zhongyuan Day", why is it "Wang Shi Bei Ding Zhongyuan" instead of "The People Bei Ding Zhongyuan"?
epilogue
The person who asked to remove Xin Renjie's "Broken Line" from the textbook obviously did not understand the connotation of the word and took it out of context. If you don't understand it, and you still have forgivability, I am afraid that some people will be suspicious, cutting words and looking for stubble, and they will have to remove these famous articles from the textbook.