Li Shangyin's untitled snow poems are read twice, who is shaking the snow in the dry strip, and who is not drinking the cloud pulp?
"The jade pipe ash is finely blown, and the swallows on the upper and lower swallows are jagged.
Nichisai walked around the trees by the pool, remembering when the dead strips were shaken by the snow. "Li Shangyin's "Poolside"
This Li Shangyin's "Poolside" obviously has a name, why do I belong to the untitled poem? It is because this poem, like many of his works classified as untitled poems, is to take the first two words and the middle two words in the excerpt poem, the theme expression is not clear, with strong feelings and spiritual colors, but the rhyme flows, the words are careful, there is a very subtle beauty, and the mood is ambiguous.
For example, this song "Poolside" is to choose the poolside in the third sentence as the title. It seems to be a kind of rambling, do not know what topic is good, and seem to be deliberately done.
Let's immerse ourselves in the poetic beauty of itself.
The jade pipe blows out the ash of the leaf, and you fly slowly, and the warbler is up and down among the trees, and the swallows fly through.
This gives a feeling of spring. Because the yellow oriole and the swallow are birds that fly freely in the spring and March.
But it's not spring. It's the winter solstice of midwinter. Because only during the winter solstice, the allusion to jade pipe ash will be used. In ancient times, jade pipe ash is a pronoun for the winter solstice, because on this day, there is a solemn ceremony to welcome the return of the sun, in the royal family, that is, the country, will be placed in the jade pipe of the crab leaf ash flying, corresponding to the arrival of the winter solstice. That is, the sun that returns to the south during the winter solstice will make the crab ash fly without external force, representing the return of yang qi.
Although this ritual, which had been passed down for thousands of years, was abolished in the Qianlong Dynasty, from the beginning of the Han Dynasty, it was a fixed royal ceremony on the winter solstice, and ordinary people also believed it. It was as if the ash in the royal chamber began to fly, and the winter solstice arrived.
Li Shangyin's time was a firm believer in this ritual, even if not many people personally witnessed it, as if there would naturally be natural crab ash flying in the air, which was the beauty of the return of the sun.
But the winter solstice festival, in China, from ancient times to the present, there are not many places where you can see yellow warblers and swallows flying, because this is the traditional midwinter, the snow in the north is flying, the Rain and Snow in the Yangtze River Basin are pouring, although there will be morning plums sporadic opening, but it is cold and frozen, it is impossible to have such a soothing scenery.
And the first two sentences of this poem, the rhythm is soothing and bright, is it Li Shangyin's imagination or is there another place where it really is?
In the Tang Dynasty, there was only one place where such a scene appeared during the winter solstice festival, and that was Lingnan. If Li Shangyin did not have life experience in Lingnan, it can be seen as an imagination, but when Li Shangyin was 37 years old, he once held a senior clerical job in the shogunate of Lingnan Guilin Festival for a year. It just so happened that he spent the warmest winter solstice festival of his life in a warm place like spring.
In addition to paying him a high salary, He was also used heavily, and in the winter of that year, he was specially appointed to take care of the local administration of Shouzhaoping County, equivalent to a local official. In the Tang Dynasty, such appointments could be reported to the imperial court and Promoted Li Shangyin's rank and status.
On the side of the government, his mood is bright and soothing.
The poem is in the Guilin Office, looking at the winter solstice festival here like a warm spring moving scenery, he felt that his spring, although late, but arrived. Liu Ying, is a special term in Li Shangyin's poetry, Li Shangyin has a hard career, often for his livelihood for the future of the bumpy future, he originally had the talent of the phoenix, but because of the cold and lonely, self-comparison of the warbler, no deep background, stable family lineage, wind and frost rain and snow, can not be stable.
But here, in this poem, the warbler is so stable and cheerful, and the swallows fly. It is true that the winter of swallows is really spent in Lingnan, they fly from the north, that is, they love the winter here like spring.
This "Nichisai thousands of times around the pool tree, remembering when the dead strips shook the snow." Where is the subject?
This is what makes Li Shangyin's poetry special, because he often omits and hides the subject. This is also the mystery of Li Shangyin's inscription poem.
Are the warblers and swallows flying back and forth around the tree thousands of times in the dusk, or is it Li Shangyin wandering back and forth under the tree?
The ambiguity of the subject makes the mood of this poem have a weight.
First, the subject is the warbler and the swallow, and their happiness lies in being away from the bitter cold of the wind and snow, and in recalling that they once tried to shake the snowflakes on the branches with their thin bodies in order to survive in the wind and snow.
Second, the subject is Li Shangyin himself, who recalls that he once held the branches of the tree, shook the snow, and gave the warblers a home.
Third, the subject is Li Shangyin himself, who was once bitterly cold, like a warbler shaking snow, desperately trying to survive in the cold.
Of course, now we can think that Li Shangyin absolutely brought in his own feelings and experiences, and clearly said that he was himself.
But at that time, many people did not have the research of Li Shangyin's life like us, and this poem made people feel a kind of beauty that turned into sadness, but it was temperate.
As if in a faint mood of joy, I am telling you a phenomenon that the warblers and swallows were also in the snow, and that was all.
But the beauty of this poem is like a cup of Pu'er, which begins to fade and then thicken. Because the pain of sadness and coldness slowly seeped out of the bones. Because how can the warbler shake the branches of the snow, can survive, is to escape from death.
So this poem is written about Li Shangyin's own sorrow.
Cold is real life, it is life. This is not pretentiousness, he lost his father at the age of ten, and only at the age of sixteen did he have a decent cotton jacket, he was squeezed and suppressed in the official field, running around for his life, it was Li Shangyin who recalled the first half of his life of shaking the snow, and it was not an indifferent aftermath of the pain. He disguises it well, but those who have a heart will suddenly understand it.
"Purple Immortal Treasure Lamp, cloud pulp has not been drunk and frozen into ice."
How the snow and moon cross the night, more on the twelfth floor of Yaotai. "Li Shangyin's "Untitled"
The empathy and compassion that arise from cold sorrow is in another poem that is equally untitled.
It seems that this is a love poem, which is written and taught. The Tang Dynasty advocated Taoism, and the emperor's ministers often had chants. Li Shangyin once had experience in learning Taoism, participated in royal Taoist etiquette, and even escorted palace women to the Taoist Temple. The only person who wrote taoist and mythological scenes beautifully and beautifully was Li Shangyin, because he had a deep knowledge of palm history and had a reputation in his contemporaries.
Many people have seen the beauty of this poem.
The immortals in the Purple Mansion were known as treasure lanterns, and the qiong pulp jade liquid did not drink, but it cooled and froze.
Why do you stand on the highest twelfth-story Yaotai on a beautiful night when the snow and moon shine?
At a cursory glance, it is written that a fairy, standing at the top of the night when the snow and moon shine.
Some people say that this is a satire on those who cultivate immortals, and may also include the emperor, who is intoxicated with immortality and wants the ultimate cultivation, and a mountain is more high than a mountain. It is also true that in the era of Li Shangyin, although he once studied Taoism, he questioned the taoist longevity, and there were also emperors who sought immortality and abolished the government and disregarded the people's livelihood.
But Li Shangyin's poems have a kind of Musical Rhythm Shumei Xianyi, you say in turn, he is describing the immortals who are trying to cultivate, and it is also very suitable for the scene, Tang poetry also often becomes a Taoist chanting song, this poem is placed in Taoist music poetry, there is also outstanding immortal beauty.
So what does Li Shangyin's poem express, the entry point is that Li Shangyin's untitled poems are mostly descriptions of his specific mental state of mind, and from this point of view of this poem, you will see the difference.
Li Shangyin is not afraid of cold, but for extreme cold, there is a psychological pain, which is the sadness and psychology created by his cold life.
He later gave up being a Taoist monk, on the one hand, because he had already obtained the qualification for his career through the jinshi, and automatically gave up the qualification to enter the official and professional fields of the Tang Dynasty from a Taoist priest, and for another reason, he did not believe that this kind of cultivation could achieve immortality, or that this kind of immortality had no meaning for him, for the actual home country. The third reason, then, is that the loved one is trapped in this practice that has no future, and has taken up precious youth and youth.
Purple House, if knowledgeable, Purple House is the residence of the gods, and often the people who live are fairies. But Li Shangyin covered it with immortals.
The treasure lamp is not Taoist and Buddhist, but the Taoist has nine lanterns, which can also be said to be a treasure lamp. The life of a fairy is consumed in endless Taoist lights.
Cloud pulp is naturally the fairy pulp that the gods drink, and the cloud pulp does not drink, which is strange, is the fairy hunger strike? If it is an ordinary food, it can be understood that the fairy is not drinking fairy pulp for life? Why didn't she drink?
The snow and moon are Li Shangyin's originals, because in the poems that have been handed down, there is no such combination of words and sentences before Li Shangyin.
The scenery of the snow moon is usually midwinter and late winter, the most beautiful snow moon is the fifteenth of midwinter and the fifteenth of late winter, except that the ninth day of the waxing moon is the birthday of the Jade Emperor, which is a grand ceremony, usually a collective worship, and there is no one on the high platform. So what was this fairy going to do when she was so cold and beautiful, not drinking cloud pulp, not practicing, but standing at the top of the twelfth floor?
Li Shangyin's poem ends here.
This poem was written by Li Shangyin's lover. It was she who paused her so-called practice on the night of the cold and beautiful full moon in the snowy moon. She stood on the highest floor of Qionglou Yuyu, and she was silently thinking of Li Shangyin.
This woman's identity is now that she is a high-ranking maid of the Tang Dynasty's monastic princess, but whether her name is Song Huayang is not accurate, but at least it is within the monastic group of Song Huayang. Moreover, with Li Shangyin's vague implications, she would not be revealed by name. The reason why this palace woman became a palace girl is naturally necessary, and Li Shangyin, who was born in a bitter cold, admired her appearance and talent, or even more with deep compassion and sympathy of love. Not as if the cold background, not so intelligent, why did Li Shangyin burn his self-proclaimed noble youth and emotions?
And Xue Han is lonely and cold, from Li Shangyin herself to this lover, even if she has the talent of appearance, because of the princess to accompany the status of the level, but this is not the real warmth and freedom.
They must have had a deep understanding and love, and finally returned to their respective tracks for various reasons.
But he must have believed that on a snowy night, she would climb the tallest building alone because she was worried about him.
Because they also have a penetrating sensitivity to cold, it is a physical life, it is emotional. On days when we cannot keep each other, they become concern and compassion.
This is Li Shangyin and her love. Beautiful, cold through the bone marrow, but in despair to hold up the immortal affection. He knew her, she knew him.
Many people say that Li Shangyin's life is a tragedy, but he has worked hard in life and feelings, it is a life of hard work, from this point of view, life should be like this, there is beauty and happiness in the cold and suffering. They are like that, and so are many people's lives.
Hatsuyoshi Katsuyuki interprets the love and beauty in the poems for you. Image from the web.