In 806, the 34-year-old Bai Juyi awarded Zhou Zhixian a lieutenant, that is, a fast head, although he was a petty official who was a wind and dust official, but it was the starting point of his hard-won career.
In this short year of serving as a county lieutenant, Bai Juyi got acquainted with several hermits in the county, such as MaZao, Bai Zhifu and others, and when they traveled with them to the Xianyou Mountains and visited the Xianyou Temple, because they felt that Ma Songpo was not far from here, Bai Juyi made a big fuss and composed the famous "Long Hate Song" for thousands of years.
At this time, half a century has passed since the death of Yang Guifei, the history of Ma Wei's change is still alive, and Bai Juyi describes Li Yang's love with deep sympathy in beautiful words, and also satirizes the emperor's heavy color and misleading the country, and lyrically writes the tragic song of the decline of the powerful empire.
"Long Hate Song" is sprinkled with 840 words, from the beginning of Yang Guifei's entry into the palace until her death, in the second half of Bai Juyi is even more fantastical, creating a delicate wonderland, making Li Yang's love more profound and moving.
"Long Hate Song" is an incomparable narrative long story, after its birth, it did not go away, spread all over the world, and even crossed the ocean to Japan, and also had a major impact on Japan.
In later generations, there are many second creations related to "Long Hate Song", and there are also many excellent works in terms of paintings, such as the comic strips created by modern Chinese painter Dai Dunbang for Long Hate Songs.
Dai Dunbang's long hate song comic strip was created by him in the 80s, and later won the second prize in the fourth comic strip competition in 1990.
This set of comic strips lasted four years before and after, is a collection of Decades of dai Dunbang's skills to make a masterpiece, a total of 41 paintings, each of which is carefully drawn, and there is a smooth freehand, simple and exquisite, worth reading.
Comic strips and stories
Starting from "The Han Emperor thinks of the country with great lust, yuyu can't ask for it for many years", this is the first painting, there are many palace concubines and maids in the painting, but Li Longji can't look at any of them, he tilts his head, a tasteless look.
"The Yang family has a female who has just grown up, raised in the deep boudoir people do not know" is the second painting, the female back that appears in the painting is Yang Yuhuan, this back shadow gives the viewer imagination space, but also points out the title "Deep boudoir people do not know".
"Born beautiful is difficult to give up, once chosen on the side of the king; looking back at a smile of a hundred beautiful students, the six palaces of pink dai have no color", here Yang Yuhuan has been selected by Tang Xuanzong, accompanying the side of the king, the two are inseparable from each other to enjoy the flowers.
The next step is from "Spring Cold Bath Huaqing Pond" to "Yulou Feast Drunkenness and Spring", all of which depict the favor that Yang Guifei received. Tang Xuanzong favored Yang Yuhuan alone, and in winter he gave her a bath in Huaqing Pool, traveled together in spring, and celebrated at night.
Several pictures here are full and subtle, and the beautiful colors give people a lot of imagination, it is the hibiscus tent that is warm and feminine, and the atmosphere is rendered ambiguous and idyllic.
In addition, there is a detailed place, in the sentence "Three thousand harem beauties, three thousand pets in one body", Dai Dunbang took it apart and painted two pictures.
Among the "three thousand harem beauties" is a single-shadowed concubine, who seems to have lost her grace and is standing alone in the cold courtyard, the Yi people are independent, and the plum blossoms are falling, which should correspond to Tang Xuanzong's former favorite concubine, Meifei Jiang Caiping.
Compared with this deserted harem, Yang Guifei, who was "three thousand pampered in one body", was a warm scene where she and Tang Xuanzong snuggled together. The two paintings contrast.
Because of Yang Guifei's favor, the Yang family alone had the ascension of the chicken dog, so there were "sisters and brothers all in the soil, and poor glorious people were born." ”
The last song reached its extreme in the Lishan Huaqing Palace, where the towering Yuyu QiongLou was located, where everyone sought joy and music, singing and dancing softly, and the music coming from the palace went straight into the clouds, as if the heavenly fairy music.
The last trace of immortal music in the prosperous world was connected by the war drums of the Yuyang Rebellion, and the rich palace that once played the neon feather song rolled up dust in the chaos and noise--"The Ninth City is full of smoke and dust, and thousands of people ride southwest." Cuihua shook and stopped, and went west for more than a hundred miles out of the capital. ”
"The Sixth Army is helpless, like a moth to die before the horse", this is the scene where Tang Xuanzong was forced to hang Yang Guifei, where the picture became extremely depressed and decadent, and the bright and beautiful in front of it formed a huge contrast.
"The flowers are not collected, and the jade of the green warp is scratched", Yang Guifei is already dead, Dai Dunbang tried to depict the beautiful posture of Yang Guifei after her death, her skin was white, the red dress was gorgeous, and lying on the ground had a strong visual effect, which made people can't help but feel compassion.
If nothing else, Li Yang's love here is indeed deeply moving. Dai Dunbang's exquisite and moving pictures with Bai Juyi's poems are really artistically appealing.
"The king can't hide his face and save it, look back at the blood and tears and the flow", Tang Xuanzong was powerless against Yang Guifei's death, he could only cover his face and cry, as the most noble emperor, at this time he could not even keep his beloved woman.
"Huang Ai scattered the wind Xiao Suo, and the cloud stack lingered on the Sword Pavilion." There are few people under the Emei Mountain, and the flag is lightless and the sun is thin. It seems that as soon as Yang Guifei died, everything was resolved, and the prosperity of the Tang Dynasty also declined, including Tang Xuanzong, who walked in the autumn wind and depression, the flag was colorless, the sun and moon were lightless, and his eyes were full of misery.
His image has also changed from the previous spirit and full of red light to a white-haired and old dragon clock.
In fact, when Yang Lihuan was favored at the age of 27, Tang Xuanzong was already 61 years old, Yang Lihuan was 38 years old when she died, and Tang Xuanzong was already a seventy-year-old man. Before Yang Guifei's death, Tang Xuanzong was painted young and triumphant, and after Yang Guifei's death, he instantly became a lonely and pitiful old man, and this huge contrast was precisely the expressiveness of art.
Originally, Yang Guifei should be Tang Xuanzong's sustenance in his later years, who knew that in the face of the chaos of An Shi, it was difficult for beautiful people in the chaotic world to protect themselves. When Yang Guifei was held accountable by the forbidden army, Tang Xuanzong also defended: "Noble concubines often live in the deep palace, and An Zhiguo is loyal to plotting rebellion? "But the situation is beyond his control.
Yang Guifei did not die as the culprit, but was pushed out of the struggle for power, so her death can also be said to represent the death of Sheng Tang to some extent.
Whether it was the death of Aifei or the death of imperial power, it caused a great psychological blow to Tang Xuanzong. Remembering Yang Guifei in the future is not only to remember their love, but also to remember the end of their own era.
"Hibiscus is like a willow like an eyebrow, how not to cry about this... After years of life and death, the soul has never come to sleep. "The elderly Li Longji is walking alone on the road, things are people and not everything, there is no beautiful person to accompany, the scenery here is a ruined willow, everywhere is depressed, desolate to the extreme.
This is a doomed BE ending, but Bai Juyi romantically designs a fantasy follow-up for the widow.
After her death, Yang Guifei did not go to hell or heaven, but in a fairy mountain on the sea, she was still beautiful and moving. Tang Xuanzong and her met again, and the two exchanged feelings and thoughts, using the tin box of gold noodles as a keepsake.
"In heaven wish to be compared to a winged bird, in the earth wish to be a branch." The days go on and on, and this hatred lasts forever. "There will be a time when people will eventually be separated, but their feelings will not dissipate.
In the end, Dai Dunbang does not depict Li Yang's entanglement, but interprets it with a beautiful Dunhuang mural, which surrounds various flowers, birds and animals, and a pair of men and women, and everything is naturally so harmonious, in pairs, which is really a very flowing and flexible wonderful brush.
Dai Dunbang's long hate song comic strip is exquisite, and it is really difficult not to like. Because of work adjustments and vision problems, this is also his last comic strip, which can be regarded as a summary of his comic book career.
As the last masterpiece in his long comic book career, it can indeed be seen that Mr. Dai Dunbang has worked hard for this. All the pictures are rich and fine, the environment, utensils, clothing, headdresses, etc. are all exquisite, the environmental atmosphere is rendered with tension, and the emotional outpouring is also very moving.
It's the kind I want to see again after reading it, and it's really beautiful.