"Like a Dream, Last Night's Rain and Wind" is a euphemism created by Li Qingzhao when she was a girl. Because there is a sentence pattern of "green fat, red and thin" at the end of the word, which expresses novelty, once it came out, it caused a sensation in the literary circles of Beijing and the Northern Song Dynasty, and the literati did not hesitate to praise the festival.
At the same time, the word was also praised by the Southern Song Dynasty critics Hu Zai, Chen Yu and others. Because although Li Qingzhao was young at that time, he had this ability to create original "strange sentences", so the critics of the past generations did not criticize the ideological realm and style of this word.
Zhu Dongrun, a modern literary and art critic, believes that this poem "shows the emptiness of Li Qingzhao's soul as a girl and the mental state of inner loneliness."
To know why the word gets such an evaluation, you must understand the true meaning of the word. Let's analyze this song "Like a Dream Order" and see what the young girl Li Qingzhao wants to say through it.
Appreciation of "Like a Dream Order: Last Night's Rain and Wind" Appreciation
"Like a Dream, Last Night's Rain and Wind" - Song Li Qingzhao
Last night the rain was sparse and the wind was strong, and the heavy sleep did not consume the wine. Try to ask the curtain people, but the begonias are still the same. Know it or not, know it or not? It should be green fat red thin.
Vernacular Translation:
The night was windy and a light rain started. I woke up in the morning with a hangover. Ask the "roller blind man", how are the begonias in the courtyard blooming?
The other party replied: It is still the same. "You know what, you know what? At this time, the begonia should be green leaves and fat, and the red flowers are thin.
Let's first talk about the problem of "roller blind people". The "roller blind man" in this poem is mostly regarded as Li Qingzhao's "handmaiden" rather than someone else. Because according to the relevant literature, Li Qingzhao should only be sixteen years old at this time, and he has not yet left the cabinet.
However, when Li Qingzhao mentioned "green fat red thin" in this poem, his tone did not seem to have a deep feeling of cherishing flowers. She repeats the tone of "knowing or not", more like "fighting with someone".
Coupled with Li Qingzhao's bold personality, this is not an ordinary woman. It occurred to me that the "roller blind man" might not be her maid, but someone else. So, who could this "roller blind man" be?
In the Song dynasty, "roller blind man" in many cases refers to "boudoir woman". For example, Zhu Shu really "can't bear to roll the curtains to see, lonely pear blossoms fall"; Li Qingzhao's own "curtain rolls in the west wind, people are thinner than yellow flowers", and the "roller blind people" in it all refer to the women in the boudoir.
When servants are mentioned in the Song Dynasty, most of them are directly called by their first names. For example, Jiang Fu's "self-made new words rhyme the most delicate, Xiaohong sings my whistle", Zhu Shuzhen's "Waiter doesn't know what people like, just like inserting a plum blossom", Su Shi's "The nose of the servant has thundered, and knocking on the door should not be".
In the above three example sentences, there are those who directly call the maid's name "Xiaohong", those who directly call "waiter" without a name, and those who call "house servant". Li Qingzhao called the other party a "roller blind person", and obviously had a closer relationship with the other party.
And because the time of creation of this poem (around 1100 AD) is very close to the time of Li Qingzhao and Zhao Mingcheng's new marriage (1101 AD), the "roller blind person" should refer to Zhao Mingcheng.
Li Qingzhao and Zhao Mingcheng are both nobles, and it is very normal for them to know each other before marriage and have contacts. After solving the problem of who the "roller blind man" is, let's take another look at what "green fat red skinny" means.
The famous scholar Zhou Ruchang believes that this sentence refers to the begonia flowers in the backyard that are "more green and less red", which is to interpret the "thin" of "red and thin" as the meaning of "less". So the meaning of these four words is that after last night's wind and rain, the begonia flowers have withered.
Based on the above understanding, some people think that this song is expressing Li Qingzhao's feelings of cherishing flowers and hurting spring. However, some scholars pointed out that before the Qing Dynasty, many critics did not think that "green fat red thin" had the meaning of cherishing flowers.
Because the word "thin" is interpreted as thin, weak and thin. For example, the thinness in "light flower thin jade, according to the dress of the immortals" cannot be interpreted as "residual jade".
Li Qingzhao's "thin" in his own "curtain rolls in the west wind, people are thinner than yellow flowers", can not be said to be "disabled", can only explain that adults are as thin as yellow flowers.
It can be seen that the meaning of "green fat red skinny" in this song is: after a storm last night, the fat green leaves of the begonia have opened up thin red flowers, implying that the begonia has gained new vitality.
After understanding the first two questions, we can roughly restore what happened when the young girl Li Qingzhao wrote the words. The night before, Li Qingzhao had drunk a little wine. At that time, she may not be drinking alone, but with Zhao Mingcheng.
Ancient young men and women were together at night, and when they were bored, they could actually play games. For example, Li Shangyin mentioned in "Untitled": "The next seat sends hook spring wine warm, and the wax lamp is red."
"Sending hooks" and "shooting over" are a kind of game played by ancient people when they gathered. The etiquette of the Northern Song Dynasty was not too strict, and Li Qingzhao was likely to play such a game with Zhao Mingcheng, who was also a descendant of the family, or even someone else.
While playing games, drinking, sleeping drunk, and waking up in the morning, there is still a hint of drunkenness, so she asked the "roller blind person" Zhao Mingcheng through the strength of wine: Do you know what happened to the begonia flowers in the backyard?
Li Qingzhao uses "test question" in the word, with the meaning of "test question". Because she knew that the object of the question was actually a careless guy, she had to test the other party in this way.
As she expected, Zhao Mingcheng replied carelessly: It is still the same as yesterday. Li Qingzhao even used "know no", laughing at the other party's carelessness, not understanding that in this case, the fat green leaves of the begonia have bloomed red flowers.
The begonias, moistened by rain and dew, bloomed small flowers with buds, and what exactly was hinted at in them, reflecting what kind of thoughts and feelings Li Qingzhao had at that time.
The word is "Yanke", and when Li Qingzhao wrote this poem, it was the era when "Yanzi" was popular at the end of the Northern Song Dynasty. Coupled with the Northern Song Dynasty society at that time, the great defense of men and women was not as strict as that of later. Celebrities such as Ouyang Xiu and Su Shi have actually written a lot of "yan words".
So even if Li Qingzhao really wrote some obscure "erotic words", it is not surprising. This is probably also the historical pronoun critic praises this word, only praising her "green fat red thin" use novelty, never speaking of other reasons.
Only the modern scholar Zhou Ruchang praised this poem, written at a particularly high level, praising it as short as six sentences, including rich details such as scene descriptions, action descriptions, and character dialogues, as if the modern film "operating mirrors" method.
At the same time, Zhou Ruchang also praised Li Qingzhao for "mourning and rejoicing for the flowers, getting drunk for the flowers, and hating the rain for the flowers", and exaggerated a red begonia into a green peony. However, "green fat red thin" was interpreted by him.
epilogue
When I read Mr. Ye Jiaying's book in the past, when li Qingzhao was mentioned, she said that the best she wrote was those poems that were biased towards extravagance. Her erotic euphemisms are actually not very good.
But classical poetry does not only focus on ideological connotations, but also pays great attention to the level of rhetoric. At the age of sixteen, Li Qingzhao can create novel sentences such as "green fat, red and thin", "people are thinner than yellow flowers", and this talent is still worthy of boasting.