There are plum trees in every village,
All have girls named Mei:
Red plum, jade plum, snow plum, xiu mei, plum plum
May is my mother,
My sisters, my daughters.
Mei in the three hundred poems, Mei in tang poems and Song poems,
Village Road Creek Bridge, at the end of the river head,
Since ancient times, mei seems to be the same,
They are scattered in their own fragrance.
Tonight I fold my branches and read poetry,
In ancient times, a round of moonlight on credit,
Stepping on the snow to find plums——
The girl named Mei
He waded through the water, and Yingying walked toward me.
- "Drinking with Yi Ann"
Written by | Three books
01
Snow knows that spring letter arrives
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Fisherman's Pride
(Song) Li Qingzhao
The snow is known to be spring, and the cold plum is dotted with qiong branches.
The fragrant face is half open and delicate, and when the courtroom, the jade person bathes out of the new makeup.
Creation may be intentional, so teach the bright moon exquisitely.
The total reward is honored by Shen Green Ant, and mo ci is drunk, this flower is not compared with the group of flowers.
Li Qingzhao loves flowers, and has sung osmanthus flowers, lotus flowers, white chrysanthemums, and pear blossoms, and the most chanted is plum blossoms. Among the more than seventy poems she has passed down, nearly ten are dedicated to plum blossoms, and countless more words write about plums.
There is an old convention between flowers and winds, namely flower trade winds. Since the beginning of the little cold, the wind that comes every five days blows open a flower, so twenty-four times, one hundred and twenty days, the season will come to Lixia. At the top are plum blossoms, followed by camellia, daffodil, Ruixiang, orchid, alum, yingchun, cherry, wangchun, cauliflower, apricot blossom, plum blossom, peach blossom, begonia, begonia, pear blossom, magnolia, tung flower, wheat flower, willow flower, peony, dinus, neem flower.
The arrival of spring is based on the node of "Li Chun", and the flowers that bloom at this time are called Yingchun, which is to inform people that spring has arrived. However, after the winter solstice, the yang qi is launched, the spring is already on the road, and the small cold plum blossom is the first message sent in the spring, so yi An Yongmei's first sentence says: "The snow knows the spring letter solstice." The plum blossoms are blooming, will spring be far away? Although the number of nine days has just begun, seeing the plum blossoms bloom, people's hearts will ignite the hope of spring.
Look at the cold plums on that tree, the branches are jade, how gratifying. "Fragrant face half open delicate, when the court, jade people bath out of the new makeup wash", the flower is compared to the beauty, the fragrant face is half open, delicate and beautiful, mao mao in the court, such as the jade people new makeup out of the bath.
People are like flowers, flowers are like people, perhaps, flowers and people are the same.
This song is written by Bai Mei. The white plum in the snow is pure and pure, and the dust is not stained. Like the white pear blossom, the best time for the white plum to look is in the moonlight. "Creation may be intentional, so teach the bright moon exquisitely", the creation is intentional, just the bright moon shines on the flower branches of the courtyard, so the teaching of white plum is more exquisite.
In this way, the Japanese haiku poet Kazuha Kobayashi said very wittily, and his poem said:
You point out these plum blossoms,
Is it for us to steal,
Moon?
(Translated by Chen Li and Zhang Fenling)
Yi An did not steal it, but brought out the wine, "The total reward is honored by Shen Green Ant, Mo Ci is drunk, this flower is not compared with the group of flowers." When the flowers bloom not much, the bright moon does not meet much, the flowers are enjoyed and drunk. This flower is not compared with the group flowers, which shows Yi An's preference for plums.
Qing Wang Shishen's "Plum Blossom Diagram"
02
Suddenly, a night of fragrant hair
"Linjiang Xian Mei"
The courtyard is a little deeper, and the cloud window fog pavilion is late in spring.
For who is haggard and damaged, the night to clear the dream is good, should be the south branch.
Jade skinny sandalwood light infinite hate, South Lou Qiang pipe Hugh blowing.
The strong fragrance blows all around who knows, the warm wind is late, don't go to the apricot blossom fertilizer.
Yi An wrote a preface before another poem, saying that he loved Ouyang Gong's "Butterfly Love Flower" "deep and deep" sentence, so he used his language as "courtyard deep" to count the que, and its sound was the old "Linjiang Immortal" also. Ouyang Xiu said: "The courtyard is a little deep, the willows are piled with smoke, and the curtains are not heavy", Yi An used his sentences, not changing a word, not only vaguely, but also out of his own mind. Ou Ci also writes about spring sorrow, willow smoke and curtains without weight, all of which are depressed that they cannot be discharged. After the deep sentence, Yi An followed by "Cloud Window Fog Pavilion Spring Late", from horizontal depth to vertical height, so in two dimensions, highlighting the coldness and loneliness of spring.
Spring has forgotten here, or been forgotten here. "For whom is it haggard and damaged", is it Mei or a person? The beauty of Yi An's words lies in this, the things and the people become one, metaphorically to each other. The girl is lonely, for whom is haggard how can you not know, here is the rhetorical question, Shaohua is easy to pass away, who is worth your loss of Fangzi?
"The night to clear the dream is good, it should be the south branch", the dream is good, a word has passed, the word "clear dream" is better, although the feeling is hard to think, the next pen is very restrained, this is the nobility in the bones. The dream and the plum blossom are in the right texture, but Yi An does not say that the aroma of the plum blossom sneaks into the dream, but comes out with the speculative word "should be", and suddenly feels that the words are swaying, containing inexhaustible meaning.
The south branch is rising in the morning, and the flowers are the first to start. The courtyard is a little deeper, and in that cold place, does the boudoir also have a sunny side in their hearts, and with the dream, they have blossomed new branches?
"Jade thin sandalwood light infinite hate", the posture is jade thin, the color is light red, it seems to have infinite sorrow, which makes people pity. "Nanlou Qiang Guan Xiu Blow", this sentence is a fiction, both YongMei, you can't help but think of the famous song "Plum Blossom Fall" in the flute. Qiangdi should no longer play that mournful tone, and who knows if the incense is blown? No one knows.
The wind blows away the plum blossoms, and then blows open other flowers. "Warm wind late day, don't go to the apricot blossom fertilizer", warm wind late day, is the weather of Mufa, is the weather of spring, but also the time when the apricot blossoms are in full bloom. Yi An likes to describe the flowers and leaves in terms of fat and thin, such as green fat red thin, the apricot blossom fat here is more sensual than the blooming, and in contrast to the jade thin of the plum blossom, it is a fat and a thin.
The next film is written on the surface of the plum blossom, but in fact it is a metaphor for itself. The biggest difference between Yi'an words and Tang and Song dynasty grievances is that other words are pronouns, that is, male authors simulate the perspective and tone of the bridesmaid to fill in the words, so most of them flow in routines, and Yi An directly emits his own voice, so it feels more real and unique. As a female lyrical subject, she often wants to say and stop in her words, and many unspeakable secrets can only be implied. The upper film is both "for whom haggard" and "good dreams come at night", and the next film is to hurt ourselves, what is hurt, we can each experience. Just think: plum blossom metaphor, that apricot blossom metaphor for whom? After the apricot blossoms, there are more beautiful and more colorful peach plums, and spring is really a world of flowers and flowers.
Qing Wang Shishen's "Mo Mei Tu"
03
Stumps and incense
"Appeal to the Heart"
Late in the night to get drunk and remove makeup, plum calyx cutting stumps.
The wine wakes up and breaks the spring sleep, and the dream is far from returning.
People quietly, the moon clings, the green curtain hangs.
More residue, more twisting incense, more time.
"Appeal to heartfelt feelings" was created from the late Tang Dynasty Wen Tingjun, and the name of the word brand is taken from the meaning of "leaving the troubles" "the crowd cannot say xi, and the clouds can detect the rest of the situation". Yi An's word 勷残梅 is rare in Wing Mei words.
"Late in the night to get drunk and remove makeup", the state of weariness, the evil of the mood, can be perceived by the word "late". He slept with clothes and plum branches in his bun. Imagine what story Plum Branch would spark?
When the candle is extinguished and the person is asleep, what can happen? The aroma of plum blossoms. "Dream well at night" That time, it was the fragrance of flowers that sneaked into the dream, and this time "the wine woke up and smoked the spring sleep", which was awakened by the fragrance of flowers. The aroma of plum blossoms is especially abundant at night. After drunkenness, spring sleep should be deep, dreams are also done beautifully, this time is broken by the fragrance of flowers, wine gradually disappears, and most of the dreams are lost.
"Dreams are far from returning", and another version is "Dreams are not returned", both can be. This word was written in Jiangning, when it was the second year after Yi An and his wife crossed to the south, when Zhao Mingcheng was the prefect of Jiangning. The country is lost, the home is uprooted, and the homesickness is always haunting, but the war is not extinguished and there is no hope of returning to the north, and can only hope in the dream. "Dream far", the road in the dream is very long, has been walking on the road, has not yet arrived, but was awakened by plum blossoms. "Dream break" is that the dream is suddenly broken, and it is also blamed on the aroma of plum blossoms.
Having woken up, it is impossible to return to the dream. "People quietly, the moon is clinging, the green curtain is hanging", in front of the quiet spring night, the people around her are still sleeping, do not know what happened in her dreams, or this person refers to herself, waking up in the middle of the night, quietly meditating. The moonlight seemed to have a sharp mind with her; the green curtains were hanging low, and the spring nights were young and silent.
"More residue, more twisting incense, more time", three "more", three actions, containing the meaning of low return. Yi'an words are often used in overlapping words, with different stacking methods, spontaneous, and without any traces of intention, such as the well-known strange sentence "looking for and foraging, cold and clear, miserable and miserable relatives", and then "the old weather and old clothes, only the feelings are not like the old home", and the three "more" words and phrases in this place.
Let's experience these three movements, the subtleties of which are accurately conveyed through three verbs: pinch, twist, and get. Ruó, rubbing, stroking, "more remnants", awakened by the fragrance of flowers, holding the remnants, is it recalling the dream just now? Twist (niǎn), rubbing with your fingers, is more delicate than 挼, "more twisted and fragrant", is it reminiscing about the details of the dream? The plum blossoms are broken, the remaining fragrance will be broken, and take advantage of the quiet night, "more time".
The spring sleep was smoked, although it was a little annoying, and the plum blossom fragrance, like her hometown, made her cherish it. Before dawn, before reality is fully unfolded, more remnants, more incense, more time.
When I first read the lyrics, I deliberately blocked the background of the creation, and the impression of the first reading was that it was an elegy for love. "Appeal to heartfelt feelings", I think that the lyricist is neglected, the boudoir is alone, the spring night is drunk, the love is broken, and love is like this broken plum in the hand. Love has gone, and when I wake up from my dream, I will twist the incense even more, not to save it, but to say goodbye. I'm willing to keep the impression of this version.
Yi Ann loved Mei all her life. When the girl kicked off the swing, saw the guests coming in, and shyly walked, leaned on the door to look back, but sniffed the green plum. After the marriage, the situation is different, Mei and her mood also take care of each other: Jiang Mei's flower shadow presses the heavy door, hongmei's unknown brew is more fragrant, Hanmei's tanqing jade thin infinite hatred, and then the residual plum is more timely. The vicissitudes of the world, people are old, Mei is also old. When I first arrived in Jiankang, there was still hope, there was still Yaxing stepping on the snow to find plums, and later it was even more haggard and withered, trying the lights was not interesting, and there was no mood to step on the snow.
In his later years, Yi An, who fell to Lin'an, once composed a plum blossom poem "Qing Ping Le": "Every year in the snow, plum blossoms are often drunk." Exhaust the plum blossoms without good intentions, and win the tears of the clothes. This year, at the end of the cape, Xiao Xiao's two sideburns are full of life. Look at the late wind, so you should look at the plum blossoms. "The joy of early years, the sorrow of middle age, the desolation of old age, and it is seen here. Cape Tianya, two sideburns, can't bear plum blossoms, but why not come late and the wind is urgent!
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