The word has the term "Cizong", and Su Shi, Li Qingzhao, and Xin Shuyi of the Song Dynasty were all called "Cizong" by later generations. However, if there is a "sect", there must be an "ancestor", because the "sect" is a branch, and the "ancestor" is the source. So, who is the "ancestor of words" in the history of Chinese words?
Is it Wen Tingjun of the Tang Dynasty, or Feng Yanmi and Li Yu of the Five Dynasties? Wen Tingjun's "Huajian Words" and Feng Yanwei and Li Yu's Southern Tang Words, which Feng Yanwei and Li Yu were good at, were only a genre of quzi words, so they could still only be called "Zong", not "Zu".
Moreover, the academic community recognizes that the lyrics appeared before the Middle Tang Dynasty, so Wen Tingjun, Feng Yanmi, and Li Yu are naturally not "word ancestors". The only one who may be the "ancestor of the word", who is now very familiar with his name, is the "poetry immortal" Li Bai.
What makes Shi Xian bear the name of "Word Ancestor" is a controversial poem - "Remembering Qin E' Zhen Sheng Pharyngeal". This poem came out after the "Anshi Rebellion".
Before this poem, the same word name did not appear in the Tang Dynasty. Since the advent of this poem, the Five Dynasties and the Song Dynasty have appeared a large number of filler words with "Yi Qin'e" as the name of the word plate. Although the words have different morphology, the names of the word plates are the same.
Therefore, the author of Kangxi King's "Lexicon" believes that all the later works are imitations of Li Bai's original song cards. At the same time, after the advent of this poem "Remembrance of Qin'e Zhensheng", in the ancient literary circles of more than a thousand years, few masterpieces came out.
So, what kind of song is "Reminiscence of Qin'e Zhensheng", and why has the lyrics of future generations fallen in love with this song name since it came out? Let's take a look.
Appreciation of "Remembrance of Qin'e Zhensheng Pharynx"
"Remembrance of Qin'e Zhensheng Pharynx" – Tang Li Bai
Qin E's dream broke Qin Louyue. Qin Louyue, every year willow color, Baling wound farewell.
Leyouyuan on the Qing Autumn Festival, Xianyang Ancient Road sound dust. Sound and dust, the west wind is still shining, and the Han family is lingque.
Vernacular Translation:
A wisp of whistle sounded in the ears, like a cry. He woke up Qin Moth, who was dreaming, and looked up at the moon in the sky. The bright moon above the Qin Tower, the willow color year after year; above the Baling Tomb, the parting of the sad people.
When we re-entered the "Leyouyuan", it was the "Qingqiu Festival". Looking through the ancient road of Xianyang, the information from people is cut off. The news was cut off, leaving only the autumn west wind, the remnants of the sunset, and the desolate tomb of the Han family.
When Li Bai first read this word, it will feel a little bland. Therefore, people in the past generally believed that the content of this poem was to describe a woman who missed her sweetheart who traveled far.
But now people's perception of it has gradually undergone some changes. Because judging from the imagery used in this poem, it is clear that this word is not simply about dissociation.
The words contain a wide variety of images, such as "Bright Moon", "Willow Color", "Baling Wound Farewell", "Le Youyuan", "West Wind", "Residual Photo", and "Han Family Lingque". And these images have clear metaphors in Tang poems.
"Bright Moon" represents acacia, which is self-evident. "Willow color" represents "parting", because the ancients had the custom of folding willow branches to send farewell, and many poems use "willow" to refer to parting. But adding the word "nian" in front of "willow color" is interesting.
Some people have made a point based on this: this song is definitely not about the parting of a woman and her lover. Because she can't be separated from her lover once a year, otherwise she will clash with the description of "Xianyang Dao Shangyin Dust" later.
Although the transportation in ancient times was very inconvenient, the husband was an official or a businessman outside, and it was indeed not easy to come back once a year, but this would never make Qin E have the association of "whispering".
So here, the author should not write about a person's "divorce", but a group's "divorce". The place where they broke up was in Baling, where the tomb of Emperor Wen of Han was located.
Parting here is more reminiscent of the rise and fall of history and the change of dynasties. It can be seen that the "departure" was due to political turmoil, or fleeing, or joining the army, and only separated from Qin E.
At the beginning of the second half of the book, it is written that Qin E boarded the "Leyouyuan", which must be the place where she and the "departed people" visited together. However, while choosing this "Leyouyuan", the author also pointed out that it was the "Qingqiu Festival" at that time.
In addition to using the bustle of the festival to reflect Qin E's loneliness and loneliness, the author is also hinting that the Tang Dynasty, which has experienced the "Anshi Chaos", has been crumbling. Because the place of "Leyouyuan" is exactly where the ruins of the Han Family Palace are located.
"Leaving people" because of the war and Qin E, from the willow-colored spring to the "Qingqiu Festival" full of yellow leaves, they have not returned. The place where we first swam together was already a ruined wall.
Qin E looked at the Xianyang Ancient Road with tears in her eyes, hoping to get even the slightest bit of "leaving people" news. However, because the music book has been gone for a long time, no news has been obtained, and only the autumn west wind and the remnants of the sunset are left.
The west wind symbolizes the end of the year, the residual photos symbolize the end of the day, and finally, the ruins of the Han Palace, which have been extinct for more than five hundred years at that time, show how desperate Qin E's heart is.
Based on the above analysis, we can clearly understand why people in the past and people now have some changes in the interpretation of Li Bai's "Remembrance of Qin'e And ZhenSheng Pharynx", because this word actually has a dual theme.
This song "Remembrance of Qin'e Zhensheng" is ostensibly about a Qindi woman who was separated from her sweetheart during the "Anshi Rebellion". When the war was over and people were celebrating their deeds, she looked through the Xianyang Ancient Road, but she could not see the despair of returning from the conquest.
However, the deeper theme of this poem is that it is about a dynasty that has lost its roots due to political turmoil and war, and although the turmoil has subsided, the prosperity has also ended.
At that time, the imperial power of the Tang Dynasty was even more in the midst of "west wind remnants" and crumbling, which was how similar it was to the Han Dynasty, which had passed away for five hundred years, and people could not help but have many feelings.
In fact, in the real history, the "Anshi Rebellion" was the turning point of the Tang Dynasty from prosperity to decline. Later, in the Tang Dynasty, there was a situation of feudal division, and the appointment of the emperor, sometimes from the hands of eunuchs, had many similarities with the Han Dynasty.
Regarding the "Qin'e" in the word, why it is "Qin'e", in fact, there is also a saying. Because in the words after the fifth generation, the word "Qin Lou" is often used to refer to places such as Qinglou.
At the same time, considering that the imagery referred to by the word has a process in the evolution of such a long time, we can infer that "Qin E" in this poem may refer to the woman in the "teaching workshop" of Qindi.
The "teaching workshop" of the Tang Dynasty was exclusive to the royal family, and the capital of the Tang Dynasty was in Chang'an, which belonged to Qindi, so "Qin'e" here refers to the "woman in the Jingshi teaching workshop", or the court musician. Tang Xuanzong's indulgence in jiaofang music was also an inducement for the decline of the Tang Dynasty.
Because Li Bai's poem "Remembrance of Qin'e Zhensheng" was not included in the famous folk music collection of the Tang Dynasty, "Jiaofang Ji", Some people such as Hu Shi therefore suspected that it was not Li Bai's work, but a famous work entrusted by later generations.
However, from the analysis of content, the background of the era of this poem "Remembrance of Qin'e Zhensheng Pharyngeal" is after the "Anshi Chaos". At that time, the Tang Dynasty experienced great turmoil, and the author of the "Jiaofang Ji" was afraid that he did not have the opportunity to include it in the song collection.
epilogue
In fact, most of the word plates in the ancient words are derived from the "Lefu Poems" or folk songs, and some of them are from the Tang Dynasty's teaching workshops. In addition, even the poets of the Tang Dynasty also created some of them.
Li Bai's "Three Songs of Qingping Tone" is also known as "Qingping Tune Words", and later it directly became the name of the word brand. In addition to Li Bai, Tang Dynasty poets such as Wang Wei and Bai Juyi all had self-created word plates, so it is not surprising that Li Bai created a word plate by himself.
Although a small number of people questioned whether "Remembrance of Qin'e Zhensheng Pharynx" was a work of entrustment, the existing evidence proves that this poem was composed by Li Bai. Therefore, according to the current evidence, it is completely possible to prove the status of Li Bai's "word ancestor".
In this way, the original "shixian" is the "ancestor of the word", and Li Bai alone has made pioneering contributions to the two most important literary genres in classical Chinese literature, which is a remarkable thing in the ancient Chinese literary world.