In the past, there was a beautiful Gongsun clan, and a sword dance moved in all directions.
The viewer is as depressed as the mountains, and the heavens and the earth are low for a long time.
㸌如羿射九 sunset, jiaoru Qundi 骖龙翔。
Come like thunder to collect anger, like the river and sea condensed clear light.
The lips and beaded sleeves are lonely, and there are disciples who pass on the fragrance in the evening.
Linying beauty in the White Emperor, the magic dance of this song god Yang Yang.
With Yu Q&A, there is both, feeling the feeling of feeling things and increasing the sadness.
There were eight thousand handmaidens of the first emperor, and gongsun sword weapons were the first.
Fifty years seems to be a palm, and the wind and dust have darkened the royal family.
The disciples of Pear Garden scattered like smoke, and the female music yuzi reflected the cold sun.
The front wood of the golden millet pile has been arched, and the grass of Qu Tang Stone City is depressed.
The tortoiseshell is anxious to manage the end, and the music is extremely mournful and the moon is coming out of the east.
The old man did not know where he was going, and the cocoon of the barren mountain turned to sorrow.
In the second year of the Tang Dynasty (767 AD), Du Fu, who was exiled to Kuizhou, attended a banquet at the home of Beiqi Yuan.
During the banquet, there were dancers who came to Li Twelve Niang and offered a sword dance. Du Fuguan Sword Dance Shen Yun had a sense of déjà vu, asked Shi Cheng, and learned that he was a disciple of Gongsun Da Niang.
Du Fu's heart was full of emotions, and his thoughts could not help but go back to fifty years, thinking of the wonderful sword dance that Gongsun Da Niang had seen in Gaocheng, such as the sunset of the Nine Rays of Yi and the dragon.
One Of the Golden Sword Dances
In the fifth year of The reign of Emperor Xuanzong of Tang (717 AD), due to the early death of his mother, Du Fu, who was only five years old, lived in his aunt's house in Luoyang, and when he went out with his aunt to play, he saw the sword dance performed by Gongsun Daniang in Chencheng.
At that time, Gongsun Da Niang was the first dancer in the New Year period, and every performance was an empty alley.
During the reign of Emperor Wenzong of Tang, he issued an edict to crown Li Bai's song poems, Zhang Xu's cursive writing, and Pei Min's sword dance as the "three absolutes" of the Tang Dynasty.
Among the "three absolutes" of the Tang Dynasty, Li Bai's poems and Zhang Xu's calligraphy were all passed down to the world, but pei Min's sword dance descendants could not see it.
Pei Min was a Tang Dynasty Kaiyuanjian man, and there are few records in the history, but he served as an envoy of Longhua' army, guarded Beiping County, and participated in the war against the Xi people.
His sword skills were superb, to the point of "throwing the sword into the clouds, tens of feet high, if the electric light is fired, the hand is sheathed, and the sword penetrates the air"; even on the battlefield, in the face of the enemy's ten thousand arrows, Pei Min danced the sword to protect himself, and the arrow touched the blade and broke.
Li Bai, one of the "Three Gems", also followed him to learn sword techniques, so the world called Pei Min "Sword Saint".
And Gongsun Da Niang's dance skills are exquisite, and the sword dance is especially good, which can be described as the crown of the first Tang Dynasty, and there is no one who is unsurpassed.
In the past, there was a beautiful Gongsun clan, and a sword dance moved in all directions
According to legend, her masterpiece "General Pei Man Tang" is based on General Pei Min's peerless sword skills. Although it is a dance, when it dances, it is still sword and wind, imposing and fierce.
Throughout history, the prosperity of culture is inseparable from the elements of world peace, political clarity, and national prosperity, and the rule of Kaiyuan is a rare prosperity in ancient China.
Therefore, Gongsun Da Niang danced a sword dance and danced out of the thousands of weather of the Tang Dynasty.
A bumpy life
Du Fu's life was very magical, the year after his birth was the first year of the new century, and a generation of male lords Tang Xuanzong exerted great efforts to rule and pushed open the door of the Tang Dynasty to prosperity.
Coming from a family of officials and eunuchs, adhering to the Du family's concept of "passing on poetry and books", he set a lofty ambition of "to Jun Yao Shun, and then make the customs pure" when he was young, and longed to show his ambitions in the prosperous world.
However, the ideal is plump, the reality is bone. Du Fu was arrogant and talented, thinking that the examination of merit was not enough, and he participated in the imperial examination in the twenty-third year of the new century with great ambition, and did not want to be left behind by Sun Shan.
In the third year of Tianbao, Du Fu met the depressed Li Bai in Luoyang, and the two met at first sight and met to travel liang and Song together.
In the following two years, Du Fu began a wandering life, and in addition to Li Bai, he also met Gao Shi. They are like-minded, drinking and poetry, traveling all over the famous mountains and rivers, visiting the hidden ways... This period of time became the happiest time in Du Fu's life, and he still remembered it until his old age.
In the sixth year of Tianbao, Emperor Xuanzong decreed that the world's "master of one art" could go to the capital to take the exam, and Du Fu heard the news and thought that the time had come to enter the career, so he gladly went.
However, Li Linfu, the prime minister, directed an ugly farce of "wild and untouchable sages" for his own glory and wealth. He told Xuanzong that all the disciples who took the exam this time were people who were not qualified, and congratulated Xuanzong on having recruited all the talents in the world, and there were no wise people who were buried, whether in the government or in the opposition.
At this time, Xuanzong had bid farewell to the first half of his life of wisdom and divine martial arts and striving to be strong, and opened the second half of his life of neglecting the government and indulging in pleasures. For Li Linfu's words, he actually chose to believe them.
Li Linfu 丨 "The Twelve Hours of Chang'an" stills
The road to the imperial examination was not passable, and there was no result in giving cadres to the magnates, and Du Fu began a decade-long life of living in Chang'an and being poor.
It was not until the fourteenth year of Tianbao that Du Fu, who was too old to be confused, was given a minor official who led the right guard to join the army (a low-ranking official position, responsible for guarding the armor and staff).
Du Fu is no longer in his prime, and Datang has also reached the end of its glory. Yu Yang Came agitatedly, breaking the neon feather song. The prelude to the Tang Dynasty's transformation from prosperity to decline was quickly opened.
After the Anshi Rebellion, Emperor Xuanzong fled west, and the crown prince Li Heng took the throne as Emperor Suzong. Du Fu went north alone and defected to the new imperial court, but was captured by the rebels halfway and taken to Chang'an.
After enduring hardships, Du Fu finally came to Fengxiang and was granted the official position of Zuo Shiyi by Emperor Suzong. Soon after, however, Du Fu was demoted to Huazhou for angering Emperor Suzong for rescuing Fang Zhen and was no longer valued.
On the way back from visiting relatives in Huazhou, Du Fu saw the endless disasters brought by the war to the people, who endured humiliation and joined the army, and their lives were full of devastation.
At the same time, Du Fu was completely dead to Shitu, resigned from his post as Sigong of Huazhou to join the army, and lived in Chengdu for several years under the appreciation of Yan Wu and Zhou Ji, the envoy of Jiannan Jiedu.
Du Fu Caotang
In the first year of Yongtai (765 AD), Yan Wu died, and Du Fu left Chengdu for Kuizhou, where Du Fu was able to temporarily live due to the care of Bai Maolin, the governor of Kuizhou, and led his family to work together. During this period, Du Fu's creation reached a climax.
III What is the history of poetry
In the second year of Kuizhou, Du Fu saw the sword dance that he would never forget.
In the Yuan Holding Mansion, Li Twelve Niang danced with a sword, the sword qi was still shaking, and General Pei was still full of sword qi. But for decades, things were wrong, countries were withering, and people suffered from war.
At that time, Gongsun Da Niang was dressed in splendid clothes and had a beautiful demeanor, but now she is a white-haired old man, and her disciple Li Twelve Niang is not a young woman anymore.
Only from this sword weapon mixture can we faintly see the prosperity of the former Tang Dynasty.
The following year, Du Fu was homesick and returned to the north by boat. This winter, he came to Yueyang and climbed the Yueyang Tower that he had longed for for a long time. However, because of his poverty, he could not continue to go north and had to go south.
mountain climbing
After that, Du Fu drifted around Tanzhou, and in the winter of 770 AD, he died in a small boat from Tanzhou to Yueyang. He was fifty-nine years old.
Du Fu was later known as the "Poetry Sage", alongside the "Poetry Immortal" Li Bai. Mr. Jiang Xun once said when explaining Du Fu's poem "Guan Gongsun Da niang's Disciple Dancing Sword Instrument Line": "Du Fu's sorrow is very different from Li Bai's sorrow, Li Bai's sorrow is the sorrow of life in essence, and Du Fu's sorrow is because he feels that the prosperity and prosperity have passed, and the sufferings of the people are disturbing his soul from time to time. ”
Li Bai was uninhibited in his life, and even in times of sorrow, he also exerted romanticism to the extreme, "raising a glass to invite Mingyue and making three people to the shadow", "but using Dongshan Xie Anshi to talk and laugh for jun"... His poems focus on self-detachment and value realization; while Du Fu's bones are traditional Confucian thought, although his own life is poor, but he never forgets the people's livelihood, "Zhumen wine smells of flesh, the road has frozen bones", "the survivors have no news, the dead are dust and mud"... It can be said that Du Fu's poem is half of the history of the rise and fall of the Tang Dynasty.
It is easy to be Li Bai, but it is difficult to be Du Fu.
Bibliography: "Jiang Xun On the Beauty of Literature"