If you have read the poem "Night Rain", you must feel that Bai Juyi is a good man with deep feelings and righteousness in this world.
In contrast, Su Shi, who pays tribute to his deceased wife, and Tang Xuanzong, who loves beauty and does not love Jiangshan, are simply small witches.
Maybe you think it's too exaggerated to say this, Bai Juyi is a 24k titanium alloy scumbag who has been stamped by many literati inkers.
But sometimes the dedication of an abusive man is even more jaw-dropping.
If you don't believe it, look at this lifelong love poem "Night Rain".
"Night Rain"
I have some thoughts, separated from each other in the distance.
I felt something, knotted in a deep intestine.
The countryside is far away, and there is no day without looking.
The intestines are deeply dissolved, and there is no night to think about it.
In this case, he stayed alone in the empty hall at night.
Autumn is unknown, and the wind and rain are in the sky.
If you don't learn the Dharma, your former mind will be forgotten.
The thoughts of lovers between the lines seem to grow branches in the poem, swaying with the wind, and the emotions that cannot be loved are even more lingering and compassionate, soft and broken.
People can't help but exclaim, it turns out that the original is only eight buckets high, such as the thunderous Tang Dynasty poets and such an unknown secret love. I can't help but ask, who is the girl in the poem who makes Bai Juyi worry about her stomach and never forget?
This matter should also start from Bai Juyi's childhood.
01
Bai Juyi moved with his parents to Fuli, Anhui province when he was 3 years old.
There, spent his childhood, adolescence and youth.
There was also his lover from a young age, xiangling, a neighbor's little sister who was four years younger than him.
In his poem "The Neighbor Girl", he described Xiang Ling as follows:
Lou Ting fifteen victories over the Heavenly Immortals, Daytime Chang'e Dryland Lotus.
Where idle parrot language is taught, before the embroidery bed under the blue screen window.
With such a stunning red face confidant, Bai Juyi naturally fell in love at first sight and cared for him carefully.
How many flowers before the moon, on the shore of the village, because of the company of Xiang Ling, let the sensitive and lonely teenager smile and stretch, rejoice.
Bai Juyi described the scene of their dating in "Flowers Not Flowers":
Flowers are not flowers, fog is not fog, midnight comes, the sky goes,
When there are not many dreams in spring, it seems that there is nowhere to find the clouds.
It can be seen that he is ecstatic about such feelings and has some trepidation.
He knew that if things were known to his family, the consequences would be unimaginable, so he was more careful.
But the paper could not contain the fire, and the matter was still discovered by the white mother. It is said that in every beautiful love, there is a vulgar mother. Bai Juyi is no exception.
The mother's attitude towards her son's love is strictly forbidden.
Her explanation is that Xiang Ling is a mountain village girl, and her family is a bureaucratic family and a scholarly family. The door is not right, how can we be together?
Surround and chase, block and intercept, strictly guard against death. Bai Mu carried out a crazy siege and ban on this relationship.
In order to prevent trouble, she forced Bai Juyi to go out to study and separated from Xiang Ling.
When Bai Juyi, whose mother's life is difficult to violate, he wrote a song for Xiang Ling, "Dive Away"
Do not cry, diving away;
Silence, dark love;
No one knows outside the two hearts,
……
In the past few days, Bai Juyi's mood is like the Tang Dynasty's stormy and turbulent, and the soldiers are in chaos.
02
In the days of leaving Xiangling, Bai Juyi constantly wrote poems to remember her, autumn and winter solstice, and thought about twilight, but he did not have any news of Xiangling.
You can only write all the acacia on paper.
If you want to forget, you want to go for no reason.
- "Send far away"
When Bai Juyi was an official in Hangzhou, he once saw a young girl who resembled Xiang Ling, and wrote a poem with affection:
Wanting to enter the middle door with tears in the towel, the garden flowers have no owner twice.
The curtains of Xuan Xuan are still the same, but there is only one person in front of the hall.
Xiang Ling became the cinnabar mole at the corner of Bai Juyi's mouth and the white moonlight in front of the bed.
Later, Bai Juyi returned to his hometown several times and met Xiangling several times, but he knew that as far as the current situation was concerned, his mother would not agree to marry Xiangling.
Seeing it more than once doesn't add more than one injury.
When Bai Juyi was 36 years old, he wrote the famous long hate song:
In heaven wish to be a winged bird, in the earth wish to be a branch.
The days are long and sometimes end, and there is only hatred for an endless period.
Everyone thought that this was the love of Tang Minghuang and Yang Guifei, but in fact this was his love with Xiang Ling. Bai Juyi could not borrow the wine glass of others and pour the block of his own heart.
03
Love and can't, should be the biggest hate in life!
There is a saying that if you can't be with the person you love the most, it doesn't matter who you are with.
At the age of 37, Bai Juyi, who could not twist his arms and thighs, was ordered by his mother to marry Yang Yuqing's sister.
37 years old Needless to say that in ancient times, even today, it should be an older leftover man. If it were not for Bai Juyi, who had a bondage, money, power, and talent, he would have become a national husband a long time ago.
What created people was that when Bai Juyi was demoted to the official Jiangzhou as Sima (司馬). At the age of 44, he actually met Xiang Ling again at the head of the Xunyang River.
This was the person who kept appearing in his dreams, and when he saw him again, he could only hold his hand and look at each other with tears in his eyes, and he was speechless. Just like what Man Zhen said to Shi Jun in Zhang Ailing's "Half Life", we can never go back.
After returning home, Bai Juyi wrote two poems of "Feng Old":
One
I comb my white hair to add new hatred, and I sweep the moth to reduce the old appearance.
Should be strangely saddened by the people, and the teenagers should leave the old and meet each other.
Second
After a long time of encounter, they are suspected to be in a dream.
Now the joy is empty.
From Qingsi to white hair, Bai Juyi's obsessive love ended with a "hate" word. The encounter between 44-year-old Bai Juyi and 40-year-old Xiang Ling in Xunyang Jiangtou was the last part of their lives.
04
At the age of 45, Bai Juyi wrote the famous "Pipa Line":
Late at night, I suddenly dreamed of juvenile affairs, and dreamed of tears and tears.
I smelled the pipa and sighed, and I heard the words chirping again.
The same is the end of the world fell people, when they met, why should they have known each other.
Many people say that Bai Ju is a genius and a brilliant writer. But it seems to me that these verses are not improvisations, they have the pain and regret of the years.
Therefore, Bai Juyi's most famous, long hate song and pipa line, are all telling his heart-wrenching love.
Later stories everyone knows, in his later years, Bai Juyi's painting style suddenly changed, becoming a wandering skeleton, intoxicated, and an old color wolf who loved women.
He raised hundreds of prostitutes and dancers at home, all of whom were young and beautiful enough to pinch out water, and even some underage girls in cardamom age.
Cherry Fan Su mouth, willow small wild waist.
The diamond horn holds the spring, and the gu'er smears the pipa.
Red Silk dances by hand, and Purple Silk sings at will.
The little slave pounded my feet, and the little maid pounded my back.
Lock open Bin Ge Xiao, ladder to the brothel spring.
Cherry, Fan Su, LingJiao, Gu'er, Red Silk, and Purple Silk are all names of domestic prostitutes.
05
Bai Juyi was completely indulgent. He abused himself and others with his own life. He treated all the women around him as playthings in his hands, and changed them when he had played enough.
Ten years of spring crying changed warbler tongue, three suspects old ugly moth eyebrows.
He should be happy in the huge field of lust that he has constructed!
It's just that when he embraces the left and right, and turns the clouds and rain, she, she, she, she, she, she is not Xiang Ling. He laughed and laughed and cried.
To play with many women to miss the woman in their hearts, this person is not lightly ill, which has become the biggest reason why Bai Ju is easy to be criticized and accused for thousands of years.
Some people say that he has been a scumbag since the ancient literati, and he has always loved concubines. Some people say that he is a mercurial old man, a rambunctious and amorous madman. In her book "If Life Is Only like the First Sight", the writer An Yiru said that he was ruthless and unjust, and that he was an old abomination who regarded women as playthings.
Bai Juyi was poked in the spine by many people because of his own history of affair.
But despite his notoriety, he was obsessed.
When the 64-year-old Bai Juyi returned to his hometown through Suzhou, he thought of his former lovers and wrote such a poem:
There is a sense of the River Road
Thirty years ago, the lone boat returned.
Surround yourself with new dependents and look up at the old township.
When things go, only water remains, and people not only see mountains.
Crying and melancholy, this day is two spots.
Among them, crying and melancholy are imagining xiangling missing him.
06
Bai Juyi, who was still in the wind and candles, stood in his own courtyard. The years have taken away a pair of green onion memories of you and me.
Only now did Bai Juyi realize how futile it was to quench his thirst by drinking as much as he could, and to try to resist the pain of powerful love with lust and fornication.
Although he indulged, he was not relieved at all.
Who's outside the door?
Why did you see a familiar figure from far and near, isn't that Xiang Ling?
However, when Bai Juyi chased after him with trembling, Xiang Ling turned a blind eye to him and gradually drifted away.
That's not Xiang Ling.
He finally slumped down and wept sadly.
Only now did Bai Juyi understand that time is the best antidote, and this sentence is a lie.
It turned out that he did not travel through time, nor did he cross love, he has always stood in the same place, but time and love have passed through him.
-Author-
Cold heaven, love literature, love food code word hit workers.