When it comes to the ancient Lantern Festival, many people will think of "flower lanterns".
From Su Wei's "Fire Tree and Silver Flower Combination" to Ouyang Xiu's "Flower Market Lights Like Day" to Tang Bohu's later "Lights Burning the Moon and The Moon Is Like Silver", "Lights" has always been the protagonist of the Lantern Night.
Enjoying flower lanterns, guessing lantern riddles, playing with dragon lanterns, and sending children lanterns, so the Lantern Festival is also known as the "Lantern Festival".
In addition to the "lamp", what other activities did the ancient Lantern Have?
Today we will enjoy a Ming Dynasty "Lantern Poem", depicting the grand scene of the Lantern Night Drama Singing, just 28 words written in the prosperity and liveliness, amazing.
《Fenjing New Year's Eve》
Li Mengyang [Ming Dynasty]
Zhongshan's widow relies on new makeup, and Zheng Nu Yanji is good at the scene.
Qi sang the Xian Wang Chunle Mansion, and the moon outside the Golden Beam Bridge was like frost.
The author of this poem, Li Mengyang, may not be very familiar to everyone, he is a literary scholar in the middle of the Ming Dynasty, and he is called "the first seven sons" together with He Jingming, Bian Gong, Xu Zhenqing and others.
The so-called "first seven sons" are to distinguish the "seven sons of Jiajing" headed by Li Panlong and Wang Shizhen, that is, the "last seven sons".
Both literary genres advocate retro, advocating "Wen bi Qin Han, poetry bi sheng Tang", which had great influence on the literary circle in the middle and late Ming Dynasty.
As the main representative of the "first seven sons", Li Mengyang, in addition to proposing retro, also put forward the proposition of "true poetry in the folk", requiring poetry creation to go deep into folk life, affirming the influence of folk songs on poetry creation.
This poem "Fenjing Yuanxi" describes the bustling scene of the Lantern Night in Fenjing, which has a bit of the charm of the bamboo branch words of the Tang Dynasty folk song, which reflects his literary propositions.
"Zhongshan's widow relies on new makeup, and Zheng Nu Yanji is good at the scene", the first two sentences of the poem present a scene of intertextual and extraordinary miscellaneous drama performances in an intertextual way.
"Zhongshan" here refers to the Central Plains, while "Yan" and "Zheng" refer to the north, which seems to be a simple place name, which actually reflects the grand situation of the spread of miscellaneous dramas at that time, and also sets off the prosperity of Beijing.
And "intertextuality" is a very common rhetorical technique in ancient poetry, and the upper and lower sentences echo and complement each other.
Like Cen Shan's "The general's horn bow is not controlled, all the iron clothes are cold and difficult", Xin Renjie's "Bright moon branches startle, the breeze in the middle of the night cicadas" all use intertextual techniques, making the picture clearer and the artistic conception more abundant.
The same is true of Li Mengyang here, Zhongshan's lingren, Zheng Yan's singer, dressed in gorgeous costumes, competing for beauty on the stage, showing their talents, and suddenly absorbing the reader into a joyful and warm atmosphere.
Immediately after the third sentence, "Singing together in the Xian Wang Chunle Mansion", this lively atmosphere is pushed to a climax.
"Xian Wang" is the grandson of Zhu Yuanzhang, zhu you stew, who was a famous miscellaneous drama writer in the early Ming Dynasty, and made many contributions to the innovation of meta-miscellaneous opera, such as duet, chorus, and rotational singing.
Originally a folk performance, the songs sung were composed by the children of the royal family, rendering a joyful atmosphere of top-down and universal celebration.
The majestic voice of Zhongshan's widow, the gentle singing voice of Zheng Yan's daughter Ji, and perhaps the singing and harmony of the audience on the spot, the poet did not pay attention to the portrayal, but the word "singing in unison" is enough to make people reverie the scene of the people's music at that time.
In the last sentence, "The moon is like frost outside the Golden Beam Bridge", the poet opened a stroke and painted a cold and quiet picture.
Some people may think that such a picture is inconsistent with the bustle of the previous article, but in fact, it is not so, the Lantern is the first full moon night of the year, so "Wing Moon" is also a major theme of the Lantern.
For example, Su Wei's "Bright Moon Comes One by One", Su Shi's "Three or Five Nights of Lighting Qiantang, Bright Moon Like Frost", Xin Renjie's "Jade Kettle Light Rotation", etc., all write about "Moon".
Therefore, the poet ends the poem here with a picture of the moon outside the Golden Beam Bridge, adding a hazy and beautiful mood to the whole picture, and drawing a perfect end to this Lantern Night.
At the same time, because of the moonlight, the lively scenes of the previous article are also more flexible and clear, which shows that the poet's pen power is extraordinary.
From the perspective of the whole poem, closely following the theme of "New Year's Eve", the acrobatic performance of the first three sentences to the moonlight of the last sentence presents a picture of the Lantern Festival with sound and color, flexible and beautiful, and the short 28 words are written with prosperity and liveliness, which is amazing.
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