Text/Dongfang Huang "Reading Poetry and Song Endowment"
As a famous poet of the late Tang Dynasty, Li Shangyin's poetry in the late Tang Dynasty has embarked on a trend of being inferior to the previous one, and it is he who pushes Tang poetry to another peak; although the social significance of Li Shangyin's poetry is not as great as that of Great Poets such as Li and Du, according to incomplete statistics, the people who love his poetry have surpassed Li Du and made him the most influential poet for future generations; Li Shangyin, as a great poet of the Tang Dynasty, he did not have Li Bai's "madness", Du Fu's "Confucianism", Wang Wei's "Buddha", and Bai Juyi's "devil", but he became the most "fanatical" poet in the world... ... Why? Because Li Shangyin's life has left too many "mysteries"!
Using a "riddle" word to describe Li Shangyin is indeed the most accurate. Li Shangyin's life is troubled, his birth year is a mystery, his blood is a mystery, his love is one mystery after another, many of the poems he wrote are also one "mystery" after another, even where is he buried after death? It's also a mystery. His life is simply a "mystery" composed of one "mystery" after another, but because of this, it makes fans who like his poetry "fascinated" everywhere.
How many poems did Li Shangyin write in his lifetime? We don't know, but there are about 600 songs that have survived. Among them, Li Shangyin's love poems are unique in classical Chinese poetry, and many of them have the color of "fans"! We are familiar with "Night Rain Sending North", "Jinse", "Untitled", "Chang'e", etc., all of which are "charming" poems written by Li Shangyin with blood and tears.
While interpreting the "enigmatic" Li Shangyin, we can also recall the charming poems he left behind. Today's editor has comprehensively compiled 10 classic masterpieces of Li Shangyin that have been circulated through the ages to entertain readers. See which one do you prefer?
The most famous and inexplicable poem in the history of Li Shangyin:
"Kinser"
[Tang] Li Shangyin
Jinser unprovoked fifty strings, one string and one pillar Sihua Nian.
Zhuang Sheng Xiao dreamed of butterflies, and wangdi chunxin trusted the cuckoo.
There are tears in the pearls of the sea and the moon, and the warm jade smoke of the blue field.
This can be a memory, but it was already confused at the time.
Li Shangyin's "Jinse" is too obscure and confusing to solve, leaving the world with hundreds of years of lamentation that "a "Jinse" solves people's difficulties".
Indeed, Li Shangyin's "Jinse", for thousands of years, there have been many opinions, but no matter what the world comments, it can be described as "the most famous and most difficult poem in history", some people say that this poem is a love poem written by Li Shangyin to a maid named "Jinse", some people say that it is a mourning poem written by Li Shangyin to his dead wife, some people infer that it is a poetry describing music based on the words in the poem, and even some people say that this is a patriotic poem that Huai Cai did not meet...
But for thousands of years, is this poem a poem expressing love or patriotism...? The debate is constant, but we prefer to interpret it as a love poem.
In fact, the most difficult thing in the human world is love, in the real world, who does not aspire to have a good love? When you have it, do you know how to cherish it? Or when you have a problem in love, can you not be "lost"?
Yes, love is a "mystery", it always makes us guess? And Li Shangyin used this poem of "Jinse" to let us "guess" in the most beautiful way.
For thousands of years, every "guesser" has "guessed" different "mysteries", "guessed" different meanings, and "guessed" different love lives.
Whatever the real mystery of Li Shangyin's song is? We prefer to read Li Shangyin's "Jinse" as a love poem, read out the "mystery" of love, and do not see that "this love can be turned into a remembrance, but at that time it was already confused" is a thousand years of singing, can be regarded as a classic of love. Yes or no?
The most famous and untitled love poem in history:
"Untitled: It's Hard to Say Goodbye when You Meet"
It is difficult to say goodbye when we meet, and the east wind is powerless.
Spring silkworm to the end of the dead silk, the wax torch into gray tears began to dry.
Xiao Jing but sad clouds changed, night groan should feel the cold moonlight.
Pengshan has no more roads to go, and the blue bird is attentive to visit.
Li Shangyin's "Untitled" poems, there are about twenty poems, this one is the most famous one, known as the "one must" in the Tang Dynasty poetry circle, and it is even more known as - after Li Shangyin, there is no "untitled" poem.
Does not see that "it is difficult to say goodbye when we meet, and the east wind is powerless and cruel" is not to write love forever?
Don't you see "spring silkworm to the end of the dead silk, wax torch into gray tears to dry" is not to write love in a unique style?
When you love in such a state, or when your former love is also in such a state, I believe you will also think of Li Shangyin's love poem.
Li Shangyin's poem always has infinite pain and love intertwined, love and obsession entangled, disappointment and persistence lingering, no wonder the "east wind" is powerless, no wonder a hundred flowers are withered, no wonder spring silkworms to death, wax torches into ashes to love!
The most widely circulated and popular love poem in history:
"Untitled: Last Night Stars Last Night Wind"
Last night the stars last night wind, painting the west bank of the building Guitang East.
There are no colorful phoenix wings, and the heart has a sharp point.
The partition sends hook spring wine warm, and the wax lamp is red.
Oh Yu listened to the drum and went to the official, and walked the Marantai class to turn the tent.
This poem by Li Shangyin's "Untitled" is a group of poems, there are two poems, this is one of them, and it is also a "riddle poem" that has always been controversial. Some people say that this is a song by Li Shangyin that "meets the king and the courtier", some people say that this is a poem by Li Shangyin that "peeps at the concubines of the noble family", and some people say that this is a "Beijing Feast" by Li Shangyin... But in any case, the world regards it as an untitled love poem.
But no matter what, Li Shangyin is an "amorous" person, with more love than the water of the Yellow River, higher love than the Himalayas, love wider than the sea and the sky, and love thicker than a thousand-year volcano... One shot is out of control, one shot is a song for eternity!
Don't you see "no color phoenix double wings, the heart has a sharp point of understanding"? , can be described as the most popular sentence handed down through the ages. Especially "the heart has a sharp mind", who in their life, who has not said it several times?
The most understandable and difficult "love poem" in history:
"Night Rain Sends North"
Junwen returned to the autumn pond at night.
He Dang cut the candle in the west window together, but when it rained at night.
This poem "Night Rain Sending North" is Li Shangyin's most understandable poem, but it is also the most puzzling poem in a thousand years, is it a love poem written for his wife or a friendship poem for a friend? Only Li Shangyin himself knew.
In fact, whether it is love or friendship, it is the most innocent "love", which is the greatness of a great poet, both writing "love" and "love", no wonder the author calls Li Shangyin "love obsession". No wonder he was infatuated!
Don't you see "why cut the candles in the west window together, but when it rains at night"? Have you ever been infatuated?
The most beautiful and desperate allegorical poem
《Noboru Yuhara》
To the evening discomfort, drive to The Ancient Plains.
The sunset is infinitely better, just near dusk.
We all know that Li Shangyin, who was born in the late Tang Dynasty, will be exhausted by the national fortunes, and He will not meet huaicai, and he will inevitably borrow poems to express his nostalgia, and this "Dengle Youyuan" is a true portrayal of Li Shangyin's depressed state of mind.
The beauty of dusk is strange in the world, and the world is the most rewarding, no matter what kind of realm you can read? In Li Shangyin's poems, there are always infinitely fascinating, infinitely exclamatory, and infinitely amazing strange sentences:
Jun does not see "the sunset is infinitely good, but it is near dusk", is a good sentence that has always been praised by the world, and the meaning contained in it is very rich, no wonder some scholars call it aesthetic value and ideological value, and it is a famous sentence that has been popular for thousands of years.
The most unsupported and successful love poems:
"Untitled Heavy Sorrows Under the Deep Mo Sorrow Hall"
Heavy and deep under the Mo Shuo Hall, after lying down, the night is slender and slender.
The goddess's career was originally a dream, and the little sister-in-law lived in the ben wulang.
Fengbo did not believe that the lingzhi was weak, and the moon dew who taught the laurel leaf incense.
Straight lovesickness is useless, not hindered by the fear is pure madness.
This song by Li Shangyin's "Untitled" expresses the woman's resentment of frustration with love, and expresses the bitter feeling of hopeless desire for lovesickness.
Li Shangyin's "Untitled" poem can always leave too much imagination space for people, but it can also make people unable to get rid of his "nothing" space, his "nothing" seems to be nothing but there is none, there is no but nothing, as to whether there is or not, only you can understand whether there is nothing or not.
Don't you see that "it is useless to think straight, and it is crazy not to be worried"? Love to the depths, unforgettable. It is a good sentence that has been sung for eternity.
Li Shangyin's most self-congratulatory poem:
"Evening Sunshine"
Living deep in the city, spring to summer.
Providence pities the grass, and the earth is heavy and sunny.
And add a high cabinet, micro-note small window ming.
After the nest is dried, the flying body is lighter.
Although this poem is titled "Evening Qing", the author does not write about the scene of evening sun in general, nor does it have a trivial portrayal, but is a unique way, through a unique description of the grass that grows in the dark place and is not noticed by people, this kind of allegorical feeling, in the ideological realm and artistic techniques, is simply "a higher level".
"Providence pities the grass, the earthly night is clear" has become a song for eternity!
Li Shangyin's most self-inflicted "enigmatic" poem:
Chang'e
The mica screen candle shadow is deep, and the long river gradually falls and the stars sink.
Chang'e should repent of stealing the elixir, the blue sea and the blue sky and night heart.
Li Shangyin's poem of Yong Chang'e is also a poem like a "mystery", which has always had different views, whether it is "the elopement of the person in the song" or "the protagonist of the song is lonely", etc., all of which express the sentimentality of the poet's lonely situation.
Don't you see the self-harm of the poet who "Chang'e should repent of stealing the elixir, the blue sea, the blue sky, the night heart"?
Li Shangyin's most desperate love poem:
"Untitled, Sasa East Wind Drizzle"
The east wind and drizzle came, and there was light thunder outside the furong pond.
The golden toad lock burns incense, and the jade tiger draws the silk back to the well.
Jia Shi peeped at Han Shu shao, and Concubine Mi stayed on the pillow wei Wang Cai.
Spring hearts are not common flowers, an inch of acacia and an inch of ash!
It seems that Li Shangyin is an amorous person, but also an infatuated person, but also a "obsessive" person.
This "Untitled" poem is Li Shangyin's cry of pain by describing the "desperate feelings of a woman who is deeply locked in a secluded woman's pursuit of love and disillusionment.".
It is also difficult for Li Shangyin, his wax torch can become ash, his acacia can become ash, he uses the same word technique as "ash" but writes too many "non-gray" life poems, although the ash itself is ruthless, but let Li Shangyin write more affectionately.
Don't you see the infinite despair of "spring hearts do not fight with flowers, an inch of love and an inch of ash"?
Li Shangyin's most cherished satirical poem:
"Jia Sheng"
Xuanfu asked for a visit to the courtiers, and Jia Sheng was even more ruthless.
Poor night half empty front seat, do not ask the heavens to ask the ghosts and gods.
"Jia Sheng" is An epic poem by Li Shangyin that borrows from the ancient and the present, and it is also a true portrayal of his own talent, a sentence "Don't ask the cangsheng to ask the ghosts and gods" to write the fainting late Tang Emperor nakedly.
For thousands of years, "don't ask the people to ask the ghosts and gods" has also become a mantra often spoken by ordinary people, which shows that Li Shangyin's poem is widely sung by the world and implanted in people's hearts.
Li Shangyin used a "riddle" like life to push the decaying poetry of the late Tang Dynasty to another peak, leaving us with too many enigmatic poems, as one of the few poets who deliberately pursued poetic beauty even in the entire Tang Dynasty, he was as beautiful as a mystery, just as intoxicating.
After reading these ten classic works of Li Shangyin, which of his poems did you fall in love with? You may wish to leave your comments for your favorite poems, and everyone will share them together, thank you.
Note: This article is partly derived from the author's "Great Poet Li Shangyin: 10 Most Classic Works That Have Been Passed Down through the Ages" released by the author on the public account "Reading Poetry and Song Endowment", which one do you like the most? In the article, the poems are from the Internet, this article is only the author's exposition, does not represent any point of view, for the sake of the reader, please correct.