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"Chinese romance" is on the hot search again.
From the Winter Olympics to the Winter Paralympic Games, which are in full swing, "Chinese romance" has been mentioned too many times.
This reminds me of the man who brought the word into the public eye, Zhang Yimou.
Have you ever seen an old strategist with such a big smile?
This is a scene that left a deep impression on me in the documentary "Grand Event" behind the opening ceremony of the Beijing Winter Olympics.
Zhang Yimou, who has remained serious throughout the documentary, rarely showed such a smile, when he was expounding the core concept of his performance for the opening ceremony of the Winter Olympics:
What is Yanshan Snowflake? Why perform a snowflake from start to finish?
If I continue to read it, I will learn that the original sentence "Yanshan snowflakes" originally came from a poem by Li Bai: "Yanshan snowflakes are as big as a seat", and later poets such as Wang Anshi and Fang Hui have quoted this poem.
What is the magic of this poem that makes Zhang Yimou who found it so happy?
It turned out that it was because Zhang Yimou found a classic carrier that carried Chinese romance in this poem - Yanshan snowflakes.
Li Bai wrote:
The snowflakes of Yanshan Mountain were as big as a mat, and the pieces blew down the Xuanyuan Platform.
—— Li Bai, "North Wind Line"
In Li Bai's pen, the snowflakes of Yanshan Mountain were blown down by the cold wind one by one and fell on the Xuanyuan platform.
This place, which was used in the past for hanging and sacrifice, carries the sorrow and sorrow of the death of the deceased.
Although there is not much ink to depict this sorrow, it is as if an arbitrary door has been created, taking us back to a thousand years ago and seeing the cold wind and cold snow.
In fact, Li Bai's state of mind was related to his situation at that time.
He wrote this poem during the war-torn period, when his heart was naturally filled with sorrow and sorrow for the war.
In such an emotion, the "Yanshan snowflakes" he saw were undoubtedly cold and depressed.
At this time, the country was in difficulty, but he was powerless to change anything, and could only express his mood in the poem.
The arrows are empty, and people will not return from this battle.
I could not bear to see this thing, and it was burned to ashes.
The Yellow River is still full of soil, and the north wind and rain and snow are difficult to cut.
These people, who had been the sons of someone and the fathers of someone, could only remain on the battlefield and never come back.
He didn't use a word "sad" between the words,
But the snowflakes in the sky are the carrier of his sorrow, carrying the "sorrow" of his worries about the country and the people.
Wang Anshi is different.
Romantic, probably the word most bound to "gentle".
As Wang Anshi wrote:
The snowflakes of Yanshan mountain are as big as a mat, and the children wash their faces as luster.
The world is white in the middle of the night, and the boudoir is just empty memories.
Dot peach blossom Shu Xiaohong, wash your face with your child to make a magnificent appearance.
Wanting to ask for peace, Peach Blossom still smiled at the spring breeze.
——Wang Anshi, "Hu Jia Eighteen Beats Eighteen Songs One"
In his pen, the snowflakes of Yanshan Mountain, like the luster of a child after washing their faces, are full of the joy and hope of the first birth, soft and warm.
After the snowflakes melt, it is the expected spring.
He said, "If you want to ask for peace, Peach Blossom is still smiling in the spring breeze." ”
Wang Anshi felt that even if there was no new good news coming, I would at least have peach blossoms!
In any case, the peach blossoms will wait for me in the spring breeze, and the smile will bloom again, as vibrant as usual.
As long as I have this expectation of spring in my heart, even if the weather is so cold now, I will no longer be low.
If spring will come after all, what is the current cold?
Wang Anshi also did not appear the word "hi" in his pen,
But judging from the emotions carried by the snowflakes in the poem, it is not difficult to see the "joy" that spring is coming.
In the late Song and early Yuan poets, Fang Hui's pen, snowflakes are like this:
The snowflakes of Yanshan Mountain are as big as a mat, and it is expected that Jiangnan will also see it.
The first six days of Lapa are aware of the past, but in the spring breeze of February.
——Fang Hui, "February Shuo Snow has been five days and three songs one"
He made a comparison between the snowflakes of Yanshan and Jiangnan. In February, when the spring breeze was just blowing, I also saw heavy snow like Yanshan in Jiangnan.
Compared with the Yanshan snowflakes in the north wind, the Jiangnan snow carries a touch of softness and tranquility, and the Yanshan snowflakes can also be like this.
In Fang Hui's pen, Yanshan snowflakes have an extra layer of soft emotions of early spring in Jiangnan.
Although it is also a Yanshan snowflake, in the poems of the three people, it presents a different artistic conception.
The same carrier, it brings people a kaleidoscopic feeling, can be sad, can be joyful, can also be soft and quiet.
Snowflakes are the same, but the feelings are different, but they are the same.
They all melted the strong emotions in their hearts into this heavy snow on Yanshan Mountain. What they saw in their eyes was no longer just a layer of white snow, but a more grand realm, the unity of heaven and man.
Everything in nature, which does not carry any emotion, is that we map emotions to them.
It's like looking in the mirror, and what comes out of the mirror is not someone else, it's ourselves.
Although the emotions are different and the mood is different, this kind of withdrawing one's emotions from the body and finding a carrier in nature and placing affection on it may be the romance that we Chinese unique to.
Back to the beginning, back to Zhang Yimou's bright smile.
The idea that came out of his mouth to perform a snowflake from start to finish,
The sentence "The snowflakes of Yanshan Mountain are as big as a seat",
That opening ceremony was a grand vision of the world family together for the future,
It seems that all have been presented on the answer sheet that writes "the romance of Chinese" - the opening ceremony of the Winter Olympics.
The heart is hot, and the heart is natural.
Perhaps the romance of Chinese is inseparable from such a heart.
We can put ourselves on ourselves, and we can put on all things in heaven and earth.
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