Reading lights
Half of the window cold rain night deep, burn off the orchid paste an inch of gold.
Mo Xiao had been on the dust wall for ten years, and he had also broken the heart of the sage.
This poem is written about the author's reading life in his youth, ten years of hard reading in the cold window, burning the anointing and following the dial is a common thing; the picture of "blowing out the reading lamp, all is the moon" has also remained deeply in the poet's memory. The poet's assiduous study and admiration for the saints are also on the paper.
If we follow the content of the poem, it is easy to associate the author with a gentle and elegant literati; but who would have thought that this poem was actually written by a military general, and he was also a famous general of the generation who was a warrior and a famous warrior, and he was a famous general of the Yuan Dynasty, Zhang Hongfan.
Zhang Hongfan (張弘范), courtesy name Zhongzu, was a famous general in the early Yuan Dynasty. In the third year of central unification, Zhang Hongfan was appointed as the commander of the march and followed Hebi Chi in his crusade against Li Xuan. In the sixth year of the Yuan Dynasty, Zhang Hongfan participated in the Battle of Xiangyang, dedicated his plan to break the city, and then followed marshal Boyan south to attack the Southern Song Dynasty, defeating the Southern Song Dynasty Sailors in the Battle of Yashan. It can be said that Zhang Hongfan was a key figure in Kublai Khan's war against the Song Dynasty.
The real Zhang Hongfan is a Confucian general and a military poet, with Confucian feelings and the temperament of a poet. Zhang Hongfan has a volume of poetry collection "Huaiyang Collection", and there are many lyrics in the poetry collection. Zhang Hongfan also often prides himself on being a literati, and his poetry style is diverse, which not only shows the bold mind of meritorious achievements, but also writes idle feelings, and more wounded works, conveying the feelings of life, showing his handsome and elegant side.
Since he was a military poet, he naturally had an unusual learning experience. In Zhang Hongfan's study and growth life, there are two people whose influence on him cannot be ignored, one is his father Zhang Rou, and the other is his teacher Hao Jing.
Zhang Rou was one of the famous bibliophiles in the early Yuan Dynasty, and there were many books in his home, most of which came from Zhang Rou's emphasis on books. Every time when the siege was victorious, Zhang Rou did not collect gold, silver and jade like other generals, but locked his eyes on the library's literature, for example, after the capture of Beijing, Zhang Rou rushed to the library at the first time to collect the national history of the Jin Kingdom, "Jin Shilu", and this precious document was preserved.
Born in such a family that cherishes books and has a strong literary style, Zhang Hongfan has developed a strong interest in reading and learning since childhood, and he can easily contact and obtain knowledge in rare literature.
With the influence of family style, coupled with the point of a famous teacher, Zhang Hongfan's studies have improved by leaps and bounds, and this famous teacher is Hao Jing. Hao Jing was a famous Confucian in the late Song and early Yuan dynasties, and Hao Jing's works, such as the Spring and Autumn Outer Biography, the Book of the Later Han Dynasty, and the Collected Works of Lingchuan, are all his academic masterpieces. Zhang Hongfan studied Confucianism under Hao Jing, developed a gentle and elegant Confucian demeanor, and the artistic techniques of Zhang Hongfan's poetry and the use of allusions were directly due to the influence of Hao Jing.
As a military poet, Zhang Hongfan created many works with military conquest as the content between Rong Ma and Liang, and his style of writing was passionate and bold. His words are full of classics, fresh and strong style, heroic and unrestrained, and his words have both the heroic temperament of Su Shi bending the bow to shoot the wolf, and the majestic spirit of the autumn soldiers in the field of Xin Abandoning Disease, such as his song "Magnolia Slow":
When the merit is returned, he will roll up his sleeves without being alarmed. And the book sword is staggering, Lin Quan is smiling and proud, and the poetry and wine are drifting. Human affairs, good and ridiculous, like a long sky, clouds and shadows make clouds and clouds. Mo wept poor old tears, Hugh pity the children of the new pavilion.
A song of rice cows, the sky twilight. Just one hundred and two rivers and mountains, a crown belt, the old but rising flat. Heroes should also be useless, imitating the wind and dust, and striving for miles. Who remembers youth and wealth, for pity for the world.
The opening three sentences of the lyrics are "the name of the merit is degraded, then the sleeve is whisked, do not need to be alarmed", the tone is soothing, reading there is a kind of cloud cirrus cloud comfort, calm and self-assured calmness, in the eyes of the lyricist, the fame and fortune are things outside the body, like floating clouds, he even compares the loss of merit to the falling crock pot, indicating that there is only a need to flick the sleeves and go, there is no need to panic.
The "fallen" in the sentence is a historical allusion, from the "Book of Later Han Guo Tai Biography": Guo Tai is good at rewarding and promoting young talents, and there is a student named Meng Min who lives in Taiyuan, and the crock pot in his hand accidentally falls to the ground, and he leaves without turning his head.
After Guo Tai heard about this, he asked Meng Min why he did this, and Meng Min said that if the crock pot fell to the ground, it would definitely break, and it would not help to turn back, so what was the use? Later, Meng Min went out to study, and ten years later, the world was famous, and many scholars and doctors hired Meng Min with generous gifts, but Meng Min focused on academic research and did not agree to the appointment of scholars.
Here, Zhang Hongfan compares himself with Meng Min, and between his words there is a kind of determination and freedom to see through the world's human feelings, vanity and profit, showing the decisive temperament unique to martial generals. In fact, Zhang Hongfan's understanding of fame and fortune is profound, and as his fame and achievements increase day by day, he becomes more and more indifferent to fame and fortune, and he has revealed this emotion more than once in his letters to friends.
In a letter to his friend Wang Zhongsi, he said that "the autumn wind is close to Xiangfan, so as to make a flat boat ride across the Five Lakes"; in the letter to Liu Zhongze, he also said that "the eastern fence sat on the chrysanthemum and gave the Nanshan poem together"; when he passed by the Peach Blossom Garden of Wuling, he had feelings in his heart and would write "The ancient Wuling Creek is on the road, and the peach blossoms are flowing"; when he sent love to the landscape, he wrote "Love the forest spring wind and things are good, envy him to return to Xi"; when he boated on the river, he also wrote the verse "Fluttering letter flow, mistakenly passing through the Ziyou Creek".
In these verses, those celebrity hermits in history have become Zhang Hongfan's confidants of "meeting each other", and their super-dusty living conditions and Zhang Hongfan's inner feelings have reached a tacit balance, or even a high degree of fit.
In the end, the hermit Tao Yuanming and others became Zhang Hongfan's inevitable spiritual pursuit, and Wuling Taohuayuan provided a subconscious poetic habitat for his military career.
Seclusion, for Zhang Hongfan, is not masturbation after Shijin is blocked, nor is it the spiritual sustenance in the difficulties of survival, but the ardent yearning and ultimate pursuit of a free life. Therefore, whether from the poem itself or the allusions cited, we can rarely see the depression and world-weariness and sadness in it, and the poet always maintains a dashing and free attitude and an optimistic and open feeling.
The next three sentences, "And the book is in a sword, Lin Quan is proud, and the poetry and wine are drifting zero", which is zhang Hongfan's emotional expression of seeking spiritual self-comfort. Zhang Hongfan was the most meritorious in a series of battles in the early Yuan Dynasty, but he commented on himself as "stumbling", which is undoubtedly his self-deprecation.
What he wanted to do was to spend his life at ease by the mountains, forests, and wild springs, and to comfort the drifting life with landscapes and poetry, which was obviously a philosophy of life that contradicted Zhang Hongfan's pursuit of life's fame and fortune.
In the passage of time, many beautiful things have turned into illusions, the conflict between reality and ideals, the fear of time passing, and zhang Hongfan has also brought a kind of choice question that must be answered in life? As a generation of famous generals, Zhang Hongfan has always had the ambition to make meritorious achievements, but as the time grows, the mood of the twilight of life and the boredom of war are often accompanied by the lyricist.
Just as he knew about the war, he felt both a sense of accomplishment and a harsh reality in it. Therefore, the yearning for retreating to the countryside and returning to Lin Quan is increasing day by day in the life of the poet and the horse, and it is out of control.
In Zhang Hongfan's eyes, sending love to landscapes and sending love poems and wine is Tao Ran's free and cheerful, and this open-minded feeling, in addition to directly expressing his love for bard drinking in poetry, is also manifested in his appreciation of Tao Yuanming's philosophy of life.
In the reclusive forest spring, poetry and wine comfort life, he longs for a free and ancient, uninhibited, talented life like Tao Yuanming, and feels a happy life through drinking, and also obtains an artistic feeling through the transcendence after drinking.
Since ancient times, China has had the spirit of "poor people are good at their own, and reaching out are good for the world", for the lyricists, since it is difficult to be famous and the books and swords are staggering, then the secluded life of Lin Quan poetry and wine is naturally the only choice. This mentality of the writer is consistent with the spirit of a scholar who regulates his mental state and behavior according to the circumstances of one moment and one place:
At the time of attaining ambition, they make meritorious achievements and are full of a sense of responsibility for joining the WTO; when their thinking and career tend to be flat, they yearn for the mountains and forests and seek spiritual sustenance. From external deeds to inner life realization, this mixture of one side of hope and the other side of the desire to return to Lin Quan, almost all the literati and doctors of the past have experienced the path of life. Of course, Zhang Hongfan is no exception.
However, the mutual transformation of these two ways of doing things, for every talented person, especially those who have achieved fame, can not but go through a strong inner struggle, which is a process from the beginning of gentle temptation to the fierce collision in the middle of the way and finally to calm down and self-acceptance. After going through the vicissitudes of the world and exhausting all my efforts, the only thing I can have in the end is myself. It is a kind of inner salvation, a process of reconciliation between oneself and oneself.
Therefore, the lyricist sighed a long time, issued a "human affairs, good and ridiculous, like a long sky, cloud shadows to make the clouds and clouds", these few sentences actually tell the reason for the lyricist's inner pursuit of this reclusive life, the writer believes that the things in the world are indeed ridiculous to the extreme, just like a gust of wind blowing, clouds covering the moon shadow, cloudy and uncertain. He compares the impermanence of the world to the changes of clouds and shadows, and his words are shallow and deep, full of Zhang Hongfan's mental journey after reading thousands of sails and experiencing the vicissitudes of the world.
The writer has a clear understanding of all this. So he said, "Don't weep the old tears of the poor road, and take pity on the children of the new pavilion", these two sentences are to the effect that: Don't be like Ruan Zhi, who weeps at the end of the road, and don't grieve for those people who cross the south to the new pavilion. This seems to be the self-talk of the lyricist, but in fact, it is precisely the lyricist who sees through the world and looks down on fame and fortune.
However, this kind of freedom is the ideal of freedom, which is incompatible with the role played by the lyricist in real life, so the lyricist chooses to face the unavoidable reality in life. Zhang Hongfan's words "Mo weeping poor old tears, Hugh pity children Xinting" is very easy to understand, this is the word that the lyricist uses to comfort himself, or to find a balance between the two in his heart.
Here, the lyricist still quotes the allusion of historical figures, "poor old tears" refers to the Jin people Ruan Zhi "when he drove alone, not by the path, the car tracks are poor, weeping and returning", for Ruan Yuan, his life path, life ideals and his own values can not be realized in the change of the times. So he often drove the car, driving aimlessly, and when he was tired, he would scream and cry with his head in the air. Perhaps, Ruan Ji is looking for a pure land of the soul in reality in this way, and what can he do without weeping at this time?
The "new pavilion for children" in the word uses an allusion that people who crossed the river in the Eastern Jin Dynasty often wept at the new pavilion feast. Zhang Hongfan here clearly stated that he did not learn from Ruan's poor ways and cried, and did not pity the new pavilion people to cry like children, and opened his optimistic, cheerful, and open-minded mind to the world, and he had a short-term and heroic style.
But in the end, the lyricist is still a man with a career of fighting horses and a heart for the world, and he can be calm about the things outside the body of fame and fortune, but he cannot dispel the sadness of returning to the field and abandoning idleness.
The first two sentences of the next film, "Hao Song A Song of Rice Cows, Sky Twilight Smoke", to the effect that you should hit the horns and sing like Ning Qi when the sky is misty and thin twilight is meditating. In this sentence, the lyricist quotes the allusion that the Weiren Ning Qi did not meet the Duke of Qi Huan in the Spring and Autumn Period, revealing the mental journey of this difficult choice. The lyricist quotes this allusion here, both to show that he has achieved fame but still want to make a difference, and to be full of illusions that he can one day be reintroduced.
However, the mission of the lyricist as a famous general has been completed, the great rivers and mountains in front of him, the lyricist galloped on horseback, but now he can only sit back and watch the end of his life, the real hero should not be like this, the lyricist intends to face the wind and dust, like Dapeng to fly thousands of miles.
Therefore, behind the reality that the lyricist is no longer gorgeous and the hero is useless, it is actually a deep depression and helplessness for idle life. In this case, even if he has the lofty ambitions of Pengcheng Wanli, what use can he have?
The last two sentences, "Who remembers youth and wealth, for pity for the people of the world", the lyricist once again revealed his heart, he reiterated that the reason why he had the feelings of Ning Qi when he was a child and sang was not because of nostalgia for the glory and wealth that he had when he was young, but out of pity for the world, which fully demonstrated the heroic nature of the lyricist who was idle after his achievements and fame, but still did not fall into the ambition of Qingyun, but the low melody at the end actually reflected the helplessness of the lyricist in reality.
Zhang Hongfan's poem, the use of classics is undoubtedly a major feature, the lyricist will be a subset of history, historical figures, celebrity stories at hand, the classics are like a stream. The lyricist conveys affection with songs, uses words to clarify his mind, connects his actual situation and mentality and emotions with the encounters of the characters in the allusions, and pours the blocks in his chest through the wine cup of the ancients.
Zhang Hongfan's "Magnolia Slow" is actually a portrayal of the writer's journey, through the lyrics, we can vaguely see the heroic and heroic spirit of a general in the turbulent historical torrent, and we can also see the image of a handsome and elegant lyricist with a lupine scarf and a love for the landscape. But the tone of this song is handsome and elegant, clean and indulgent, because he is using the emotions of military poets to express his mentality and aesthetics.