Chinese Knot of The Red Drunken Flower Dynasty
Author: Wu Qian
Soap robe
Ming Tang Xianzu
It turned out that Zi Yan was red all over the place, and it seemed that all of them were paid with the broken well. Good day beauty, enjoy the pleasure of whose yard! Towards the twilight roll, yunxia Cuixuan; rain silk wind sheet, smoke wave painting boat. Jinping people can see this Shao Guang cheap!
If you don't go to the garden, how do you know that the spring color is as promised?
Du Liniang, this sixteen-year-old girl, saw what kind of flowers and flowers would she make such an exclamation?
"Peony Pavilion" is the representative work of the Ming Dynasty opera composer Tang Xianzu, and this "Soap Robe" appears in the tenth "Frightening Dream" part of "Peony Pavilion", which is what we often call "The Dream of Visiting the Garden".
Reading "Peony Pavilion", I originally went to this "Soap Robe", and inadvertently stopped for Du Liniang's father, Du Taishou, to "persuade the farmers".
On the day of the Flower Festival, Nan'an Taishou Du Zichong specially purchased the flower wine to persuade the farmers, and with soap, went to the countryside to inspect the farming of nongsang. Du Taishou wore hairpin flowers on his head and went deep into the field garden to reward the farmers who picked manure and fertilized them, the shepherd boys who rode bulls and whips, the peasant women who picked mulberries in baskets, and the village girls who picked new tea. It was a bright spring color in the field.
Persuading farmers is the duty of local officials, and it is also the old custom of the Flower Dynasty Festival.
What is Flower Dynasty? Is it the morning of the blossoms?
Spring flowers and autumn moon, the most beautiful in the world. The Flower Dynasty Festival is the birthday of a hundred flowers, on the twelfth day of the second month of the lunar calendar. Due to different regions and different flower letters, the date of the Flower Dynasty Festival is also said to be the 15th day of the second month of the lunar calendar.
The prototype of the Flower Dynasty Festival can be traced back to the pre-Qin period, the Spring and Autumn Period "Tao Zhu Gongshu" cloud: "February 12 is the day of hundreds of peanuts, no rain, a hundred flowers ripe." ”
In the concept of the ancestors, flowers are related to fruits, and the flower god not only controls the growth and decline of hundreds of flowers, but also takes into account the flourishing harvest of crops. Farmers should sacrifice to the flower god during the Flower Festival, spreading all kinds of seeds to pray for the flowers and fruits to flourish and the grain to be abundant.
"Flowers move in the spring heart on the night of the moon, and who can't bear to miss each other and don't see each other." In the Sui and Tang dynasties, the Flower Dynasty Festival was as important as the Mid-Autumn Festival, and people even created such a beautiful and moving idiom as "Flower Dynasty and Moon Night" to express the beautiful scenery that cannot be disappointed. The Old Book of Tang and the Biography of Luo Wei specifically writes: "Every flower is full of love with Binzuo. This means that every time you go to the Flower Festival, together with your friends, you will set up a barrier seat under the flowers, pass on flower orders, draw flower lots, enjoy flowers and butterflies, and drink and write poems. Falling into the ying colorful, drunk under the flowers, very elegant. The sixty-second time of "Dream of the Red Chamber", Xiang yun drunkenly lies in the peony bush, which really has a life archetype.
The mountains and rivers are soft, the flowers are in order, and the implicit and stoic Chinese, and they can't help but write their own panic on the blazing flowers.
During the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period, Princess Dai, the original wife of King Qian of Wuyue, returned to her mother's house every spring to live for a period of time. Qian Wei thought about his wife, who walked out of the palace gate one day, but saw the foot of the Phoenix Mountain, the embankment of the West Lake was already full of purple and red, and when he returned to the palace, he took up a pen and wrote a letter: "Strange flowers bloom, but they can slowly return." ”
The return of man is slow, the spiritual strange flower, blooming persistently and enthusiastically, I am a blossoming flower, waiting for you on the way back.
Why does "Zhang Ruoxuan want to write "Last night's idle pond dream fell flowers, poor spring half did not return home", Bai Juyi will be in "Spring River flowers toward the autumn moon night, often take wine and lean alone", Li Yu want to sigh "When is the spring flower and autumn moon"? If we understand the beauty of the flower festival, we can understand that the loneliness and sorrow when the spring flowers are bright is not without reason.
Before the Song Dynasty, most of the people who spent the Flower Festival were elegant intellectuals, which were not popular among the people. After the Song Dynasty, the people's enthusiasm for the Flower Dynasty Festival increased greatly, and when they went out to enjoy the flowers, they often went out to enjoy the flowers in thousands of empty alleys. Both men and women are happy to put large flowers on the sideburns and show off the market.
The ancients, who were more closely related to nature, never missed every rhythm with nature.
Du Taishou is also a person who loves flowers. His back garden is quite large, not only "Yunxia Cuixuan" and "Smoke Wave Painting Boat", but also has a peony pavilion standing in it, and more gardeners carefully tend it. Flowers are in the festival, and the flowers in the garden are full of flowers, and the flowers are like snow.
Pedantic and stereotypical father, a good official with a clean name and a good government, and a gentleman with a great interest in life, Du Zichong is also a pluralistic contradiction.
Her father went to the countryside because of farming, and Du Liniang was able to come to her back garden for the first time.
Spring is as good as ever, and those beautiful things will happen in whose courtyard? This sixteen-year-old girl, in the bright spring, her heart turned a thousand times.
Tang Xianzu was always extra attentive to the Flower Dynasty Festival, often introduced into his works. In his "Purple Jade Record", a scholar who went to Beijing to take the exam found the purple jade Yanchao left by Huo Xiaoyu when he was watching the lanterns at the Lantern Festival, and made a promise in this way. Later, the matchmaker informed shusheng that it was a good idea to become a relative...
In this way, the Flower Dynasty Festival is really an auspicious day to get together.
The legend of the god of flowers has always been more than one. The earliest flower god in the legend is Nüyi, who is the goddess of the myth that dominates spring and summer, and is good at serving grass and flowers. According to the "Huainanzi? The Astronomical Training records: "The female Yi drum song is based on Si Tianhe, and with long grains, birds, and grass and trees." Shakyamuni's disciple JiaYe smiled, the Buddhist family took Jiaye as the flower god; Cao Xueqin belonged to Yilin Daiyu, in "Dream of the Red Chamber", he specially arranged Daiyu's birthday on the twelfth flower festival of the second month of the lunar calendar, and the birthday of the heroine of the modern novel "Golden Powder Family" Leng Qingqiu on February 12, probably not an unintentional coincidence of Zhang Hateshui.
In addition to the total flower god, Chinese also matched each flower with a flower god, and created multiple versions of the December flower god, so that "there are flowers blooming every day, and there are flower gods in the moon and moon" throughout the year. In the Kunqu opera "Dream of Visiting the Garden", which was adapted from "Peony Pavilion", there are big flower gods and small flower gods. Interestingly, there are many beautiful women in the flower god, and there is no shortage of elegant men, such as the orchid god Qu Yuan, the peony flower god Ouyang Xiu, the hibiscus flower god Fan Chengda, etc. In the Qing Dynasty Wu Youru's "Twelve Flowers God Map", the plum blossom god who opened in January is liu Mengmei, the protagonist of "Peony Pavilion". The aesthetic taste and spiritual integrity of these elegant people always coincide with the flowers they love.
In short, The Flower God is an open-ended general term that can accommodate all people with stories.
"Grass and trees are nurtured, and everything is tolerated." In ancient texts, Hua is the flower; Xia, Daye. The great beauty of China, so it can accommodate all things and hundreds of rivers, can be eclectic to the ideology and culture of various schools, nationalities, and even foreign religions, and has formed a pluralistic philosophical system unique to the Chinese nation that integrates the three religions of Confucianism, Buddhism, and Taoism.
The so-called "special journey and the same destination", the essence of multiculturalism, is to strive to explore and open up the inner spiritual world of people. This is also the reason why "Peony Pavilion" has become more and more intense on the stage after more than four hundred years of circulation, and there is no drama that can be compared.
The garden in Chinese literature is the world of people's soul and the spiritual home of Chinese. So Tang Xianzu placed a very mythical play in the garden: Du Liniang, this flower-like bright woman, in the back garden of "Zi Yan Red Blooming", knew and fell in love with the dreamer Liu Mengmei, and then died of love, and then came back from the dead. The garden, this vast unknown world, has an amazing unknown energy, which can make "love not know what to do, go deeper, the living can die, and the dead can live." ”
This aesthetic view profoundly influenced Cao Xueqin, which produced "Dream of the Red Chamber", which later praised life to the extreme.
"It turns out that there are also good articles on the play. Unfortunately, the world only knows how to watch the play, and may not be able to appreciate the fun of it. "This is lin daiyu's voice after walking to the corner of the Lixiangyuan and overheard the "Soap Robe"." One is the Langyuan Immortal, and the other is the Beautiful Jade Flawless", which refers to Daiyu and Baoyu. Their mutual confidants are not only because of the former alliance of wood and stone, but also because of the inexplicable spiritual fit. In the Grand View Garden of Youth, they love flowers, cherish flowers, bury flowers together, feel the soul of flowers and birds, read the drama together in the peach blossoms, and pour out their true feelings to each other, becoming the most precious scenery in the Grand View Garden.
Flower Festival, do you have a confidant, a spring breeze to appreciate a hundred flowers?
Drink a peach blossom brew, may you be like a beautiful flower, worthy of the flow of water.
About the Author
Wu Qian, a middle school teacher and provincial Mandarin tester, has won the Yueyang Golden Eagle Gold Award.
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