Writing a woman's smile with the fragrance of plum blossoms, and writing a woman's temperament and personality with the high purity of plum blossoms, I think this is the most intelligent and wonderful sentence in classical Chinese poetry to write about female beauty.
"When you laugh, you still have the fragrance of lingmei", writing out the beauty of feminine temperament, and the beauty of life philosophy, which is the great beauty of reaching the realm of "people and heaven and earth".
Who is the most outstanding depiction of women's beauty? I think the most outstanding is Su Dongpo. His "light makeup and thick wipes are always appropriate", although he borrowed Xizi to write about West Lake, is still a wonderful poem about female beauty. Beauty is beautiful in its true color, light makeup and thick wipes are appropriate, light makeup and thick wipes are not important, how beautiful people are beautiful.
Another sentence in "The Song of the Cave Immortals" -
When the servant was seven years old, he saw the old nun of Meizhou, surnamed Zhu, and forgot his name, at the age of ninety. He said that he had followed his master into the palace of the Shu lord Meng Chang, and one day it was very hot, and the Shu lord and Lady Huarui were on the cool Maha pond at night, and zhu gu could remember it. Forty years now, Zhu has been dead for a long time, and people are ignorant of this word, but remember his first two sentences, and spend time looking for taste, is it not the "Song of the Cave Immortals"? It is a cloud of feet.
Ice muscle jade bone, cool without sweat. The water temple wind comes dark incense. The embroidery curtain is open, a little bright moon peeps at people, people do not sleep, and the pillow is chaotic. Get up and take the hands of the plain, the court is silent, and when you see the stars crossing the river, you will see the thin stars. How about the night? The night has changed three times, the golden wave is light, and the jade rope is turned low. But when the west wind came, it was not secretly changed for many years.
"Ice muscle jade bone, cool without sweat." This sentence suddenly cuts from the characteristics of the skin phase directly into the inner world of people, from the ice muscle jade bone of that beauty, crystal clear, directly into her spiritual temperament - elegant, indifferent, floating out of the dust. Such a temperament, very special, is desirable to read. However, the copyright of these two sentences cannot be attributed to Su Dongpo, because he himself said in the small preface, which are the two Mengzi words that have been handed down.
However, "ice muscle jade bone, cool without sweat", reminds me of a sentence in Su Dongpo's "He Groom Xia Jing": "The hand makes a white ball fan, and the fan hand is like jade for a while." Write about noble and lonely beauties, excellent. Here an allusion is vaguely used, from the "World Speaks New Language Rongzhi": "Wang Yifu has a beautiful appearance, is wonderful in Xuan Tan, and constantly catches the white jade handle and tail, and there is no difference between him and his hand." ”
Or think that the white tuan fan implies that the autumn fan is a donation - the loneliness of being snubbed, but because it is written in the summer, the tuan fan is just in time, and may not have this intention. Probably mainly borrowed the hand to hold the fan, the fan hand like jade to write this beauty's spotless, ice clean jade. "Like jade", it is not just the hand, but the whole person.
Women with bad temperament and poor character naturally have fair skin and slender hands, but poets will not write so. This does not contradict the truth of life, but it goes against the aesthetic truth of poetry: beauty must be holistic, unified in appearance.
Mr. Gu Sui said that Li Shangyin "the east wind is warm and smells the blowing sheng", and it must be a sheng to write warm; Du Mu "a flute wind on the sunset platform", writing cool, must be a flute; "When the east wind is warm, no one plays the flute? Some people can't write it when they blow it", this is a very willful witty remark of Mr. Gu Sui. In the same way, a woman who is vulgar or mediocre in temperament, even if her skin is like gelatin and ten fingers, the poet will never use "fan hand like jade for a while" to write about her, because in that case, this woman's hand is only snow white and only delicate, but she cannot say "like jade", and her whole person cannot say "like jade". In fact, only when the whole person is "like jade" from the inside out, can the hand be "like jade" - can it be written "like jade", otherwise it is white and tender, "can not be written".
Writing about women's beauty, "light makeup and thick smearing is always appropriate", and "ice muscle jade bone, cool and sweatless", can be included in the top three.
If I say that the best written, in my opinion, comes from Su Dongpo's "Dingfeng Bo • Chang Envying the World of Yulang". There is a small sequence before this "Dingfeng Wave", and Su Dongpo recorded the origin of creation in this way——
Wang Dingguo Song Er Rou Nu, surname Yuwen Shi, Mei Mu JuanLi, good response, family lineage living in The Beijing Division. Dingguo moved south, Yu asked Rou: "Guangnan terroir, should it be bad?" Rou said, "This place of peace of mind is my hometown." "Because of the word cloud.
Often envious of the world's Jade Lang, Heaven should beg and point crispy lady. As far as the song is sung, the wind rises, and the snow flies and the sea becomes cool. Wanli returned with fewer faces, smiling, and smiling with lingmei fragrance. I asked "whether Lingnan should be good", but said: "This peace of mind is my hometown."
Su Shi's good friend Wang Gong (Zi Dingguo) was relegated to Pennsylvania, a deserted place in Lingnan, because he was implicated in the "Wutai Poetry Case". His singer, the slave, asked to accompany him.
This slave is very beautiful. Dongpo first wrote about the beauty of her appearance, not only in the small preface to her "eyebrow Juanli", but also praised her in the words as a "dot crisp lady" and "dot crisp" worthy of the handsome "Qiu Yulang", saying that her skin was crystal clear.
Then he wrote about the beauty of the craftsmanship of this juanli girl. Her singing voice is beautiful, and once she sings a song from the cherry mouth of her teeth, it is like a gust of wind, even in a hot place, it is like snow, making people feel cool. The singing is intoxicating, forgetting the harsh and boring environment and refreshing - what a superb skill!
But this kind of appeal has revealed the temperament behind the song.
Of course, this Jonobu is not bad. She followed Wang Dingguo in guangxi for five years, one of Wang Dingguo's sons fell ill and died, Wang Dingguo himself was seriously ill, almost lost his life, and the hardships of climatic conditions and living conditions are self-evident. However, in such a situation, which should have been very difficult spiritually, they were not sad or depressed, they were open-minded and peaceful, they lived tenaciously and optimistically, and five years later, when they returned to the north, their faces were rosy, their faces were rich, and their style was better than before--this did not seem to be an exaggeration of Dongpo, and Sima Guang, Li Tao, and others recorded this, which greatly amazed Su Dongpo, and was also extremely pleased and extremely happy.
Dongpo and Wang Dingguo got together, Rou Nu came out to pour wine, dongpo chatted with her, and asked her: These years in Lingnan should be very uncomfortable, right? Unexpectedly, this little woman replied with a simple and light answer: This place of peace of mind is my hometown. There is nothing to adapt to, and the place where my heart can settle is my hometown.
Rou Nu was obviously familiar with poetry, because Bai Juyi had expressed similar meanings many times: "The place where the body and mind are safe is my land, and it is not limited to Chang'an and Luoyang", "I was born without a hometown, and peace of mind is the place of return", "No matter the cape or the end of the world, the peace of mind is home". Su Dongpo had always quoted Bai Juyi as a fellow, of course, he would not be unaware, but he did not expect this meaning, can be spoken from the mouth of a friend's concubine, and so natural and so appropriate. Su Dongpo himself has always held the outlook on life that "life is indispensable" and "there is no wind and rain and no sunshine", so Rou Nu's words are in line with Su Dongpo's heart and temperament, which makes him greatly surprised and resonates, so that he specially wrote this word for Rou Nu.
Classical Spring Water: Twelve Lectures on Pan Xiangli's Ancient Poetry, Pan Xiangli/Author, People's Literature Publishing House, 2022
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