Lilac-like girl
Li Li
"Rain Lane" is Dai Wangshu's famous work, the whole poem gives people a hazy and deep sense of beauty: the narrow and gloomy rain alley, the lone traveler wandering in the rain lane, the girl with a grudge like a lilac, like a dream, miserable and confused, leisurely floating by...
The girl depicted in the poem, she is the color of lilacs, the fragrance of lilacs, the sorrow of lilacs, lamenting in the rain, mourning and wandering. Lilac girl, where is the beauty?
First of all, her color is like cloves, a touch of lilac like fog, in the rainy season of Jiangnan, indifferently blooming. Lilac, a traditional Chinese color. The faint purple, plain and tranquil, is a symbol of purity and melancholy. In ancient times, purple had the meaning of "purple qi coming from the east", and it was a beautiful and immortal aristocratic color. Grape, eggplant, wisteria, cherry blossom, hibiscus, lilac, these are all shades of purple in the Chinese color spectrum. Lilac, slightly darker than cherry blossoms and slightly lighter than hibiscus, all three colors are colored by a flower tree.
The characteristics of lilac, I think are ethereal. The pale purple of April lilacs, like a thin layer of light veil, gentle and diffuse, purple light flowing, who does not want to indulge in this psychedelic purple? We say that the willow tree in early spring always says smoky willow, as the earliest awakening plant in spring, the willow tip head a seemingly innocent smoke green, always attracting special attention. This feeling is like a veil, gently touching, hazy with the swing of the wind to fill the breath of spring. If you want to take a closer look, but it is as foggy as the river. And lilacs, and a tree of smoke willow has the same style, when the flowers bloom purple mist is a cloud, on the side of the road, on the shore, encounter such a tree, fragrant, light purple overflowing. If there has only been a spring rain, the light rain has gradually stopped, and the tender aroma is new, the feeling is very moving. Dai Wangshu's lilac girl, after a startling glance, the graceful figure passed in the rain alley. Lilac girl is dreamy, what color is she? She was fairy purple, separated by a hazy distance.
Second, her fragrance is like cloves. The lilac is named after the slender and fragrant flower tube, which is full of small flowers, hundreds of heads, and is full of fragrance. The lilac-like girl gently walked past you and gradually walked away, but in the air, there was still a fragrance that lasted for a long time.
How to write about the mink cicada among the four beauties in the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms"? The first appearance, just to say that he is good at singing and dancing, the color tricks are good, and there is no more superiority. But we first conveyed affection through "Lü Bu looking intently", the two eyebrows, and then Dong Zhuo smiled: "True Immortals in the middle of the people!" Words such as "Show the beautiful face of the mink cicada from the side." Later, Luo Guanzhong used two hymns to praise the song and dance of the mink cicada, in which when it was written that the mink cicada sang, the original text of the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" was as follows: Zhuo Yue: "Can you sing?" "Order the mink cicada to hold the sandalwood board and sing a low song." Exactly: "A little cherry to open the lips, two lines of broken jade spray Yang Chun." Lilac spat out a steel sword and wanted to behead the traitorous and chaotic courtiers. Dong Zhuo was greatly rewarded (see the eighth time in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, "Wang Situqiao made a series of plans, and Dong Taishi made a big fuss at the Fengyi Pavilion').
As the sable cicada of the peerless singer, when she began to sing, her lips were like a little cherry, her teeth were like two rows of broken jade, and her tongue spat out fragrance and circled the beam for three days. Its charm is fascinating. What is a "lilac tongue"? As a world-famous spice, cloves are produced in the southern tropics and are an evergreen tree, myrtle family, 10-15 meters tall, and the fragrance is unparalleled when it blooms. When its buds turn from light blue to dark red, they are picked and dried to become yellow-brown, also known as "chicken tongue incense", "clove incense", because of the shape of nails, can be used for cooking, medicine, incense, tea making. Historically, cloves were introduced to China in the 3rd century BC as an imported "southern medicine" (a medicinal herb grown in the tropics). The Han Dynasty people once very elegantly described Shang Shulang as "Huaixiang Holding Orchid"—carrying chicken tongue incense in his arms, that is, tropical spice cloves, and holding Perrin in his hands, a fragrant herb. Because of the fragrant aroma, in ancient times, "lilac tongue" was used to refer to a woman's tongue, and "lilac" to refer to the teeth of a woman's population. The common lilac in the north of the continent, scientific name North China lilac, belongs to the genus Lilac of the family Xylariaceae, which is a deciduous shrub and a small tree, and has nothing to do with the spice cloves from the tropics. Whether the cloves in Dai Wangshu's "Rain Lane" refer to evergreen trees of the myrtle family or small deciduous shrubs of the family Rhinoceros, they all refer to fragrant grasses and trees, emitting an aroma like blue musk. The lilac girl comes from the depths of Chinese culture, derived from the symbols in the "Book of Poetry", to the extensive use and modification of Chu Ci, and then to the more detailed metaphor in Ming and Qing novels, the "vanilla beauty" with deep cultural connotations.
Finally, her sorrow was like a lilac. When the lilac flower is not in bloom, its inflorescence is conical, like a human heart, and the buds are densely covered with branches and buds, just like the heart of a person, full of silk knots, so it is called "lilac knot". Ancient literati inkers often used lilac flowers to describe people's melancholy knots, which are difficult to dispel, and are used to describe parting sorrows and hate. Cloves are the knots of love, and the cloves imagery in many classical poems, from Du Fu's "The lilac body is weak and the branches are about to fall", to Li Shangyin's "Basho does not show the lilac knot, and the same spring wind is worried about each other", Feng Yanmi's "The frost tree is empty of branches, the intestines are broken lilac knots", to Li Jing's "The green bird does not pass on the cloud outside the letter, the lilac is empty in the rain", most of them are unattainable bitter love, a deep affection for empty payment, thousands of turns, and the heart knot is difficult to understand. Dai Wangshu created a symbolic lyrical image of a lilac-like girl with a grudge, apparently inspired by some works in ancient poetry.
The melancholy lilac girl is a delicate, elegant, touching, and loving girl who can't help but be attracted to just one more look. In the lament of the rain, she dissipated the color, the fragrance, the even too breath-like vision, the lilac-like melancholy. The lilac girl, who had drifted away, walked to the end of the rain lane, "to the decadent fence wall." Is the broken and decaying fence the girl's destination? The difficulty of this situation, the many fates, the pity of the world, and the even more thoughts of it, love is never forgotten.
"Like a lilac floating in a dream, this girl floats beside me", this poem is written in a way that is both real and virtual, hazy trance, the color of the lilac, the fragrance of the lilac, are as ethereal as a dream, if it is like a departure, lingering and compassionate. Maybe I wrote so much, and it doesn't make much sense to interpret the lilac girl. You don't have to ask questions so specifically, and you don't have to answer them so precisely. After all, poetry is poetry, as the predecessor said: "Poetry has to be solved, it cannot be solved, it does not have to be solved." In particular, most of Dai Wangshu's early poems are not direct imitations of reality, but often a kind of catharsis of the hidden soul. "Rain Lane" may be a real life encounter, an illusion that appears from the depth of thought, or it may be a dream written.
All the best poems are infinite. One curtain after another can be revealed, and the innermost naked beauty of its true meaning can never be revealed. It seems that we should have the attitude we should have when reading poetry. Good poetry is helpless: the verse is so beautiful that it makes people try to dissect its meaning and feel disrespectful, the poetry is so dense, if you only appreciate the beauty and feel disrespectful, the poetry is so mysterious, you want to understand it thoroughly and feel presumptuous. Full of glasses flowers and water moon, empty labor to explore the love of hands.