Author: Guo Zhijun Source: The Essence of Guoxue and the Art of Living (gxjhshys)
Wang Wei has a poem about lovesickness,
Touching and profound, well-known,
Almost everyone can carry it.
"Acacia"
Don Wang wei
Red beans are born in the southern country, and a few branches are sent in the spring.
May the king pick up more, this thing is the most acacia.
This poem is meandering and tactful, and the meaning is profound,
It is the love enlightenment poem of many people,
But you know,
This poem, also known as "The Year of the Li Turtle on the River",
Not to a lover, but to Wang Wei's friend,
He is also the first musician of the Tang Dynasty, Li Guinian.
Speaking of the Year of the Li Gui, many people will think,
Du Fu's poem "Jiangnan Feng Li Gui Year",
As a poem for a friend,
Its popularity is not lower than Li Bai's "Gift to Wang Lun".
"Jiangnan Feng Li Turtle Year"
Don Du fu
It was common in the Qi King's mansion, and Cui Jiutang smelled it several times before.
It is the good scenery of Jiangnan, and the flower fall season is also the king.
Who is this Li Guinian?
What kind of story does he have with Wang Wei and Du Fu?
This starts from the prosperous Chang'an more than 1,000 years ago.
01
In the early years of Tianbao, in the late spring,
A hundred flowers wither, and only peonies dominate the crowd.
At this time, Datang was still immersed in the dream of the prosperous world,
Cigarettes are rich, drums are noisy,
The lights are bright and the songs are played.
That day Tang Xuanzong was in a good mood,
Bring Yang Guifei to enjoy the flowers at the Agarwood Pavilion,
Urgently ordered Li Bai to enter the palace to write a new movement,
With a big stroke of his pen, Li Bai improvised three poems of "QingPing Tone".
Qingping tune one
The clouds want to dress and flowers, and the spring breeze blows Revlon.
If it were not for the jade mountain head, it would meet the Yaotai Moon.
Qingping tune · second
A branch of red dew condensed incense, cloud rain Wushan cut off the intestines.
Borrowing from the Han Palace who has to be like, poor Fei Yan leans on the new makeup.
Qingping tune · third
The famous flowers are happy with the country, and the king looks at it with a smile.
Explain the infinite hatred of the spring wind, and the agarwood pavilion leans on the north to dry.
The lyrics are finished, who is the singer?
It is Le Sheng, Li Gui Nian.
Li Guinian led the singing,
The sound of the world, the aftersound of the beam,
Li Bai and Li Guinian,
One person's poems are stunning and romantic, and one person's tune is gracefully entangled,
The combination of the two, like a mesmerizing, like a dream,
The grand scene of the Tang Dynasty, which is sung and danced, has reached the extreme.
02
Li Guinian was born into a family of official eunuchs,
The name takes the meaning of the longevity of the turtle,
Is the most famous musician of the Tang Dynasty,
It was also the era, worthy of the name of the top stream.
Li Guinian has two brothers,
Li Pengnian good dance, Li He Nian good song,
The three of them co-created "Weichuan Song",
Deeply loved by Xuanzong.
And he himself, musically accomplished,
In addition to singing and composing music, he can also sing and drum,
Is a musical all-rounder who is proficient in vocal music, instruments, and composition,
Revered as Le sheng,
It can be compared with Li Du, who was known as a fairy saint in the poetry world at that time.
Li Duan, who is at the head of the ten talents of the Great Calendar, who is in the mainstream of the poetry world,
He also wrote a song "The Year of the Turtle"——
"The Year of the Turtle"
Don Lee Duan
The young Man lord, Bai Shou entered Qin City.
Know the characters of the people, know the old song titles.
The wind and currents follow the story, and the words laugh with the new sounds.
Unique weeping poplar tree, partial wounded twilight.
It is reasonable to say that Li Guinian's profession is low,
Selling this line is only slightly higher than selling the body,
But it just so happened that he was born in an era that valued poetic culture.
Xuanzong himself was a genius in the art world,
Met Li Guinian and felt sorry for him, for him to transgress the etiquette system,
Sent a large mansion in dongdu tongyuanli,
Regulation even surpasses that of the princes.
Datang style, extremely brilliant,
Li Guinian went in and out of the residence of the dignitaries,
For the prosperity of the performance of song and dance,
His singing voice carries the atmosphere of the Tang Dynasty,
His performance condenses the epitome of prosperity.
03
Wang Wei, a contemporary of him,
Not only proficient in poetry and painting, but also Zen enlightenment,
He is also a rare musical genius.
According to legend, someone found a picture of a piece of music,
But I don't know why the title,
After seeing this, Wang Wei replied:
"This is the first beat of the third stack of 'Neon Hagoromo Song.'"
Ask the musician to play, and it's exactly the same.
Wang Wei, who can poetry and music,
Befriended by Lee Gui Nian,
The two are similar in age and like-minded,
Besides, both of them are temperamental people,
And not a person who sells fame and reputation,
Even if it is highly valued by the royal family,
Nor did he lose his heart,
After coming and going, he became a close friend.
Li Guinian is good at composing and singing Tang poems,
He was particularly fond of Wang Wei's poetry,
During the Qing Dynasty,
The two men drank and wrote poems, and met their friends with pleasure,
Wander through the halls of music and poetry,
Indulge in poetry, prosperity and peace.
Helplessly, the sound of Yuyang's war drums disturbed this calm,
The trumpet sounded, and the human world was changed,
After the Anshi Rebellion,
The two separated the two places and met for a long time.
04
It is the spring of the year when the red beans are born,
The two reunited after a long farewell on the river,
Remembering the red beans I once saw in the southern country,
Wang Wei was deep in love, and sorrow came from it,
He gave them poetry and expressed their lovesickness.
Red beans are born in the southern country, and a few branches are sent in the spring.
May the king pick up more, this thing is the most acacia.
Red beans are the most common red beans,
But with the addition of friendship, it is different,
According to legend, there was a woman in the Han Dynasty,
The husband who is waiting for the conquest,
Straight to the tears, only drops of blood remain,
One dyes the roots of a large tree red,
A bean that bears red fruit,
"Linglong dice An red beans, do you know about acacia in the bone?"
Since then, people have called it "Acacia Bean".
In the midst of the chaos of the world, fate is like a fluttering ping,
A parting is likely to become a farewell forever,
Every inch of thought is a remnant of weeping blood,
Every spring, it becomes more and more precious.
This red bean,
As if the helplessness of life,
It's all the things you and I can't do anything about,
And the indescribable attachment to this life.
The two met briefly, and went their separate ways,
Li Guinian traveled to Jiangnan to make a living selling songs,
Wang Wei went through twists and turns and returned to Chang'an,
The two never saw each other again.
05
In 770 AD,
It has been 7 years since the end of the Anshi Rebellion,
It has been 9 years since Wang Wei's death.
The government and the opposition are in turmoil, and the prosperity is no longer there,
Mountains and rivers were broken, and the people were displaced.
It's twilight spring again, Du Fu in the twilight years,
From the Jiangnan area, wandering to Tanzhou,
That day on the cobblestone road,
Suddenly, a familiar song was heard:
Red beans are born in the southern country, and a few branches are sent in the spring.
May the king pick up more, this thing is the most acacia.
Ordinary past suddenly came to mind,
He followed the prestige, only to see the crowd gathered,
An old man with two white sideburns and ragged clothes,
Playing wang Wei's "Acacia",
That's not somebody else.
It was the former first musician of the court,
Year of the Lee Turtle.
And Li Guinian also recognized Du Fu standing in the crowd,
Although the two did not have deep friendship,
But there are several sides of Chang'an,
Things are not human, and there is no word for each other,
After the silence, I couldn't help but clap my hands and laugh.
The past has passed like a cloud of smoke,
Known as the "Le Sheng", the first musician of the Tang Dynasty,
The first young man with lofty ambitions known as the "Poetic Saint",
No tears of sorrow,
There are no frustrated complaints.
Two old men who have seen through the rise and fall of glory and disgrace,
There is only the joy of reunion, and the feeling of heroism,
Du Futi wrote:
It was common in the Qi King's mansion, and Cui Jiutang smelled it several times before.
It is the good scenery of Jiangnan, and the flower fall season is also the king.
06
After a brief meeting with Du Fu,
Li Guinian went to Xiangtan in Hunan Province.
At the banquet hosted by the Xiangzhong interview envoy,
He sang this song "Acacia" again without emotion,
There is also another "Yizhou Song" by Wang Wei.
Qingfeng Mingyue bitterly missed each other, and the prodigal son had been from Rong for more than ten years.
Recruit people to go to the day of earnest instructions, return to Yan when the number of attached letters.
Full of feelings, tears,
Scene after scene of the past is reproduced in song,
The youth and aging of a generation,
The impermanence of fate is all tied to this,
Li Guinian came from the sadness and suddenly fainted,
I woke up four days later and was depressed again.
In the heyday of the Year of the Li Gui,
Once accompanied by the emperor,
The noble concubine danced with the lyrics, and Li Bai composed the lyrics,
In the end, the vicissitudes have changed dramatically,
Only Wang Wei's poems are still with him,
Only Wang Wei's friendship was still with him.
There is no record in the history books that two people know each other and intersect,
But from just a few words, we can peek into one or two,
A red bean, sending acacia from afar,
The so-called confidant is nothing more than that.
Golden wind and jade dew meet,
Victory over the world is innumerable.
07
When I was a child, I read "Acacia",
It's just a poem,
Twenty words, read in one breath,
Even if I feel beautiful in my heart,
It's just a poem that has just opened its heart,
Now, read "Acacia" again,
Only to find that it is unforgettable,
Life is a way forward,
No amount of regret can withstand the flow of water.
"The drops are endless, the acacia blood and tears throw red beans,
Can't finish, spring willows and spring flowers fill the painting building. ”
I still remember that when Jia Baoyu sang "Red Bean Words",
There is endless sorrow and nostalgia.
Do you have any acquaintances?
Maybe it's the ones who missed it, maybe it was what they got.
Maybe it has long been divided into different worlds, and there is no news...
Once full of flowers,
Once a song to wine,
It's just a dream after all.
When the prosperity is over, the streams of light are gone,
How many times the lights and flowers can't sleep,
How many times have high-rise buildings been lost to people,
Alone, in the end, he tasted all the death,
The song is finally scattered, and the green mountains return to the far away,
Leave an acacia bean in vain,
Sending from afar,
Silent acacia.