Li Jing (李璟), courtesy name Boyu, was the second emperor of the Southern Tang Dynasty. During his reign, he was at the most extensive stage of southern Tang territory. Li Jing was multi-talented, but the extravagant life of the court and political corruption led to the weakening of the national strength. When it reached the hands of the Lord, it was already a mess.
The words passed down by Li Jing are not as good as those of the later lords, but one of them, "Spreading the HuanXi Sand", is widely circulated, and two of the golden sentences are greatly praised.
Spread out the Raccoon Creek sand
The incense is sold in the green leaves, and the west wind is worried about the green waves. He was also haggard with Shao Guang, and he couldn't see it.
Drizzle dreams back to the chicken plug far away, the small building blows through the jade sheng cold. How many teardrops are limited to hate, leaning on the fence dry.
The first sentence of this word explains the season - the lotus flower withers, the lotus leaf decays,
This time must be that summer is about to pass, and autumn is coming soon. This word uses such a season, early autumn, when the west wind first rises, to describe a woman who misses her husband far away. The poetry is simple, but the verses are very moving.
The lotus flowers are gone, and the lotus leaves are also withered, and the sentence is tightly followed: the west wind is worried about the green waves. This sentence is very charming. The poet used a "rising" word, everyone knows, the autumn wind is certainly not generated from the surface of the water, why do you say so here, what is there between the green waves? There are lotus flowers and lotus leaves. That is to say, the poet feels that this autumn breath rises on the surface of the dark green water, from a pool of decaying lotus flowers. As Ouyang Xiu's "Autumn Sound Endowment" says, "Gaifu Qiuzhi is also like: its color is bleak, the smoke is cloudy; its appearance is clear, the sky is high and the sun is crystallized; its qi is chestnut and sharp, and its muscles and bones are strong; its meaning is depressed, and the mountains and rivers are lonely." "Together with the autumn wind, everything withers.
The poet felt that "the west wind stirred up the green waves", as if the autumn wind was blowing from between the lotus leaves, making everything wither.
"Still haggard with Shaoguang" is an excessive sentence, from writing scenes to writing people, Shaoguang and people have in common is "haggard", so saying "unsightly" is that people can't see the prospect of withered eyes, the scenery is also disabled, and the youth is also disabled.
So why are people haggard? The second half of the poet expands the description.
"Drizzle dreams back to the chicken plug away, and the small building blows through the jade sheng cold."
These two sentences are the best sentences in this word, and have always been recited by the world.
Drizzle dreams back, that is, when you wake up from a dream, you find a drizzle of rain. Or rather, it is the sound of a small rain that brings people back from their dreams. Dream back is to wake up, the beauty dream to the chicken deer plug, "chicken deer plug" refers to the side plug. It can be seen that the beautiful people in the words miss the recruits who go out on the expedition. The lady woke up from a dream, and the dream seemed to be still in front of her. Missing the love, it is difficult for the lady to sleep, so "Xiao Lou blows through the jade sheng cold." ”
In this sentence, two words are used very eloquently, one is "thorough" and the other is "cold". After blowing through that is, after a long time of blowing, a few songs are blown, the chill is thick, a "cold" word, both the cold of the weather and the cold of the mood, but this "cold" word is not only these two meanings. Let's move on to the next two sentences of this word.
"How many tears and how much hate, lean on the railing."
When we look at these two sentences, it seems to be very similar to Chen Ziang's "Dengyouzhou Tai Song": "I didn't see the ancients before, and I didn't see the comers after me." Thinking of the heavens and the earth, alone but weeping! "Both poems are thoughtful and drooling. But the point of tears in this word is not standing on a high platform to meditate, but from a specific action: blowing the pipe. Then this "cold" word in the word, in addition to the cold of the weather and the cold of the mood, there is also a layer of meaning that the music becomes "cold".
The instrument of Yusheng, according to our current classification, belongs to the wind music, blown with the mouth, and the sound of the wind music is based on the impact of the air current. There is a film in the sheng, before blowing, the player needs to "warm the sheng", so that the film becomes soft, it is more convenient to make the air flow produce a strong and rapid change in the strength and weakness of the air to blow out a more beautiful music.
In this word, "blowing through the jade sheng" shows that the beauty has been blowing for a long time, blowing the sheng for a long time in the cold weather, the colder the colder the tone, the more desolate and even dry, so this "cold" is not an ordinary weather cold, the mood is cold, accompanied by the "cold" of the sky and people, the whole music is soaked with cold. These three layers of meaning in the word, we can fully understand the inner feelings of the beautiful person in the word: sad and cold, and finally tearful eyes, leaning on the railing.
"Cold" is very common in euphemisms, but Li Jing, the lord of the middle, uses this ordinary word in a subtle and deep way, with rich meaning.