The wind rises and blows a pool of spring water.
- Feng Yanshu, "Gurudwara Golden Gate"
This is the opening sentence of the Southern Tang Dynasty poet Feng Yanmi's "Gurudwara Golden Gate", in which the lyricist subtly places hazy emotions on the surface of a pool of water rippled by spring wind in front of him.
The lyricist did not deliberately smear the decoration, nor did he deliberately carve the carving, but the meaning of the words was as fresh and natural as the water hibiscus, soft and elegant, and it has always been praised like a tide, becoming a well-known phrase in the world of words.
It is said that after Li Jing, the lord of the Southern Tang Dynasty, saw Feng Yanmi's words, he ridiculed: "What does the spring wind blow wrinkle a pool of spring water, what does it have to do with you?" Feng Yanshu said that the sentiment contained in my lyrics was not as good as your "Xiao Lou blowing through the Jade Sheng Han", so the two looked at each other and laughed.
The late Tang Dynasty Five Dynasties period is the stage of the development of words, deeply influenced by the concept of "words for Yanke" and "entertainment first", most of the words in this period describe boudoir or women's appearance, clothing and manners, etc., showing a fragrant and beautiful wind, especially the flower word school as a typical.
Although Feng Yanmi's lyrics are no different from the boudoir mood of the Huajian school lyricists, and have the cultural aesthetic characteristics of entertaining guests, the beautiful and fragrant atmosphere of the Huajian poets has not affected Feng Yanmi's creation, and Feng Yanmi's lyrics show a soft and quiet elegant atmosphere rather than a vulgar song.
Feng Yanshu's small words of beauty that are no different from those of the Huajian Sect convey the thoughts and emotions of the scholar and the doctor. Compared with the entertainment of the Huajian poets, Feng Yanshu shows more of the other side of the scholar's consciousness, so that he has excavated the depth of thought and opened up a new artistic conception in the same subject area.
Wang Guowei said of Feng Yanmi's lyrics in "Human Words": "Feng Zhengzhong (Feng Yanwei) words and the main words of the middle lord and the post-main word are outside the scope of "Flower Room". This thesis accurately points out that Feng Yanshu's words expand the content of the theme of the sadness of life in addition to the theme of the separation of men and women, and the emotional content of its words is deep and broad.
Feng Yanshu is a famous lyricist of the Southern Tang Dynasty, although the Southern Tang in a corner of the South Tang provides a relatively relaxed environment for the creation of the lyricist, the geographical location of the Southern Tang is today in Jiangxi, Anhui, and the two lakes, with good natural conditions and rich products, in addition, the economic center of gravity of China in the middle and late Tang Dynasty began to move south, and this is the beautiful Jiangnan water town.
It can be said that the environment and external factors have created the euphemism and delicacy of the Jiangnan minor key in Feng Yanmi's works, which is also the external factor that Feng Yanmi's lyrics have the characteristics of softness and elegance.
In Feng Yanji's words, he often borrows the tone of a woman to express emotions, which has gone beyond the traditional mode of men making boudoirs, and integrates the lyricist's worries about the individual and the times in the supposedly cheerful environment, showing deep sorrow in life, which is Feng Yanmi's own scholar-doctor emotion, with the characteristics of a literati, but Feng Yanmi's emotional expression in the lyrics is subtle, slender and sensitive, showing soft and elegant word style characteristics.
That is to say, Feng Yanwei can rely on similar themes or erotic themes to write words that are completely different from the emotions expressed in the flowers, and convey and express his particularly sensitive and subtle thoughts and moods about life and life.
Feng Yanshu adheres to the style of "I write my heart by hand", no longer limited to specific male and female affairs and real life sorrows, but writes more of an inexplicable and difficult to throw feelings and psychological activities, so as to express the deeper and more persistent sadness and sorrow of life. For example, this song "Treading on the Magpie Branch":
Who is idle and thrown for a long time. Every spring comes, the sorrow is still there. Before the day and day flowers, he often fell ill with wine, and he did not quit the mirror to be thin.
Willows on the qingwu embankment on the riverbank, in order to ask the new worries, what is the matter every year. Independent bridge wind full of sleeves, Hirabayashi crescent people returned.
This is a word that expresses loneliness and sorrow. The whole word is written in the heart of the writer a kind of eternal sorrow and sorrow, and it is full of loneliness and coldness that is borne by the person alone. The lyrics not only convey a sentimental mood, but also show a strong and distinct personality, and the meaning of the words is far-reaching and moving to read.
The opening sentence, "Who throws away idle feelings for a long time", to the effect that: Who said that sorrow has been forgotten for too long? The lyricist uses the rhetorical question sentence form to mention this mood of both wanting to abandon but must not be forgotten, which is a complex and contradictory mood, showing the ups and downs of the lyricist's inner feelings. In fact, the emotion of the entire film is always closely related to the opening sentence, which also sets a tone for the whole word.
Although the opening sentence is only seven words, it is written in a thousand turns, showing a kind of spiraling struggle and bitterness that the lyricist cannot stop in terms of feelings. The origin of this kind of feeling, the lyricist did not explicitly say, but only used the word "leisure".
This inexplicable emotion is the most bitter, and this inexplicable emotion is innate and inextricable for some amorous lyricists.
At the beginning of this sentence, the lyricist first used the word "who tao", expressing the state of thinking that it could be done, but who knew that it could not be done. With these two mood auxiliaries, the struggle and effort shown in the following "idle abandonment for a long time" appear so pale and powerless.
What kind of emotion is this? Even the lyricist himself cannot name this lingering sorrow, but can only call it "idleness", but can this "idleness" really not be named? In fact, the idleness in the heart of the writer is a feeling that comes to the heart for no reason as long as it is idle, that is, an indescribable state of emotion. This "idleness" is not empty, and it can even be said that this idleness is exactly what it is
The loneliness of the writer who can't go away and wants to blow back.
Some people say that loneliness is an attitude and loneliness is an idea. It is also said that true solitude is a very delicate solitude. Perhaps Feng Yanwei's experience of loneliness is particularly profound, because of the creation of the environment, his own sensitivity, and the hesitation of the times, his experience of loneliness is more and more profound.
The next "Every spring comes, the sorrow is still the same", this is the inner dialogue of the lyricist: Every time spring comes, my sad mood is the same as ever. At this time, spring has been green all over Jiangnan, the outdoor is a spring scene, full of brilliant and vibrant, Jiangnan spring is so intoxicating every year.
In this beautiful early spring season, it should be a good time for people to travel, but for the lyricist who is sensitive by nature and surrounded by loneliness, it is another experience: he is afraid of the tenderness of the early spring that makes people intoxicated, because the lyricist is lonely, he is sensitive because of loneliness, and because of sensitivity, he makes it easier for him to feel lonely.
If he travels in the spring, he will definitely see the butterflies in the forest, see the swallows in the air, and see the birds in the water, which will further aggravate his inner loneliness. Here has been integrated into the lyricist's more general and deeper emotional experience of life or life, that is, the sense of impermanence, loneliness, and melancholy that circulate with the passage of the seasons.
Why does the lyricist have such a lonely experience, if you look at the lyricist's melancholy from the perspective of knowing the world, it is not difficult to understand Feng Yanmi's mentality when filling out this word.
It turned out that this was related to his life experience, although Feng Yanmi had served as the prime minister in the Southern Tang Dynasty, but his career path was ups and downs, he had been deposed three times because of the defeat of the army, and his inner frustration and frustration accumulated more and more, but no one could talk about it.
The southern Tang Dynasty turned from prosperity to decline, and Feng Yanmi's military defeat is directly related, he became the target of public criticism is inevitable, the snub of colleagues brought Feng Yanmi loneliness and pain, the existence of conflicts of interest makes it very common to deceive and attack each other, Feng Yanshu feels very painful about this. However, if you imagine the situation at that time from Feng Yanmi's point of view, it is not difficult to appreciate the complex feelings, which determines that Feng Yanmi's words must contain a deep mourning.
The loneliness and loneliness in the depths of the soul always need a person to read, but there is no such person around the writer, maybe this is the real loneliness. Therefore, in the immersive experience of loneliness, the lyricist wrote that "he often gets sick and drinks before the day and day, and he does not quit the mirror to be thin."
Spring was supposed to be a time of peach and willow green, and it was time to enjoy the spring with a friend or lover, but he repeatedly used drunkenness to obtain temporary peace, perhaps drunkenness is a way for the writer to dispel his worries. In the hearts of the writers, the vibrant spring not only can not give him a high-spirited vitality, but has become a sad season that touches the scenery and uses wine to dispel sorrows.
In the next film, the lyricist begins with the sentence "Willow on the Qingwu Causeway on the Riverbank", in this poem, only this sentence is a pure sentence, and the lyricist describes the beautiful scene of green grass on the river bank and willow trees on the river bank. Just as the so-called all scenery language is love language, if you taste it carefully, this sentence is not simply a sentence that writes scenery, but uses scenery as a basis to express inner emotions.
Tasting the words and phrases, the spring color of the green all over the Jiangnan written by the lyricist, this delicate willow branch that flutters with the wind, what they evoke, or symbolize, what a distant and delicate affection. This green grass is all over the river, and the new willow leaves cut by the spring wind are every year, and the spring color written by the writer has a long and delicate affection.
However, the lyricist then said, "In order to ask about new sorrows, what is the matter every year", the lyricist sadly pondered to himself, why do new sorrows are added every year? "To ask" and "what" form a strong questioning tone in the writing, from the futility and struggle of the lyricist trying to abandon, to the lyricist asking himself. After this strong questioning, the writer suddenly swung away, no longer glued to the scene in front of him, nor did he make any answers.
The writer thought that he would no longer be sad for this sorrow, but this sorrow could not be thrown away. In this season of peach and willow green and spring melting, his sorrows are also arising like the new things in this spring. Loneliness is a lonely emotion that is difficult to express in words, loneliness is a thousand thoughts in the heart, stopping at the tip of the pen, wanting to speak, and finally not speaking.
It is difficult for the lyricist to express his loneliness, so he wraps up the whole word with "the wind of the independent bridge is full of sleeves, and the Return of the Hirabayashi Crescent Moon", what kind of picture is this? I saw the lyricist standing alone at the head of the small bridge, and the breeze blew on his sleeve. As he turned, a crescent moon rose from the woods.
At this time, time and space have changed. Time turned from day to dusk, the moon climbed the branches, and the pedestrians were all hurrying home. But the writer wandered alone, and when he came to the small bridge, the breeze of the night came and blew all over his sleeve.
Loneliness is a kind of conscious pessimism, and loneliness is unconscious solitude. The night of this moment is lonely, but what a lonely situation it is for a stubborn writer to wander alone in this lonely night.
"Independent bridge full of sleeves" is the lyricist's immersive experience of loneliness, loneliness is the experience of a lonely person, and it is the monologue of a lonely person in the depths of life. There is no hustle and bustle, no senseless courtesy, false smiles, forced cheers, and compliments that even you can't understand, no need to show people in disguise; there is a place where you can chase the past, you can carefully soothe the pain, and you can also go to the future. It is with this lonely experience that the writer can find a space that comforts the body and mind and reassures the spirit.
However, when telling this deep situation, the lyricist still encounters the difficulty of expression, he is worried that he has never been able to explain it clearly, just a low chant and shallow singing alone, but this is the posture that the lyricist chooses to face loneliness, which is also the flow of the lyricist's sincere feelings.
Feng Yanwei's words are full of loneliness, full of sorrow, full of drunkenness, full of sleeplessness. In his pen, the scenes and objects common to spring have a kind of sad beauty after being cleverly and appropriately combined. In the face of the unstoppable Southern Tang Dynasty and the inevitable tragedy of life, Feng Yanmi lived in a long period of loneliness and sorrow, so every sentence in his "Stepping on the Que Branch" is a portrayal of the lyricist's handwriting.
The emotional world of Feng Yanmi's lyrics is deep, which is reflected in the depth of the emotions contained in the lyrics, but also in the deep and moving emotions contained in his lyrics, and even more in the profound and beautiful artistic conception of the lyrics.
The Qing Dynasty poet Huang Ziyun said: "Poetry is nothing more than love scenes, and love scenes must not be separated from the truth." If the poet can rejoice with the situation and write a sentence because of the inscription, then the fixed scene is not true, and the feelings are insincere. ”
Feng Yanmi's poem happens to be a work that "can be inspired by the situation and write sentences because of the inscription", and if you use this sentence of Huang Ziyun to annotate Feng Yanmi's poem, it is not exaggerated at all. Feng Yanmi's lyrics, with a faint sadness and hazy grievances, have cast a soft and elegant word style, which has become an echo of the times in terms of artistic skills and aesthetic tastes.