Southern Tang Li Jing's poem "Mountain Flower" wrote green birds and lilacs, and the beautiful atmosphere was sad, surpassing Li Shangyin
"Hand rolled true pearl on the jade hook, according to the former spring hate lock heavy building."
Flowers fall in the wind who are the Lord, think leisurely.
The blue bird does not pass on the cloud outside the letter, and the lilac is empty and sad in the rain.
Looking back at the twilight of the Three Gorges, the sky is flowing. "Nantang · Li Jing 《 Mountain Flower "
It's lilacs blooming in late spring again.
In late spring, the grass and trees are strong, but they are green. At this time, a hundred flowers fall, giving way to the growth of leaves and trees, and the so-called green leaves are full of shades and branches. Although there are peony peonies in late spring, which are dotted with rich red flowers in the green, the blooming season in spring has passed. At this time, it is most suitable to climb high and look far, because the mountains and rivers are verdant and the smoke and rain are clear.
Then in the distance, you will find other flower trees blooming on the green branches, such as purple trees, purple weeds, neem trees, purple lilacs, their flowers are like the feathers of ancient partridges, blue and purple cute, spread on the top of the tree, let you feel the forest and late spring fairy.
Cloves were known at the court of the Han Dynasty and were a personal spice for important courtiers of the imperial court. The Shangshu ministers who were able to meet the emperor and discuss state affairs, with cloves in their mouths, played Chen Guoshi in a solemn and elegant atmosphere. This is not a deliberate luxury, because at that time, people deal with seasonal changes, plague diseases, rely more on fragrant herbs, cloves as a precious Chinese medicine, refreshing breath, fragrant and wet, effectively reducing the diseases brought about by communication. Of course, with the productivity of the Han Dynasty, the finished clove medicine may be partly from the original lilac tree in the northeast and partly imported from the western region.
It is the special effect of cloves in detoxifying, treating toothache, and curbing oral diseases, so since the Han Dynasty, planting has been widely promoted.
In the Tang Dynasty, in addition to retaining the medicinal value of cloves, it was also sublimated into ornamental flowers and trees in late spring.
The purple lilac flowers, high on the branches, attract people with dense purple flower buds, unique fragrance. The difference between lilacs and other flowers is that when they are not in bloom, they are dense cross buds, like small hammers, and the four petals grow in closed, just like the embroidered cross knots common in ancient times, and the concentric knots of traditional silk clothing.
This naturally growing lilac represents natural love and blessing.
When the lilac blossoms, the small lilacs are opened one after another, as if the person's mood has been brewed and finally released.
So lilacs have the beautiful meaning of concentricity, hope, knots, lovesickness, sorrow, and waiting.
And the lilac blooms in late spring, the flower of spring when spring is about to pass, the dense buds, looking forward to the final bloom, like the enthusiasm and sorrow of the long-awaited wait in youth.
Among them, the lilac flowers in Li Shangyin's "Two Songs for Gifts" are the most famous.
"Upstairs at dusk desire to rest, jade ladder across the moon in the middle of the hook."
Basho does not show the lilac knot, and the same spring wind is worried. ”
Upstairs that late spring, it was already twilight, and the moon in the sky was bent, and it was not yet time for reunion.
At this time, at dusk, the plantains are rolled up in the heart of the tree, and the lilacs are budding, and they have not yet bloomed.
In the last spring breeze, they each grieve.
So where is the beauty of this poem, the beauty is, the lilac is the flower of late spring, spring is about to pass, but the lilac flower seems to have a deep sorrow, and it does not bloom.
It turned out that Li Shangyin and his beloved lover, in the separation, each consumed a beautiful youth, like a lilac flower, acacia accumulated, but did not get the happiest and most complete release.
Because the moon in the sky is missing, the earth is not round, the cloves are not open, and the plantains are rolled, but the most beautiful spring, the chinese year of man, has passed.
There are years, parting, the passage of youth, a variety of deep sighs.
So what is the connection between Li Shangyin's lilac flowers and Li Jing of the Southern Tang Dynasty? Two poets who are more than 100 years apart.
Then poetry is a cultural inheritance.
It can be seen that Li Jing's poem has a very strong style of Li Shangyin.
Although since the Han Dynasty advocated Taoism and written countless poems about "Blue Bird", only Li Shangyin used the allusions of the Green Bird biography particularly deeply. "There is no more way to go to Pengshan Mountain, and the blue bird is attentive to visit." "Yesterday the Purple Gu God went also, and now the blue bird makes credit." They all use the blue bird as a medium to convey feelings and convey the heart of the lover.
On the one hand, Li Shangyin is a descendant of the Li Tang royal family, on the other hand, he once studied Taoism, and had an unforgettable love affair with Daogu, so Li Shangyin's poems, atmospheric immortality, and sincere emotions, are difficult to emulate.
But Li Jing can be said to be the most understanding, or rather, the few later poets who cracked Li Shangyin.
Because Li Jing and Li Shangyin have similar identities.
He was the lord of the Southern Tang Dynasty, and compared to Li Shangyin, he was the true prince of Wangsun and the emperor of the king.
And those immortal atmosphere and deep feelings in Li Shangyin's poems have been taken care of from time to time in Li Jing's career as a prince and emperor.
Moreover, Li Jing has a high level of education, and he likes Li Shangyin's poems.
But in fact, to a certain extent, in reality, his identity and status are superior to Li Shangyin's, and he is an emperor.
Many people like the words of Li Yu, the lord of the Southern Tang Dynasty, because of the beauty of the words, and Li Yu was forced to perish the country, and posterity sent sympathy. But his father, Li Jing, liked and studied few people. For historical reasons, less information has been left behind.
Li Jing lived for 46 years, and it just so happened that Li Shangyin was also at this age. This should not be considered a long-lived monarch, from a physical point of view, Li Jing may not have a good physique, may have too much worry. He was made crown prince at the age of 24 and ascended to the throne at the age of 37, reigning for only nine years.
So many people don't know what Li Jing did during his 9 years on the throne, but I tell you, this is a remarkable emperor, and when he ascended to the throne, he adjusted his military strength and destroyed the Min state in the south of Fujian Province, and later destroyed the Chu state. The territory of the Southern Tang Dynasty was unprecedentedly expanded.
So where is Li Jing's ambition, he is afraid that in his heart, he will also conquer Sichuan.
Only later and after monday, the battle was lost.
If you look at his life, this is a heroic young emperor.
What is his love like? There is no more information at this time. But left behind this aesthetic chapter about love.
"Hand rolled true pearl on the jade hook, according to the former spring hate lock heavy building."
In the late spring, Li Jing ascended the tall buildings of the palace and spread out the rivers and mountains in front of him, showing a lot of beauty.
He rolled up the pearl curtain with his hand and gently pinned it to the hook. The pavilions and pavilions under the late spring wind and rain, connected to the distant smoke clouds and distant mountains, what is his spring hatred?
Ascending to the imperial throne, he has become young and middle-aged, if there is ambition, he can also be regarded as a show, after all, the Southern Tang has become strong in his hands, if measured by the heart of the emperor, all the places that are not included in the territory can be called spring hatred.
But suddenly there was a little subtlety, that is, were those mountains really that important to him?
A man conquers beauty by conquering the country, and as soon as he ascends to the throne, he opposes his father's defense of the country, and strives to expand, or not just suppress his ambitions.
He ascended to the throne at the age of 37, but what about his life before the age of 37?
He was not the Prince of Taiping in the deep palace, but when he was a teenager, he accompanied his father to the southern expedition to the northern war, was named a great general, a soldier Shangshu, the breadth of the world, the experience, is there no love in the youngest? Which girl, with whom he had a deep love affair, was forced to marry Far Away from Sichuan and disappeared into the depths of the clouds and rains of Wushan Mountain, making him so worried and worried, and constantly stimulating his imperial heart?
"Whoever falls in the wind is the Lord, think slowly."
It is late spring is the day of falling flowers, green smoke and rain, standing on the terrace, it is inevitable that at this time late spring, at the bottom of the green leaves, many late spring flowers have bloomed.
Jiangshan was in his eyes, but perhaps it was this stability of King's Landing, and he suddenly remembered that on the way, there were pieces of flowers falling.
Was it the youth of the years, or the deep emerald green that he remembered her.
Is she okay? She's not too young. Intelligence shows that her husband should have had many concubines. This woman he loves in his heart, youth has passed, who gives her a comfortable and full life? He remembered those fiery moments of young love, the ones he had vowed.
Sometimes it's too short, sometimes it's too long. He missed her.
He owns the country, but he still misses her. Miss the time with her.
"The blue bird does not pass on the letter from the clouds, and the lilac is empty and sad in the rain."
This is a thousand ancient sentences. Li Shangyin said in the bitterness of the isolated severed intestines, hoping that the blue bird would take the letter and fly to her in the sky. Li Jing also has it.
Li Jing was even more desperate, because he knew that if he had not owned the place where she was, it would not only be difficult for him to meet her in his lifetime, but even the exchange of a letter would not be possible.
When you have the world and you are the emperor, there are always things that you can't do, such as love, such as the deceased who are scattered outside the sphere of influence. Between men and women, there are gender and various ethical constraints, which are even more elusive.
Li Jing is already middle-aged in life, and as the old saying goes, forty is not confused, that is, because he is sober, but also because he knows the state of his body, he misses it extraordinarily, and it belongs to this part of the inner emotion, this beautiful person. It is better for people to start out again, this is what Emperor Wu of Han, who was also an emperor, said.
Li Jing had the hidden sorrow of the emperor and Li Shang.
There are no birds, not even blue birds, to pass on my acacias and letters, and I am like the lilacs seen on the tall buildings in late spring,
They look spectacular, but the flowers are densely knotted into purple knots, swaying in the wind and rain.
It was my great sorrow that no one knew.
"Looking back at the twilight of the Three Gorges of The Waves, the sky is flowing."
In the end it was the emperor, his love was so deep and atmospheric, back to God, he was finally willing to face it, he wanted to go to the place he wanted to conquer. It was the lofty mountains of the Three Gorges, the Bashan ShuShui. His love is there.
He was going, and that was his last ambition. Because she was there, he wanted to conquer, like the real king Of Chuxiang, to the top of the mountain, to their last agreement.
This is Li Jing's word, leaving us with a deep atmosphere, beautiful and poignant.
It can be said that Li Jing of the Southern Tang Dynasty wrote a poem "Mountain Flower Zi" about green birds and lilacs, and the beautiful atmosphere was sad, which was more than Li Shangyin.
He not only understood the helplessness in Li Shangyin's love, but also had his unique imperial feelings and temperament. Affectionate and atmospheric, compassion and nobility coexist.
The world likes the beautiful and tragic beauty of "the blue bird does not pass on the letter from the clouds, and the lilac is sad in the rain", but this beautiful and tragic beauty is based on his true atmosphere and vicissitudes, which is even more touching.
Li Jing died at the age of 46, the same age as Li Shangyin, at this time the Southern Tang was defeated by the Later Zhou, and was no longer able to realize Li Jing's dream of conquering Sichuan.
But in the end, he must want to see the lover of his youth, even if you are old, I love you like a falling flower.
Hatsuyoshi Katsuyuki interprets the love and beauty in the poems for you. Image from the web.