Some readers asked a small story: "The little stranger in the south of the city is in the spring, only to see the plum blossoms and no one", what kind of feelings does this poem express the author?
The opening verse clearly states, "The small stranger in the south of the city is in the spring, only to see the plum blossoms and do not see people" These two poems are from the hand of the Southern Song Dynasty poet Lu You, the original poem is titled "Sleepwalking in the Shen's Garden Pavilion on the night of December 2nd", the whole poem is as follows:
The small stranger in the south of the city is in the spring again, only to see plum blossoms and no one.
The jade bone has long been sinking into the soil, and the ink marks are still locked in the dust between the walls.
This is a dream poem written by Lu You when he was eighty-one years old, in the dream, Lu You dreamed of Shen Yuan again, he saw Tang Wan again in his dream, the poet witnessed the old things, touched the scenery, recalled the meeting with Tang Wan in Shen Garden, after waking up from the dream, the poet was bitter and wrote this poem.
Lu You, Zi Wu Guan, Horn Fang Weng, Yuezhou Shanyin people. Lu You's literary talent is very comprehensive, he is both a writer and a historian, a patriotic poet, and a prolific poet, and he still has more than 9,300 poems. However, in Lu You's poetic life, his love is not as poetic as romance, some are just endless pain and sorrow, and this poem is a testimony to Lu You's poignant love.
When Lu You was twenty years old, he married his uncle's daughter, Tang Wan, a young and beautiful, gentle and affectionate cousin. They are talented and feminine, consensual, and the couple's feelings after marriage are very good, like glue, and they are entangled all day long.
However, this caused the dissatisfaction of Lu You's mother, who believed that Lu You's indulgence in beauty would hinder Lu You's ambition, so he often spoke ill of Tang Wan, and the contradiction between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law intensified, and in these series of family conflicts, the strong Lu Mother gradually gained the upper hand.
Later, Lu You's mother had the idea of driving Tang Wan out of the house, and Lu You, who preached filial piety, pleaded bitterly to no avail, he seemed at a loss, but he did not dare to go against the will of his parents, and could only endure the pain of separation from his wife, and this short marriage came to an end. Finally, love loses to reality.
The so-called song is finally exhausted, and the cosine is more exciting. After Lu Yu drove Tang Wan away, she married Lu You, and Tang Wan also married Zhao Shicheng, but Lu You loved Tang Wan deeply, loved tang wan all her life, and missed each other for a lifetime. The marriage and love that were forcibly torn apart by others are painful memories that can never be erased in Lu You's life, and he will always leave irreparable scars on his soul.
This tragedy of The Separation of Labor and Yan became a lifelong pain in Lu You's heart. He missed Tang Wan all the time, and Tang Wan also married someone else, and they eventually went their separate ways.
When he was thirty-five years old, when Lu You was visiting Shen Garden in Shanyin, he met Tang Wan unexpectedly, and it turned out that Tang Wan and her current husband Zhao Shicheng also came to visit the garden. When they unexpectedly met on a small bridge in the Shen Garden, they looked at each other wordlessly, and all kinds of smoke and past events, heavy partings, infinite grief and pain, appeared from their respective hearts like floating lights. At that time, the complex emotions of surprise and surprise rushed into Lu You's mind for a while.
At this moment, perhaps any language is superfluous, Lu You looked at the beautiful scenery in the Shen Garden, and was very interested. They were already separated, and perhaps a single "Are you okay?" was enough, but Lu You couldn't even say such a word. Zhao Shicheng also knew about Lu You and Tang Wan's past, and he didn't have a mustard in his heart, because he was also deeply in love with Tang Wan.
Therefore, Tang Wan, with Zhao Shicheng's consent, sent food and wine to Lu You, who had come from afar, to show her condolences. Looking at the delicacies on the plate, Lu You had no intention of enjoying them at all. His past with Tang Wan occupied all of Lu You's thoughts at this moment, and Lu You couldn't help himself for a moment, he looked at the spring scenery in Shen Garden, so he wrote a poem "Phoenix" on the wall of Shen Garden:
Red crispy hands, yellow wine, full of spring color palace wall willows. The east wind is evil, the joy is thin, a sadness, and a few years away from the rope. Wrong, wrong, wrong!
Spring is as old as ever, people are empty and thin, and the tear marks are red and silky. Peach blossoms fall, idle pond pavilion, although the mountain league is there, the Jinshu is difficult to trust. Mo, Mo, Mo!
After Shen Yuan's inscription, Lu You left with endless regrets, which was the first and last encounter after Lu You Tang Wan left. The encounter of "Shen Yuan's meeting" became a fragment of Lu You's endless memories for the rest of his life, and it was also an image record that he re-picked up from his memory again and again.
The following spring, with an inexplicable expectation, Tang Wan came to Shen Garden again, but Lu You was not in Shen Garden this time. Tang Wan hovered between the winding corridors and suddenly caught a glimpse of Lu You's inscription. She repeatedly recited Lu You's inscription in front of the wall of Shen Garden, remembering the scene of the two people singing and singing in the past, she couldn't help but burst into tears and her heart fluctuated, so she put her pen on Lu You's words and attached a rhyme to Lu You's words:
The world is thin, people are evil, and the rain sends dusk flowers to fall easily. The wind dried and the tears were broken. Want to write a heart, monologue oblique. Hard, hard, hard! People are everywhere, today is not yesterday, and the sick soul is often like a swing rope. The horns are cold, and the night is dark. Afraid of people asking, tears filled with joy. Conceal, conceal, conceal!
Forty years after Shen Yuan met, Lu You was already in his twilight years, and Tang Wan had long since passed away, and his thoughts about Tang Wan were getting stronger and stronger, perhaps he owed Tang Wan too much. Tang Wan's voice and smile also often appeared in front of Lu You's eyes, whenever he thought of Tang Wan, he always burst into tears, could not suppress the thoughts in his heart, could not suppress this feeling, and frequently remembered the last time in his life to see Tang Wan's Shen Garden, that was also the last time he met Tang Wan in his life.
Therefore, Lu You put this endless thought into his pen and wrote "Shen Yuan's Second Song", which integrated his incomparable thoughts about Tang Wan into the verses. In one of the poems, Hearthstone expresses his thoughts about Tang Wan in this way: The dream has been broken for forty years, and Shen Yuan Liu lao does not blow. This body is like a mountain of soil, and it is like hanging a trace.
Until a year before his death, Lu You, who was eighty-one years old at the time, was still inscribing poems to remember the meeting in Shen Yuan, which could never be released. Tang Wan's voice and smile also often appear in Lu You's dreams, and when he woke up, he wrote a poem reminiscing about Tang Wan, which is "Sleepwalking in Shen Yuan Pavilion on the Night of December 2nd":
The road near the south of the city is already afraid to go, and Shen Jiayuan is even more hurt.
Fragrant wear guest sleeve plum blossom in, green dip temple bridge spring aquatic.
The water in the south of the city is strange and spring, only to see plum blossoms and no one.
The jade bone has long been a spring under the soil, and the ink marks are still locked in the dust between the walls.
The deep affection contained in the poem is not a perfunctory verse made by Lu You, but a sincere emotion from the heart. With the passage of time, the pond platform of Shen Garden has long ceased to be the same as it was then, and even the willow tree is old and old, but the unforgettable thoughts of Tang Wan in Lu You's heart and the pain in his heart not only did not wear out with time, but became clearer and clearer, as real as yesterday's dream, and vividly remembered.
In the last days of his life, Lu You still dreamed of hanging Shen Yuan and hanging Tang Wan, which was the sad place of his life, which was also his thoughts and love that spanned half a century, and also Lu You's incomparable love for the most beloved and most guilty confidant of his life, Lu You's infatuation with Tang Wan ran through his life, and this love spanning half a century was enough to move the world.