"Life is a lover, this hatred is not related to the wind and the moon", the infatuation and grief in the world is innate, and has nothing to do with the wind and snow moon, as one of the three major poets of the Tang Dynasty, Bai Juyi's life has written many touching and profound poems, and it is precisely because of the long-lasting love that xiangling and his first love cannot be completed in his life, bringing eternal pain to the poet, allowing him to write many classic love famous articles.
The "Night Rain" written by Bai Juyi when he was 40 years old is one of the most poignant and touching songs.
Night rain
Tang Bai Juyi
I have some thoughts, separated from each other in the distance.
I felt something, knotted in a deep intestine.
The countryside is far away, and there is no day without looking.
The intestines are deeply dissolved, and there is no night to think about it.
In this case, he stayed alone in the empty hall at night.
Autumn is unknown, and the wind and rain are in the sky.
If you don't learn the Dharma, can you forget your previous mind?
The obsession that has condensed for a lifetime has also become an eternal pain.
Bai Juyi's father, Bai Jigeng, became an official to achieve the Pengcheng County Order, and in order to escape the chaos of the war, he moved his family to Fuli in Suzhou, where Bai Juyi spent his childhood and always regarded Fuli as his hometown.
When he was a teenager, Bai Juyi read very hard, because his mouth was sore when he read, his hands were grinded out of cocoons, and his hair was all white at a young age. The neighboring girl Xiang Ling was innocent and innocent, and was the most beautiful light in Bai Juyi's years, "Lou Ting fifteen victories over the heavenly immortals, daytime Chang'e dryland lotus." Where idle parrot language is taught, before the embroidery bed under the blue screen window. ”
Fifteen-year-old Xiang Lingmei is like a heavenly immortal, in the heart of the 19-year-old boy Bai Juyi, it is like seeing Chang'e in the daytime, and it is like a fresh and moving lotus flower growing in the dryland. She was so lively, teaching parrots to talk when she had nothing to do, embroidering under the blue screen windows, and these beautiful pictures became the unforgettable memories of Bai Juyi's life.
Although Bai Juyi and Xiang Ling have a deep affection, they can only communicate privately, and Bai Juyi's famous article "Flowers are not flowers, fog is not fog" "Midnight comes, and the day goes at dawn." How long has it been like a spring dream? Going to the clouds is like nowhere to be found" is considered by many to be a poem written about Bai Juyi and Xiang Linghui when he was a teenager.
This beautiful young girl Xiang Ling condensed Bai Juyi's lifelong infatuation, and also became his eternal pain, and Bai Juyi's love tragedy originated from the Tang Dynasty's mendi concept.
In The Tang Dynasty society, people only wanted to marry the daughters of the five great noble families, namely the Li clan of Longxi, the Li clan of Zhao County, the Cui clan of Boling, the Cui clan of Qinghe, the Lu clan of Fanyang, the Zheng clan of Xingyang, and the Wang clan of Taiyuan. Among them, the Li and Cui clans each have two counties, so they are called five surnames and seven wangs, or five surnames and seven families.
It is precisely for this reason that Yuan Shu abandoned his first love Cui Yingying and married Wei Cong, one of the five surnames, although Yuan Shu and Bai Juyi are friends, but the lack of emotional concepts is completely different, Yuan Shu abandoned Cui Yingying is the initiative, and Bai Juyi and Xiang Ling are forced to separate, it is precisely because of Bai Juyi's deep affection that he has written so many sincere and touching famous articles.
Bai Juyi's mother did not allow him to marry a daughter of a peasant family, even if Bai Juyi became an official, he still could not marry Xiang Ling, Bai Juyi could not disobey his mother, and could only express his silent resentment by trampling himself and not marrying, until he married Yang shi as a wife at the age of 37.
Lovers who are far away from home have always haunted their dreams.
When Bai Juyi was forty years old, his mother accidentally fell into the well and died while looking at flowers, and it was also this year that Bai Juyi wrote "Night Rain" to remember his first love again.
Although he could not be with Xiangling, the poet's heart has not forgotten her, until the age of 53, Bai Juyi also returned to Fu's hometown to find Xiangling, but the Xiangling family has long been a person to go to the building, this entangled lifelong love in Bai Juyi drew a short end, but forever remained in the long river of history.
Just like what was written in "Night Rain", the people Bai Juyi missed all his life have always been far away from each other, and the story of the poet's feelings can only be buried deep in the heart. My hometown is far away and difficult to return, but I have not gone a day without looking at it from afar, just because the person I dream of is in my hometown, which is thousands of mountains and rivers.
There is nowhere to resolve the sorrow in my heart, and I have not stopped thinking about the person in my hometown day and night. My future was also confused, and I could only sleep alone in this empty house. Autumn has not yet come, but it is already stormy. Not studying the Dharma of the ascetics tells me how to forget the unforgettable past.
The four sentences at the beginning of the poem are in the same form, the emotions are deep, the overlapping words "far away from the hometown" write the distant confusion of the hometown, and the "deep intestine" writes the poet's sorrow and intestines, and in the bland narrative, he tells the thoughts of a thousand turns.
The poet does not write who he misses, nor does he point out the reason for his thoughts, but he leaves the reader with endless imagination, creates an infinite space for expression in the abstract narrative, and makes the reader even more fascinated by the poignant feeling in it.
The title of the poem is Night Rain, but there are not many sentences to write Night Rain, more is to write thoughts, the lamp starts at night, until it becomes a residual lamp, and in the middle of the night, the poet has not yet fallen asleep, because in this lonely rainy night, the poet is haunted by the feelings of longing, looking at the flickering lights, remembering the beautiful past of the youth, which is in stark contrast to today's loneliness and loneliness.
"The world is safe and complete, and it is not as good as it comes", the poet wants to forget, but he can't forget it, and can only rely on the boundless Dharma to liberate himself.
Bai Juyi's most famous novels are "Long Hate Song" and "Pipa Line", but the reason why poetry is touching is because it comes from the most authentic life and contains the poet's own unforgettable emotions.
Because Bai Juyi himself had a poignant first love with the neighbor girl Xiang Ling that spanned more than 30 years, he was able to write "In the heavenly wish to be a bird with wings, in the earth wish to be a lianli branch." The heavens and the earth are long and sometimes end, and this hatred is endless" Such a unswerving and unswerving love to death is not only writing about the hatred of Li Longji and Yang Guifei, but also the endless hatred of the poet's own lifelong love that cannot be completed.