"The south wind knows my intentions, blowing dreams to the west state"

I heard a beautiful verse: "The sea dreams slowly, and I am worried about it." The south wind knows my intentions and blows dreams to The West State", I want to check its provenance.

This poem is from the "Xizhou Qu", five words and thirty-two sentences, which is a rare long piece in the folk songs of the Southern Dynasty Lefu. The feelings of the whole text are very delicate, "full of the mood of Man li wanqu, clear words and beautiful words, even endless, making people 'shake the spirit'." "Xizhou Qu" can be described as one of the most mature and exquisite masterpieces of folk songs in this period. The first sentence is "Mei" and evokes the woman's good memories of playing with her lover in Xizhou in the past and her thoughts about her lover. Since then, even though time and space have flowed...

Chinese name Xizhou Qu

The time of creation is the Southern Dynasty

The source of the work is Yutai Xinyong

Literary typography

Type five words thirty-two sentences

The last two sentences of the original text are very long and beautiful classics, but they are catchy and easy to remember.

original

Xizhou Qu (1)[1]

Remember meixia Xizhou (2), folding plum to send Jiangbei.

Single shirt apricot red, double sideburns chick color (3).

Where is Xizhou? Two-oar bridgehead ferry (4).

The sun twilight berau (5) flies, and the wind blows the ujō (6) tree.

Under the tree is in front of the door, and in the door is dew cuidian (7).

Open the door and go out to pick red lotuses.

Picking lotuses in the autumn of Nantang, lotus flowers over the heads.

Look down at the lotus seeds (8), and the lotus seeds are as clear as water (9).

In the sleeve of the lotus, the lotus heart is completely red.

Remember lang lang is not coming, looking up at Fei Hong (11).

Hongfei Manchuria, Wanglang shangqinglou (12).

The building is high and out of sight, and the railing head is at the end of the day (13).

The railing is twelve curves, and the hand is as bright as jade.

Roller shutters rise in the sky (14), and the sea water shakes green.

The sea dreams of leisure (15), and I am worried.

The south wind knows my intentions[2], blowing dreams to Xizhou.

exegesis

(1) "Xizhou Qu": Selected from "Lefu Collection and Miscellaneous Songs". This poem is a Southern Dynasty folk song. Xizhou song, the name of the music house tune.

(2) Recall the plum under Xizhou, fold the plum to send To Jiangbei: This means that the woman saw the plum blossom bloom again, recalled the scene of meeting her lover under the plum before, and thought of folding a plum blossom in Xizhou to send to the lover in Jiangbei. Down, towards. Xizhou, when it was near the woman's residence. Jiangbei, when referring to the place where the man is located.

(3) Crow chick color: the color like a small crow. Describes a woman's dark and shiny hair.

(4) Two-oar bridgehead ferry: Paddle past the bridgehead and paddle two oars to arrive.

(5) Berau: Bird name, midsummer song, likes to roost. On the one hand, it is used to indicate the season, and on the other hand, it is a metaphor for the lonely situation of women.

(6) Ujō: Now it is written as "Ujō".

(7) Jadeite: Jewelry made or inlaid with jade.

(8) Renko: And "pity" harmonic pun.

(9) Clear as water: a work of "green as water", a metaphor for the purity of love. [3]

(10) Lotus heart: Harmonized with "pity heart", that is, the heart of love.

(11) Wang Feihong: Here is the meaning of the Letter of Hope. Because in ancient times, there was a legend of the Hongyan Chuanshu.

(12) Qinglou: A building painted cyan. Poems before the Tang Dynasty were generally used to refer to a woman's residence.

(13) Exhaustion: all day.

(14) The roller blind sky is high, and the sea is shaking green: This means that when the roller blind looks out, you can only see the high sky and the turquoise river that is constantly rippling. Sea water, here refers to the mighty river water.

(15) Seawater Dreams: Dreams are as long as seawater.