There is a loquat tree in the garden, which was planted by my wife in the year of her death, and now it is like a pavilion.
——Gui Youguang "Xiangji Xuanzhi"
The author sends his deep grief to a loquat tree, which was originally a still life without thoughts and feelings, but linked its planting time with the year of his wife's death, and empathized with things; Adding the word "present" in front of the four words "pavilion is like a cover" indicates that time is passing, and still life also shows dynamics.
Trees grow, people die! Things are, people are not! Time is fleeting, and affection is unforgettable.
When I wrote this book, I was still one of the world; When you read this book, I have become a ghost in Hades.
——Lin Juemin "Letter with Wife"
Lin Juemin was one of the 72 martyrs of Huanghuagang, and this is a farewell letter he wrote to his wife Chen Yiying three days before the Huanghuagang uprising.
The only touching thing about "The Letter to My Wife" is that it is sincere, the words are bloody, everywhere is a thick and inseparable true feeling, lingering and compassionate, full of awe-inspiring righteousness, the passion of sacrificing one's life for the country and the deep affection for the beloved wife are blended and reflect each other, making people break their intestines and cry, but also shocking and exciting.
A courtier has no grandmother, and he has no grandmother, and he has no grandmother who has no courtier, and he cannot last the rest of his life. The mother and grandson, more destined for each other, cannot be abolished.
——Li Mi, "Chen Qingmei"
Li Mi was an old minister of Shu Han, and the Jin Wu Emperor Sima Yan destroyed Shu and recruited Li Mi as an official, Li Mi refused to accept it, and wrote this sincere "Chen Qingmei", Sima Yan was also moved, and also gave Li Mi two slaves to help take care of his grandmother, and ordered the county to help provide for it.
"Chen Qingmei" starts from his unfortunate experience in childhood, explaining his special feelings with his grandmother, with a tactful narrative, sincere words, concise and vivid language, expressive and strong appeal.
I don't know what to do, and I go deeper. The living can die, and the dead can live. Those who are born and cannot die, and those who die and cannot be resurrected, are not the most emotional.
——Tang Xianzu "Peony Pavilion Inscription"
Tang Xianzu's masterpiece "Peony Pavilion" writes about the ultimate love, Du Liniang died for love, lived for love, the ultimate romance.
Love is unconsciously stimulated, and it is getting deeper and deeper, and when you are alive, you can die for love, and when you die, you can live for love. Living and not wanting to die for love, and dying without being resurrected, can not be regarded as the extreme of feelings.
When Ru is ill, Ru does not know the day, he cannot live together, he cannot soothe Ru to mourn, he does not rely on his coffin, and he does not come to his cave. I do not filial piety or mercy, but I cannot live with Ru and keep each other to death; One is at the end of heaven, the other is in the corner of the earth, born and shadow does not depend on my form, death and soul do not connect with my dreams. The heavens of the heavens, the heavens of the heavens, the heavens of the heavens, the
- Han Yu, "Matsuri Twelve Lang Wen"
Han Yue lost his father at a young age and relied on his brother and sister-in-law to raise him. Han Yu and his nephew Twelve Lang have been together since childhood, and they have experienced hardships and have a particularly deep relationship. But as an adult, Han Yue wandered around and rarely saw Juro. Just when Han Yuguan's luck improved and he was likely to get together with Twelve, the bad news of Twelve's death suddenly came. Han Yu was especially sad and wrote this sacrificial text.
The "Twelve Priests" is written in the tone of telling the deceased, mourning the decline of the family, mourning the premature decline of one's own body, mourning the early death of the deceased, doubting heaven and reason, doubting the number of life and death, and even doubting the establishment of heirs, extremely writing the bitter grief of the heart.
Shuangci is in the hall, there is a sister under it, the door is weak, and there are no brothers in the end. Chun's death is not a pity, mourning eight, why do you want to live? Although it is over. The body of Chun, the legacy of the Father; The body of Chun, the use of the king. For the father and the king, how can death be lost to the double mercy? But the mercy king pushed it dry and wet, and taught rituals and poetry, and fifteen years were like one day; The mother's kindness is difficult for eternity. The great grace has not been rewarded, and it is abhorrent.
——Xia Wanchun, "The Book of Mothers in Prison"
Xia Wanchun was an anti-Qing hero in the late Ming Dynasty, who resisted the Qing with his father at the age of 14, but was later defeated and captured, and died at the age of 16. "The Book of Upper Mothers in Prison" is Xia Wanchun's final letter to his birth mother and concubine mother while in prison.
In the letter, he worries about his departure, the livelihood of his family of eight, and is ashamed of not being able to repay his mother's kindness. But he also thinks that he died for his father and for the king, and he died right. The whole text is sung and sighed, generous and tragic, and deeply moving.
Mo said that Xianggong is stupid, and there are even more obsessed people!
——Zhang Dai, "Watching the Snow in the Lake Pavilion"
It was the snowy season, the author drove a boat to the Lake Pavilion to enjoy the snow, but unexpectedly, there were already two people here in the Lake Pavilion, brewing wine and talking, so unhappy. The author is very relieved.
A sentence from the boatman at the end: Mo said that Xianggong is stupid, and there are even more obsessed people. The text is rippling, and the aftertaste is endless.
Now when you are far away, you don't know what to say.
——Zhuge Liang, "Teacher Departure Table"
Zhuge Liang single-mindedly aimed at the Kuang Fu Han Room, and devoted himself to the threw of his might. Zhuge Liang went north to Wei, and he gave Liu Chan a "Departure Form" full of deep meaning, with earnest words, bold loyalty, and touching heart.
Woohoo is neither unthinkable before he is alive, nor unknowable behind him; The weeping Ru does not listen to the Ru words, and the Ru does not see the Ru food. The paper ash flew, the wind was wild, and the brother returned, and he looked back at Ruye again and again.
——Yuan Zhen, "Sacrifice Sister Wen"
This is the sacrifice that Yuan wrote to his sister. The text is written about some trivial matters of life, which are easy to come and clear; When mourning the sudden death of a loved one, the words were beautiful, the words were bloody and tearful, sincere and moving.
Born to be heroic, dead to be spiritual. It is the same as the life and death of all things, and the return to the form of nothing, temporary gathering; He who does not die with all things, but stands out as immortal, the name of the hereafter.
——Ouyang Xiu, "Sacrifice Stone Man Qingwen"
Shi Manqing is a friend of Ouyang Xiu, and this text was written by Ouyang Xiu 26 years after Shi Manqing's death. Time has passed, and the dead have been laid to rest. The author recalled the past, burst into tears, and could not forget his feelings, infecting countless readers.