Ancient Chinese Literature - Wu Weiye's "Yuanyuan Qu"

Wu Weiye, zi jungong, number Meicun, together with Qian Qianyi, Gong Dingzi, and called "Jiang Zuo Sanjia". The founder of the Loudong poetry school, taking the Fa Sheng Tang and Yuan and Bai families, each body worked, and was good at recording current events in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties in the form of seven words and songs, which was later called "Meicun Body". In the early years, there were many beautiful and beautiful works, and after middle age, many tragic and magnificent sounds. The collection of works "Umemura Family Collection".

"Yuanyuanqu" narrates the process of Chen Yuanyuan and Wu Sangui's dispersion and dissociation. This poem is set against the backdrop of major historical events in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties.

The two sentences "Weeping for the Sixth Army, Chong Guan's anger for a red face" implies that Wu Sangui used the banner of "restoring the Ming Dynasty" and actually surrendered qing just to recapture the beautiful chen yuanyuan. These two sentences have a strong ironic meaning. "Circle Song" closely follows this central event, appropriately uses flashbacks, interludes and other techniques, changes freely, narrates eloquently, and finally ends the whole article with the author's feelings.

"Round Round Song": "Poor Si Woman Lou tou Liu, think of it as the sky side powder look" allusion from Wang Changling's "Grievances". Wang Changling of the Tang Dynasty", "Grievances": "Suddenly I saw the strange head Yang Liushi, and the repentant husband and wife were looking for a marquis." ”

"Yuanyuanqu" recounts the process of Chen Yuanyuan and Wu Sangui's gathering and dispersion, and the hidden song condemns Wu Sangui.

The phrase "Chong Guan is angry and a red face" is from the "Chronicle of History". "Rushing the crown" refers to anger. "Anger on the crown", the words "History of Lian Po Lin Xiang Xiang Lie".

"Round Song" is a narrative poem of seven words and songs, with a grand scale, a variety of ideas, and a large time span, but the author breaks through the traditional layout of time clues, skillfully organized, and carefully structured, so that the poems are ups and downs, complex but not chaotic.

"Red face wandering non-my love" simulates Wu Sangui's tone for the author, writing that he defends himself, so "I" refers to Wu Sangui.

The original text of Wu Weiye's "Yuanyuan Qu": The teacher of the teaching qu is still there, and the Huansha female companion remembers his companions. The old nest is a mud swallow, flying up the branches to become a phoenix.

"Dinghu abandoned the human world on that day, broke the enemy and took the capital under the Jade Pass", the first sentence of which refers to the Chongzhen Emperor hanging himself.

Two sentences of Dinghu: Meaning the seventeenth year of Chongzhen (1644) In February, Li Zicheng's rebel army conquered Beijing, the Chongzhen Emperor hanged himself at Coal Mountain (present-day Jingshan, Beijing), and Wu Sangui surrendered to Qing and led Qing troops into the pass.

Dinghu: Ancient legend is that the Yellow Emperor ascended to heaven by dragon. "History and Feng Zen Book": "The Yellow Emperor mined the copper of the first mountain and cast the Ding Ding under the Qianjing Mountain." Ding is complete, there is a dragon hanging down the beard to meet the Yellow Emperor, and the Yellow Emperor rides on the ,...... Later generations because of its name in the Ding Lake. "Later generations often used it as a pronoun for the death of an emperor.

A brief analysis of the structural art of Wu Weiye's "YuanyuanQu":

The poem breaks the traditional layout of the clue of time, the opening paragraph is to write that Wu Sangui descended in order to seize the beauty, and then around this central event, using flashbacks, interpolations and other techniques, narration, and finally close the whole article with the author's feelings; another feature of the structure is that the relationship between Wu Sangui and Chen Yuanyuan is intentionally related to and compared with the relationship between Wu Wangfucha and Xi Shi, and the history and reality are organically combined, showing the author's historical thinking about the event.