Song Ci's most beautiful love letter comes from Li Zhiyi's hand: longing and love across time and space, touching the world for thousands of years

By the middle of the Northern Song Dynasty, words had become a lyrical genre of literature. Through the development and efforts of several pronouns, the emotional connotation of words has been extended, the time and space realm of words has been expanded, and the artistic level of words has been improved, truly allowing words to enter the literary hall.

Lyrics can express the rich and complex spiritual world and temperament of the creative subject like poetry, and this characteristic of words is vividly expressed by euphemisms.

The euphemism of "Wen Lijin, pat the sandalwood" mainly describes the love of children and daughters, parting from sorrow, the style of words is beautiful and charming, and the emotions revealed in the meaning of the words are subtle and tactful.

When it comes to Song Dynasty euphemism, Li Zhiyi can be regarded as an outstanding euphemistic lyricist. He once proposed that words are "their own style", which is of great significance for establishing the independent status of words.

Later, the theory of the word "other family" put forward by the female lyricist Li Qingzhao's "Theory of Words" is a continuation, expansion, deepening and perfect annotation of Li Zhiyi's "own style".

Su Shi once commented that Li Zhiyi was "talented and insightful" and praised his articles as "into the knife and pen"; The editors of the Siku Quanshu also believe that Li Zhiyi's "Xiaoling You Qingwan and Qiao Qian, almost does not reduce Qin Guan"; Feng Xu, a lexicologist and critic of lexicology in the late Qing Dynasty, also believed that Li Zhiyi's words were "long tone near Liu (Liu Yong), short tone near Qin (Qin Guan)".

Li Zhiyi's most beautiful love letter

Li Zhiyi not only has a deep theoretical insight into lyrics, but also created a large number of words, Li Zhiyi himself is an excellent euphemistic lyricist, and this song he wrote to his lover "Bu Operator I Live at the Head of the Yangtze River" is very famous, which can be called the most beautiful love letter in the lyrics:

I live at the head of the Yangtze River, and I live at the end of the Yangtze River. Day by day, I don't see Jun and drink the water of the Yangtze River together.

When will this water rest, when will this hatred be gone. I only hope that your heart is like my heart, and I will not live up to my love.

This poem is a long love confession and a sincere love letter, because this word is related to a precious and moving love story of his.

Li Zhiyi, uncle Ziduan, self-proclaimed Guxi Jushi. As a teenager, Li Zhiyi read poetry books, was brilliant, and studied under Fan Zhongyan's son Fan Chunren. At the age of 22, Li Zhiyi entered the rank and di, and began his journey to the palace.

In the early years of Emperor Huizong of Song, Li Zhiyi raised Hedong Changping. Just when he was waiting for him to make some achievements and achievements on the road to his career, Li Zhiyi's career was blocked because of the party dispute. In the second year of Chongning, Li Zhiyi was demoted again, this time he came to Taiping Prefecture.

In Taiping Prefecture, Li Zhiyi not only had a difficult life, but even his family suffered a lot. The so-called world is impermanent, blessings are incomparable, calamities are not alone, daughters and sons have died one after another, and his wife Hu Shuxiu, who has been with him for 40 years, has also died.

Li Zhiyi wrote in "No Party with Zhu Tiju": "On the fourth anniversary of a certain arrival in Taiping Prefecture, he lost his son in the first year, fell ill in the second year, and went through spring and summer, and died badly. In the third year, his wife died, and his children were born one after another. At the beginning of the fourth year, the ringworm was covered with the body, and the cold disease was already suffering. ”

At this time, the lyricist is in the most difficult moment of his life, but at this time, a singer enters the lyricist's life, she is Yang Shu.

The appearance of Yang Shu brought a lot of comfort to Li Zhiyi's life, and her gentle true feelings gradually smoothed out the folds in Li Zhiyi's heart, and whenever Li Zhiyi fell into memories of bitter past, Yang Shu would always use the sound of the piano to detach Li Zhiyi's thoughts from painful memories.

It was Yang Shu's most familiar piano song "Walking Frost Exercise", when the piano sounded, the melody like water slowly flowed from the strings, and everything seemed to stop at that moment. In this soft melody and silent space, the sound of the piano imagines everything that time takes away like a love song.

Li Zhiyi couldn't help himself for a while, he never thought that there was a woman in the world who understood him, isn't this piano sound a reflection of his heart at this moment? Li Zhiyi couldn't help but think:

For the rest of his life, he can only traverse the longitude and latitude of the text, construct a quiet poetic habitat, rest quietly in it, silently wait for the transformation of life, and in this poetic habitat, there is also his confidant Yang Shu.

The sound of the piano is a testimony of their love, which is always accompanied by countless secrets and quietly blooms in the heart. Inspired by love, Li Zhiyi wrote a lot of lyrics for Yang Shu, and Yang Shu put these lyrics into the orchestra. In the intersection of words and music, they not only met love, but also confirmed love and harvested love.

In one of the poems, titled "Lang Taosha", Li Zhiyi engraved their love in beautiful words: Xiamaki and Yunshu. The moon is faint and starry. The Mohui has never been vain. To the time of attention, who is similar.

Gathering and parting is the norm in life, and Li Zhiyi, who is floating in the sea and fettling her career, has to make a brief separation from Yang Shu in order to live, and once separated, that kind of lovesickness becomes two places of idleness.

From spring to autumn, Li Zhiyi, who has not seen Yang Shu for half a year, stands on the edge of the Yangtze River, looking at the rolling east flowing Yangtze River, his thoughts are like this east-flowing river, and his heart cannot be calm for a long time.

The Tang Dynasty female poet Yu Xuanji said: "The heart of the Emperor is like the water of the West River, and the east flows day and night without stopping." The irrepressible surging thoughts in Li Zhiyi's heart are the same as the endless lovesickness written by Yu Xuanji.

So Li Zhiyi wrote this poem "Bu Operator" and sent it to Yang Shu, who was separated by two places and lived on the Yangtze River, and this gentle and sentimental lyric was touching because of its beautiful words and long-term confessions.

Well, after talking about Li Zhiyi's mood in creating this word, and then walking into this word, the context of the word will be clear and clear. The first two sentences use the Yangtze River as a lyrical carrier to reveal the remoteness of geographical distance: I live at the source of the Yangtze River, and you live in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River.

The overlapping sentence pattern and the tone of singing and sighing three sighs strengthen the taste of chanting, as if you can feel the affectionate thoughts and sighs of the lyricist, and the image of a character standing by the river and longing for it is perfectly set off by the mighty and smokey Yangtze River.

Distance creates beauty. And the word "distance" itself is a word with a clear aesthetic meaning. The earliest collection of poems on the mainland, the Book of Poetry, uses the distance of "distance" to place its acacia, the most typical of which is "pale and pale, white dew as frost." The so-called Yi people are on the water side. Another example is the "road is blocked and long, and the meeting can be known" in Hanle Fu's "Walking and Repeating Travel". "It's all the inner monologue and the longest love confession of the missing person.

In ancient times, transportation was underdeveloped, and communication could not be achieved, so parting was sad. The lovesickness separated by the two places is the most common and profound emotion of people for thousands of years, because of the distance of time and space, it is forbidden, adding infinite sorrow and parting, melancholy and sorrow, and because of the distance of time and space, there is a hazy beauty and sentimental beauty of sorrow.

The most moving thing in poetry is the true nature contained in it, and if this true temperament can resonate with people to the greatest extent, then it will have the longest and most vivid life.

Li Zhiyi poured deep emotions into the words, making the distance of time and space have a different color, and at this moment, the distance of time and space and the emotional psychology of the lyricist have long been blended together and are inseparable.

The next sentence "Thinking about the king every day does not see the king" will express the longing and encouragement of the lyricist, the farther away the distance, the more urgent the lovesickness. But he firmly believes in his feelings and is unswervingly loyal, even if they are far apart and wait for a long time, he will definitely wait until the day he meets his sweetheart. He fantasized about the joy of meeting her countless times, but he still woke up with endless sadness.

"Drinking the water of the Yangtze River together" is the self-solace of the lyricist: the love of two places, one water is connected; Since they live together on the Yangtze River and drink the same Yangtze River water, they must be heart-to-heart and heart-to-heart. Although there are thousands of miles away, the Yangtze River is a witness of our lovesickness and a belief in each other.

Acacia is beautiful, distance makes longing deep and long, makes acacia haunt and unforgettable. "Drinking the water of the Yangtze River together" is the ups and downs of the lyricist's feelings, making the words deep and subtle, and it is particularly moving to read.

With the river as a typical image, it symbolizes long-lasting sorrow in ancient mainland poetry, conveying the poet's sentimentality and sorrow for the shortness of life.

Therefore, Li Bai will say that "drawing a knife to cut off the water and the water will flow more, and raising a glass to eliminate the worry is more worrying"; Therefore, Li Yu will say, "Ask Jun how many worries can there be, just like a river of spring water flowing east"; Therefore, Liu Yong will also write "only the water of the Yangtze River, no words flow east".

No matter what kind of emotion is expressed, the poets capture the quality of the aesthetic image of water in nature, and then integrate this image into the acacia word, which has a different kind of beauty.

Li Zhiyi uses the water of the Yangtze River as a lyrical clue throughout, and the water of the Yoyo River is not only a natural barrier that blocks both sides, but also a natural carrier for connecting the same vein and sending feelings from afar; Yoyo River Water is not only a symbol of lovesickness and endless hatred, but also the expectation and witness of eternal love.

Although the time and space gap cannot be changed, and the lovesickness has not really been reduced, the illusion of "time and space distance" by "psychological distance" at that moment makes the lyrics inadvertently produce a subtle aesthetic mood, so it also has a special aesthetic effect.

After reading the upper water, and then looking at the lower eternity, the first two sentences of the lower ename, "When will this water stop, when will this hatred be gone", which basically means: When will the endless river water dry up, and when will the bitterness of parting stop. These two sentences still send love to the water of the Yangtze River, and further express other hatred: the water of the Yangtze River, leisurely flowing east, I don't know when it will stop, and I don't know when my lovesick parting hatred will stop.

This is Li Zhiyi's skillful use of the poetry of "mountains without tombs, rivers are exhausted" in Hanle Mansion's "Shangxie", using the probability of things that will not happen in nature to emphasize the impossible cessation of leaving sorrow and hatred, highlighting that the pain of lovesickness of the lyricist is as endless and rushing as the water of the Yangtze River. Li Zhiyi changed the straightforward and enthusiastic style of folk songs into a subtle and gentle tone, which is meaningful to read.

In this tone, the lyricist shows on the one hand that he subjectively hopes for the power of hate, and on the other hand, he secretly reveals that there is no end to hatred objectively. The river will never flow, and his lovesickness and sorrow cannot stop.

When the lyricist's emotions are more intense, the psychological distance of reproduction is closer to the actual spatial distance, and the distance from hatred is like a river, and there will be a day of rest; On the contrary, the lower the emotional desire, the longer the psychological distance is in space, the river is endless, and the distance from hatred is more endless.

But Li Zhiyi is loyal to this emotion, and his strong longing makes him more inclined to be optimistic about emotions, perseverance and watchful help.

Therefore, when he faces the river and then aesthetically grasps the external world, he also has a deep emotional connotation of seeking subjective spiritual comfort and yearning for spiritual freedom.

With very infectious language, Li Zhiyi well practices the transcendence of time and space distance by psychological feelings, and weaves a bit of unique psychological cognition: distance produces beauty.

The last two sentences of the whole word, "May your heart be like my heart, and you will not live up to your lovesickness", to the effect of: May your heart, if my heart is unwavering, will not live up to my infatuation. This is what the lyricist expects of his sweetheart, expecting him to be as undistracted and unwavering as himself.

Even though the barriers of the river head and the end of the river cannot be crossed, the hearts of the two beloved are connected. In this way, one-sided lovesickness becomes the expectation of both parties, and then parting from sorrow and hatred can turn into eternal love and expectation. In this way, the souls of the two sides of the barrier are permanently nourished and comforted.

The Yangtze River, this natural barrier blocks the meeting between the two sides, but cannot stop each other's thoughts, and the long-flowing river is in the same vein and is also a carrier of longing for distant thoughts.

Li Zhiyi's "Bu Operator", around the lyrical clue of the Yangtze River, expresses endless lovesickness and endless sorrows. The Yangtze River is not only the foothold of the lyricist, but also the expectation and witness of the eternal love between the two sides. The end of this poem writes the sincere, eternal longing and love contained in the emotion of "thinking but not seeing", giving people the feeling of long-term flow of rivers and long-term love.

When I think of you, do you also happen to be thinking about me? Love needs to be reciprocated, and true love is to have an echo, not a person's giving. The lyricist standing by the river seems to hear the echo of love thousands of miles away, and this echo of love breaks through the limitations of time and space, stirring up waves that amaze time in the long river of time and space.

Because for the lyricist, no matter where they are, no matter how far away they are, the distance of time and space does not hinder their love, on the contrary, their longing for each other is stronger. This echo of love makes us all feel the eternity and beauty of love today.

Living together by the Yangtze River and drinking the same river water, but because of the forbidden situation and the separation between the two places, Li Zhiyi can only sigh to the sky, but his lovesickness for Yang Shu is as endless as this rushing river.

Li Zhiyi's euphemism, "Bu Operator, I Live at the Head of the Yangtze River", takes the water of the Yangtze River as the lyrical clue throughout, and the water of the Youyou River is not only a natural barrier between the two sides, but also a natural carrier for connecting the same vein and sending feelings from afar; Yoyo River Water is not only a symbol of lovesickness and endless hatred, but also the expectation and witness of eternal love.

Trivial poetry

The whole word of "Bu Operator · I Live at the Head of the Yangtze River" reads light and clear, without deliberate carving and stacking, all of which are the natural flow of the lyricist's emotions, especially Xiayin, the lyricist uses the Yangtze River water to express love, the emotion is like a mighty river water looping back and forth, the lyricism is deep and subtle, timeless and long.

The image, emotion and tune style of the lyricist are extremely simple and full of the characteristics of folk songs. In the melody of singing and sighing, people seem to read the heart trills of the lyricist that echo between heaven and earth, and their thoughts and emotions can't help but rise and fall. When the relationship is in turmoil, the lyricist cleverly uses the question to strengthen the tone, promote the meaning of the word, and enhance the sense of speech.

At the same time, the lyrics are novel in conception and evocative to read, which is a true classic of "exhaustion and inexhaustibility", an eternal love letter with vitality.