Life does not meet, the movement is like participating in business.
In 758, the 47-year-old Du Fu angered Long Yan because of the rescue of Fang Guan by Shangshu, and was demoted to Huazhou Sigong to join the army.
Not long ago, Du Fu defected to life and death because of "bast shoes to see the Son of Heaven, sleeves showing two elbows", and was awarded the left relict by Emperor Suzong of Tang.
In the past three years since the outbreak of the Anshi Rebellion, Du Fu has been worried about his family and the world. After his wife and children were placed in the Qiang village of Yanzhou for refuge, he crossed the life and death line of the An Lushan rebels alone and vowed to follow the Tang Dynasty to the death.
Now that Chao Chenghuan and Xi were degraded, Du Fu could not help the world for a while, so he took leave to return to the eastern capital Luoyang to visit relatives. On the way back to Huazhou, Du Fu reunited with his old friend Wei Baishi after a long farewell and wrote these touching words with mixed feelings.
In the past twenty years, the days have been like participating in business, the vicissitudes of the sea have become mulberry fields, the black hair has become frost, and even the sons and daughters of the deceased have long been suddenly traveling.
"Night rain cuts spring leeks, new cooking room yellow millet", in the era of turbulent war, there is no more soothing fireworks.
But life is always gathering less and separating more, and after tonight, Du Fu will say goodbye in a hurry, and face again: tomorrow across the mountains, the world is in the middle of nowhere.
How many gatherings were scattered in a hurry and the world was in the vastness, and Du Fu, who had been adrift for half his life, was put into this movement like a merchant and a vast mountain and sea.
If the impermanence of life is destined to be unsolvable, then you and I will be no exception now. It is better to see this gathering in a hurry, and know with whom.
1. Duckweed sea
Jun wrote my poems on the walls of the temple, and I inscribed Jun's sentences all over the screen.
Meet Jun and know where, in the sea of duckweed.
—Don Baijuyi, "Answering Weizhi"
There is a kind of encounter in the world, called high mountains and flowing water, called like-mindedness, called the friendship of life and death, also called Bai Juyi meets Shangyuanshu.
At that time, Bai Juyi, who was 29 years old, wrote in a cheerful manner: "Under the inscription of the Ci'en Pagoda, the youngest of the seventeen. ”
But when he turned his head and glanced into the crowd, he realized who was really young, Yuan Shu, who was seven years younger than him, was very demeanor.
Since then, "Yuanbai" has been born, "spending seldom on pommel horses, drinking in the snow" when he is arbitrary, "sending three clothes and food and money, counting 200,000 yuan" when he is sloppy, and "only singing to give birth to people's illness, may the Son of Heaven know." ”
Two people with compatible souls slowly approached like this, whipping their horses together, waving Fang Xuan together, and of course, also rising and falling together.
Bai Juyi repeatedly bluntly said that "it is rude to be rude, and it is difficult to help it", and finally because of the assassination of Wu Yuanheng, he belittled Jiangzhou.
And Yuanshu is no better, because he offended the powerful and powerful people too straight, and he was already ten years away from Bai Juyi's debasement of Jiangling and Tongzhou.
Every time the brothers and brothers, who had not seen each other for many years, thought of each other, they sang poems and sang, and Yuan Shu even inscribed Bai Juyi's poem on the temple wall, and wrote his own thoughts: Yijun Wuji wrote Jun poems, and wrote thousands of lines to whom to say.
After Bai Juyi learned about it, he also carefully selected hundreds of Yuan Shu's poems and wrote them on the screen, to see the "poetry" thinking people.
This song "Answer Weizhi" was written for this purpose, a sentence "Meet Jun and know where, two leaves duckweed in the sea", expressing the pain of the two people's wandering and the sorrow of the twilight.
The world gathers less and separates more, just like duckweed on the sea is adrift and helpless, I don't know when I will be reunited, but fortunately, the boat of Yuanbai friendship has never capsized.
Many years later, Wu Chengen rewrote another kind of pride in "Journey to the West": a leaf of duckweed returned to the sea, where people do not meet.
2. Floating clouds and flowing water
Jiang Han used to be a guest, and every time they met drunk.
After the floating clouds parted, the water flowed for ten years.
The laughter was as old as ever, and Xiao's sideburns were spotted.
Why not return? There are autumn mountains on Huai.
—Tang Wei Yingwu, "Huaishang Xihui Liang Chuan's Old Man"
The world gathers and scatters in a hurry, just as Wang Yu, the crown of the seven sons of Jian'an, said: the wind and clouds are scattered, and the difference is like rain.
Who said that the paper is short and long, these few eight characters have written countless people's lives, and they are so beautiful and hurtful.
This kind of poignancy of gathering and impermanence, Wei Yingwu wrote even more clouds and flowing water, "After the floating clouds are separated, the water flows for ten years." ”
The tone is so light and natural, and the feelings contained in it are so deep and sincere. It was ten years away from his old friend Tianya, and it was also a decade when Wei Yingwu traveled to another country.
In the past ten years, Wei Yingwu has transformed from a domineering and rampant Son of Heaven in the countryside to a calm middle-aged man who studies hard and works diligently as an official.
And this is inseparable from the support of his wife Yuanping, but the virtuous helper who made his prodigal son turn back died at the age of 36.
Twenty years of love, one-fifth of a century in length, Wei Yingwu will spend the rest of his life remembering.
At this time, Wei Yingwu, who has experienced the parting of life and death, and reuniting with his old friends in his hometown for a long time are no longer a meeting and joy that can be summarized, but a mixture of sorrows and joys, and mixed feelings.
Happily, you and I laugh as before, just like meeting each other in Jiang Han and smiling, drunk and returning, and the friendship lasts for a long time.
But sadly, the years have not spared you and me, my hair is pale, and my face is full of the wind and frost and vicissitudes experienced over the years.
And you asked me why I didn't return home early, not only because I coveted the autumn light on this mountain, but also because I couldn't influence the fate of the fall.
At the same time, there is also the impermanence of gathering after this day and parting, and I don't know how many "floating clouds after parting, flowing water for ten years" rushed through your and my lives.
Fate is like floating clouds, time is like flowing water, and Lu You cannot escape: it is easy to write only true feelings, and it is difficult to know and complain. The water flows and clouds scatter to the west and east.
3. Spring dreams and autumn clouds
Drunk farewell to the West Building and don't remember, spring dreams and autumn clouds, gathering is really easy. The half-window of the oblique moon still sleeps less, and the painting screen shows Wu Shancui.
The words in the wine marks on the clothes, the dots and lines, are always desolate. The red candle has no good plan for self-pity, and the cold night sky weeps for people.
—Song Yan several "Butterfly Love Flowers, Drunken Farewell West Building Awake"
Bai Juyi and Wei Yingwu's impermanence is mostly written to the deep friendship of the old people, while Yan Jidao appeals to the love of men and women.
There is nothing more gloomy than the love of men and women, especially for merry talents.
Lingering in the "Willow Shengge Garden, Sister Swing among Flowers", I don't know how many times I have been hurriedly dispersed.
After the West Building was drunk and said goodbye, Yan thought about the old things again, and it became vague and difficult to remember: Drunk and the West Building woke up.
In fact, it is difficult to find old things, but the gathering is too short, so he can't help but lament, "Spring dreams and autumn clouds, it's really easy to gather and scatter." ”
Similarly, Bai Juyi focuses on wandering and uncertainty, Wei Yingwu focuses on the vicissitudes of the world, and Yan Jidao focuses on illusory short-lived, beautiful and perishable.
Just like Bai Juyi Zeng Yun, "How long is it to come like a spring dream?" Go to the clouds and nowhere to look. "The women in Yan's pen also searched, the traces of wine on their clothes, the words in the poems, searching between the lines, only desolation.
This long night is long, this gathering is in a hurry, the woman can only put her heart and mind to the red candle to listen, and the amorous red candle weeps for people until dawn.
It's just that I don't know which of the four singers "Lian, Hong, Ping, and Yun" that Yan Dao has been obsessed with all his life.
And 14-year-old Jin Shi and Di, 17 years old with the death of his father Yan Shu and ended his brocade clothes and jade food early, recalling yesterday, will he also have this sense of life like a dream.
When Yan Shu was alive, he felt this ethereal illusion: How long is it to grow in spring dreams? Scattered like autumn clouds, nowhere to be found.
4. Lone goose duckweed
Panju cup deep, blowing plum horn far, the same in the capital. Gathering and scattering in a hurry, lonely geese on the edge of the clouds, duckweed on the water.
Teach people how not to hurt. Feel a few degrees, the soul is frightened. After the night lovesickness, the dust goes with the horse, and the moon travels one by one.
—Song Liu Guo, "Liu Ziqing, Send Lu Meipo"
If you want to buy osmanthus and carry wine, it is not similar to the youth.
Liu Guo, who wrote such a thing, is a non-ancient sentence, and he also knows that the gathering and impermanence of the world is too hurried.
Liu Guo and his friend Lu Meipo met and intersected in Beijing, toured Hangzhou together, drunk chrysanthemums bloomed together, and listened to "Plum Blossom Fall" together, how comfortable.
Now that the parting is just around the corner, Liu Guo can't hide his sadness. After this separation, the two are like a lonely goose on the edge of the cloud losing its companion, duckweed on the water is adrift, and I don't know when to meet again.
Life is so scattered and hurried, and the future is vast, Liu Guo does not know how many times when he wakes up in the beautiful dream of the gathering, his soul is lost and his soul is frightened.
After that, he could no longer sleep, and he could only hide his lovesickness in the vast night, hoping that "the dust follows the horse, and the moon travels day and night".
Such gathering and dispersion is hurried, Zhang Xian also sighed in "Xijiang Moon", "Farewell to Qiantang in the past, Yan Qiuhong in ten years." ”
This is the ancients' dispersion and impermanence, and life is in a hurry. Some people pass through this like floating clouds and flowing water, and the wind is scattered; Others are like duckweeds returning to the sea, and lonely geese crossing the clouds; There are also people like spring dreams and autumn clouds, which are empty in a blink of an eye.
In fact, this comes and goes, not only in the gathering of people, but also in all the joys, honors, losses, and poverty experienced in the world.
And these make up our lives, in the end, they can't escape impermanence, can't escape dissipation, and in the end it's empty.
The poet punctured these illusories for a brief view, precisely because he was treated gently by some people in the world and could not bear to be separated.
We can't change our suffering, we can only see each other to the fullest in our limited lives, as Ouyang Xiu said:
The world is turbulent, and every ten years is different. Life is like this, seeing each other and having fun.