The two most beautiful yuan songs in history, one of which you must have heard!
Tang poems, Song poems, and Yuan songs are all literary subjects that represent an era. Tang poetry is elegant, Song poetry is exquisite, Yuan song is lively, the beauty of Tang poetry is in the artistic conception, the beauty of Song poetry is in the charm, and the beauty of Yuan song is in the vulgar. Although the three have always been called together, there are many lovers of Tang and Song poems, and the famous sentences are popular, but Yuanqu is quite embarrassing, and most people's understanding of Yuanqu is limited to a few articles.
In fact, it is not that Yuan Qu is inferior to Tang and Song poems. It is because Yuan opera contains two genres, one is the Yuan Dynasty miscellaneous opera, that is, opera, such as the well-known "Dou E's Injustice", and the other is the Yuan Dynasty Sanqu, which is the same type of poetry as Tang and Song poems. The reason why Yuan opera is not as familiar as Tang and Song poems is that, on the one hand, the achievements of Yuan miscellaneous operas are much greater than those of loose songs, and most of the familiar Yuan operas are Yuan miscellaneous operas such as "Dou E's Injustice"; on the other hand, because the overall number of Yuan Dynasty loose songs is relatively small, far less than the vast volume of Tang and Song poems.
Although the scattered songs in the Yuan song are not as good as the Tang and Song poems as a whole, they are superior in that the themes are wide and diverse, reflecting vivid and lively life, and the language style is also easy to understand. Some of these loose songs are not inferior to Tang and Song poems in terms of language and artistic conception. For example, the most beautiful nostalgic song in the following two yuan songs, the beauty of the artistic conception, the depth of the feeling, can be called wonderful.
The first song is the popular "Tianjingsha Autumn Thoughts":
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Tianjingsha Qiusi
Yuan Ma Zhiyuan
Dead vines and old trees,
small bridges and flowing waters,
Ancient road west wind thin horse.
Sunset
The heartbroken man is at the end of the world.
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Ma Zhiyuan's autumn thought song is familiar to everyone, just a few sentences, but it depicts a desolate and poignant picture of autumn and evening travel, expressing the sad mood of travelers, which can be said to write autumn homesickness to the extreme. This Yuan song has reached the pinnacle of classical Chinese poetry in terms of art, and Ma Zhiyuan is also known as the "ancestor of autumn thoughts" because of this song.
The second most beautiful nostalgic song is Xu Zaisi's "Water Fairy Night Rain", although it is not as good as Ma Zhiyuan's "Tianjingsha Autumn Thought", but it is not inferior to Tang poetry and Song lyrics, and it has a different nostalgic taste when you read it:
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Narcissus Night Rain
Yuan Dynasty Xu Zaisi
A sycamore leaf and an autumn,
A little plantain and a little sorrow,
The third watch returns to the dream after the third watch.
The lantern flower is falling, and the chess is not collected,
Sigh Xinfeng is drowned in the reverse brigade.
Ten years on the pillow,
Jiangnan two old worries,
It's all to my heart.
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Xu Zaisi's nostalgic song is written about what he saw, heard, thought and worried about in the hostel during his trip to prison. The first three sentences depict a bleak and sad scene of late autumn night rain with full feet. With the number looping and repeating, one song and three sighs, the scene is blended, the words are short and the meaning is long, and the sorrow of the detention has been seen in the scene. In the middle of the night of the third watch, the poet was sleepless, "the lights are falling, the chess is not collected" is cold and lonely, and there is only a sigh.
And all the bleak sorrows in the front are attributed to the nostalgia of the wanderer in the last three sentences: "Ten years on the pillow, the two old worries in Jiangnan are all in my heart." After ten years of wandering, the parents at home are still worried about the wanderer outside. I don't write about how I miss my hometown and my relatives here, but I write that my relatives at home are worried about the wanderers who are away, which further highlights the poet's homesickness. A sentence of "all in my heart" came to an abrupt end, although the words were exhausted, the sorrow was endless, and the loneliness and melancholy were all outside the words.
Yuanqu is known for its vulgar and lively language, but these two nostalgic songs are elegant in writing and concise in language, creating two completely different artistic conceptions of desolation.
