When it comes to Yan Shu, the labels given to him by the world are often "Prime Minister of Taiping" and "Rich and Noble Poet".
In the Northern Song Dynasty, Yan Shu's achievements in literature and officialdom are indeed at the top.
In the officialdom, he made the highest position of Xiangguo, and in his later years, he was also named the Duke of Linzi, and when he died, even the emperor specially dropped out of the dynasty for two days;
In the literary world, he absorbed the elegant and beautiful style of words of the Southern Tang Dynasty "Huajian School" and Feng Yansi, created the graceful style of words of the Northern Song Dynasty, and was respected by later generations as "the first ancestor of the Northern Song Dynasty Yisheng family".
The collection of words he left behind is called "Pearl and Jade Words", the style of words is graceful and elegant, gentle and delicate, the language is beautiful and natural, the rhythm is tactful and harmonious, and there is also a noble atmosphere.
"Helpless flowers fall, déjà vu swallow returns", "pear blossom courtyard dissolves the moon, catkins pond light wind", "three or four points on the pond, one or two yellow orioles at the bottom of the leaves", all of them are widely praised sentences.
However, in fact, Yan Shu is not a good son with a weak and gentle manner, and his life has not been smooth sailing.
He is resolute and straightforward, loves and hates clearly, has a stubborn personality, but is a little impatient, and his daily life is quite simple, and he is not obsessed with wealth and gentleness.
He has also been degraded many times in his life, with ups and downs, and has spent many depressed and helpless days.
In the fourth year of Qingli (1044), Yan Shu was impeached by the ministers, and although he was not removed from the post of central minister, he was transferred out of the imperial city and out of Yingzhou.
After that, he successively served as the secretary of the Ministry of Rites and the secretary of the Criminal Department, but he served in Chenzhou, Xuzhou and other places, and had no chance to return to the center of power.
In the second year of Huangyou (1050), the 60-year-old Yan Shu served as the envoy of the Yongxing Army (now Xi'an, Shaanxi) as a scholar of the Hubu Shangshu and the Guanwendian University, and served as the envoy of the deployment and pacification all the way.
The official position and status given to him by the royal family are getting higher and higher, but he does not agree to his request to return to Kaifeng, and the injustice in his heart has become deeper and deeper after years of wandering.
In this state of mind, he wrote one of the most special works in "Pearl and Jade Words". It reverses the life of lingering drinking songs, the sorrow of lovesickness and parting, the chanting of wind and snow, and the graceful and luxurious, leisurely and elegant harmony of the past, but from the perspective of realism, with agitated and sad tones, it depicts a kabuki who has been abandoned due to old age and decay, and expresses the block in her chest through her tragic fate.
This song is "Mountain Pavilion Willow Song Giver":
He lives in Xiqin. The art of gambling is carried with you. The flowers are willow and the tip of the bucket is new. Occasionally learn to read the slave tone, and sometimes the high curb the clouds. Shu brocade is entangled in countless heads, and it lives up to its hard work.
For several years, I have been going to Xianjing Road, and the remnants of the cup are cold and scorching. Heartfelt matter, who to entrust. If you have a bosom friend, you will sing Yangchun all over again. A song is a feast and tears, and the scarf is covered again.
The whole poem is expressed in the tone of a kabuki, and the film is written about the conceit of the kabuki when he was young, far superior to the crowd, and easily won the applause of the house.
"I live in Xiqin, and I take gambling with me. ”
My family lives in Xiqin, and I am conceited and versatile, and I am not afraid to compete with anyone.
This sentence is written realistically, whether it is the "West Qin" at the beginning or the "Xianjing Road" at the beginning, it is all in Shaanxi. And Yan Shu was also in Xi'an at this time, so it is very likely that he really met such a kabuki.
"Gambling" in the sentence is not what it means today. The word "betting" means competition, "art" is skill, and "bo" is to describe one's own rich variety of skills.
"The flowers are on the willows, and the tips are new. ”
In the singing and dancing of the words, the ingenuity of the novelty, the renovation of the tricks, especially among the sisters, no one can compete with themselves.
"Flower willow" refers to all singing and dancing skills, "fighting" and "gambling" have the same sense of competition, "sharp" refers to the outstanding, "new" refers to not following the old routine, like to renovate tricks.
Both of these lines show Kabuki's confidence and pride in her own job, she is not only young and beautiful, but also conscientiously specializes in business and self-improvement, and is more skilled than everyone else, and is original and unconventional.
"Occasionally learn to read the slave tone, and sometimes the high curb the clouds. ”
By chance, I learned the song that Nian Nu once sang, and when the voice was high-pitched, it could make Xingyun stop for me.
"Nian Nu" was a famous courtesan in Chang'an during the Tianbao period of the Tang Dynasty. Yuan Zhi once recorded in "Lianchang Palace Ci" that she once sang at the banquet of Tang Xuanzong, accompanied by Li Chengning, the king of Qi, who played the flute. According to legend, the tone of "Nian Nujiao" was inspired by her, intending to praise her singing skills.
"High curb the clouds", the words of "Liezi Tang Wen", said that the ancient singer Qin Qing "soothes the sad songs, vibrates the trees, and resounds to curb the clouds", and later generations often used it to describe the high-pitched voice into the clouds. Wang Bo's "Preface to the Pavilion of King Teng" has "cool and breezy hair, slender song condensed and white clouds contained", and Zhao Yi wrote the flute sound "ringing to curb the clouds and blue falling, clear and cold moon to the curtain".
This sentence is the most proud of the singer, she is conceited and talented, but the best of them is that her singing voice far surpasses her peers, and she catches up with the legendary characters.
"Shu brocade is entangled in countless heads, and it lives up to its hard work. ”
The amount of money I have received is innumerable, and it has lived up to my hard work.
"Shu brocade" is the common name of the characteristic brocade produced in Shu County (now Chengdu, Sichuan) from the Han Dynasty to the Three Kingdoms, and one of the four famous brocades in China. Shu brocade is made of mulberry silk as raw material, the price is more than gold, and the guests give it to the singer, representing the preciousness of the gift.
"Wrapping the head", in ancient times, the dancer wrapped the head with colorful brocade, and after the guests finished appreciating, they would give Luo Jin to the dancer to show praise, which was called wrapping the head. Later, the gifts given by the guests to the courtesans of the Qinglou are also collectively referred to as head-wrapping.
With her talent and appearance, the singer won the admiration of everyone and won countless rewards. These few sentences describe the singer's former pride from all aspects, and the tone of her narration is confident and even conceited, which is more and more sad and desolate compared with the frustration of the next film.
“数年来往咸京道，残杯冷炙漫消魂。 ”
Now I am old and decrepit, and for several years I have traveled back and forth on the Xianjing Road, and all I have earned is some leftover wine and cold rice.
"The remnant cup is cold", from Du Fu's poem "Gift to Wei Zuocheng" "Thirteen years of riding a donkey, traveling and eating in Beijing Huachun." Towards the door of the rich children, with the fat horse dust at dusk. The remnants of the cup and the cold burn, everywhere lurking sorrow". One is a poet who is admired, and the other is a singer with a low status, the status and influence of the two are very different, but the sorrow of the situation is so similar!
In the midst of extreme sorrow, the singer suddenly gave birth to the illusion of pain to the point of soul drifting.
And what about Yan Shu? Did he also think of running around Yingzhou, Chenzhou, Xuzhou, and Yongxing Military Roads, being turned away from the prosperous imperial court, and tasting the desolation alone?
The fates of the poet, the lyricist, and the singer subtly overlap in a certain dimension, giving birth to a huge resonance in the poet's heart, which makes him "lose his soul".
"Heartfelt business, who to entrust. If you have a bosom friend, you will sing Yangchun all over again. ”
Who should I talk to about this heart-wrenching matter, and if I could get the appreciation of my soulmate, I would go to great lengths to sing the most difficult music for him over and over again.
"Heartfelt" is a heartfelt feeling, and the singer sincerely hopes to find someone to trust for life, or find a place where she can settle down, for which she can give everything.
"Yangchun", that is, "Yangchun White Snow", was first published in Song Yu's "Ask the King of Chu" during the Warring States Period. "Yang Chun" and "White Snow" were the most elegant songs at that time, and few people could sing along.
Although it is still the tone of a singer, there is no secular expression, but I hope to present the most beautiful and elegant things.
This is not only a certification of the singer's inner nobility, but also reveals the lyricist's own feelings of serving the country.
However, "Jiancai" means "chosen", and "if there is" means that there is actually none, and the lyricist and the singer, like the singer, are eager and ready to have a bosom friend to rely on, but in the end they did not find it.
Therefore, the last sentence was introduced: "A song is a feast and tears, and the scarf is covered again".
Her singing voice is still beautiful, but not so many people are willing to pursue her, how can it not be unbearable and unbearable, and shed a little tears?
However, no matter how sad her heart was and how hot her tears were, she would never forget to pick up Ropa again to cover her crying face.
The word "heavy" proves that this is not the only time she has shed tears, and it is precisely because of her frequent tears and repeated wet wiping that she picked up Ropa again and again.
Yan Shu borrowed the fate of the singer to "pour personal barriers", integrating his own subjective emotions and life realization, which was deeply moving.
This poem can be read in comparison with Bai Juyi's "Pipa Xing", the singer and the pipa girl, both have the highest professional level, they have been in the most prosperous places, and they have been the most enthusiastic in the world, but they are also desolate and helpless after old age and decay.
And Yan Shu and Bai Juyi are the same, they are both suffering the fate of being "abandoned" by the court and the emperor, full of grief and indignation, but there is no one to sue.
They can only hide their gloom in music and words, and leave it for future generations to chew slowly.
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