"In late spring and March, the grass grows in the south of the Yangtze River, the peanut trees are mixed, and the warblers are flying wildly. "In the south of the Yangtze River in March and April, apricot blossoms, peach blossoms, and pear blossoms are in full bloom, and in the boundless silk rain, people's interest in the spring is not reduced but increases, wandering in the spring, and the heart can't help but shake and revel in it. As a result, many netizens said: "If you say that the spring is not late, I will arrive in the real Jiangnan." ”
"Apricot Blossom Spring Rain Jiangnan" was the first to come from a poem by Yuji in the Yuan Dynasty. The whole poem is rarely known, but these 6 words and 3 nouns, combined together, have become a vivid answer to "why Jiangnan", interpreting the classic picture of Jiangnan in people's hearts.
For thousands of years, why have people loved "Apricot Blossom Spring Rain Jiangnan"? Where is its beauty? And what kind of artistic conception does it convey?
Apricot blossoms in the rain Source: Visual China
One
Let's start with the first keyword: "apricot blossom". Cheng Di, a calligrapher and painter, said: "Yu tasted the flowers, thinking that the plum has the wind of the mountains and forests, and the apricots have the state of the boudoir." "Apricot blossoms, with their dignified and elegant, gentle and simple ladylike temperament, have been loved by literati throughout the ages and have become one of the images of classical poetry.
There is infinite spring in the apricot blossoms. "On a spring tour, apricot blossoms blow all over the head. "Before the apricot blossoms bloom, the plump buds catch the eyes of passers-by with a bright red. At the beginning of March, when the flowers bloom, they compete to spit out the stamen, pink and white. "The spring garden can't be closed, and a branch of red apricot comes out of the wall", "The green poplar smoke is light and cold, and the red apricot branches are noisy in spring". Apricot blossoms climb the fence and frolic in the branches in spring, showing their unique delicate shadows, becoming the perfect decoration for spring.
There is smoke and rain in the apricot blossoms. In 1186 A.D., Lu You, who was over sixty years old, wrote "Lin'an Spring Rain and Early Ji" in an inn by the West Lake, and the poem "Xiaolou listened to the spring rain overnight, and sold apricot blossoms in the Ming Dynasty in the deep alley" became a famous sentence through the ages. Zhinan, a monk of the same era as Lu You, also used "apricot blossoms" and "spring rain" together. One day, he walked out of the monastery on crutches, saw the boundless spring, and wrote "Wet clothes want to wet the apricot blossom rain, blowing the face does not chill the willow wind". "The apricot blossoms are not blooming, and the spring rain is as green as smoke", with the decoration of apricot blossoms, the spring rain will be more delicate;
There is an aesthetics of life in the apricot blossoms. For the ancients, apricot blossoms can not only be appreciated, but also can be played with, and are an indispensable elegant "single product" in spring. The young girl is looking forward to wearing apricot blossoms to decorate her makeup, "the little girl of the owner is greedy for makeup, listening to the new flowers and sleeping at dawn"; the young man is accompanied by the sound of apricot blossoms and flutes, "in the shadow of apricot blossoms, playing the flute until dawn", the mood is chic and full of grace...... For painters, apricot blossoms are the "same title compositions" of each exhibition, taking "Apricot Blossom Spring Rain Jiangnan" as an example, Wu Changshuo, Li Keran, Qian Songzhe and so on have paintings.
Wu Changshuo "Apricot Blossom Spring Rain Jiangnan" Source: "Shenzhen Book Court" WeChat public account
Two
Let's talk about "spring rain". The ancient Chinese were very good at listening to the rain, and many places had "listening to the rain". The beauty in the rain is the most delicate and thorough in the Jiangnan area. In the spring of Jiangnan, the drizzle is like silk and smoke, and a spring rain falls, and the charm of Jiangnan becomes more and more flexible.
The rain is hidden in the mountains and rivers of heaven and earth. The smoke and rain meet the beautiful scenery of the south of the Yangtze River, bringing a unique sense of beauty and forming a unique aesthetic taste of the East. The word "smoke" is ethereal and gentle. "The smoke and rain enter the south of the Yangtze River, and the mountains and rivers are dyed like ink", the hazy mountains, the delicate water, and the moist water vapor add a bit of fairy air to the scenery of the Jiangnan landscape, just like a dense ink painting. Therefore, Su Shi sighed that "the water is clear and sunny, and the mountains are empty and rainy", and most people agree with the saying that "the clear lake is not as good as the rain lake", and many tourists also go to Jiaxing South Lake to board the smoke and rain building.
In the smoke and rain, there is also the beauty of color. Recently, Jay Chou held a concert in Hangzhou, and he sang in "Blue and White Porcelain" "Azure and other smoke and rain, and I am waiting for you", which made many people experience the artistic conception of azure. In addition to the azure color, there are also smoke and rain gray, Xiaoshan green, and daizi powder, which can be described as the color of the south of the Yangtze River, and the smoke and rain are the most prosperous.
Rain, falling on the earth's daily life. Walking into the ancient poems and listening to the sound of rain has a myriad of meanings. "Green hats, green clothes, oblique wind and drizzle do not need to return" is the leisure of the angler, but also Zhang Zhihe's chic; "The fruits fall in the mountains in the rain, and the grass and insects chirp under the lamp" are Wang Wei's Zen; "A cloud of smoke and rain is Ren Pingsheng" is Su Dongpo's view; "A rod of wind and moon, a cloud of smoke and rain, and the home lives in the west of Diaoyutai" is the ambition of Lu You.
Or "under the eaves, take a walk in the pond song", or "listen to the wind and listen to the rain and sleep in the small window", the smoke and rain seem to make the world press the pause button, so that we can leave for a moment in the hurry of life.
The rain drips down the heart between the eyebrows. In the face of smoke and rain, there is the joy of "moistening things silently", and there is also the trouble of "boundless rain is as thin as sorrow". Therefore, some people say that listening to the rain is a matter of grace and a matter of the heart. Chen Jiru mentioned in "Taiping Qinghua" that twenty-four elegant things such as burning incense, tasting tea, washing inkstones, drumming and piano, school books, and waiting for the moon were mentioned. Among them, Listen to the Rain, ranked seventh. Shen Zhou, a calligrapher and painter in the Ming Dynasty, wrote "Listening to Bananas" to share the wonders of "listening to bananas in the rain". "The swallow does not return to the late spring, and the smoke and rain are cold and the apricot blossoms are cold", Dai Shulun couldn't help but sigh about the fleeting spring.
Listen to the rain in the empty mountain, sleep in the rain, rain at night, and sparse rain...... All kinds of scenes, all kinds of encounters, who hasn't experienced a few unforgettable rains in their lives?
Wuzhen in the smoke and rain Source: "Poetry and Painting Zhejiang Cultural Tourism Information" WeChat public account
Three
Let's talk about the last word: "Jiangnan". Some people say that in the minds of every Chinese, there is a Jiangnan. Jiangnan is a "paradise on earth" that has been worked hard and cultivated by generations of people, and it is also a "luminous body" of images comprehensively constructed by literati and writers in the past generations with poetry and songs.
The most memorable is Jiangnan Memories. "Everyone says that Jiangnan is good, and tourists only meet Jiangnan Lao. If you have never been to Jiangnan, it may be a touch of inseparable, always come to your heart, once you have been to Jiangnan, it has become a "second hometown" that you can never forget for a long time. In the eyes of the world, Jiangnan is no longer a geographical concept, but a synonym for beauty, the habitat of dreams, no matter where you are, Jiangnan is in your dreams.
Bai Juyi, who has been to Jiangnan three times in his life, still sighs in his twilight years that "can I remember Jiangnan", "when will I revisit again", and "meet again sooner or later". Su Dongpo, who was transferred from Hangzhou to Mizhou, once woke up and climbed the building, looked at the spring smoke and rain, and was vaguely in the south of the Yangtze River, he used "poetry and wine to take advantage of the youth" to comfort himself. Liu Yong's poem "Looking at the Sea Tide" is written in the style of the south of the Yangtze River, and according to legend, it attracted the yearning of the gold lord Wanyan Liang, and he actually led his troops south.
So, when the apricot blossoms rain in spring, why is it the most Jiangnan? The painter Xu Beihong once inscribed himself with the couplet "The white horse is plugged by the west wind, and the apricot blossoms are in the south of the Yangtze River." There is a view that "Apricot Blossom Smoke Rain Jiangnan" may come from "Apricot Blossom Spring Rain Jiangnan". There are many famous poems and sentences about the south of the Yangtze River, why can the sentence "apricot blossoms and spring rain in the south of the Yangtze River" be among the "top streams"? The author believes that this sentence combines and composes the representatives of the beautiful scenery with the technique of "Lie Jin", and produces the image of "painting in the poem".
Moreover, this sentence seems to be ordinary, but it has both vision, hearing, touch and even imagination, which is moving in silence. This is precisely the realm of words, similar sentences such as "the sound of chickens in the Maodian month, the frost of the footsteps of the bridge", "the small bridge and the flowing water", "the night rain of the rivers and lakes for ten years" and so on.
The most anticipated is New Gangnam. In recent years, Zhejiang is building a provincial brand of "poetry and painting in the south of the Yangtze River and vitality in Zhejiang". How to polish a shining new Jiangnan with both "sound, form and meaning" in the dissemination of regional imagery? It is a useful attempt to integrate Jiangnan elements into literary and artistic works, strengthen the image of Jiangnan in different scenes, and disseminate Jiangnan Aesthetics. For example, the dance drama "Only This Green", the dance "Ikabu Bridge", the movie "Grass and Trees in the World", and even the celadon screen fan of the Hangzhou National Version Pavilion vividly interpret the meaning of Jiangnan in the form of modern art.
Apricot blossoms spring rain in the south of the Yangtze River, heavy like a painting, curved like a screen, the deeper the thought, the more drunk the taste. The most beautiful April day in the world, although the apricot blossoms in the south of the Yangtze River are gradually falling, but "the flowers are still in spring", you might as well take advantage of the light rain, hurry up to feel the picturesque beauty.
Source: Zhejiang Propaganda