Text/Gu Wu
【Introduction to ramblings】
The parting mentioned in the previous article is the story of yuan kai, a Ming dynasty official, who caused homesickness in Beijing to write a letter to the official.
In this article, we will look at the long parting, the encounter fragments like sparks again and again.
In ancient times, it was actually quite difficult to be a pair of long-term friends. Everyone's life will always have one stage after another, in each stage will be exposed to new friends, the end of each stage, which means a permanent goodbye with this group of friends.
People in their hometown want to go out to study and travel, and friends at home will not see each other later; they will not see each other in a certain place for a while, or study or work, and after they are finished, they will not see each other in their lives.
Ancient people are not like us, anytime, anywhere through the telephone, WeChat this kind of instant communication contact, they only have mail, or the vast end of the world, a person riding a sunset manual courier.
They all know that after parting, it will be difficult to contact in the future. Perhaps the only thing that can bring them together again is luck, or fate.
Have you suddenly met an old friend who has been separated for decades, and how many impressions do you have on elementary school classmates who have not been in touch for many years?
【Immersive Poetry】
My hometown is a small county, as long as you go out often, the chance of meeting old classmates is still very large. When I came home from college vacation, I had such an experience, I accompanied my family to the Agricultural Bank to get a savings card, and when I waited in line, two people came in the bank, and I looked at one of them, and I felt very familiar, like a very good friend in elementary school, but I didn't dare to go up and recognize each other.
Later, he came over and asked about his recent life, and I naturally took over. People say that the relationship between classmates is not strange, it is quite reasonable, and they can't stop talking about those things that used to be.
I was very impressed by that encounter, and I can still reproduce many details of the time. Therefore, the excitement of the encounter between the ancients and the old friend is even more difficult to imagine.
The author of the poem brought today is Dai Shulun, a well-known poet of the Tang Dynasty. In the Tang Dynasty, eunuchs were prevalent, and 67 out of 10 literati had the experience of "entering the curtain", that is, defecting to a certain emissary or general.
Dai Shulun once entered the curtain in Jiangnan, and the day of entering the curtain was generally not very good, on the one hand, he looked up to people's sniffles, on the other hand, he was a wanderer, there was little companionship, and he could not avoid feeling lonely.
At this moment, one autumn night, Dai Shulun stayed at an inn, but met his hometown acquaintances who had been separated from him for many years.
"Fellow countrymen see fellow countrymen, and two tears flow." Suddenly seeing each other naturally both were surprised, with endless words, but unfortunately, they did not meet for a long time, they had to face the difference of the dawn, thinking of this section, the surprise was mixed with a trace of pity, smeared, just under such a complex emotion, this song "Guest Night and the Late Doll Collection" came out.
【Classic original text】
Guest Night and The Old Doll Set / Jiangxiang Old Doll Set Guest House
Dai Shulun [Tang Dynasty]
The sky is full again in autumn, and the city is full of nights.
Also do Jiangnan meeting, turning over doubts in dreams.
The wind branches frighten the magpies, and the dew grass weeps cold.
The brigade commander was drunk and stayed with Xiao Zhong.
【Article Analysis】
The first sentence writes the scene, a round of autumn moon in the sky, turning around and finally returning to perfection; looking at the city in the distance, the vast night seems to have a thousand weights, covering the land of Jiangnan.
When I met you at such a moment, I almost thought I was dreaming.
The first two sentences are very plain, showing the joy and beauty of the first sight, the quiet night, the round moon gives them a free environment to talk, and all the circumstances and grievances hidden in the heart after the parting are all told.
To the neck joint, enter the second part of the poem. The author simplifies this rare reunion, grasping only two of the most representative close-ups to narrate. The first is the first sight mentioned in the first 4 sentences, and the second is the "stay" mentioned in the last 4 sentences.
The wind stirred the branches, startling the birds and magpies sleeping on the branches, and chirping, adding a little uneasiness to the night; although it was early autumn, the dew had already fallen, so there was a fading grass covered with autumn dew, and the insects in it also felt the arrival of autumn and issued a desolate cry.
These voices had been obscured by joy, but now in the dead of night, the noise of the outside world was also in the ears of the two people.
So the encounter became a prelude to parting.
You and I are all prisoners, and we could have taken a drunken break and borrowed wine to pour sorrow. However, the reality is that we stayed together in this Jiangnan Hotel, and the rare time was only one night, and we would only be sad for the parting of the next morning.
"Fear of the dawn bell" is a particularly accurate expression, afraid to hear the bell ringing tomorrow morning, because as soon as the bell rings, it is time to leave.
Imagine yourself leaving home tomorrow to do something you don't particularly like, or a student going back to school, or seeing a client with a bad reputation, and you don't want to hear the alarm go off, and you want the nights to be longer, longer...
We can always find our former selves in a poem, which is the charm of poetry. Although "people's sorrows and joys are not the same", from a grand point of view, everyone's life is nothing more than a patchwork of joys and sorrows.