Most of the literati in ancient Chinese poetry are gentle and gentle, dashing and affectionate, and the depiction of male unrequited love is more of a mesmerizing and obsessive fanatical flavor.
One: the ideal couple
As the saying goes: lovers see xishi in their eyes, and ancient male literati were very careful to depict women's eyebrows, lips, and eyes, capturing fleeting charm.
Early in the "Poems. Wei Feng. In "Shuo Ren", the author tirelessly adopts the figurative technique to express the fingers, skin, neck, teeth, forehead, and eyebrows of the beauty: "The hands are like soft, the skin is like gelatin, the collar is like a cockroach, the teeth are like a rhinoceros, the moth eyebrows of the head of the mantis, the smile is smart, and the eyes are beautiful." ”
The most evocative writing is the last two sentences: "Smart smile, beautiful eyes" The delicate smile flows at the corner of the mouth, and the big eyes of the water spirit flutter.
The eyes are the windows of the soul, often the most expressive of the inner friendship of the characters, the beautiful women are bright-eyed and good-looking, and when they go to the autumn waves, they look back and smile, and the eyebrows often show the infinite charm of the country.
Song Yu, in "Deng Disciple's Lustful Endowment", depicts the beauty of Tanglin through layers of foiling techniques: "The beauty of the world, Mo Ruochu, the beauty of The Chu Kingdom, Mo Ruochen, the beauty of the Chu Kingdom, and the son of Mo Ruochen, the beauty of the subject, Mo Ruochen.
The son of the owner, if he increases one point, he is too long, and if he subtracts one point, he is too short; the powder is too white, and Shi Zhu is too red. Eyebrows are like green feathers, muscles are like snow, waists are like bundles, and teeth are like shellfish. Yan Ran smiled, confused Yang City, confused Cai."
The author not only shows the tanglin woman's short and natural and beautiful posture through a large number of side descriptions, but also the dynamic "Yanran smile" at the end is particularly fascinating to all sentient beings.
Such charming hints and temptations are naturally fascinating and confusing, and the ideal couple in the minds of the scribes must not only have dazzling beauty, but also have a delicate temperament and elegant demeanor.
They often use soft things such as water moon flowers and willows as metaphors for women, and the celebrity Wu Congxian's "Small Window Self-Chronicle": "Guest: Looking at the beauty on the occasion of the landscape and the flower moon, more aware of more rhymes, it is the beauty that borrows the rhyme in the landscape and flower moon." ”
Zhang Chao, a Qin person, wrote in "Shadow of Dreams": "The so-called beauties, with flowers as the appearance, birds as the sound, the moon as the god, the willow as the state, the jade as the bone, the ice and snow as the skin, the autumn water as the posture, the poetry as the heart, I am inseparable."
So many metaphors all reflect the ideal pursuit of the literati for the temperament and charm of the good couple.
Wang Tao, a scholar of the late Qing Dynasty, also depicted the image of his ideal spouse in his mind in "Yan zhi": "Marrying an old family girl, the appearance does not have to be beautiful, but there is a kind of charm, not to take care of the shadow and self-pity, the temperament is especially gentle, the wisdom is soft and not jealous, and there is no disease at home."
The female red is delicate and clean in cooking, and it is better if she can write poetry. Bo can drink, rough interpretation of the rhythm, every value of the morning and moon, sipping tea opposite, tea into the mu, the furnace curtain, sometimes and sideburns Xiao sparse, is also a pleasure in the boudoir, and one of life is fast. ”
Wang Tao's standard of good couples met the requirements of women's morality, women's speech, women's appearance, and women's skills at that time, which not only reflected women's talent and charm, but also had the leisurely taste of literati doctors.
Therefore, reading at night with red sleeves often became the ideal life of elegant scribes.
Two: Fervently
Love is a passion, it is "the intense admiration of the spirit and the flesh that arises between men and women like an invisible arc of electricity." (Bulgarian-Vasilev, Introduction to Love)
As soon as the talented literati saw the young and beautiful woman, they were immediately stunned, their hearts beat faster, and they had a desire to think eagerly.
Goethe wrote in his autobiographical book Poetry and Truth: "The beauty of the budding spring love is that it is neither aware of its own birth nor its own end, it is so joyful and clear that it does not perceive that it will cause disaster." ”
Unrequited love for men often uses the method of inner monologue to portray the form of the male protagonist's ecstasy.
The late Tang Dynasty poet Han Wei met a beautiful person by chance, her autumn wave turned darkly, and yanran smiled, which made the poet very excited, and her sudden departure made him lose his soul:
Faith and knowledge will be affectionate, and a difficult reward will feel light.
He once sold the Zen machine to this disease, and only after breaking it was he was reborn. "Sick Memories"
The eye waves were unwarranted at me, and the heart fire was specially ignited by the King. "Occasionally seeing the back is a dream"
At this time, the desire to not be separated is broken, and the eyes are even more frantic when they meet from now on. "Five Changes"
The magic of beauty stirs people's hearts and shows the poet's obsessive and indulgent mood.
The yuan dynasty Bai Pu's double-tone "Victory Music" also shows the hero's eagerness to meet his lover: "Walking alone, stepping into the tao, empty walking a thousand times, willing to report it quickly, Hugh until the teaching burden is shelved." ”
Under the moonlight, the young man wandered back and forth outside the girl's show building, anxiously waiting, because he paced back and forth ten thousand times, so that the ground became a trail.
He looked forward to the girl agreeing to his courtship and coming to the meeting, but the girl hesitated again and again, and never appeared, making the young man anxious, and he muttered in his heart, are you willing to be good with me? Let's make a clear sentence, no matter how hesitant and reserved, the sky will be light.
Such action depictions, mental activities are very delicate to show the image of a hungry and infatuated man.
Three: Romantic thoughts
Amorous men who covet their beloved women often fully mobilize their senses and develop romantic thoughts.
Poetry. CHEN Feng. "Moonrise" is sent to the moon, depicting the love thread under the moon:
The moonrise is shining. Good guys. Shu Miao. Laborious quietly.
Moonrise. Tough guys. Comfort. Painstaking.
Moonrise shines. Brilliant. Shu Yao Shaoxi. Laborious.
The hero remembered the beauty in the moonlight, she was so dignified and beautiful, walking with a light posture, missing the beautiful person, hurting her heart....
The imaginary beauty under the moon is fascinating and dreamlike, but the torment of this longing makes him feel sad, and the whole poem is filled with a mysterious secret and a gentle sentimental mood.
In Liu Xiaowei's "Looking at the Flowers on the Partition Wall", it is a metaphor for flowers: "The flowers on the partition wall are semi-hidden, especially the moving branches." When plucked by the beauty, the spring wind blows. ”
The poet walked by the high wall of the house, saw the flowers at the head of the wall half faintly and half-visible, he could not see the scene inside the wall, at this time the flowers and branches on the wall shook, he immediately galloped to imagine, it must not be caused by the spring breeze, presumably the lady of the family is climbing the flowers in the garden, making the flowers flutter.
What about the beauty who picks the flowers? She must be lively and innocent and lovely in her flower picking, thinking of this, the poet's heart is full of desire to meet and beautiful vision, through romantic imagination, to create a different kind of look.
Four: I can't ask for it
The result of male unrequited love is often the pain of unattainable, and "Guan Ju" profoundly portrays men's admiration for ladies.
Guan Guan Ju Dove, in the River Continent.
Ladies and gentlemen.
Jagged lettuce, left and right.
Ladies and gentlemen, covet it.
I can't ask for it, I can't help it.
Leisurely, tossing and turning.
Jagged lettuce, left and right.
Lady, Qin Ser yuzhi.
Jagged lettuce, left and right.
Ladies and gentlemen, bells and drums.
Young men arose their admiration for beautiful women from the male and female of the waterside dovebirds, and then hoped that she would become his mate, so there were "gentle ladies, gentlemen and gentlemen".
The man's longing even gave rise to hallucinations, fantasizing about the happy life he had with the woman, and if he won the heart of the beauty, he would surely be a friend of the beautiful woman, and he would pour out his heartfelt feelings to her, and he would definitely beat the drums and make her happy and healthy.
The poem has unattainable pain and fantasy of beautiful self-satisfaction, appearing to be undulating, the combination of reality and fantasy, full of fun, and the repetition of the lady four times in the poem further highlights the man's repeated thoughts about the beauty.
What is often not obtained is the best, and the distance from becoming the Xishi in the eyes of the lover is more and more perfect and more charming, so ancient poetry often reveals the man's unremitting pursuit of the ideal illusion of unattainable.
Su Shi's "Butterfly Love Flower" next film: "The swing in the wall is outside the wall, the pedestrians outside the wall, the beautiful people in the wall laugh." Laughter fades away, but amorous is ruthlessly annoyed. ”
The author writes about the scene and the romance, seemingly random, but in fact, it is the realization of some fruitless emotion.
Men's amorousness is not at all inferior to women, often in the subtleties to find beauty, fantasy beauty, close to beauty, want to have beauty, and finally in the change between the sad spring and autumn, in fact, the emotion is not divided into men and women, is everyone has, only look at the depth of use.