Chairman Mao wrote "Bu Operator Yongmei", and the plum blossoms in his pen were affectionate and proud, and their brilliance shone brightly. As we all know, this song was inspired by Lu You's work of the same name at the beginning of its creation.
However, the tone of Lu You's original work is depressed and sad, which is completely inconsistent with Chairman Mao's creative style. In order to write plum blossoms well, Chairman Mao could only read a lot of ancient and modern Yongmei poems and find inspiration from them.
On the morning of November 6, 1961, in order to write the word "Yongmei", Chairman Mao sent three letters in a row to his secretary Tian Jiaying, asking him to collect poems related to plum blossoms for him.
Tian Jiaying found Lin Kui's poems for Chairman Mao, but they still could not satisfy Chairman Mao. Later, Chairman Mao remembered an ancient poem, but the author's name could not be remembered clearly, and there was a sentence in the poem: "The snow is full of mountains and the high priests lie down, and the moon is bright and the forest is beautiful." ”
This poem is from "Plum Blossom Nine Songs · One", the author's name is Gao Qi, is a famous poet of the Ming Dynasty. Why, then, did Chairman Mao think of this poem? This is because this poem writes the "different style" of plum blossoms outside the shore of rigid pride.
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"Plum Blossom Nine Songs · One" - Ming Gao Qi
Qiongzi is only in Yaotai, who planted everywhere in Jiangnan?
Snow fills the mountains in the high priests, and the moon is shining under the forest.
Cold shadows Xiao Xiao bamboo, spring cover the remnants of the desert moss.
Since going to He Lang there is no good chant, and the East Wind has been silent several times.
Vernacular Translation:
The plum blossom is as magnificent as meiyu, and she should be suitable for growing on the Yaotai of the Queen Mother of the West. Who brought her to Jiangnan on earth and planted her everywhere?
When it snows, the plum blossoms are heavily wrapped in snow, like the Magi who can't leave the door in the snowy night. Under the illumination of the moonlight, the plum blossoms transformed into beauties in the mountains and forests, and the style came.
In the cold winter, the sparse shadow of plum blossoms snuggles up to the cold and miserable bamboo. When spring arrives, the residual fragrance of plum blossoms covers the dense moss on the ground.
After He Xun of the Southern Dynasty left, no one could write a good "Wing Mei" poem. Plum blossoms in the east wind, alone to endure loneliness and sorrow, blooming year after year, I don't know how many years have been spent like this.
The two poems in the jaw link, "The snow is full of mountains in the high priest's bed, and the beauty under the moon and the forest comes" use two allusions in a row. The first allusion is "Lying Snow", from the Book of the Later Han Dynasty and the Biography of Yuan An.
The story says that one year in the winter in Luoyang, there was heavy snow, and the snow was more than a mile deep. Luoyang Ling went to the city to inspect the situation of the "snow disaster" and found that everyone was plowing snow and some people were going out begging for food.
Only the gate of Yuan An's house was sealed by thick snow. The neighbor thought that Yuan An had frozen to death, so he cleared the snow. After breaking through the door, he found him lying on the bed, frozen.
Luoyang Ling asked Yuan An: Why don't you go out and beg for food? Yuan An said: Every family is short of grain, and it is not appropriate to disturb others at this time. Later, Yuan An was regarded as a model of high moral integrity and integrity. Therefore, he also had to raise filial piety, and from then on, he made a fortune and made steady progress.
The second allusion is "The Beauty of the Moon Ming Forest" comes from Liu Zongyuan's "Dragon City Record". This is a Tang Dynasty Zhiwei novel, which tells that there was a man named Zhao Shixiong in the Sui Dynasty, who went to Luofu in Guangdong to become an official.
One evening, Zhao Shixiong was resting in a liquor store. Suddenly, a beautiful woman in a light makeup dress and a fragrant body came from the liquor store, and drank happily with him.
Next to the beautiful woman was a boy dressed in green, laughing and singing to cheer them up. The next day, Zhao Shixiong woke up to find himself lying under a plum tree, where a kingfisher-colored bird was chirping.
Gao Qi borrowed these two allusions to praise the purity and integrity of plum blossoms. At the same time, Gao Qi also fantasized about plum blossoms as a beautiful woman in dreams and a confidant and friend in life, which is consistent with the concept of the Song Dynasty poet Lin Kui's "plum wife and crane".
Those poets in the past emphasized the pride of plum blossom LingHan alone, and rarely thought of her gentle and beautiful side like a woman.
Although Lin Kui treated Meihua like a wife, in his poems, he did not portray it so delicately and movingly. Therefore, Gao Qi's poem has become a famous sentence.
Next, Gao Qi continued to sing the praises of Plum Blossom in the virtues of making friends. He said that when it is cold in winter, plum blossoms use their own sparse figures to snuggle up to the cold and miserable bamboo.
Plum, orchid, bamboo and chrysanthemum are the four plants most appreciated by the ancient Chinese literati. Orchids grow in the spring and chrysanthemums grow in the fall. In winter, only bamboo and plum blossoms can exist at the same time.
Bitter bamboo grows alone in the cold wind. Mei Hua thought of using her own sparse figure to accompany the bitter bamboo. She didn't want the high-character bamboo to face the cold alone.
When spring comes, the plum blossoms have withered. Her petals have turned into red earth, but the residual fragrance is still covered with moss on the earth, which is a tribute to the sacrificial spirit of plum blossoms, "Don't let people boast about the good color, but leave a clean breath in the world".
Finally, Gao Qi told another allusion. He Xun of the Southern Dynasty Liang Kingdom was very fond of plum blossoms. He used to be an official in Yangzhou, and planted a plum blossom behind the official office, and often called friends to drink and write poems under the tree.
Later, He Xun was moved to Luoyang, because he was reluctant to plum blossoms, so he took the initiative to request to be transferred back to Yangzhou. This is similar to zhang han in the Jin Dynasty who abandoned the official because he missed the delicious taste of sea bass.
He Xun symbolizes the confidant of plum blossoms, and since He Xun is gone, there is no one in the world who understands plum blossoms. So she was alone and open in the east wind, year after year.
Gao Qi's Yongmei poem is well-written and affectionate, and the ending is still a little sad. The point is that he wrote Plum Blossom as a living individual, a beauty with a soul and a sense of consciousness.
Those poets of the past simply sang the praises of the noble character of the plum blossom. The plum blossom in "Plum Blossom Nine Songs , One of them" is a mortal fairy spirit descending from Yaotai. She has both the Qinggao ethics of Yuan An of the Han Dynasty and the spiritual charm of the plum blossom fairy in the Tang legend.
Although Meihua is very proud, she is definitely not lonely. Because in the cold winter, she snuggled up to the bamboo affectionately and shared the wind and rain with the bamboo.
At the same time, plum blossoms are fraternal and sacrificial. In the spring, when her flowers wither, they also cover the inconspicuous mosses on the ground with the residual fragrance.
But what makes people sad is that Plum Blossom has so many excellent qualities, but there are few people who really understand her, so she only has to endure loneliness in the east wind year after year. Therefore, this poem is actually writing about both plum blossoms and the poet himself.
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Chairman Mao borrowed from Gao Qi's poem and Lu You's words, and later wrote "Bu Operator Yongmei":
Wind and rain send spring home, flying snow welcomes spring arrival. It is already a cliff full of ice, and there are still flowers and branches.
Pretty also do not compete for spring, only the spring to report. When the mountain flowers were full of flowers, she laughed in the bushes.
One of the "pretty" characters in the word "already a cliff is full of ice, like a beautiful flower branch", expresses the various qualities of plum blossoms such as fearlessness, fraternity and charm at the same time, which can be regarded as inheriting the spirit of Gao Qi's plum blossom poems.
At the end of this poem, the two sentences "When the mountain flowers are full of flowers, she laughs in the bushes" are even more tragic in traditional literati poetry and the self-condition of the chant.
Chairman Mao's plum blossom is not afraid of loneliness, just as it is not afraid of the cold, and it will not feel sad because no one understands itself. She is selfless and dedicated, and only wants to be a "primrose" and bring laughter and victory to the world.