Now that we mention the poem "A red apricot comes out of the wall", what will come to everyone's mind for the first time?
Is it spring that is full of spring colors and full of spring, or is it associated with the improper relationship between men and women, "more than common sense love".
I am afraid that most people think of the latter, which has to do with our misreading of this poem for hundreds of years.
It comes from a famous poem by the Southern Song Dynasty poet Ye Shaoweng - "Garden Tour is Not Worth It":
You should pity the teeth to print the moss, and the small buckle wood door will not be opened for a long time.
The spring color of the garden could not be closed, and a red apricot branch came out of the wall.
This poem, which we all learned in elementary school, tells the story of what the poet saw and felt when he traveled to the garden in spring.
It was a good time in February in Jiangnan, when the clouds were light and the wind was light, and the poet came to the door of a manor house. He knocked lightly on the wood door a few times, but no one answered, and knocked again for a while, still silent.
The poet thought that the owner of this place could not bear to be trampled by tourists with moss on the ground, so he closed the door to thank guests.
The poet wandered outside the garden for a long time, wanting to leave, but could not bear to leave.
Just when he was bored, as soon as he looked up, he suddenly saw a blooming red apricot sticking out of the wall.
The poet was overjoyed, thinking that the spring color of this garden could not be closed after all!
At this point, the poems end abruptly, but they leave people with an infinitely long aftertaste.
The whole poem, only four short sentences, the poet's emotions have undergone several twists and turns.
When he came to the garden, the poet's heart was full of expectations and expectations, looking forward to appreciating the boundless spring colors in the garden.
When there is no one to answer the door for a long time, the poet's heart is disappointed and regretful.
Just when the poet was about to return from a rage, a red apricot branch protruded out of the wall and bloomed vigorously. The poet looked at a red apricot, but it seemed to glimpse the spring colors of the garden.
The previous disappointments and regrets have turned into unexpected surprises at this time, and have turned into full of joy and satisfaction.
"Spring is full of garden can not be closed, a red apricot out of the wall", a "close" and a "out", showing a vigorous and enthusiastic vitality, is a kind of vitality that can never be strangled by confinement.
Ye Shaoweng is well known to us a thousand years later because of these two poems. But did you know that the poem "A red apricot comes out of the wall" did not originate from Ye Shaoweng?
As early as the late Tang Dynasty poet Wu Rong's "Seeing Apricot Blossoms on the Way", there is a similar writing:
A red apricot branch came out of the wall, and the people outside the wall were worried.
It looks like a hate, but it's harder to stay everywhere.
The forest sky color warbler arrived first, and the spring light fragrance cold butterfly did not swim.
More memories of the emperor's township of thousands of trees, smoke cage day dark imperial state.
The word "Dixiang" reveals that the poet is ostensibly writing about apricot blossoms, but in essence, it is an expression of infinite longing for Dixiang.
The great poet Lu You also wrote a poem "Write Immediately":
Pingqiao small strange rain first harvest, light day through the clouds and mist floating.
The willows do not cover the spring color, and a red apricot branches come out of the wall.
Qian Zhongshu once made a special comparison of Lu You and Ye Shaoweng's two poems "Red Apricot Out of the Wall", believing that Ye Shaoweng's "Spring Colors Full of Gardens Can't Be Closed" is better than "Willows Don't Cover Spring Colors".
He explained that "the willow does not cover the spring color" has already written that the spring color is boundless, and at this time, it is not so eye-catching to write about the red apricot sticking out of the wall.
Ye Shaoweng, on the other hand, did the opposite, first writing that this boundless spring color was closed by a wood door, but there was a red apricot sticking out of the wall.
Just like "a little red in the evergreen bush", it is eye-catching, which makes people both surprised and happy; and like the splashed ink landscape paintings of the ancients, in a large area of white space, giving people a long and timeless charm.
Unfortunately, these two poems, which should have been extremely stunning, "The spring color is full of gardens, and a red apricot comes out of the wall", but now, it is used to abuse customs.
Blindly extending between the love of men and women, and losing the beauty and artistic conception of the poem itself.
There are many similar misuses, abuses, and commonly used verses:
Li Bai's "Visiting Dai Tianshan Daoists Do Not Meet" in the two sentences "See the deer when the tree is deep, and the creek does not smell the bell at noon", which was adapted by netizens as "see the deer when the forest is deep, see the whale when the sea is blue, and see you when the dream wakes up", which looks very beautiful at first glance, but loses the charm of the original sentence when reading carefully.
Lu You's "November 4th Wind and Rain Masterpiece" in the "Night Sleep listening to the wind and rain, the iron horse glacier into the dream" is a very tragic and desolate two-sentence poem, but it was adapted by netizens into "the night sleep listening to the wind and rain, the iron horse is you, the glacier is also you", the realm suddenly became shallow.
The poet Jun felt that this kind of adaptation, abuse, and vulgar use of ancient poetry should be viewed critically.
On the one hand, it is also a kind of creation, catering to a kind of ridicule and ridicule psychology of contemporary people, in a small scope, harmless, but excessive adaptation and even spoofing, once spread, but often not only lose the beauty of the poem itself, but also easy to mislead primary and secondary school students.
So what other ancient poems have you known that have been adapted, abused, and used?
Or can you talk about your own views on the "adaptation and misuse of ancient poetry"?
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