Bai Pu is one of the famous Four Great Masters of The Yuan Qu, who was originally born in the Jin Dynasty to a family of high-ranking officials, and his father was a privy council judge. In his childhood, Bai Pu experienced the destruction of the country and the death of his family, the tragic death of his mother, and the heavy blows of his father's defection to the enemy, and was once adopted by Yuan Haowen.
Because of his talent, Bai Pu was once recommended to Kublai Khan, but was rejected by Bai Pu himself. Bai Pu, who is arrogant by nature, breaks with his father and lives in Jinling in seclusion, with the wind and dust women. Wrote poems and filled in the lyrics for them, wrote scripts, and eventually became a generation of Yuanqu masters.
Bai Pu and Yuan Haoqing are in love with father and son, so he often imitates some of Yuan Haoqing's works for creation. Yuan Haoqing composed a song "Touching the Fish", writing "Ask the world, what is love", which is very famous:
"Touch the Fish" - Kim Won asks
Ask the world, what is love, and what is the promise of life and death? The sky is south and the north are double flyers, and the old wings have been cold and hot several times. Rejoice in fun, parting from suffering, there are even more idiot children. Junying has a word: The clouds of the thousands of miles, the twilight snow of a thousand mountains, only the shadow goes to whom?
Hengfen Road, lonely drums, desolate smoke is still flat. Summoning some souls, the mountain ghosts cry out in the wind and rain. Heaven is also jealous, unbelieving, warblers swallows are yellow earth. Throughout the ages, in order to stay for the rioters, they sang and drank bitterly, and visited the Yanqiu.
Unfortunately, Yuan Hao asked the ending of this song "Touching the Fish", which was too tragic and made people look a little sad. Therefore, Bai Pu also wrote a song "Touching the Fish", which began to imitate the sentence pattern of Yuan Haoqing's "Touching the Fish", which is also a masterpiece.
However, Bai Pu gave an ending that was diametrically opposed to Yuan Haoqing. So why is there such a contrast? The reason is that the life experiences of these two people have brought some impact.
Yuan Haowen lived smoothly in his early years, while Bai Pu had been living a turbulent and displaced life since he was seven years old. However, when writing about love tragedies such as "Touching the Fish", Yuan Haoqing was still afraid that the parties were not miserable enough, but Bai Pu gave the protagonist a hopeful ending.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="7" > First, Bai Pu's "Touching the Fish" appreciation</h1>
"Touch the Fish" - Yuan Bai Pu
Ask the double star, how much affection? It's not exhaustive. Every year on this evening, the wind will be held, and the incense will warm the moon window cloud household. Listen to the laughter, know a few places, cailou melon fruit pray cow girl. Spider silk darkness. It is like throwing a golden shuttle, lingering back to the brocade characters, weaving old time sentences.
Twilight. Desert smoke laurel tree, the human heart more who sued? The plutonium is divided into tungsten and peng mountains far away, just like the Daihe Yinpu. Wu Que crossed, parted bitterly, and sprinkled the new autumn rain with makeup. Cloud screen and resident. Count as a victory over The Sister-in-law, rush to the moon, only the cloud time road.
Vernacular Translation:
I would like to ask, how much affection is there in the cowherd star and Vega star in the sky? Why has it been inexhaustible from ancient times to the present? Every year, as long as this day comes, they will date on the Queqiao Bridge.
The crescent moon and clouds in the Heavenly Palace also came to the human world through the window with a warm aroma. Outside the boudoir, there was the laughter of the women. I don't know which color building they are on, where they are, where they place melons and fruits, and "beg" for the moon.
Take a small box and put a small spider on it. The process of spider spitting silk is like the "back pattern brocade" woven by Su Hui in the Jin Dynasty, and the above words are all old sayings.
The clouds hung low outside the house, and the smoke trees in the distance were hazy. To whom should we tell the troubles of our hearts? Yang Yuhuan "split the dots", Liu Chen and Xian Shu Tianren were eternally separated, and the place where the incident occurred was also in the Milky Way.
Moreover, the Queqiao Bridge is not really complete. The cowherd and the weaver girl also meet once every three years. Thinking of this, she couldn't help but burst into tears. Walking to the mica screen, she thought of the story of Chang'e running to the moon.
Cry out: It's okay! She is in the current situation, but she doesn't know if her sweetheart will come back. It was not like Chang'e, after stealing the elixir, a person flew to the Moon Palace, and he couldn't come back.
The first sentence of this song is a parody of Yuan Hao's question, "Ask the world, what is love" . First use a question to accentuate the tone, deepen the reader's impression, and also point out the theme.
The first half of this song is mainly to introduce the topic and explain the time and background of the event. Every year on the seventh day of July, it is the time of the folklore, the cowherd and the weaver girl Queqiao.
By the Yuan Dynasty where Bai Pu was located, this festival had passed for more than a thousand years. For thousands of years, the love story of the cowherd and the weaver girl has been continuously sung. How affectionate are they, and why can they endure a thousand years of gathering and dispersing?
Then, the author uses the two sentences of "every year and this night", leading to the following, explaining what happens around the people in the words. It is another year of the Tanabata Festival, and in accordance with the customs of the festival, the girls prepare flowers, melons and fruits to worship the double stars on the color floor, and carry out "begging" activities.
This folk activity is said to have begun with a program of Tang Xuanzong and Yang Yuhuan who feasted on the Huaqing Palace every July 7. In the activity, each girl will catch a small spider and put it in the box, and wait until the next morning to see the situation of the silk to judge whether it is "coincidental".
The woman in the word is obviously a "thinking woman", waiting for the return of her lover or her husband. Therefore, she did not go to the activities of these young girls. Still, she fantasized in her brain about the process of the "Beggars" festival.
In the process, one spider will spit silk. And the process of spider spitting silk reminds her of Su Hui in the Jin Dynasty, because she misses the story of her husband weaving back the brocade. So she said, "I have to weave it this way every year, and the meaning is similar."
In the second half of the word, the first two sentences are lyrical in the borrowing scene to express the heaviness of the heart. The sky was gloomy, the trees in the distance were hazy, and there was some smoke hanging from the sky, so that she could not see the distant scene clearly.
Her heart was extremely bitter, and she wanted to find someone to talk to. But on this happy holiday, no one wants to hear this. So she suddenly thought, what is good about the milky way?
You've all heard that Cowherd and Weaver Girl are meeting on the Galaxy. However, when Yang Yuhuan first "broke up and divided the tungsten", it was also in that place; and Liu Chen and Xian Shu broke up in that place.
There are two allusions involved in this section, the first of which is from Bai Juyi's "Long Hate Song". After Yang Yuhuan's death, Tang Xuan sent people to search for her soul, and finally found her on the Immortal Mountain in Penglai.
Then, Yang Yuhuan took out their original promise gifts, a gold box and a gold noodle. She divided the gold noodles and the box in half and gave them to Emperor Tang Ming's emissaries, hoping that he would bring them to the latter's hands. But since then, they haven't seen each other again.
The second allusion is the story of Liu Chen, which is folklore. Legend has it that Liu Chen met Xian Shu on the rooftop and later married Xian Shu. One day, Xian Shu returned to heaven, and they never saw each other again, and this story also took place in the galaxy.
It can be seen that the Milky Way is not so auspicious. Speaking of this, she also thought that even if it was a cowherd and a weaver girl, they would meet once every three years, and it was impossible to be together for a long time.
So she began to cry, for herself, for these love tragedies. Finally, she saw the mica screen in front of her and thought of Li Shangyin's "Chang'e", "The mica screen candle shadow is deep".
After Chang'e flew to the Moon Palace, there was no way to return to the ground on her own. Whether or not her sweetheart will come back is not something she can control. But at the very least, she could choose to stay where she was and wait for him to return.
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Bai Pu's life is full of legendary colors. When he was seven years old, Mongol armies attacked the Jin Dynasty, and his father threw him and his mother in the capital to protect the Jin Emperor.
According to the relevant records of the Gui Qianzhi, when the capital of the Jin Dynasty was later breached, Bai Pu's birth mother was probably killed by people with extremely cruel means, so Bai Pu stopped eating meat for the rest of his life.
Later, Bai Pu's father surrendered to the Yuan Dynasty and became a high-ranking official. However, Bai Pu never forgave him in his heart. In the end, Bai Pu chose to run away from home and disappeared into the wind and dust.
It is said that Yuan Haoqing's "Touching the Fish" was written when he was fifteen years old. At that time, Yuan Haoqing's life was very smooth, but he loved to write desperate martyrdom tragedies.
And Bai Pu has spent his life in misfortune, but he wants to leave a little hope and light for the protagonist of "Touching the Fish". This is probably the most intriguing part of human nature.