Li Shangyin withered lotus three songs: weak willow thousand dew, fading lotus side of the wind
In late autumn, many natural wetlands, rivers and lakes, rivers and lakes, the river water sharply reduced, the lotus leaves on the water surface that were once fields have withered, leaving not many dry stems and leaves, and the water surface is cool and wide.
Many times, farmers do not pull out this lotus leaf, this is because the lotus leaf in the natural withering process does not block the river and water surface like other small leaves, their large leaves, will not drift with the current, but slowly scorched yellow and withered, folded into the water, into the humus and silt.
With the arrival of autumn and winter, the few residual lotus petioles can indicate to farmers or fishermen that this was once a lotus pond, and below it are the roots of the lotus planted in the silt, which is easy for people to find.
Lotus leaves are clean in life and death, don't look at the autumn lotus leaves look dilapidated, but there are lotus leaves in the pond, the water in autumn and winter is particularly clean, because the lotus leaves themselves have the function of fixing quicksand, settling silt, and cleaning water quality, even if it is a rotten lotus that has sunk to the bottom of the water.
In late autumn, the lotus leaves, which have not yet completely lost their vitality, still stand in the water. Or their vitality has been extremely weak, it looks like under the autumn wind and blue sky, it is already a withered yellow or brown, but what you have to remember is that all the lotus leaves standing in the water still have a weak vitality, otherwise the flowing water will quickly corrode and decompose the lotus stems, so that they are classified into the silent water.
Then in ancient China, lotus leaves and lotus ponds meant the prosperity of the family, the prosperity of the people, and they could watch over each other and help each other.
But Li Shangyin has no sadness in his life. When he was about 10 years old, his father died while serving as an official, and at that time, his father had just started his career and only did a small county order. The father died young, leaving behind his wife and at least four children. Just like a lotus pond suddenly withering out of water, the life of Li Shangyin's whole family is floating in the dry autumn and winter without living water.
For Li Shangyin, who is only a teenager, he has prematurely endured the hardships of life, because as the eldest son, he must let this family survive, and when he is a teenager, he does physical work for people on the one hand, in exchange for the meager survival of the family, on the other hand, he studies hard.
That feeling of panic and fragility of life and hardship of survival made him have a deep feeling for the dry lotus.
Lotus flowers, no water can dry, autumn cold can dry, and lotus flowers are resolute, as long as there is water, it quickly covers the entire lotus pond in spring and summer. Water also represents wealth and vitality, Li Shangyin's youth and youth, like the lotus flower thirsty for water, this is not only missing water, but also fatherly love. However, life allowed him to grow up, and since he was a teenager, he had been working in various shogunates, and in the cold winter, the family could not even afford to make a cotton jacket. Or even if there is, a cold environment, he still has his younger siblings.
Exchanging talent for survival and hope, Li Shangyin knows the pain and taste of survival best.
"Bamboo dock dust-free water sills clear, acacia passed across the heavy city."
Autumn yin does not disperse frost fly late, leaving dry lotus to listen to the sound of rain. "Tang Dynasty Li Shangyin's "Su Luo Clan Pavilion Sending Cui Yong Cui Gong"
Many people think that this poem is the work of Li Shangyin in middle age, because there is a kind of desolation and determination in it, but when he actually wrote this poem, Li Shangyin was only 22 years old. His cousin Cui Rong was the Assassin of Huazhou at the time, but soon after Li Shangyin passed, Cui Rong died of illness. After dealing with the funeral of the Cui family, Li Shangyin had to regain his career and position, and bid farewell to his two cousins in the late autumn.
Judging from Cui Rong's age, this cousin is seventy, but from Li Shangyin's title to the two Cui family brothers, these two brothers have no official position, and the second may be Cui Rong's two youngest children, they are the same age as Li Shangyin, and Li Shangyin get along closely, and at this time they lost their father, Li Shangyin evoked the pain and desolation in his heart.
Because he knows that the loss of his father in the family is undoubtedly the depletion of the lotus pond for the weak son, and he will face the unknown storm of life. At this time, Li Shangyin also had a bright future, and the only thing he relied on was the tenacious sense of responsibility in his heart, like a weak flame facing the vast human world.
The cui family's grief about losing his father has also been infecting him, making him feel empathy for the situation of the two brothers.
I stayed at this station in Luo's Pavilion, where the mountains and rivers are beautiful, and the bamboo houses are dustless, which reminds me of the days when I spent time with you, and everyone also talked about poetry in the bamboo forest, but now, I am far away from you, only infinite thoughts, although separated by one city after another, but not broken. On the contrary, I miss you more.
Here in late autumn, because the sky is cloudy, although the solar terms are frost, there may be no frost.
It just so happens that there are dry lotuses that have not yet been frozen to death by frost, and I can listen to Xiao Xiaoyu hit the dry lotus here. This night, let me miss you in the autumn rain.
This is an emotional beauty that can directly open up the heart, because I am a dry lotus, and so are you, but there is still a glimmer of life, that is the existence of life, I am like a dry lotus on the road of life, and you experience grief as well.
But this is life, what I have experienced, and you are experiencing, but there is always an emotional and friendship connection that connects us.
Let us accept fate together and experience the storms of life. A kind of sad bottom line and background color.
In fact, Li Shangyin is leading by example, I am fine, and I hope you are okay. Wind and frost lotus leaves, life's hard journey, everyone is a brother who feels empathy, is a weak and long but eternal concern and friendship in the world.
In the poems of the 22-year-old Li Shangyin, li Shangyin's unique lonely and sad but affectionate background has been presented. This is a gift from the high pressure of wind and frost fate to the genius Li Shangyin.
So that many people in later generations cannot believe that such vicissitudes and desolation come from 22-year-old Li Shangyin. Poverty and sensitivity precocious. And this precociousness often becomes a feature of genius.
"The temple is in front of the peak, and the building is open and looks poor.
Outside the mountains and geese, in the sunset.
Weak willow thousands of dew, fading lotus side wind.
There are madness in the pot pass, and the old life is quickly followed. "Li Shangyin's "Denghuo Mountain Caravanserai"
Li Shangyin has been low-key and stoic all his life, and he has never said that he is a mountain and a green pine. This is because, from the perspective of family fate, the people in his family are really not long enough, the grandfather died early, the father also died early, this kind of hidden worry exists in Li Shangyin's life, so he seems to have a premonition that he may also follow in the footsteps of his grandfather and father, it is simply desperate with time.
I counted his life's itinerary, it can be said that it was a topsy-turvy and laborious, I counted the poems he read, he was recognized as a master of allusions, there was no deep source behind this, behind this was his knowledgeable and strong memory, so that later generations described Li Shangyin, simply doubted that he had a study that reached the sky, and he went to find the source and allusion in the book like an otter. In fact, this can only prove that Li Shangyin spent all his time.
So when he died, some people wept and mourned, learning from Hai Wenlan to work overnight. In fact, Li Shangyin spent his life to prove that he was the mountain and the stars, and his poetry was the peak of the poetry of the late Tang Dynasty, and no one has surpassed it so far.
But in reality, Li Shangyin has always been low-key and stoic, but also in that era, he set endless obstacles to his life, so that he was almost trapped in poverty and turmoil all his life.
The 30-year-old Li Shangyin has already entered the army and the first, but his official fortunes and talents are inversely proportional, for example, he was 30 years old, he had a good chance, met a strong leader, it is likely to give him a position to show his ambitions in reality, and as a result, his mother died of illness at this moment. In ancient times, officials had a system of worry, and when their parents died, they had to go home to keep filial piety for three years, even if they were ministers. Many people's opportunities are also the turning points in the time of Ding Worry.
Li Shangyin missed an opportunity to display his talents because of Ding's worries.
However, during the period of Ding's worries, he still maintained a strong concern for the country. In the late Tang Dynasty, the general Liu Shu (稹) after the death of his uncle Jiedu (節度) made Liu Congzhi (劉 Congzhi) secretly mourn, commanded great power, supported the army and respected himself, and wrote to the emperor to expose the evil of the eunuch Qiu Shiliang, which caused instability in the country.
In the process of ascending in the autumn, Li Shangyin saw the vast autumn colors, and also felt the instability of the ordinary people under the empire, and the fluttering panic.
"Weak willows are dewy, and the wind is blowing." It is written about the scenery, and at the same time it is written about the state affairs and the state of mind.
Since the Anshi Rebellion, the Tang Dynasty has shifted from prosperity to decline, and every major turmoil will be superimposed on ordinary people like an autumn wind, and for Li Shangyin, who is suffering and worrying, he is even more sensitive to the atmosphere of the times.
He is also one of the willow trees and lotus leaves.
But he made an ambition and an appeal, so many difficult autumns, to produce a capable person and talent to save the country! Does Li Shangyin have this talent? Of course there was, but all his life, he was trapped, not in his place. All my life I was anxious to dry my eyes.
"When the lotus leaves are born, they hate in the spring, and when the lotus leaves wither, they hate in the autumn."
I know that I am in love and look forward to the sound of the river. "Li Shangyin's "Twilight Autumn Tour to qujiang"
It is said that Li Shangyin's later years are actually for his short life, at the age of 46, Li Shangyin died. This is the work of Li Shangyin in his later years. In fact, from the perspective of real life, more than 40 years old is the most beautiful golden autumn in life.
But Li Shangyin was poor as a teenager, working hard to make progress, the youth's emotions and career were double frustrated, he was sick in middle age, the family economy did not improve much, and the 40-year-old wife died of illness, and all kinds of superimposed physical and emotional injuries, he has reached the twilight of life.
This is after five years of working in Sichuan, he returned to Chang'an, the teenager lost his father, the young man bid farewell to his lover, the middle-aged widowed mother and wife, from the perspective of career, in fact, there is already a chance to wait, but his body is no longer good.
Standing on the edge of the Qu River, it is late autumn, autumn twilight.
There used to be the most beautiful and lush lotus flowers in the summer, and only a few lotus leaves and dead lotuses stood in the water. The sun sets, and the light is shining.
I also talked about the characteristics of lotus leaves at the beginning, that is, if there is a little life, it will stand in the water, even if the leaves wither. And the lotus leaf also has a special beauty, its leaves are as upward as possible, such as non-wind and frost break the head. The lotus leaves in late autumn still maintain the silent watchman beauty of attachment to the river and the slanting sun.
Li Shang hid in the body of The Dry Lotus, saw his own life, or he always knew, only this time, with the last affection and majesty of life to write about the Dry Lotus.
Lotus leaf, from the time you sprout from the surface of the water, your upward gesture of hope is a feeling for life, a longing is hope, a longing is stretching is tenderness.
Lotus leaf, when you gradually wither, this life is over, but all the regrets and sorrows in this life are in your head in the autumn wind, what are you looking at, what are you thinking?
Lotus Leaf, you have always known that your life is for the most beautiful feelings in the world, even now, you still look up at the distance. How many regrets this world has, they are in that immortal hope and watch.
So is the lotus leaf, so am I.
Li Shangyin wrote lotus leaves, but he said everything. A lifetime of hardships, struggles, long-term feelings, ruggedness, watchfulness, hope, are all in the withered lotus leaves that are about to fall in this autumn wind.
However, as long as the lotus leaf still has a little life, it will stand at the end of life in this posture.
It is a lifetime of cold to the bone, but also the motivation and desire of life born from the bones, towards the dream and the distance.
It is desolate and determined, it is the life of Lotus Leaf, it is Li Shangyin's, and it is also the life of clinging to people.
So this poem has won wide circulation and resonance, which is a portrayal of life and emotions.
Hatsuyoshi Katsuyuki interprets the love and beauty in the poems for you.