"The rolling water of the Yangtze River in the east, the waves and waves are heroes." Success or failure turned to the sky, the green mountains are still there, and the sunset is red several times. White-haired fishing reefs on the river, used to watch the autumn moon and spring breeze. A pot of turbid wine is happy to meet, how many things in ancient and modern times, all are in laughter. This poem is widely known as the opening word chosen for mao's father and son as the opening word of the Romance of the Three Kingdoms.
The author of this poem is Yang Shen, the first of the three great talents of the Ming Dynasty. It is the third paragraph of the "Twenty-one History Bullet Words" that says that the Qin and Han dynasties begin.
There are many poems in the history of Yong, but whether it is as the opening words of the Qin and Han Dynasties or the opening words of the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, it is indeed rare that they are so fit.
Because he did not have a word to describe a certain battle, a certain historical event, but it made people feel that it was all described. Dozens of Chinese characters, so condensed, outline a grand scene, and this grand scene, which is not figurative, seems to fit in any historical scene. That's very powerful.
Compared with Su Shi's "Nian Nu Jiao" Su Zi, it is indeed grand and far-reaching, and it is better in terms of words and sentences. However, he still described the specific events, so that people knew at first reading that it was the Battle of Chibi.
"Linjiang Immortals" has no specific historical events, but it can summarize all historical scenes. Not only that, but it can also rise to the height of the philosophy of life. The Mao father and son are very discerning. The word chosen can hold the entire "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" and is amazing.
In the history of Chinese literature, the evaluation of this word is not too high, and one reason is because of its bluntness.
Chinese like euphemisms, like to be mean, and even poems that are known for their extravagant style are often not overly straightforward. It seems that feelings must be multi-layered, rich to have connotation, and there must be a little euphemism in the boldness.
This song doesn't have that layered emotion. The language is also easy to understand and straight forward. Some people don't like it.
In fact, bluntness is exactly the form of expression required for this word. Just like Guo Jing's Descending Dragon Eighteen Palms, it was just a simple move, but it was just incredibly powerful. Loud sounds, elephants invisible. The simplest, just the most beautiful. Just like the top beauty, any hairstyle and any costume are beautiful, while ordinary beauties have to dress up to get closer to the standard of beauty.
If it weren't for the bluntness, the word would have needed more words to express its meaning, and it wouldn't have been so condensed.
Life experience is as complicated as Yang Shen's, with great ups and downs, and only then did he understand this truth. The so-called "looking at the mountain is not a mountain" to "looking at the mountain is still a mountain", back to the basics.
Yang Shen, the son of Yang Tinghe, a famous minister of the Ming Dynasty, was known as a prodigy since he was a child, and was a 23-year-old Yang Shen high school champion in the sixth year of Zhengde.
He was named the editor of the Hanlin Academy and rose all the way up, and his life reached its peak. During the Jiajing period, because of the dispute over the great etiquette, the emperor was deposed and deposed in Yongchang, Yunnan.
At that time, Yunnan was not the desirable tourist land it is now, but a wild place. Not only is it remote and undeveloped, but it also has a blazing atmosphere.
Yang Shen, 36, came to Yunnan and did not lose sight of it. Instead, it is a well-read book, a book to say, Linjiang Immortal, is his twilight work.
As an opening poem, this is not Yang Shen's main work, and he must not have expected that the most widely known work he left behind is this one.
It is precisely because of his unusual experience that he has an unusual understanding and writes such a magnificent and concise lyric. From this poem, we can read the brevity of life and the eternity of the universe. It is full of precipitation and reflection on the world. There is a sense of historical open-mindedness.
Some people use the attachment to the imperial court that Yang Shen wrote before his death to refute this sense of open-mindedness, which is inappropriate.
A person's life realm is not always unchanged, and even sometimes he himself has not reached this state of thought, but he has achieved it in his works. This is the charm of literature. In short, this song does have a sense of historical open-mindedness.
From the words to appreciate, "Rolling Yangtze River east of the passing water, the waves and waves of heroes." "The opening chapter is full of breath. It did not use the usual literary method of suppressing and suppressing. Because for this word, it is not needed. These two sentences are very graphic and set the tone of the whole text.
"Success or failure turns empty." This is a big vernacular, straightforward and condensed, and as a turning word in this song, it is exactly what it needs.
"The green mountains are still there, a few degrees of sunset red," This is another colorful picture, green mountains and sunsets, thick ink. Depict the magnificence of the country.
"White-haired fishing reefs on the river, used to watch the autumn moon and spring breeze." Here we use the contrast fishing tree, referring to the hermit, as opposed to the hero. Jiangzhu is the opposite of the court. There is a set of contrasts implied here, between renunciation and retreat.
"A pot of turbid wine is happy to meet, how many things in ancient and modern times, all are in laughter." This is the climax of the whole poem and abruptly stopped, which makes people feel unfinished. A happy word is especially useful.
A happy word, we seem to see Zhou Yu's majestic hair, Xiao Qiao's graceful flow. Zhuge Liang's tongue and battle group Confucianism, Cao Cao's tricks are many, and all the heroes Hao Jie are joyfully appearing on the scene. Interprets the joys and sorrows of life and history. A happy word, we seem to see. The carved beams and paintings of the homeland, the vermilion and red makeup, the thousands of palaces, the wind flow is infinite. And Yang Shen must have remembered his peak period.
"How many things in ancient and modern times, all are in the midst of laughter." Everything is flat, neither happy nor sad. The whole word is properly viewed from God's perspective, the so-called selfless realm.
Because some of the words are similar, some people will compare this poem with Chen Youyi's "Linjiang Immortal".
"Reminiscing about the afternoon bridge to drink, sitting in the middle of mostly heroic." The long ditch flows silently. In the shadow of the apricot blossoms, the flute is played until dawn. For more than twenty years, it was like a dream, although this body was shocking. Idle in the small pavilion to see the new sunshine. How many things in ancient and modern times, fishing sang three more. ”
It can be said that Chen's lyrics are more elegant. And the mood is completely different. Although there is a grand background of the fall of the Northern Song Dynasty, the flight to the south, and the longing for the homeland. Chen Youyi's words are still partial to the expression of personal feelings, and the emotional level is richer and more euphemistic. Yang Shen's words tend to summarize and summarize history.
The form of expression of art is determined by the content of the ideas expressed. Yang Shen's word expression form is indeed not as rich as the statement. Because he does not need to be rich, he needs the directness and condensation of words.
Chen Youyi's words are personal perspectives, the so-called realm of having me, and Yang Shen's words are the perspective of God, the so-called realm of no-self. As the opening words of the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Yang Shen's "Linjiang Immortal" is indeed the best choice for yan pressure.
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