For many post-70s and 80s, hearing the name of Qiong Yao should be no stranger, after all, when I was young, I basically grew up watching the film and television dramas adapted from Qiong Yao's novels, such as "Plum Blossom Three Alleys", "Huan Zhu Gege", "Deep Rain and Rain", etc., which are classic film and television dramas that have set off a ratings frenzy.
In fact, in addition to the Qiong Yao TV series that makes people remember it vividly, many of the interludes in it are also impressive, even after so many years, when the familiar melody sounds, it will involuntarily hum. Moreover, some of the lyrics in these songs also made me admire Qiong Yao's writing skills as a young man, like the theme song of "Love Is Deep and Rainy", "Love is deep and rainy, how many buildings are in the smoke and rain." Remember when you and I were nong, the car was like a flowing water horse like a dragon. Despite the fierce wind, the beauty is like a jade sword like a rainbow."
At that time, these words really amazed me, but later I learned that many of these lyrics were actually not written by Qiong Yao's original works, but she borrowed the classic famous sentences in ancient poems, just like "how many buildings are in the smoke and rain" is the famous sentence in the Tang Dynasty great poet Du Mu's "Jiangnan Spring"; and "the car is like a flowing water horse is like a dragon" is from the sentence "The car is like flowing water, the horse is like a dragon" in the Southern Tang Dynasty Fan Ye's "Later Han Shu Mingde Ma Empress Chronicle", but Qiong Yao here should borrow the Southern Tang Dynasty lord Li Yu's "Wangjiangnan , How Much Hate" in "Wangjiangnan , How Much Hate". It is also like the old days of swimming in the garden, and the car is like a flowing water horse like a dragon."
In addition to these two sentences, "beauty like a jade sword like a rainbow" is actually not from the hand of Qiong Yao, its author is the Qing Dynasty poet Gong Zizhen, and the original poem is more beautiful than the lyrics of "Love Deep Rain", the following will come and walk into this very beautiful poem with the author.
"Night Sitting Two" Sinking into the north, south and east, a glimpse of human resources in the sea and the air. In his prime, he began to participate in the Zhou Shi Xi, and his hair was sorry to fall into the Xianfeng. Gong Gao Bai will become an immortal, and only then will he return to the intestines and breathe. In case the Zen barrier is suddenly broken, the beauty is like a jade sword like a rainbow.
Gong Zizhen's name is believed to be very familiar to everyone, there are not many famous poets in the Qing Dynasty, and Gong Zizhen is one. Everyone also learned his "falling red is not a heartless thing, turning into spring mud is more protective of flowers" during school. And this song "Night Sitting" was written in the autumn of 1832, when Gong Zizhen failed the fourth test, and the sadness and indignation in his heart can be imagined. Otherwise, he would not have written such a poem as "I advise The Heavenly Father to shake it up again and demote talents in an eclectic manner."
The first four sentences of this poem are the author's confessions, thinking that he was also the leader of the talents in the sea, but after so many years, he did not achieve anything, but he was pressed by a heavy heart. When he was young, he fell into the wind of wolf-free and informality, who expected to reach his prime but only to find a small official position as a proofreader of the National History Museum. This is obviously not what the author wants, nor is it the author's ideal, and it is also far from the author's ideal.
What is the poet's ideal? The third and fourth sentences illustrate the poet's pursuit, and success and fame are not their ultimate pursuits, but they just hope to leave some talented and read words for future generations. The poet also shows a desire to be free from his troubles through Zen, but is this really what he is asking for? When we read ancient poems, we will find that many ancient readers seem to have a deep yearning for meditation and seeking the Tao, but in fact, those are because reality does not allow them to show their ambitions, so they can only put their minds on those things, which is just an escape, not a real appeal in the heart. The deepest appeal of the poet's heart is that one day he will no longer escape Zen, but see through. At that time, the beauty of Ruyu and the sword qi of Ruhong were the realms he longed for in the depths of his heart.
When we first read this ancient poem, we will feel that Gong Zizhen really wrote it with a lot of anger and arrogance. However, if you read it carefully, you will find that what Gong Zizhen writes is actually "sad", because his list is not listed, because his ambitions are difficult to show. Being able to write sadness into such a meteorology is rare in the millennium literary world. Zhang Yuanshan, one of the authors of "The Theory of Qi Characters", once commented that "if Gong Zizhen writes 'sadness' so often, after being too white, there is not much to look at." It is not difficult to see his admiration for Gong Zizhen's poem.
What do you think about Gong Zizhen's poem? Did you know before that the "beauty is like a jade sword like a rainbow" in the lyrics of "Love Is Deep and Rainy" is from Gong Zizhen's hand? Feel free to speak up in the comments section.