September 22, 1953, is the Mid-Autumn Festival. Shanghai, which had just been shrouded in twilight, actually began to rain until late at night, without any intention of stopping. Listening to the rain at night, I can't appreciate the moon, but I can touch the poet's sorrow. For example, Mao Heting wrote a poem "Remembering Lady Zhang in the Bitter Rain of the Mid-Autumn Festival", which is a side room to mourn the death of the short time; Long Yusheng also wrote a poem "The Wind and Rain of the Mid-Autumn Festival of Decay has Huai Qian Silent Cun Professor Zhongshu Beijing", which is to remember friends who are far away in the north. And their friend Wu Hufan, what was he doing on the rainy night of the Mid-Autumn Festival this year?
Perhaps, Wu Hufan is holding a paintbrush, crouching in front of the painting case of Meijing Bookstore, or writing or painting, in order to send a long night (Wu has a habit of painting late at night, which has long been known in the painting world). Today, the three works that appear at auction can also provide us with some space for imagination. The first is a iris in "Four Screens of Flowers" painted by Wu Hufan for Fang Youyi, painting a cloud: "The eldest brother of The Young Bird wrote the halal "Pink Butterfly Slow" Word Meaning, Mid-Autumn Festival, Wu Hufan. (Shanghai Duoyunxuan 2014 spring auction) The second piece is Feng Chaoran's painting "Jiquan Boiled Tea", which paints Wu Hufan's inscription poem Yun: "Where is Feihong going, the flowing water has a knowing sound." It is intended to be outside the green mountains, and the sound of the spring is a little heart. Mid-Autumn Festival, Wu Qian. (Shanghai Jinghua Spring Auction 2006) The third piece is Zhou Junxia's "Lady Figure", Wu Hufan's title "Bodhisattva Man", and a poem: "Mid-Autumn Festival, polishing green bananas and titled, Wu Qian." (Shanghai Duoyunxuan Spring Auction 2014)
Wu Hufan paints irises
The three paintings involve three people, and let's start with Fang Youyi. Fang Youyi, the son of the famous maritime doctor Fang Shenyi, is a young scholar who is good at acupuncture. Wu Hufan's nasal congestion and stroke disease have been cured by Fang's father and son many times. And the Fang father and son are both good at literature and art, so the Wu family, in order to thank them for the grace of medical treatment, gave them books and paintings, which are both numerous and refined. According to Wang Shitao's "In Memory of The Collector Mr. Zhu Changyan", "Shen Yan and Hu Fan gradually became friends from the doctor and the patient... The Fang family... The upstairs study became the place where Wu Hufan and Zhou Junxia wrote their paintings and lyrics. It can be seen that the Fang family not only has a close relationship with Wu Hufan, but also provided many conveniences for his exchanges with Zhou Junxia. However, in the Mid-Autumn Festival, Wu Hufan tirelessly painted for the "Young Brother", and perhaps there was another reason that could not be ignored, that is, Wu Shi was suffering from foot diseases at this time, and he was not good at walking. Let's look at a poem called "Bodhisattva Man" in volume 5 of the "Traces of words of the Yu Song Dynasty":
The medicine stove was heavily covered by rain. A word is enough to become a word. Less is more. Patience is helpless. Ice disc dissolves fire. Spend the Mid-Autumn Festival. There are south needles in the world. This is ally confidence.
On the rainy night of the Mid-Autumn Festival in 1953, Wu Hufan, who was lingering on the bank of the medicine stove, remembered that when he and Zhou Junxia walked by the Maha Pond more than a month ago, they already felt laborious and uncomfortable walking on their feet. At that time, in The Golden Wisp Song of The Zhou Dynasty, Wu Hufan wrote "Sick Feet and Difficult To Walk" ("Traces of Words of the Song Dynasty", vol. 3). Unexpectedly, in the Mid-Autumn Festival, he really could not meet with his crush because of his illness. The fewer we meet, the more we part, and there is nothing we can do except endure the phase. If the departed person can "cherish the joy of a thousand miles together", perhaps he can also comfort the feelings of lovesickness. However, the wind and rain are endless, the festival is easy to pass, and the Mid-Autumn Festival moon is like a round of ice dissolved in the fire, and there is nowhere to be found. However, since the writer and the person in mind have already made up their minds, the confidence of the writer is like a magnetic needle, firm and unswerving.
Through this poem "Bodhisattva Man", we learn that in the Mid-Autumn Festival of 1953, Wu Hufan was unable to meet Zhou Junxia due to illness. However, on this day, another old friend, Feng Chaoran, is likely to have visited Meijing Bookstore.
Feng Chaoran, a famous painter on the sea, has a stage name similar to Wu Hufan. Feng Yu Songshan Caotang is located at No. 90 Songshan Road, and is within easy reach of Meijing Bookstore at No. 88. For decades, Feng and Wu have been in constant contact, which can be described as mutually exclusive. In the Mid-Autumn Festival of 1953, why did Wu Hufan write a poem on Feng Chaoran's "Boiling Tea in a Spring"? We don't know why. However, on Wu Hufan's treasured "Zhao Guan Hebi", we find that Feng Chaoran also wrote a poem "Bodhisattva Man" on the same day.
"Zhao Guan Hebi" was originally a three-section landscape map and a double-hooked bamboo by the Yuan painters Zhao Mengfu and Guan Sheng, and was later assembled into a long scroll by Wu Hufan. After the poems inscribed by Wu Hufan, Zhou Junxia, and Mao Heting, that is, Feng Chaoran's "Qiu Wei Qiu August" inscription "Bodhisattva Man", Xie Peizhen's "Qiwei Mid-Autumn Festival" title Seven Laws (Xie Peizhen is Feng Chaoran's female disciple). Feng's title of "Bodhisattva Man" Yun:
Jiangshan is only a ruler of Chinese brushes, and the eyebrows are added to Xiao Xiaoxiangbi. The jade rhymes melodiously, and the Yaotai dream is long. Fenxiang Chuncaopu, Gui Yuehua 35. Inverted purple clay red, ancient and modern who are the same.
In the autumn of August, the title of "Zhao Guan Hebi" volume, Bo Hufan my brother smiled, cautiously Feng Chaoran seventy-two years.
Although the specific date of Feng's fall cloud "癸巳 Autumn August" is not pointed out, it is inferred from the words "Gui Yuehua 35" that Feng's small words should also be written in the "Mid-Autumn Festival" like Xie Peizhen. The author speculates that on this day, Wu Hufan is inconvenient to go out due to illness, so it is more likely that Feng Chaoran and his female disciple Xie Peizhen will visit. Perhaps on the rainy night of the Mid-Autumn Festival, when the guests and hosts were talking happily, Wu Hufan took the opportunity to write a poem for "Jiquan Boiling Tea", and then he took out his treasured "Zhao Guan Hebi" and asked Feng and Xie to also inscription poems as a souvenir.
Feng Chaoran titled "Zhao Guan Hebi"
In the words, the five characters written by Feng Chaoran, "Fenxiang Chuncaopu", are very interesting. We know that Zhou Junxia is also known as "茝", and "茝" is what is called a kind of vanilla in ancient books. For example, Wu Hufan's "Song of the Cave Immortals" Yun: "Love each other, darkly condense the soul, small prints and notes, and leave a word of good name vanilla." (The Outer Compilation of "Traces of Words of the Song Dynasty") means that Zhou Junxia often only has a "茝" character on the letterhead written to him. In addition, "Chuncaopu" is also reminiscent of Pan Jingshu, who is famous for her phrase "green pond grass". It can be said that although "Xiangxiang Chuncaopu" is short in five words, it cleverly conceals Zhou Junxia and Pan Jingshu. And Feng's so-called "inverted purple clay red, who is the same as the ancient and modern", is to say that Wu Hufan has Pan Jingshu in front of the sail, and then there is Zhou Junxia, so zhao Mengfu and Guan Sheng are not allowed to be beautiful in the painting world, and the gods and immortals are dedicated to the former. This is since Feng Shi borrowed the title to play when chanting "Zhao Guan Hebi", ridiculing the meaning of his old friend Yan Fu.
According to the author's examination, in the summer and autumn of 1953, Wu Hufan and Zhou Junxia had already made up their minds. It is not difficult to speculate that more than a month later, the Mid-Autumn Festival, the two people's hearts have not been long, which should be the time when the intention is strong. Unexpectedly, because of Wu's foot disease, the two could not spend the festival together. Moreover, the long night and the endless autumn rain have added infinite misery to people's hearts. Perhaps after the wine was dispersed, Wu Hufan, who was bored, quietly unfolded Zhou Junxia's "Lady Figure", polished the green banana for her, cleaned up the picture, and then inscribed small words to send sorrow.
Zhou Junxia's "Lady Figure"
Today, although it is impossible to restore the specific scene of that stormy night more than sixty years ago, from Wu Hufan's other poem "Chaozhongcuo" ("Traces of Words of the Song Dynasty" Volume V), we can still feel the author's lingering thoughts at that time:
Twilight rain dark long sky. Coolness surrounds the heart. But the autumn night is beautiful, and the unprovoked dream is oblique. Heroic beauty, partial life and wisdom, Mo Dao love. Only hate to meet too late, Wu Shuang points into a sideburn.
In the manuscript of the Second Book of the Traces of the Words of the Song Dynasty, the inscription is "Mid-Autumn Festival Without Moon". The first half said that the twilight rain suddenly came, the long sky suddenly darkened, and the sadness was wrapped around the heart and could not be discharged. The beautiful scenery of the festive season that was originally expected was like a good dream being blown away by the oblique wind for no reason. The second half of the book is about a thing in the heart of the lyricist: Zhou Junxia is so beautiful (heroic and beautiful), and so smart (partial life and wisdom), don't blame me for my deep love for her (Mo Dao's love). I just regret meeting each other too late, and now I'm a gray-haired man.
This small word can be described as a rare masterpiece in "The Traces of Words of the Song Dynasty", and the infatuation of the lyricist is also unabashedly displayed in front of the reader with the help of this word, so that we can still sigh when reading it today. Soon after, perhaps Wu Hufan felt that the next piece of this word was too sad, so he refilled a poem "Butterfly Love Flower Mid-Autumn Festival No Moon" ("Traces of Words of The Song Dynasty", Volume V):
This evening and autumn are shining brightly. Rain and wind, bear with the bead curtain rolled. Helpless night long song like a turn. Tianya is only away from the intestines. The moon is shaded by clouds. There are many grinding scenes, and no one can calculate. Just wait for the day to be reunited. Turning back to set a wish.
The writer said that the Mid-Autumn Festival rained, which can be described as a good thing and a lot of grinding, but after all, until the moon is full, sooner or later you can get your wish. The word "away from the intestines" points out that the writing is still divorced. The Meijing Book House on Songshan Road in Shanghai and the Luochuan Poetry House on Julu Road are not far apart, but because the two cannot meet, they have a sense of being far away from the end of the world. So, on the rainy night of the Mid-Autumn Festival in 1953, what was Zhou Junxia doing in the Luochuan Poetry House?
Checking "Female Painter Zhou Junxia", the author found a poem "Taoyuan Remembers the Late Man mid-autumn night rain":
Curtains worship the moon heart incense petals. Negative but year-round wish. Rogue rain silk wind flakes. The waves put good night. Sue was sick and tired of toads. Deeply hidden in the Vast Cold Palace. Do you know whether the world is delusional. Precious in thousands.
Judging from the meaning of the word, the word written should also be the Mid-Autumn Festival. "Do you know whether the world is delusional or not." Cherish thousands of thousands", when it is said that Zhou Yuxia prayed that Wu Hufan in the illness would be cherished and would recover as soon as possible; and "negative but clear wishes at the time of the year" refers to the desire of Wu and Tuesday people to meet in the Mid-Autumn Festival, and finally this wish was disappointed, so there was a sense of disappointment.
After the Mid-Autumn Festival, Zhou Yuxia also had a "Bodhisattva Man", which was copied by Wu Hufan into the manuscript of the Second Book of the Traces of the Words of the Yu Song Dynasty:
A line of goose characters autumn wind tender. Silver Pond was cleared in the mirror last night. Zen disease Vimal. There is a lot of rain in the wet flowers. Medicine stove empty imagination. Sencha rings in the dream. Helpless to bear the day. The full moon is not round.
Wu Hufan and Yun:
Xiao Niang a paper of books Fang Tender. The wind blows the face like a mirror. Blue-eyed a few times. There are more tear marks than ink. Plum flower image. Dream words sound. A cloudy sky. The moon marks are round.
In the Zhou word, "Zen Tata Disease Wei Mo" of course refers to Wu Hufan in the illness, while "Medicine Furnace Empty Imagination" is Zhou Junxia's scenario of Wu's illness. The "last night" of the filler is the night of the "full moon", and people cannot be reunited, which can be described as a failure to live up to the day of sentient beings. And since last night's "silver pond" was "clear in the mirror", then last night must no longer be a stormy Mid-Autumn Festival night. In addition, Wu Zi says that "the moon traces are round like a pattern", and the so-called "like" also means that it is still round like the moon of the Mid-Autumn Festival. So, when exactly is the "last night" of the word "full moon"?
In the manuscript of the Second Book of the Traces of the Words of the Song Dynasty, there is also a poem "Moon Huaqing On the Sixteenth Night of the Sixteenth Night of the Moon" (see also "Traces of the Words of the Song Dynasty", Volume V, titled "Cihong Kong Tong Rhyme"):
Cheng Cai Luan Fei, Tsinghua Toad, Xiao Lou according to the curtain roll. Blowing the westerly wind, the fingers are bent in the autumn half. Tired guests drunk, willow tips, complaining about female love, phoenix branches. Looking back. Take a picture of the shadow of The Sister-in-law, and be confused by the Jade Hall. The window leaked warmth. The mirror is frosted and the makeup is blooming. It is not dusk, it is enough to upset people's souls. Afraid of the rabbit, smashing the diamond flowers, beckoning the sleeves, hiding the fans. Stealing. Taking advantage of the group's circle to stay, Mo Jiao turned obliquely.
In Long Yusheng's "Collection of Lyrics of Ninhan Poems", there is also a "Yue Huaqing" (月华清) with the inscription Yun: "On the day after the Mid-Autumn Festival, The Lake Sail has the work of Hong Shujie, and the first two days of The First Seven Days of the Year are the Sixty Degrees of Lake Sail, because the original rhyme is used to supplement it into a Shouzhi." There are words such as "Bathing xian'e, but just half of the autumn", Long's self-note: "This year's Mid-Autumn Festival is windy and rainy, and the next day is sunny." ”
It seems that the 16th day of August in the old calendar of 1953, the "next day" of the so-called "Changqing" of the Long clan, was a sunny night with "the moon traces still round". The author searched the historical data of the September phase of the East Eighth District in 1953 and found that the time of the full moon of that year also happened to be on September 23 (that is, the sixteenth day of August in the old calendar), which is also the proverb "fifteen moons and sixteen circles". It can be imagined that the day after the Mid-Autumn Festival, it was really unexpected, especially after experiencing the miserable wind and rain of the previous night, Wu and Tuesday people could still enjoy such a full moon, which more or less made up for their regret that they did not enjoy the moon in the Mid-Autumn Festival. Therefore, Zhou Junxia's "Bodhisattva Man" was written on August 17, and the "last night" of the "full moon" in the word is the night of August 16.
Reading Wu Hufan's "Yuehuaqing" (月华清), "Take advantage of the tuanyuan to stay and take, Mo Jiao obliquely turned", it can be seen that Wu's interest at that time was already good, and the next day, Zhou Junxia used the word to replace Cambodia and sent him this "Bodhisattva Man". In the words, in addition to greeting Wu Hufan on the bank of the "medicine stove", Zhou Junxia also issued a sigh to Wu Shi because of the rare moonlight of the previous night.
Around the Mid-Autumn Festival in 1953, Wu Hufan and Zhou Yuxia continued to spend a good time together, but they still told each other about each other through a small song.
P.S.
Wu Hufan and Zhou Junxia have a love affair in the summer and autumn of Yan Wei, see the humble work "Three Dates between Wu Hufan and Zhou Junxia", which is planned to be published in the fifth episode of the Zhonghua Bookstore's "Palm History".