Haofeng especially likes to read the "Book of Poetry", although many words and meanings are not known, but slowly nibbling, tasting carefully, there is always endless fun.
Recently, I started a book of "The Book of Painted Poems", which was selected and edited by Zhang Minjie, a doctor of the Department of Chinese of Peking University, and illustrated by the post-90s beautiful Internet celebrity illustrator Hu Onion And Garlic, published by Hunan Literature and Art Publishing House.
The moment you get the book, joy follows, it is a very "weighty" book, exquisite color pages, matte coated paper binding, "poetry" plus "painting", pleasing to the eye.
Let's share with you a few of these poems, about beauty.
The "Shuo Ren" in the "Book of Painted Poems"
The first verse of "Shuo Ren" roughly means:
A tall girl, dressed in a gorgeous brocade dress, wearing a flowing linen cape, who is she? She was the daughter of Duke Zhuang of Qi; the wife of Duke Weizhuang; the younger sister of Prince Dechen of Qi; the younger sister of King Xing; and the brother-in-law of Tan Guojun.
The opening verse writes about Zhuang Jiang's noble status, the king's daughter married another king, married from the rich to the rich, and the relatives were also the lords of the king.
In the second verse we will first look at the original text (the translation is not enough to express her beauty):
Hands are like soft, skin is like gelatin, collar is like cockroaches, teeth are like rhinoceros, mantis head moth eyebrows, smart smiles, beautiful eyes.
Hands are soft and beautiful, skin is tight and fair, neck is slender and beautiful, teeth are bright and neat, forehead is full, and eyebrows are slender.
This is already dazzlingly beautiful, but it is only the beauty of the shape; the corners of the mouth are raised, the eyes are flowing, the smile, the glimmer of expectation, a smart woman has crossed more than two thousand years of history to come to us.
This verse is extremely beautiful about zhuang ginger. The beautiful Zhuang Jiang must be full of expectations for the future at this moment!
However, in the next few verses, it is written that at the grand wedding, Zhuang Jiang, who carried a rich dowry, did not wait for her husband to greet him.
Shuo Ao Ao, said yu nongjiao. The four mu are proud, and the zhu is proud. Zhai Mo dynasty. The doctor retired, and there was no ambassador.
This tall girl, married to Weiguo, the wedding car was parked in the eastern suburbs. Four strong male horses rode the cart, the horse chews were decorated with gorgeous red silk cloth, and the carriage was also decorated with pheasant feathers, but why didn't the king come out to greet him? Let the doctors leave the court early, and do not overwork the king.
At this moment, Zhuang Jiang must not have realized that the king did not come out to greet only the beginning, and her misfortune was behind.
Illustration of "Shuo Ren" in the "Book of Painted Poems"
When the illustrator of the "Book of Painted Poems" is performing "Shuo Ren", in a festive atmosphere, a woman stands high on a vessel with a black background and a white body, she is noble and lonely.
This is a series of paintings of the "Bowl Mountain Painting" series of paintings, which she puts the miniature of Western Zhou society in utensils such as cups, plates, bowls, and cups, so that the content can be more concentrated, and the utensils can be skillfully used to divide the place and highlight the main body.
For example, when we appreciate the painting at this moment, we are both amazed by the beauty of Zhuang Jiang and her loneliness.
So, why was Duke Wei Zhuang still busy dealing with political affairs on the day of his marriage, and was he really too busy to take care of his wedding gift?
There were two Dukes of Weizhuang in the State of Wei, and the first one who married Zhuang Jiang was named Ji Yang, the son of Duke Wu of Wei, who reigned for twenty-three years, when the State of Wei was still relatively powerful. There is no historical record that he was diligent enough to govern.
There is a passage in the Preface to Mao's Poems:
"Shuo Ren", Min Zhuang Jiang Ye. Duke Zhuang was confused by his concubines, and made him arrogant, but Zhuang Jiangxian did not answer, and eventually he was childless, and the people of the country were worried. (Preface to Mao's Poems)
That is to say, Wei Zhuanggong's marriage to Zhuang Jiang was only a political necessity, and he actually had a favorite person.
The most beautiful woman in the "Book of Poetry", Zhuang Jiang, has spent her life in depression, she has written many poems to express her sorrow, and her red face is difficult to escape!
The "Big Car" in the "Book of Painted Poems"
The poem "Big Car" is very short, but it has a long story, and the protagonist of the story is a beautiful woman, Xi Fei.
Xi Fei is one of the four beauties of the Spring and Autumn Period alongside Xi Shi, known in history as "Lady Xi", also known as "Lady Peach Blossom" because she is too beautiful.
She was originally a princess of the State of Chen, married to the monarch of the Kingdom of Shi, and passed through the State of Cai to rest on the way to marriage.
Cai Guojun, that is, Concubine's brother-in-law, coveted her beauty and teased her in every way, but concubine strictly refused.
After concubine Xi married the State of Chu, the King of the State of Qi, angered by the actions of the King of the State of Cai, united with the State of Chu to attack the State of Cai.
The king of Cai Guoguo, who had been taken prisoner, offered great courtesy in front of the king of Chu, saying how beautiful the concubine was, and the king of Chu personally went to the country to investigate, and sure enough, he saw lady Xi of the beautiful Heavenly Immortal.
So he attacked the kingdom of Shi, brought Lady Xi to be his wife, and made Shi Hou a soldier guarding the city gate.
According to legend, Mrs. Xi wrote a poem "Big Car" after missing her original husband, Shi Hou:
Large car sill (kǎn) sill, 毳 (cuì) dressed as 菼 (tǎn). Don't you think, don't you dare? Tūn (tūn) 啍, 毳衣如璊 (mén). Don't you think, don't you run away? Gǔ (gǔ) is heterogeneous, and dead is the same cavity. It is said that unbelief is like a jiǎo day.
The cart rumbled away, and you were dressed in green like a reed, how dare you forget your thoughts, afraid that you would not dare to meet.
The cart is heavy and heavy, and you are dressed in red like a flame. How dare you let go of your thoughts? Afraid you don't dare elope.
Life cannot be in the same room with you, and death wishes to be with you. If you don't believe in my heart, I'll swear to heaven!"
Unfortunately, even the most beautiful love is not as cruel as reality, and Lady Xi eventually became Lady Chu and bore two sons for the King of Chu.
If she wasn't so beautiful, maybe there wouldn't be so many twists and turns in life?
Illustration of "Big Car" in the "Book of Painted Poems"
In the performance of this poem, the woman is separated from the person she misses with a high bottle, and everything is out of reach.
That lonely back has made people sigh for thousands of years.
The original text of "The Wall Has a Tz" in the "Book of Painted Poems"
If Zhuang Jiang is beautiful but not pleasing to her husband, depressed and ends up depressed, and Concubine Xi has experienced disasters because of her beauty, which arouses people's sympathy, then the satirical heroine Xuan Jiang in the poem "The Wall Has ATz" is both beautiful and has a poor reputation.
Xuanjiang is a princess of the State of Qi, "Jiang" is the surname of the State of Qi, she married Wei Xuangong, so she was called "Xuanjiang".
In fact, Xuanjiang should not have been called "Xuanjiang", because she was originally going to marry Wei Xuangong's son, The Prince Ling, but encountered the big thing that slipped the world, and only after marrying did she know that her original husband, the 16-year-old Prince Ling, also called Wei Qianzi, was sent abroad by Wei Xuangong, and it was Wei Xuangong himself who entered the cave with Xuanjiang.
This Wei Xuangong was absurd and shameless, married his own little mother, and then designed to rob his daughter-in-law.
It is said that Xuanjiang later met Wei Qianzi himself, and the two were of the same age, attracted to each other, and had feelings.
However, Wei Qianzi may have been photographed by his father's majesty and eventually retired. This made Xuanjiang love and hate, and it took 16 years to complete a revenge.
After Xuanjiang married Duke Xuan of Wei, he gave birth to Gongzi Shou and Gongzi Shuo, and Xuanjiang spent more than ten years continuing to blow pillow wind to Duke Xuangong, and finally after 16 years, Duke Xuanzong decided to replace the prince with Gongzi Shou, the son of Xuanjiang, and deposed the prince and killed him.
In this assassination, Xuanjiang's biological son Gongzi Shou and Wei Qianzi, who was entangled with her, died successively.
The Zuo Biography records that Xuanjiang's second son, Gongzi Shuo, later succeeded to the throne as Duke Hui of Wei.
In the beginning, Hui Gongzhi's ascension to the throne was also small, and the Qi people made Zhao Bozhi yu Xuanjiang, no, strong. Sheng Qizi, Dai Gong, Wen Gong, Lady Song Huan, and Lady Xu Mu.
Notice the word "烝", which originally meant the upward movement of fire, and by extension referred to the ancient winter sacrifices; it also referred to the wives and concubines of the father and the brothers. This passage is to say that Xuanjiang's mother's family was the master and let Zhaobo marry Xuanjiang, and Zhaobo was the eldest son of Duke Xuangong of Wei.
After Xuanjiang married his stepson, he also gave birth to three sons and two daughters, and when these children grew up, two boys became monarchs and two girls became the wives of other countries. So far we have to "admire" the strangeness of Xuanjiang's experience.
Illustration of "Wall With Ci" in the Book of Painted Poems
It is said that at that time, these secret scandals in the Weiguo court spread outside the palace and were known to everyone. The defender was deeply ashamed, so he sang the ironic "Wall has a tz".
The wall has a cis, and it cannot be swept away. The words of the Middle, can not be said. What can be said is also ugly.
Cí means "tribulus", zhongyi (gòu) means "palace" and "inner chamber", and the poem is divided into three chapters, repeatedly lamenting the ugliness of the palace.
The poetry is unspoken, and this way of wanting to say and rest satisfies the reader's appetite and nails Xuanjiang to the pillar of shame.
The beauty Xuan Jiang, throughout his life, has only been a victim of the struggle for power and profit.
Reading the "Book of Painted Poems", "poetic feelings and paintings" are difficult to hide the red face and thin life, when also? Fate also?