"Lustful" Yuan Ming

(Qing) Luo Ping's "Portrait of Yuan Ming" (Data Map/Photo)

(This article was first published in Southern Weekend on September 26, 2019)

The "lustfulness" of Mr. Yuan Ming with Yuan Yuan has many manifestations. He widely recruited female disciples, this matter is known to everyone, you know, in his time, this is a strange thing, relying on this alone, Yuan Ming has attracted a lot of eyeballs, the defenders are annoyed, the righteous gentleman is looking at it, but Yuan Ming does not pay attention to it. It cannot be said that his thinking is a bit ahead of its time. The lustful Yuan Ming naturally has a special fondness for beauty pornography. So, how many of the female disciples in Suiyuan were absolutely beautiful? That's hard to say. Maybe not too much. When Yuan Ming reads poetry, when he compiles poetry selections, and when communicating with friends, he likes to hang beautiful women on his mouth and just have a mouth addiction. This is also a kind of psychological compensation.

There is a poem in volume 32 of the "Kokura Shanfang Poetry Collection", entitled "Jia Sentence", which is very cleverly written and very interesting, and belongs to a very typical Yuan style: "The good sentence listens to the people's songs, it is like a beautiful eye." Knowing that I have nothing to do with me, I don't feel that I am deeply aroused. "A good sentence in a poem, like a beautiful woman in a crowd, makes people's eyes light up. Even if the sentence is not written by yourself, it feels very enjoyable to listen to people reciting it. This is like a beautiful woman passing by on the road, knowing that she does not belong to herself, she still can't help but look at it a few times, and after seeing it, she can't help but be moved. The heart of beauty is shared by everyone. Yuan Ming put the heart of loving poetry and the heart of loving beauty and coloring through the discussion, and the heart was clever. Seeing the beauty is the vision, listening to the music song is the hearing, Yuan Ming said a few words, and he said the "synaesthesia" between the vision and the hearing. There is a story recorded in the "New Language of the World", "Every time Huan Ziye hears a clear song, he calls for help." Xie Gongwen said: "Ziye can be said to have always had deep feelings. The more beautiful things are, the more people cherish them, and when they cherish them extremely, they will inevitably have a sense of "what to do". Life is full of this kind of helplessness and regret, a deep love, helpless. Everyone knows that Yuan Ming's poems mark the spirit of sex, but the fourth sentence of this small poem is silently embedded in this allusion of "The New Language of the World", and the book bag is dropped without leaving a trace, and the style of the whole poem is still light. It's really clever.

Wise people writing poetry may wish to take Yuan Ming's spiritual route. Wise people can also take Yuan Ming's talent route when discussing poetry. According to Yuan Ming's line of thinking, poetry should be written well, just like people want to be beautiful, which is the last word, and there is no doubt about it. In his eyes, the good sentence is like a beauty, not only pleasing to the eye, but also attracting people's reverie. In the fifth dynasty of the late Tang Dynasty, there was a poet Liu Zhaoyu, famous for his bitter chanting, who called himself "a sentence that is deep in the night, and the heart returns from the sky". It seems that he is an old practical man. He once published a creative experience in the Five Laws poems that he was good at: "A five-law poem of forty words is like forty wise men, and there cannot be a tugu mixed in the middle." What he meant was that the five-law poem was elegant in style, so every word in the poem had to be like a wise man and a gentleman, in order to conform to the quaint style, and if one or two pigs were mixed in and sold meat, it would be a big problem. His metaphor and Yuan Ming's metaphor are completely two styles and two ways.

To say that a good sentence is like beauty, that is only part of it. "Smiling and smiling, beautiful eyes", also only write about a part of the beauty, just the eyes, is charming enough. This is a good sentence for writing a beautiful person, and it should be particularly pleasant to Yuan Ming's ears. Good sentences have one body of beauty, and good works are all-over beauty. Therefore, Yuan Ming feels that selecting poems is like a beauty pageant, compiling an anthology, just like holding a beauty pageant. It's not easy: if the case is full of good poems, it's like being beautiful, dazzling, and dazzling. Although it was hard, I enjoyed the sensory feast, and the aesthetic feast was once again, and there was no loss. If there are few good poems and many mediocre works, and you pick for half a day and can't pick a satisfactory one, then choosing poems is a chore. Yuan Mei has a poem titled "Selecting Poems", and once issued such an exclamation: "Choosing poems is like choosing colors, and it is always difficult to feel moved." "His luck seems bad this time.

In "Kokura Mountain House Ruler", there is a letter from Yuan Ming, which was written to a friend. The letter quoted the ancients as saying: "In the past, when people talked about poetry, Daosu Dongpo was like a famous woman, and the big footsteps came out, and the Yellow Valley shrank its head and feet, and it was impossible to get out, and there were many attitudes. "Su Dongpo's poetry, like everyone's boudoir, graceful and generous, Huang Tingjian's poetry, is not generous, but twisted posture. This statement began in the Song Dynasty, Yuan Ming sounded, must feel that "I have a relationship in my heart", so I couldn't help but make some play. It seems that he likes to fall generously beautiful women, rather than twisting postures. However, he has a poem describing his own poetry process, but he said: "Love is difficult to write from the beginning, and it is safe to change a thousand words." Grandma is still a first-time girl, and her head is not combed and she is not allowed to see. "Obviously it is Grandma, but also like the two or eight girls love beauty, carefully groomed, time-consuming dressing, this is not more than Huang Tingjian twisted and pinched?"

Yuan Mei likes to look at beautiful women in his eyes and likes to say beautiful women in his mouth, which is easy to understand. Surprisingly, he actually beat his old wife and compared the old wife to a stubborn: "Stubborn like a naughty wife, you can't be deposed." Possessed for twenty years, crawling day and night. "It is very rare to enter the poem with ringworm, Yuan Ming actually wrote such a poem, attaching his cool comments on his naughty wife, which was eye-opening. This poem is found in volume XXV of the Kokura Yamaboshi Poetry Collection, and is dedicated to obstinate tinea. Possessed for twenty years, how can not be driven away, is it more than the "seven-year itch"? I wonder if his "naughty wife" is literate or reads poetry? If you read a poem, how would you react when you read such a verse? Will you understand that he is just "ugly for the sake of new words"? Yuan Ming had a number of female disciples around him, and in his later years he was surrounded by many people, and the "naughty wife" did not seem to say anything, but he was talking nonsense here, and he was very happy to talk about it, no matter how clever the metaphor was, and it was not very politically correct.

Confucius said, "I have not seen good virtue like a lustful person." If he met Yuan Ming, Confucius might say, "I have not seen good poetry like a lustful person." ”

Cheng Zhangcan, Professor of the Department of Chinese of Nanjing University