Magpie treading branches
Five generations of Feng Yanwei
Where do the clouds go in a few days? Forget about the return, but spring will be twilight. Hundred grass and a thousand flowers cold food road, incense car tied to whose tree?
Tearful eyes lean on the building frequent monologue. When the two swallows come, will they meet each other? Stirring up the spring sorrow like willow silk, there is no place to be found in the long dream.
Obviously, this is a love word, friends who have paid attention to our "appreciation of classical poetry" should all know that we uniformly refer to the women in this type of word as "the solitary women in the courtyard of the Northern Song Dynasty", although the five generations are different from the Northern Song Dynasty, but the Northern Song Dynasty poets, especially the literati and doctors who are mainly Based on Yan Shu and Ouyang Xiu, when making such small orders, follow feng Yanmi's traces are quite heavy, Wang Guowei said in the "Human Words": "Although Feng Zhengzhong (Feng Yanshu character is in the middle) words do not lose the style of the five generations, and the tang is very large, Open the Northern Song Dynasty generation of ethos. Therefore, the five generations of lyricists represented by Feng Yanshu and the Northern Song Dynasty poets such as Yan Shu and Ouyang Xiu are similar in their temperament in such boudoir words or idle words, and the sadness and mood that are unique to the "women living alone in the courtyard" expressed in them can also be compared and tasted. Let's first look at Feng Yanwei's "Magpie Treading Branch".
"Where will the clouds go in a few days?" The first sentence begins with a question, pointing directly to the doubts in the heart of the woman who lives alone. The word "Xingyun" in this poem has always been interpreted as a prodigal son and a yeyoulang who has the characteristics of "floating waves, uncertain whereabouts, and unstable mentality" like Xingyun. But as far as the canon is concerned, from Song Yu's "Gao Tang Fu": "Dan is the morning cloud, and twilight is the rain." Towards twilight, under the balcony. After that, Yun Yu was interpreted as a happy thing, if this is understood, the first sentence is that the floating prodigal son and the woman had a happy and sweet time, but it was not long before the floating prodigal son went out and did not return, so the woman asked: "Where will the clouds go for a few days?" ”
"Forget about returning, but spring will be twilight." The other day I saw a topic that said: What kind of girls are more scumbags? Two of the answers are more suitable for annotating these two sentences. One is that the girl who is easy to deceive herself, finds signs of scum and is still looking for reasons for the other party. The other is, more naïve, thinking that he is the last destination of the scumbag, thinking that he can make the scumbag change his past, and has a maternal trait. Then these two sentences, "Forget to return, but spring will be twilight", is a bit of this meaning. This woman in the deep courtyard, thinking of this man who has not returned home, must have forgotten to return, he just forgot, not deliberately wanted to bear me. She's still talking to the other person! But unconsciously, my "most memorable" beautiful years and spring days are almost over.
"A hundred grasses and a thousand flowers cold food road, incense car tied to whose tree?" During the Northern Song Dynasty, during the cold food and Qingming Dynasty, the people of the capital went out with their families, or stepped on the spring, or sacrificed, and the traffic was strange, and the incense car passers-by were endless. A passage in the Tokyo Dream Record describing the Qingming Festival is: "The four wild cities are often under the fragrant trees, or between the gardens, listing cups and plates and persuading each other." The song and dancers of the capital city are all over the garden pavilions, returning home at dusk. "The customs of the Five Dynasties of the Northern Song Dynasty are about the same. However, if you interpret these two sentences in Feng Ci by stepping on the spring tour, then it is slightly astringent in terms of emotion, and you have lost the emotional context that has been consistent from the beginning. Bai Juyi's "Gift to Chang'an Prostitute Ah Soft" has a sentence: "The green water and red lotus bloom, and a thousand flowers and grasses have no color." It can be seen that the hundred grasses and thousand flowers can also be used as a metaphor for women in poetry. Then these two sentences can be interpreted as a woman who understands and looks forward to the return of the man, but complains about his floating waves: In this cold food and Qingming season, when I should accompany me to enjoy the spring, are you lingering in the woman's house?
What these two sentences express is actually a kind of "hopeless suspicion", the woman has been lost to her lover, and the "tortured" mood is disturbed and guessed. People who have had this experience should be able to understand that this kind of unilateral suspicion is an extremely draining thing. Ye Youlang neither returns, nor does he return, but his mind is completely tied up by the other party, and his mind cannot help but imagine what he is doing at this moment, and when he thinks that he is definitely not thinking about himself at the moment, and when he thinks that he may even betray himself at this moment, he is completely immersed in a kind of spiritual self-torture. It's all a game of self-torture, an infinite cycle of death, but it's this "self-torture" that is the only thing this woman can do.
The expectation in her heart is that she and the man ride on the incense car, enjoying the spring in the suburbs of Beijing, and it is precisely because she is looking forward to it that she will think of this side wildly, thinking that he may be traveling with other women to enjoy the spring.
"Tearful eyes leaning on the building frequent monologue", the next sentence, will be the image of the woman living alone in the courtyard frozen, this sentence is also a complete outbreak of the woman's depressed emotions, she must have thought of a painful "self-pity" point, or the emotions are suppressed to the extreme, so burst out of tears. She relied on the fence here, just like the woman who lived alone in Ouyang Xiu's "Butterfly Love Flower: The Courtyard Is Deep and Deep", the one thing she looks forward to most every day is to climb the tall building, to look at the distant intersection, to see if there will be something she expects to happen, "Yule carved saddle tour, the building is not high to see Zhangtai Road", she went to the fence with expectations, you can't say that she is stupid to do this, because with expectation to climb the tall building to look far, this is the only thing she can do.
"When the two swallows come, will the strangers meet each other?" This may be the content of the woman's "frequent monologue", all she can see by the column is this deep house, and the double swallow that occasionally flies over her eyes, she asks the swallow: "You flew from the suburbs, did you see him on the road?" These two sentences are too "stupid", when reading this, I really want to hug this woman, feel sorry for her, she should not bear such a "bitter" love torture. Can you imagine what she looked like when she asked this sentence to Shuang Yan?
"Stirring up spring sorrows like willows, there is no place to be found in a leisurely dream." These last two sentences may have touched the woman's self-inflicted wounds and crying. The flying willows, and the women's chaotic spring sorrows, like a pair of mutually catalyzed community of destiny, the woman in the twilight of the spring, the snowy willows, as if to see their own drifting years, and the tragic fate of no one to pick, but also from the destination of the willows seem to see their own destination, so the sorrow doubled, and finally became a dream in the heart, trance, but even in the dream, the lover who did not return, there is still no trace.
Finally, let's review the love and sorrow of this woman. She was expectant, but her expectations were extremely powerless, and the only thing she could do to satisfy them was to climb up the small building and look out over the railing to see if her beloved would suddenly appear in the corner of the intersection. However, expectation and hope are a double-edged sword, if you directly despair, it is okay, the most feared thing is that there is a little hope, but it will never let hope come true, this is the most torturous, like a knife cutting the heart. Obviously, the woman in this poem is suffering from this torture, and the loop of expectation and disappointment is intertwined, which is the love and sorrow of her "woman living alone in the courtyard of the Northern Song Dynasty", but the woman in this word, in addition to this, there is an extra layer of "delusion", "When the double swallow comes, is it strange to meet?" "The most obsessive look in the world, almost like this!"