Tang Dynasty: Bai Juyi

Excerpt from the original:

"Our souls belong to each other," she said, "just like this gold and this shell." Somewhere, at some time, on earth or in heaven, we will be together.

She sent him a message through his messenger, reminding him that only the hearts of the two of them knew the oath.

On the seventh day of July, in the Palace of Eternal Life, we secretly told each other in the quiet midnight world.

We hope to fly in heaven, two birds become one and grow on the earth, two branches of a tree. ..

The earth endures, and the sky endures; One day both will end, and this endless sadness will last forever.

One for the gold hairpin, half for the cymbal box, gold for the gold hairpin, and precious cymbals for the cymbal box. I hope our loving hearts are as firm and unyielding as Huang Jinbao's, and we will have a chance to meet again forever. When I left, I kindly asked the alchemist to take a message to the king, saying that only the king and I knew the oath.

When the Palace of Eternal Life was empty in the middle of the night on the seventh day of July, we made a pledge of eternal love. In heaven, I would like to be a bird flying with me. On earth, I would like to grow branches together. Even if it lasts forever, there will always be an end, but this life-and-death feud will never end.

Simple appreciation:

This is the representative work of the author, written in the first year of Yuanhe (806). The whole poem vividly describes the love tragedy between Xuanzong of Tang Dynasty and Yang Guifei. Poets use historical figures and legends to create stories of dispatched people, and reproduce the truth of real life through artistic images, which has infected readers for thousands of years.

The theme of this poem is "Song of Eternal Sorrow". The first part, starting with "Emperor China, lust may shake the beauty of an empire", describes how Xuanzong was greedy before the Anshi Rebellion, and finally got Yang. Because of Yang's love, chickens and dogs ascended to heaven. And repeatedly rendered Xuanzong's indulgence, debauchery, and disregard for state affairs, which led to the Anshi rebellion of "until the drums were beaten, Yuyang was blown up and the world shook." This is the basis of tragedy and the internal cause of "long hatred".

Extended data

This is a long narrative poem called "The Eternal Farewell", which was written in December of the first year of Yuanhe in Tang Xianzong. Bai Juyi, 35, is a county commandant in Zhouzhi, Shaanxi. One day, he visited Xianyou Temple with local scholars Chen Hong and Wang Zhifu, and talked about the past of Tianbao more than 50 years ago.

Tang Xuanzong and Yang Guifei's love tragedy and related legends made them feel deeply. They are afraid that this auspicious event will disappear with the times and be unknown to the world. Therefore, Wang Zhifu proposed that Bai Juyi, who is good at lyricism, write a song for it, and Chen Hong wrote the legendary novel Song of Eternal Sorrow for it. So poetry and biography are integrated and complement each other. Bai Juyi is also known as the "Lord of everlasting regret".

As a narrative poem that will never be sung again, Song of Eternal Sorrow has achieved great artistic success ... Throughout the ages, many people have affirmed the special artistic charm of this poem. What infects and tempts readers in the art of Song of Eternal Sorrow?

Touching, I am afraid, is its greatest artistic personality, and it is also the power that it can attract readers, make them infected and tempted for thousands of years. The characteristic of songs is that they don't pay attention to meter, which makes the poet's creative interest come. Expressing feelings, the number of sentences is unlimited, which can be said to be a "freestyle" poem with neat sentences.

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