biography

Li Yannian (? -About 90 BC): A musician with high attainments in the period of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, a native of Zhongshan (now Dingxian County, Hebei Province), whose parents, brothers and sisters were musicians, and all took music and dance as their profession.

When Li Yannian was young, he was punished for breaking the law. He keeps a dog in the palace under the name of "eunuch". His "knowing friends, being good at singing and dancing" was highly valued by Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty and was appointed as the highest director of Yuefu music.

Li Yannian sings very well. "Every time there is a new voice change, people around him will be moved." He once sang in front of Emperor Wu that "there are beauties in the north, and they are peerless and independent. You should take care of the city first and then the country. You would rather not know the whole country, and it is hard to get beauties again." This beautiful woman is his sister, and her sister is so lucky that she was married by Emperor Wu, and the son she gave birth to was the bereaved king of Changyi. Because of my sister's love, my brother Li Guangli was named Hou Haixi, and he was also named a captain of Xielv, responsible for the management of Yuefu, with an annual salary of 2,000 stone, which is very prominent.

Li Yannian is not only good at singing and dancing, but also good at music creation. His composition level is very high, his techniques are novel and superb, and his thinking is active. He has composed music for the poems of scholars such as Sima Xiangru, and is good at renovating old songs. He used Mahadule, which Zhang Qian brought back from the Western Regions, to compose 28 "Initiating New Songs" as the ritual music in Yuefu, which was the first time that the author's name and title were clearly marked in China historical documents and used from abroad. He composed 19 songs for Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, which were used for royal sacrificial music and dance.

Li Yannian processed a large number of folk songs collected by Yuefu and adapted them into new songs, which greatly promoted the development of folk music and dance at that time. It can be said that Li Yannian made outstanding contributions to the formation of the musical style in Han Dynasty and the development of China music.

Later, due to his early death, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty was buried with empress etiquette, but the Li family gradually fell out of favor. In addition, because Li Guangli sent Xiongnu and Li Ji to commit adultery in the harem, the Li family, including Yannian, was killed by Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty.

Year: Korea

Author: Li Yannian

Works: There are beautiful women in the north.

Content:

There are beautiful women in the north, and they are peerless and independent.

Take care of the city first, then the country.

It's best not to know the whole city and country?

Beauty is rare again!

Annotation of works

Precautions:

Among the many concubines favored by Emperor Wu, the most memorable one is Li Furen, who is beautiful and good at dancing. Fortunately for Li Furen, it was her brother Li Yannian, the famous Shi Jing beauty song:

At the beginning, his wife (Li) and his brother were good at singing and dancing, which won the love of Emperor Wu. Every time a new voice changes, the listener will be moved. Yan Nian waited on him, singing and dancing: "There are beautiful women in the north, and they are peerless and independent." Take care of the city first, then the country. It's best not to know the whole city and country? Beauty is rare again! "Sighed:" good! Is there such a person in the world? "The main reason for Pingyang is that Yan Yan has a younger brother. I was summoned from above, really beautiful and good at dancing.

Fortunately. (Biography of Han Shu's consorts)

A short song can make the talented Liang Wudi feel tempted and immediately give birth to the yearning for Iraqis. This is probably the only case in the history of China's ancient poetry. Why is it so charming?

At first glance, the first sentence of this song is unremarkable, and the praise of "beauty" comes straight to the point without any rendering. But its significance is extraordinary. The land and the country are beautiful, and its beauty is many almond eyes and waists, clear and charming; Northland has a vast territory, with many beautiful ladies and snowy faces, and elegant and affectionate makeup. This song begins with the word "North" and is written with a crystal clear and pure Shen Feng different from the south. The best in the north

There are more than ten million people, and this song foresees only one of the ten million "peerless and independent" beauties in Qian Qian. "peerless" praises the beauty of her appearance, which is simply unparalleled in the world; The "independent" style is refined in its secluded place, which is even more extraordinary and outstanding. Not only that, "peerless independence" also reveals that this beautiful woman disdains contact with other women, and no one knows who she is and the faint sadness independent of the railing-that is not only

It's extraordinary, and it's even more exquisite. This is pregnancy in the middle of peace. Only the first two sentences will probably lead Liang Wudi by the nose, giving birth to the yearning for beauty.

Since the northern beauties are so refined and lovely, what kind of beautiful charm should they have when they look around? It is not easy to show this. What's more, before Li Yannian, there were exquisite descriptions in many poems and songs. "Feng Weishuo Man" shows the harem beauty with "soft hands, frozen skin, salamander collar, rhinoceros teeth and a cicada's head like a moth eyebrow". Qiaoxiaoqianxi, beautiful eyes looking forward to xi "sentence, has been clearly visible.

The poet Yao Jiheng lamented that "throughout the ages, no one else sang the praises of beauty, only for the last time" ("The Book of Songs"). Song Yu, who is romantic and elegant, sings about oriental women, and has the gift of "adding one point is too long, subtracting one point is too short" and "smiling, confusing Yangcheng and loving Cai", which is even more charming (Loser). In this case, Li Yannian wants to praise the beauty of the north, if not.

If it's unusual, I'm afraid I have to stop dancing and singing. However, this talented musician unexpectedly sang the strange sentence of "care about the city first, then care about the country"-she only needs to look at the foot soldiers guarding the city wall and let them abandon their weapons and fall off the city wall; If you do another "eye turn" to the person who came to earth, the disaster of national subjugation and extinction will befall him! Show beauty

Incredibly, the beauty you expected has become a daunting language of "falling in love with the city" and "falling in love with the country"! But if it is not so exaggerated, how can it show the amazing beauty of this beautiful woman? And it is precisely because of this daunting beauty that people are even more fascinated and cherished. If all the good things were so close and easy to get, I'm afraid there wouldn't be such a suffocating attraction. This is "

Not terrible? A pregnant (Feng Wei Dongshan) philosophy of life.

The ending of this song is also very chewy. It exaggerates the beauty of a beautiful woman, but in the end, it suddenly becomes a deep regret: "I would rather not know the whole city and this country?" Beauty is rare again! "Beauty often brings people the disaster of" falling in love with the city "and" dumping the country ". Is such an example rare in history? This seems to be warning people to remember the ancient lessons of the whole city and country and not to be "

"Wrong beauty. But then the next sentence is followed by another layer? Don't lose the chance to get a beautiful woman, even if you are beautiful and fall in love with your country-beauty is a once-in-a-lifetime thing after all! These two words pretending to be in a dilemma have the beauty of "playing hard to get": the more you emphasize the inaccessibility of a beautiful woman, the more you see her beauty; And the more you regret beauty, the more you can urge people to get it quickly. The author's intention

It is with deep regret that Emperor Wu's sense of loss that it is difficult to get peerless beauty will be affected and he can make a quick choice. This road can be said to be singing three sighs and lingering, which is disappointing. No wonder after hearing this song, Hu Di couldn't help sighing, "Is there such a person in the world?" -Li Furen was recommended and summoned at such a moment, which is just suitable for this extraordinary song of Li Yannian.

Become an emotional atmosphere.

It can be seen that this song shows the beauty of beautiful women, instead of being good at image metaphor and vivid portrait description like Feng Wei Telling People, it shows its own characteristics with amazing exaggeration and contrast. In the way of expression, it is closer to Song Yu's Ode to a Disciple. If there is any difference between the two, it is that this song firmly grasps what people often have when using exaggeration and contrast.

The subtle psychology of being "afraid" but "pregnant" and "difficult" but more "seeking" finally produced extraordinary effects and touched the heartstrings of a generation of heroes. This is its artistic charm. Another thing to note about this song is that it adopts a generally neat five-character style (the fifth sentence "I'd rather not know" can actually be deleted). At that time, this style was only used in folk songs and ballads.

Popular. Li Yannian introduced it to the upper house with a beautiful and moving "new change of voice". This undoubtedly played a catalytic role in the germination and growth of literati's five-character poems in Han Dynasty.