Song Ci, Song people (1) - Su Shi

Song poetry is like a delicate flower blooming in the ancient Chinese literary garden, full of infinite vitality and brilliance.

As a result, we often suffer from memorizing the full text when we are studying. Now that we look back and savor it carefully, we can’t help but be deeply fascinated by the men and women who wrote these beautiful words in that dynasty. Look at them or Wealthy or romantic or bumpy or miserable life journey, sigh: life is like a dream!

The full name of Ci is Quci, which belongs to music literature and is sung, which is equivalent to our modern pop songs.

In the short 300-year history of the Song and Song Dynasties, there have emerged such figures as Su Shi, Xin Qiji, Fan Zhongyan, Zhu Xi, Lu You, Wang Anshi, Wen Tianxiang, Li Qingzhao, Ouyang Xiu, Ye Shaoweng, Yang Wanli, Yue Fei, Liu Yong, Sima Guang, and Shen Kuo , Huang Tingjian, Yan Shu, Qin Guan, Yan Jidao, Zhang Xian, Zhao Ji, Zhou Bangyan, Mi Fu, Jiang Kui, Tang Wan, Zhou Mi, Zhu Shuzhen and many other talented poets.

This was of course due to the fact that after years of war had temporarily ended, the court emphasized civility over military affairs.

"A young boy who is good at drumming, an old man who speaks in white, does not know how to fight... The new voice laughs at the willow flowers, and tunes the strings at the teahouse and wine shop." It can be said that it is a reflection of that. A true record of citizens’ lives at that time.

Song Ci can be roughly divided into two major schools: the bold school and the graceful school.

In fact, this classification is crude. Many poets have both bold and graceful styles of writing.

Even as a representative of the bold and unrestrained school, Su Shi had an overwhelming proportion of graceful words.

Representatives of the bold and unconstrained faction are Su Shi, Xin Qiji and others.

The graceful school dominated the poetry world in the early Northern Song Dynasty. Representatives of the graceful school include Yan Shu, Li Qingzhao, Liu Yong, Li Yu, etc.

Today let’s talk about Su Shi first.

Su Shi: The world calls him "Su Dongpo", a famous writer, calligrapher, painter, poet, poet and gourmet in the Northern Song Dynasty.

His poems, poems, poems, and prose are all of high achievement, and he is also good at calligraphy and painting. He is a rare all-rounder in the history of Chinese literature and art, and is recognized as the most outstanding person in literature and art in China's thousands of years of history. One of the great people.

However, because of his political disagreement with the reformists, his official career was bumpy and he was demoted many times throughout his life.

However, he is optimistic and broad-minded by nature, witty and humorous, and his attachment to nature has improved his life thoughts and artistic expression.

His poems include:

"Shui Tiao Ge Tou"

When will the bright moon come, ask the blue sky for wine.

I wonder what year it is today in the palace in the sky?

I want to ride the wind back home, but I am afraid of the beautiful buildings and jade buildings.

It is too cold at high places.

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People have joys and sorrows, and the moon waxes and wanes.

This matter is difficult to solve in ancient times.

I wish you a long life and a long life.

?"Niannujiao Chibi Nostalgia"

The great river goes eastward, and the waves are gone, and there are romantic figures throughout the ages.

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Feather fans and silk scarves, while talking and laughing, the rafts and oars disappeared into ashes.

My motherland wanders in my mind, my affection should laugh at me, and I will be born early.

They are all masterpieces of the millennium.

There is also the song "Ding Feng Bo":

Don't listen to the sound of beating leaves through the forest, why not scream and walk slowly.

The bamboo stick and mango shoes are lighter than the horse. Who is afraid of it?

The steep spring breeze blows away the drunkenness, it is slightly cold, but the mountain tops are shining slantingly.

Looking back at the desolate place where I have always been, there is neither wind, rain nor sunshine when I return.

The scenery that clears up after the rain expresses his broad-minded and transcendent mind, embodying extraordinary and transcendent ideals of life.

It is said that Zhang Xian, who was several decades older than him, was a promiscuous poet and drunkard, and even married an 18-year-old woman as his concubine when he was 80 years old.

At the wedding banquet, Mr. Zhang was so proud that he wrote a poem and boasted about it. Su Shi couldn't help but criticize him:

Eighteen-year-old bride with pale hair and red makeup.

Mandarin ducks sleep in pairs at night, and a pear tree presses the begonia.

Haha! Think of Mr. Zhang with his white hair, the shy eighteenth-year-old bride with red makeup, pear blossoms and begonias, what a picture!