Adventures of Witch Valley
(Donghai lay man)
However, in Fusang Mountain, there is a witch's grave in witch valley, in a corner of the East China Sea. Every day when the moon sets and the stars are thin, when the chickens don't bark and the dogs don't bark, you can hear the voices in the valley: sometimes people are like downtown, and people are buzzing; Sometimes the sound of labor is endless; Sometimes eight-tone music is very long; Sometimes the sound of singing and dancing continues. Villagers are afraid to go near. People who do good deeds watch it in the dead of night. I met a young woman, wearing a long skirt and looking very beautiful. Follow the woman upstairs, but see ancient trees towering, wild flowers everywhere; Passers-by dress simply and behave politely. At the top of the valley, there is a woman's room in Lan Zhi, saying: God is a witch and elegant residence. Witch, clan tribal leader. Then I fell in love. I can't tell you enough tenderness, I can't tell you enough love, I have my own people to serve me diligently. However, when Yufeng sang that the East turned white, the witch was reluctant to part with it, just singing softly: "Evil, I want to know you, and I want to live a long life." There is no mausoleum in the mountains, and the river is exhausted; Thunder in winter, rain and snow in summer, harmony between heaven and earth, but dare to leave you. " They also swear to heaven that three generations will go together. When the man woke up, he didn't see the tribe and the witch, but he saw a pile of stones in the valley with poems on them, only to know that it was the witch's grave, so he died under the tombstone and followed the witch with a small rhinoceros. There is a saying: ask what the world is like, and teach people to be so committed to life and death. Naiji
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Oh, my God, I am willing to fall in love with you and let our love last forever. Unless the mountains become flat, unless the river dries up without a drop of water, unless it thunders in winter and snows in summer, and heaven and earth overlap-only in this way can I dare to say a word "absolutely" to you.
Comment 1
This is a love song in the rap of Han Yuefu folk songs. It is an infatuated woman's affectionate confession to her lover. It is very ingenious in art. After the hero in the poem takes the oath of calling for heaven, he bluntly wants to "know your long life" and change ink from the perspective of "not dying with your husband", which is more affectionate than sticking tiles. The hero imagines three groups of peculiar natural variations as the conditions for "leaving the monarch": "There are no graves in the mountains and rivers are inexhaustible"-the mountains and rivers disappear; "Thunderstorm in winter, rain and snow in summer"-the four seasons are reversed; "Harmony between Heaven and Earth"-Returning to the chaotic world again. These ideas are more absurd than one, more bizarre than one, and impossible to happen. This emphasizes the hero's immortal love, so that the possibility of "parting with your husband" is fundamentally ruled out. This unique lyric way accurately expresses the unique absolute psychology of people in love. Affection and whimsy are indeed "the miracle of short chapters."
Taste 2
Contrary to the shy modality that literati poems like to describe a girl's first love, it is most common in folk songs to express the reckless pursuit of happy love in the tone of a girl's self-report. This poem belongs to the "advocacy song" in the folk songs of Han Yuefu. It is a straightforward northern girl's confession to the man she fell in love with. Because the girl's way of expressing love is particularly surprising, and her vows of eternal love are particularly warm, the girl's expression and voice can still be vividly expressed on paper after thousands of years.
The first sentence "evil" refers to heaven as an oath, and also says "Oh, my God"! The ancients respected heaven and feared life, and would not easily move the authority of heaven unless they had to. Now the girl is free to speak, but I can imagine that she has a serious expression and has something extremely important to say. Sure enough, the girl finally spit out the secret that she kept in her heart and wanted to say it several times but didn't have a chance to say it: "I want to know you, and I will live a long life." "Knowing each other" means falling in love and being lovers. After careful selection, the girl thinks that this man is really worthy of love. "Long life" means that the fate of two people will always be linked together, and their love will never decline. The first sentence is the attitude of expressing love, and the second sentence is the firmness of expressing love at a higher level. Love is pure and beautiful only when it is associated with loyalty. Of course, girls know this, so they want to further show their mind. However, she didn't want to speak directly, but swore an oath from the opposite side through unexpected reverse imagination. She first cited five extraordinary things as the premise of swearing: "There is no mausoleum on the mountain, and the river is exhausted", which means that the most permanent existence in the world has undergone tremendous changes; "Thunderstorm in winter, rain and snow in summer" means that the most eternal law of nature has changed strangely; "Harmony between heaven and earth" means that the whole universe has experienced a devastating catastrophe and then said the words "I dare to refuse you". Because these five words are supported by five extraordinary things, each word is fateful and extraordinary; And because none of the preconditions for swearing will appear, the result of "I dare to break up with you" is impossible.
In the five volumes of Appreciation of Ancient Poetry by Zhang Yugu in Qing Dynasty, the evaluation of this poem is: "The first three poems, just talking casually, have exhausted their meaning, and the last five poems, the opposite side tries its best to explain. Therefore, if you dare to refuse, you will never refuse. Repeatedly using five things, two in the same place, two in the weather, and talking about the mixture of heaven and earth, rushing through the customs in one breath, but not overlapping, the game is strange. " It can be said that every sentence makes sense.
This ancient poem has a great influence on later generations. Bodhisattva Man, written by Dunhuang Quzi Ci God, is obviously inspired by it in both ideological content and artistic expression: "I wish everything before my pillow, and I want to wait for the green hills to rot." Fish scales float on the water until the Yellow River turns completely orange. In the daytime, when Beidou returns to the south, he can't rest, and he can't see the sun until the third night. "Not only the pursuit of loyal and single-minded love and happiness is the same, but also the constant use of various impossibilities to explain an impossible artistic conception is exactly the same.
Taste 3
Evil is the vow of lovers in love for love. Its language is simple, uneven and unadorned, but it has thrilling power. In the poem, the hero uses five natural phenomena that can never appear, which show that he loves each other until the end of the world. This poem fully embodies the strong and distinctive features of the folk songs of Han Yuefu.
Music bureau
Yuefu was originally an official institution for managing music established during the period of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty. It not only sings poems praising literati, but also undertakes the task of collecting folk songs. These movements and songs were later collectively referred to as "Yuefu Poetry" or "Yuefu". There are only more than forty existing folk songs in Han Yuefu, most of which are from the mouth of the lower class, reflecting some social contradictions at that time and having high cognitive value; At the same time, its style is straightforward and frank, with unique aesthetic taste. The word "Yuefu" originally refers to the official government in charge of music. Yuefu was originally an official position in charge of music in ancient times, in charge of music used in banquets and parades, and was also responsible for collecting folk poems and songs. As the name of poetic style, "Yuefu" first refers to the latter, and later it is also used to refer to poems that can be accompanied by music in Wei, Jin and Tang Dynasties and works with the theme of ancient Yuefu imitated by later generations.
The Book of Songs
China's earliest poems. It collected 305 poems in about 500 years from the early Western Zhou Dynasty to the mid-Spring and Autumn Period. The pre-Qin dynasty was called "Poetry", or the integer was called "Poetry 300". In the Western Han Dynasty, it was honored as a Confucian classic, formerly known as The Book of Songs, which has been in use ever since. The "six meanings" in the Book of Songs refer to style, elegance and praise, which are the contents; Fu, Bi and Xing are three techniques, which are the "six meanings". The composition of the authors of The Book of Songs is very complicated, and their geographical sources are also very extensive. In addition to the music songs produced by music officials in the Zhou Dynasty and presented by officials and scholars, there are many folk songs that were originally circulated among the people. There are different opinions about how these folk songs came to the court. Some scholars in the Han Dynasty believed that the Zhou Dynasty sent special poets to collect folk songs and understand the advantages and disadvantages of politics and customs. There is another saying: these folk songs are collected by musicians all over the world. Musicians are officials and experts in charge of music. They compose poems as their profession and collect folk songs to enrich lyrics and tunes. The pleasure of princes is dedicated to the emperor, and these folk songs are gathered in the court. These statements all have some truth.