After reading Xuan: The Late Tang Dynasty and Five Dynasties in Lady Hua Rui's Palace Ci, I found myself misled for many years. The palace life in real history can be so warm and romantic, full of flowers, charming eyes, intoxicating fragrance, colorful and absolutely beautiful. In particular, there is a very interesting "flop" way.
"Too shelved Lingbotang, pillow pool back against the wall. There are wives in all the hospitals, and there is nowhere to teach the sheep and carts. " It tells the story of a son of heaven who chose his concubine in another way. In the third year of Gande in the former Shu Dynasty (AD 92 1 year), the emperor Wang Yan was so beautiful that no one wanted to spoil him. In the year of his accession to the throne, 10, he called 20 folk women into the palace. In order to calm the endless rivalry between concubines at night and make the flop fair, he never informed the beauty to go to bed in advance, but gave the decision to a "sheep cart", saddled the beautiful Aries, decorated it with horns and flowers, decorated it with gold and silver, covered it with jade feathers and wandered slowly. Aries pulls the son of heaven to the beauty's residence, who can spend the night with the son of heaven?
This anecdote was recorded by the Xu family, the concubine of the original construction, the mother of the son of heaven Wang Yan, the queen mother of Shunsheng, and "Mrs. Huarui". She wrote nearly 100 palace poems from the perspective of court women, describing the colorful scenery and trivial and interesting scenery in Xuanhua Garden of Shu Palace, leaving a unique masterpiece for that short period. Palace ci mostly focuses on forbidden gardens and pool scenery in the palace. They have their own beauty, simple and direct words, full of modal scenes, unique characters and light and charming styles.
Xuan: In the late Tang Dynasty and the Five Dynasties, Su, the winner of the 12th Book Award and the China Good Book Award 20 16, made a real person analysis and deciphered the text in the vast historical materials, reinterpreting the original publishing order. According to the contents involved in Gongci, it is subdivided into 12 volumes: Palace Que Loutai, Embroidery Traffic, Skillful Craft, Flower and Fruit Planting, Banquet, Drinking in Season, Four Festivals in Shi Jia, Leisure, Riding and Hunting, and Singing and Dancing.
The book interprets poetry with words and creates an environment with things. With 98 exquisite essays with clear words and integrating archaeology and exegetics, supplemented by nearly 300 pictures of cultural relics unearthed from tombs of the same period, the little-known beauty and prosperity in the late Tang Dynasty and the Five Dynasties are reinterpreted and reproduced.
First, the scene is magnificent and the layout is exquisite.
Starting with the first song "Five Clouds Pavilion in Fengcheng, Flowers and Trees Grow New, the Sun and the Moon are Idle". The 36th Palace is connected with the Imperial Palace, and the Taiping Emperor lives in Kunshan. "From the beginning, Mrs. Huarui's pen, like a long scroll of mountains and rivers, slowly opened, from far and near, from high to low, shrouded in clouds, covered with mountains and rivers, and transpiration of dust. Between heaven and earth, Shu Lang is vast, with lush vegetation and leisurely sun and moon. The young son of heaven and the beauties of Xuanhuayuan celebrate their youth in a peaceful and carefree atmosphere.
Another example is: "Tidy up the verandah of the courtyard, and the water sill goes around for ten miles", which depicts that the courtyard in Xuanhua Garden is built by water, and the verandah carved sill is ten miles long, with terraces, bridges, pavilions and vegetation interlaced and blended. Courtyard like scattered beads, cloister like silk rope, cleverly connected. The layout of the inner court and the details of the palace are displayed in the palace poems.
Second, the feelings are free and easy, humorous and interesting.
In Mrs. Hua Rui's works, there are many interesting anecdotes besides mocking her son's romantic anecdote that "the status of ladies-in-waiting in different hospitals is different, and sheep carts are not taught everywhere".
"The name of the temple is Shinri Shigemitsu, and the pavilions on the island have changed. But one person is lucky, and the golden zygote locks the gums. " When the new garden is completed, there is a golden house where beautiful people live. According to the author's textual research combined with various historical materials, the "rubber bed" is smaller than the "bed" and is just a seat. Mrs. Hua Rui did not directly write about the bed happiness of the king's favorite concubines, but wrote it through the "gums". In the secret small space, the beauty and the king enjoy themselves, or whisper to each other, or play the piano lightly, and the specific scene is left to the reader's brain. "Gum" carries more interesting things than "bed".
Similar to this, there is "a high shelf and a hundred feet of wind, which leads you here." There are six screens on the bed, and the flowers are peony red. "A hundred-foot-high pavilion stood with beautiful women dressed up to lure the king into the boudoir. Mrs. Hua Rui used a riddle to make up the unwritten picture of "six screens in bed" A bed is full of amorous feelings, and the spring is infinite.
Third, emphasize color, fragrance and sensual feast.
In Mrs. Huarui's works, there are not only beautiful scenery, colorful scenery and dazzling visual experience, but also an intoxicating "luxury feast"-the smell feast. "Green brocade lichen red embroidered carpet covered with borneol tulip". In the colorful Xuanhua Garden, even the carpets are covered with borneol and turmeric, and there are splendid scenery everywhere along the corridor, with fragrant flowers, grass and beauty powder, which makes people deeply intoxicated.
"Pine and cypress windows cover nan boards, and the warm wind blows a mass of incense", and palace words also change from vision to smell, from observing tangible things to appreciating intangible things. The wood fragrance of "pine and cypress, nanmu" makes the artistic conception distant. There is also the "sweet boudoir" where the beauty lives, the "sweet fan" in her hand, and the "fragrance" of flowers and trees in the four seasons, swaying all the way, the fragrance moves with the wind, and the fragrance floats everywhere in the garden. Set off a carefree and ethereal paradise.
Fourth, master numerology and have a warm heart.
Looking at Mrs. Hua Rui's palace ci as a whole, all of them are reflected: there is no sadness and injury, only the characteristics of peace and prosperity, pleasing to the eye and insatiable greed.
The weather in her works: "The temple of light meets the palace wall, pavilions and pavilions lean against the sun", avoiding rainy days in the middle of Sichuan, and only writing clear skies and sunny days in Wan Li. Winter in her works: "Honey-colored red mud stove, my wife paged at night in winter", no matter what the climate is, it leads to the busy scene of the harem winter night from honey color, and there is a touch of red in the quiet stove room, which sweeps away the chill and warms people's hearts, and there is no bleak silence in winter.
In the palace poems about flowers, although Mrs. Huarui's voice is dull, her feelings are charming, and there is treasure of the present and pity for helpless life everywhere.
Editor Su said: "Mrs. Hua Rui's writing purpose is quite pure. Her life is only a hundred years. After all, the time left for everyone is limited. At that time, she was dying, and while it was still dark, she wanted to stay a little longer. Mrs. Hua Rui knows numerology well, and life always turns from prosperity to decline, and no one is spared. This fact can't be changed or avoided, so she doesn't help Wu Zetian to urge flowers on snowy nights, nor does she mourn for the red in spring. Instead, follow the natural arrangement, enjoy the first flowers, drink new wine and eat fresh silver carp. "
Time is like a long yellow sand, and real history is cruel. This xuanhua past event soon ended in the tears of Wang Yan and his Fang Qun, and Mrs. Huarui's life finally fell like a flower and turned to mud. "Fairy Garden in Yuen Long" and "Colorful" Xuanhua Garden have become the dreamland in A Dream of Red Mansions over time.
However, the Five Dynasties are in a very important historical period of China's art. It is of great value to glimpse the grand occasion of that year, understand the precious heritage of court culture and explore the artistic aesthetics of the ancients from Mrs. Hua Rui's palace poems. Historians, aestheticians, poetry appreciation, landscape architecture and other scholars can conduct multi-faceted academic research from Mrs. Hua Rui's works; Ordinary people, like you and me, can not only appreciate the prosperity, but also get some subtle inspiration from this talented woman.
Life is like a dream, its moments of beauty are fleeting, and only human wisdom can shine like stars in the vast history.