Poetry speaks new language‖ how many things in ancient and modern times are laughed at

Wen 丨 Wang Yanan (Intern Editor, Fangtang Media Editing and Communication Center)

"Linjiang Immortal"

--Ming YangShen

The water rolling in the east of the Yangtze River, the waves exhaust the heroes.

Success or failure turned to the sky, the green mountains are still there, and the sunset is red several times.

White-haired fisherman on the river, used to watch the autumn moon and spring breeze.

A pot of turbid wine is happy to meet, and many things in ancient and modern times are in the middle of laughter.

Today is the twenty-fourth day of the lunar month, and it is getting closer and closer to the Spring Festival.

The twenty-fourth day of the Waxing Moon, also known as the Dust Sweeping Day, the so-called "Dust Sweeping Day" is the year-end cleaning, household cleaning, cleaning up all kinds of household utensils, dismantling the quilt curtains, dusting the dirt and cobwebs.

Years ago, "sweeping dust" pinned people's hopes, willing to sweep away all the haze and troubles of this year, so that the unsatisfactory past, are faded in laughter, with a new look, joyfully greet the new year.

Today's sharing with you is the work "Linjiang Immortal" by the Ming Dynasty literary scholar Yang Shen.

First of all, let's understand who Yang Shen is?

Yang Shen was a Writer, Scholar, and Official of the Ming Dynasty, the head of the Three Talents of the Ming Dynasty, and the son of Yang Tinghe, a scholar of Dongge University. He was intelligent and studious from an early age, coupled with the fact that he was born in Shuxiangmendi, his mother taught him sentence reading and Tang Dynasty sentence reading at the age of seven, and received a good education. At the age of twenty-four, the Toad Palace folded the gui, the first in the temple examination, the examination won the title, and was awarded the Hanlin Academy cultivation. He was upright, not afraid of power, dared to speak directly, rebelled against the scales and was degraded, and later exiled to southern Yunnan, and eventually died of illness in Kunming, and was buried in his hometown Ofxindu.

His life has experienced many ups and downs, and his career is very bumpy.

In the third year of Jiajing (1524), Yang Shen, who was then serving as a cultivator in the Hanlin Academy, was given a court staff for the "Great Ceremony", stripped of his official titles, and who was in Charge of Yunnan. However, Yang Shen did not fall into depression, and he traveled around in Yunnan, observing the customs and sentiments of the people, and composing poems and poems to express his nostalgia.

Everywhere he went, he gathered with local literati and scholars, talked about poetry, and left a large number of poems describing Yunnan. "Linjiang Immortal" is one of them, and it is also the opening word of the third paragraph of the "Twenty-one History bullet words", "Speaking of Qin and Han", and at the same time the opening words of the early Qing Dynasty writer Mao Zonggang's version of the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms".

This song was later compiled into the theme song of the old version of the TV series "Three Kingdoms Charity Performance", which became the memory of a generation of youth, and the magnificent singing in the play, with the rolling waves, is still exciting and fresh in the memory.

Let's look at this song: the rolling Yangtze River flows eastward, and there is no turning back, how many heroes and good men are like flying waves, swept away. Yes and no, success and failure, turning their heads has become a void. Only the green mountains are as usual, and the sunset in front of the mountains is setting.

The bald-headed fisherman on the river has long been accustomed to the beautiful changes in the four hours. Rare meetings with friends, drinking a pot of turbid wine happily, and the disturbances of the past and the present have become the condiments for drinking and laughing.

This is a poem of history, expressing emotion by narrating the rise and fall of history. Heroic, but not subtle; high-pitched, but deep. "Rolling water in the east of the Yangtze River, the waves exhaust the heroes", a tragic and desolate sentence, I can't help but add thousands of emotions in my heart.

Time kept rushing forward, no resistance could resist, how many great men who were the best in the world were just meteors that flashed in the galaxy of history. What rushes away is not a rolling river, but an uncontrollable time and history, heroes will still be engulfed by them, not to mention the ordinary and small us, a sense of powerlessness in life spontaneously arises.

"Success or failure turn to the void, the green mountains are still there, several degrees of sunset red" The right and wrong of life, the disturbances, successes and failures, but it is just an empty, history continues to move forward, time can forget, change everything, whether you are loyal or adulterous, whether you are a cloth cloth or a princely general, whether you have achieved nothing or established an immortal great cause, these are all over the clouds, do not have to be grumpy. This sentence makes people feel a sense of historical rise and fall, and even more indignant about the ups and downs of life.

History seems to be frozen by the faint green mountains and blood-like sunsets, "the green mountains are still there", and several degrees of sunset red "seem to be writing scenes, but in fact, they are lyrical." The author sighed, everything in the past did not leave any clues, only the green mountains and sunset in front of him witnessed the change of history, but he was silent. The emphasis here is on the unchanged.

Ancient and modern, more or less success or failure are passing in the relative movement of change and change, too clinging to success or failure, but only to increase the troubles of a short life, why not let go, send love to the landscape, swim in the world.

The white-haired fisherman on the Qingjiang River has long been accustomed to spring flowers and autumn moons, the four seasons alternate, the passage of time, and with the natural beauty to accompany, it is also peaceful and leisurely. The lyricist Yang Shenshi had a bumpy road, a lot of fate, and most of his life was unmotivated. It is not that he does not want to show his grand plans, but he has seen through the coldness of the world, the deceit of the officialdom, and he would rather be lonely and old to maintain a noble sentiment.

Isn't meeting a confidant between mountains and rivers a great joy of life? Drink another cup of turbid wine, take the rise and fall of all kinds of history in the past and the present as a joke, such a wanton and free, and talk about wine, is not it also a great pleasure in the world? Life will inevitably have ups and downs, but we should keep our original intentions, even in the depths of adversity. The lyricist gives "how many things in ancient and modern times" are given to laughter, and does not he also integrate the sad and happy things he has experienced into the turbid wine? This is his attitude to life, and it is also the eternal value he wants to pursue.

In "Linjiang Immortal", the history that Yang Shen feels nostalgic for is his ups and downs in life, whether it is the glory of the former champion and the first, or the shame of the current exile in southern Yunnan, after all, it is "right or wrong to turn the head". A person's life is still like this, let alone the rise and fall of history, but it is all a joke in wine. Yang Shen added more misfortunes in life, and as the opening words of Mao Zonggang's "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", this song is more of a historical teasing and bitterness.

In Mao's version of the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, we can see that the tendency to "honor Liu and oppose Cao" is unusually prominent. The main theme of "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" is the hatred of the thief who caused chaos in the world, and the desire for the Ming emperor and the good minister who created a peaceful world. The symbol of being a good minister of the Ming Army is to implement "benevolent government" in politics, and to emphasize morality in personality, so that he can be shangzhiyong. Liu Bei, Zhuge Liang, and Guan Yu of the Shu Kingdom were representative figures.

Proceeding from Confucian morality, these idealistic and virtuous people will surely defeat adultery and evil and uphold justice in the world. But tyranny triumphed over benevolent government, and tragedy was inevitable. The ancients often said: "The destiny of heaven is constant, and only the virtuous dwell in it." This tragedy is clearly contrary to the morality of the ancients.

History is irreversible, and the author has no choice but to classify this tragedy as providence and number of days with pain and confusion. At this time, the opening speech "Linjiang Immortal" broke through the narrow circle of describing the misfortune of personal fate, deepened the sense of depth and vicissitudes of history, and sublimated the bitterness and heaviness of history.

Looking back on the past year, Zhengzhou has "combined floods and epidemics", and exceptionally large floods and new crown epidemics have followed. Some people have experienced a life-and-death parting, some people have been reborn after a disaster, and almost everyone has a moment of shock and heart. All the hardships and setbacks, along with Ruixue, turned into the luck and well-being of the new year.

At present, Zhengzhou is gradually unsealing, various public places are gradually returning to their former prosperity, and the wanderers who are trapped in other places are expected to be reunited with their families, and everything is developing in a good direction. We must put the hatred, pain, and troubles of the past into laughter and talk about it by spilling wine. Let us raise a glass and wish us a happy new year!

Editor: Yuan Yuan 丨 Editor: Xu Fengchao 丨Design: Sun Yueyuan