《Benshi》
Music: Huang Zi Lyrics: Lu Jiye
I remember when I was young,
I love to talk and you love to laugh.
Once sat side by side under a peach tree,
The wind is chirping in the forest birds.
We don't know how to sleep,
How many flowers fall in the dream.
Huang Zi, a famous composer in the 1930s, his father Huang Hongpei was a cousin of Huang Yanpei, who served as vice premier after the founding of New China. Huang Zi is also a music educator and has trained many musical talents, including He Luting and Liu Xue'an: He Luting's "Song of the Four Seasons" and "Tianya Song Girl" adapted from Suzhou folk songs have been sung so far, and he has also created a number of excellent songs such as "Shepherd Boy Piccolo" and "Guerrilla Song"; Liu Xue'an's representative works include "He Rijun Comes Again" and "Ballad of the Great Wall".
Lu Jiye, also known as Lu Qian, was a famous scholar in the 1930s and 1940s, known as "Jiangnan Caizi", and was a proud protégé of Wu Mei, a master of traditional Chinese studies.
From 1933 to 1935, Huang Zi cooperated with Ying Shangneng, Wei Hanzhang and Zhang Yuzhen to compile the "Fuxing Junior High School Music Textbook", as the editor-in-chief, Huang Zi invested a lot of effort and energy, "Fuxing Junior High School Music Textbook" can be said to be the first real music textbook in modern China, which contains some more famous songs such as "Treading on Snow and Looking for Plums" and "Flowers Instead of Flowers". "Treading Snow and Looking for Plums" is composed by Huang Zi and lyrics by Liu Xue'an, and "Flowers Are Not Flowers" is composed by Huang Zi based on a miscellaneous ancient poem by Bai Juyi in the Tang Dynasty, remember bai Juyi's "Flowers Not Flowers" mentioned at the end of the poem (6)? That's right, this is a mysterious, dreamy ancient poem.
The lyrics of the song "Ben" are written fresh, flexible, and full of childlike fun, and the last sentence, "How many flowers fall in the dream", will remind people of Meng Haoran's "Spring Dawn": "The sound of wind and rain at night, how much flowers fall." ”
One of the volumes of the collection of essays written by Sanmao after the death of her husband is called "How Much Do You Know About The Flowers in Dreams", which has an essay of the same name, and at the end of this article, Sanmao quotes the song "Ben", but changes the second sentence to "You love to talk about the sky and I love to laugh", and the last two sentences are changed to a sentence "We don't know how to fall asleep", the whole text suddenly stops, swinging back to the intestines, heartbreaking. Guo Jingming's 2004 novel "How Much Do You Know About Flowers in Dreams" (in 2006, the court ruled that the work constituted plagiarism of Zhuang Yu's "Inside the Circle and Outside the Circle") also quoted this song, the front is the same as Sanmao's, but in the last sentence, "How much do you know about flowers in your dreams".
"Benshi" is a small poem in Lu Jiye's new poetry collection "Spring Rain", which Huang Zi composed and compiled into the textbook when he wrote the music textbook. "Ben" means "original", "original", and "ben" means "original thing". The poem describes the sincere friendship of two little unsuspecting, green plum bamboo horses, and the innocence, frankness, and carefree of youth, jumping on the paper. The word "remember" at the beginning indicates that time is looking back from the "present" to the "past", with warmth and warmth, feeling the beautiful old time in the passage of time, which is nostalgic. We were young then, but what about us now? Maybe middle-aged tired, running on the road of life, maybe the old dragon clock, snoozing on the old rattan chair in the afternoon, dreaming of youth, dreaming, how much do the flowers fall...