There is one. I don’t know if it counts. . .
The Song Dynasty lacked heroic spirit, but it was an era full of quality of life and literati atmosphere. If you were born into an emperor's family, it would be really unfortunate in the Song Dynasty. But if you are a commoner like me, who has read a few books and has a few acres of land at home, I would rather live in that era when the imperial examinations were complete and famous people came out in large numbers - there is always someone who will stand out. day. Literati rule was very popular in the Northern Song Dynasty. From Yan Shu, Fan Zhongyan, and Ouyang Xiu to Wang Anshi, Su Shi, Zhang Xian, and Song Qi, everyone was not famous. At that time, there were no organizations such as the Federation of Literary and Art Circles and the Writers' Association, and no one was a full-time writer or poet, let alone Xin Qiji and Lu You later. Compared with the depressed and unsuccessful literati in the late Tang Dynasty, they always had a stage to display their talents. It is precisely because of this that when I think of them, I cannot treat them with the pure heart of a poet or lyricist. My thoughts are complicated and involve many things.
The two poems "Die Lian Hua" and "Ru Meng Ling" are related to Yan Shu and Su Shi. They were not created by them, but they both had such beautiful and elegant names because of them. The aesthetic style of the Northern Song Dynasty can be seen from this. This reminds me of looking at porcelain in a museum. The Tang porcelain at the front is gorgeous and foreign-style, while the Ming and Qing porcelain at the back is bright red and green, and has exquisite craftsmanship. Song porcelain is either shadow green, dark brown, or pure white, delicate and expressive. This is an era in which the vision of scholar-bureaucrats was the social standard, and it is thought-provoking.
"Butterfly Loves Flowers" was renamed by Yan Shu from the Dunhuang tune "Magpies Stepping on the Branches", and "Ru Meng Ling" was renamed by Su Shi from "Recalling the Immortal Pose" by Zhuangzong of the later Tang Dynasty.
The "Hu music" produced in the Western Regions during the Tang Dynasty, especially Qiuci music, was introduced to China in large quantities. It was integrated with the original Han music, mainly Qing Shang music, to produce Yan music. . Many tunes in Yanyue are originally folk songs, and folk songs originally have music and words, such as the natural, simple and emotionally straightforward Dunhuang lyrics. From there we can see the original form and characteristics of the words. This kind of folk art is full of vitality. "Magpie Steps on the Branch" is one of them: "The poor magpie talks a lot of nonsense, how can there be any evidence to send happiness? It flew here several times to capture it alive, and locked it in a golden cage without saying anything! It is better to send happiness with good intentions, but who knows the lock? I'm in a golden cage. I want him to return from his concubine, but he takes off and lets me fly into the blue clouds. "In ancient times, the world was unified, and people were natural. Flowers, birds, fish, and insects were close to each other. When I saw the magpie, I felt happy. What do birds do? It makes no sense to catch the bird and then ask him how he can bring good news. So the bird answered her, "If you want Zhengren to come back early, please let me go as soon as possible." This is a vivid life scene that cannot be described by scholar-bureaucrats.
"Magpie Stepping on the Branches" in Tang Jiaofang's music emerged in the prosperous Tang Dynasty and was a new Yan music. By the late Tang and Five Dynasties, more and more literati wrote lyrics using this tune, among which the most popular The representative one is Feng Yansi, a poet of the Southern Tang Dynasty in the Five Dynasties, whose fourteen poems "Magpie Stepping on the Branches":
Who says that leisurely love has been abandoned for a long time? Every time spring comes, the melancholy remains the same. I often get sick and drink in front of flowers every day, and I still look thin in the mirror.
The willows on the green bank of the river are asking for new sorrows, what happens every year? The independent bridge is full of wind, and people in the new moon in the flat forest return.
This is a lyric with a very dense rhyme, smooth and soft, melancholy and low-pitched. It is said that Feng's lyrics are very consistent with the popular Que Taizhi tune at the time and are widely circulated. Feng Yansi was in a country that was destined to perish at the end of the Southern Tang Dynasty, and he was also a high-ranking official. The confusion and depression in his poems had broken away from the realm of erotic and personal love in his poems. His style of poems opened the way for the creation of Yan Shu and Ouyang Xiu in the Northern Song Dynasty. Yan Shu was a child prodigy when he was a child. When he was 7 years old, he took the exam in the court together with more than a thousand Jinshi. Later he became prime minister. He was close to wise men and valued education all his life. Fan Zhongyan and Ouyang Xiu both came from his disciples. Yan Shu lived a wealthy life, but there is sorrow in his poems without sorrow, and there is hidden sorrow in his poems without hatred. A kind of latent style, secretly moving and sad. Perhaps he felt that the magpie stepping on the branches was too festive and ordinary, so he took out the three words "Butterflies in Love with Flowers" from a seven-character music poem by Emperor Jian Wen of the Southern Liang Dynasty, "Climbing the steps, butterflies fall in love with flowers, allowing Hua Feiyan to greet each other" The word made the name of the new word. Emperor Wen of Jian Dynasty, Xiao Gang, was fond of Wu Ge's beautiful poems. He famously said, "Be careful in your conduct, and be unrestrained in your writing." Later generations called it "Gong Style". Magpies stepping on branches and butterflies falling in love with flowers are natural phenomena. Folk tastes and scholar-bureaucrats' aesthetics are not necessarily superior to each other. For example, a lively peasant daughter marries into a deep house. From then on, the sentiments of cherishing spring and mourning autumn in this song are The sorrow and resentment are becoming more and more delicate and charming, and the sadness is low. Yan Shu's song "Butterflies in Love with Flowers" can be called a masterpiece:
The chrysanthemums on the threshold are worried about the smoke and the orchids are weeping, the curtains are light and cold, and the swallows fly away.
The bright moon does not know the pain of separation and hatred, and the slanting light penetrates Zhuhu at dawn.
Last night, the west wind withered the green trees. I climbed up to the tall building alone and looked across the road to the end of the world. If you want to send colorful notes and rulers, you will know where the mountains are and the rivers are vast.