-Bai Juyi's Song of Eternal Sorrow
Song of Eternal Sorrow is a famous masterpiece in Bai Juyi's poems. Written in the first year of Yuanhe (806), the poet served as county magistrate in yi county (now Zhouzhi, Shaanxi). He visited Xianyou Temple with his friends Chen Hong and Wang Zhifu, and wrote this poem because of the story of Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty and Yang Guifei.
Counting the delayed bells and drums, the more you count, the longer the night feels. Look up at the stars until dawn in the east. The ancients did not understand the scientific principle behind the alternation of day and night, but they also had their own ideas. In the sound of bells and drums, looking at the star river in the sky, watching the sky turn white and the stars gradually go away, this is probably the romance of the ancients when they lost sleep.
The milky way turns in the sky, and the curtain on earth hangs.
-Li Qingzhao's "South Gezi, the Milky Way in the Sky"
The age of this song "Nan Gezi" is unknown, but judging from the hatred expressed in the poem for the ruin of the country, it seems that Li Qingzhao wrote it after living in the south of the Yangtze River.
In the middle of the night, the Milky Way gradually disappeared with time, constantly changing its position. "Galaxy turn" is the galaxy turn, and the word "turn" indicates the flow of time, and it is a long span; If people can care about this, they will know that they didn't sleep at night. "Curtains hanging on the earth" means that people are very quiet; Every household put down the heavy curtains and fell asleep quietly, but they were awake and couldn't sleep. The ancients used to use the stars in the sky to correspond to the areas on the ground, and the changes of the stars also indicated the changes of the world. Li Qingzhao couldn't sleep on such a sad night. I wonder what she will think when she looks at the Milky Way.
He must be soaring through a little green in the autumn sky.
-Han Xiang answered Uncle Yu.
Han Xiang, a native of Zhenyuan, Tang Dezong in 794, is the nephew of Han Yu and the son of Han Old Town. He was a scholar in the third year of Tang Muzong Changqing (823) and was appointed to Dali Temple. Historically, Han Xiang was a scholar who became famous in the imperial examination and finally got his wish and succeeded.
The ancients often used "soaring" and "flying" to express their ambition and determination to make contributions, which is what the ancients often said. The sky has always been mysterious to the ancients. They yearn for the sky, but they are awed by it. Therefore, flying into the sky and rushing into the sky has become their dream. "He will fly into the blue sky and break through the autumn sky", which is similar to Xue Baochai's "Good wind will send me to Qingyun" in A Dream of Red Mansions. The pursuit of flying also embodies the spirit of China people who never admit defeat and dare to climb since ancient times.
Chang 'e, I must regret eating the elixir, and now I am alone, in the blue sky, singing every night.
-Li Shangyin's Chang 'e
Since ancient times, the vast starry sky and bright moonlight have aroused the curiosity and imagination of countless people, so fairy tales have emerged one after another: the Goddess Chang'e flying to the moon, Wu Gang cutting Guangxi, Cowherd and Weaver Girl ... The unchanging moon for thousands of years has entrusted the wanderer with homesickness and triggered countless thoughts.
Looking at the bright moon, Li Shangyin thought of Chang 'e, who ascended to immortality alone and left her lover on earth. Maybe she should regret stealing the elixir of life, and now she is lonely every night in the sky. While feeling Chang 'e, the poet raised an important philosophical question: how should people live? How should realistic people choose between love and immortality? The author obviously disapproves of Chang 'e's practice. He believes that such a lonely longevity is actually a torture and destruction of life.
Su Shi also wrote in the title of "Water Tune Song Tou": "If you want to go home by the wind, you are afraid of the beauty of the building, and the heights are too cold." Dancing to understand shadows is like being on earth. "In the eyes of poets, eternal life is beautiful and charming, but if the price is to give up love and companionship in the world, then they will choose to stay in the world without hesitation.