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If happy to see the flow, the coffin for non open

If happy to see the flow, the coffin for non open

By DANIEL KANEPublished 3 years ago 13 min read

For two days, you can't write anything. "Huashan Gi" haunted all my emotions. Very simple southern Dynasty Yuefu, but inexplicably like. Maybe that's because it's easy.

In Huashan Province, if the king died for you, who would live for? If happy to see the flow, the coffin for non open.

The book of Ancient and Modern Music says, "In the reign of Emperor Shao of Song, a scholar named Nan Xu from Huashan Province went to Yunyang from Huashan Province. When he saw a guest girl, he was pleased and died of heart disease. And funeral, car from Huashan degree, than to the female door, cattle refused to front. The woman came out and sang: "Huashan Province, if you are dead, who will live alone? If happy to see the flow, the coffin for non open. Coffin answer open, female then into the coffin, is buried how, number goddess tomb. Since then, there has been the song "Huasan Gi."

This poem, "Huashan Gi" twenty-five first. In the reign of Emperor Shao of the Song Dynasty, a scholar of Nanxu (now Zhenjiang), traveling from Huashan Province (now Dantu) to Yunyang (now Danyang), happened to meet a woman. He was very fond of her and became sick with longing. The saying in the book is "joy without cause, then feel heart disease". Scholar finally lingering illness died, will be buried next to Huashan, where he first saw the woman. So plain car white horse, Yili walk, to the foot of the mountain, suddenly pull cattle refused to go, is the woman's home. When the woman came out and saw the coffin of the scholar, she said calmly, "Wait a minute." Then back to the house, grooming, bathing, dressed up and out, singing this que song. The coffin opened and the woman jumped in and did not come out.

This story is actually the earliest version of Butterfly lovers, very brief, but vivid. Most like, is the woman dressed in bathing calmly, she knows he is dead, for his own death, all kinds of mourning are useless. You are buried at the foot of Mount Hua. You died for me. What do I live for? If you pity my situation, please open the coffin for me and let me follow you.

There are ten thousand kinds of love in the world, there is a called life and death. If you sacrifice your life to me, I will give it back to you. One pays for the other, not grudgingly. There is a chivalrous air. Such calm, is already put life and death in the heart, in my memory, only the Double ninth tomb out of the Xiaolongnu has this instrument. In the book wrote that day Yang Guo in the valley of unfeeling encountered a strong enemy, life is on the verge of death, but the dragon woman is poised. It is not because they are not affectionate, on the contrary, they are too affectionate and calm. "When the master took out the fishing net with a knife hook, the little dragon girl had already thought of a word" dead "in her heart. As soon as Yang Guo was caught in the fishing net, she jumped on the fishing net and hugged him to death. When she thought of this, her heart was calm, and she felt that the world's troubles were at an end. She smiled. I suddenly remembered at this time, Xiaolong female mouth smile just fit the meaning of the word "huan". He was her lover, her favorite man, with whom she was happy in everything, even in death. Perhaps Jin Yong himself did not write it deliberately.

Xiaolongnu's attitude towards emotion is closer to Zen. For the strongest, perhaps it is that a indifferent. Unfortunately, this Shu is not a real person, but a paragraph of literary fiction. But what does that matter? The gap between words and legends is just one in the mouth and one in the hand. Huashan woman and Xiaolongnvu are the same people who remain in the literal. Maybe there is no such person, and there is no need for such a person. The story is a reflection of the real world, and what is passed down by later generations is just a wish. People wish to see a more beautiful and pure spiritual illusion beyond all rules.

The unreality of a mirage does not prevent its beauty from being celebrated.

The Eastern Jin Dynasty, the Southern and Northern Dynasties were a split era. The southern Dynasty, which had a soft texture and long-lasting lifespan, resembled butterflies in the spring, with a firm and bright aspect and more tenderness and charm. The same is true of its cultural vane, the folk songs that spread in the south. Even the literati also do more imitation folk songs and Yuefu, like to do lyrical poems, less hear generous lament. The South and the north have their own Yuefu poems, while the south is dominated by Qing Shang Poems, most of which are preserved in the Yuefu Poetry Collection · Qing Shang Poems compiled by Guo Maoqian in the Song Dynasty. Save eight volumes of poetry. The most important folk songs of the Southern Dynasty are Wu song and Western song. "The Book of Jin · Annals of Music" says: "Wu songs mixed with songs, and out of the south. The Eastern Jin Dynasty has come, slightly expanded. The beginning is a song, and the beginning is an orchestra. After Yongjia crossed the river, Liang, Chen and Xian were all established, and the songs of Wu Sheng began here." There are 326 Wu songs and 142 western songs. "Huashan Gi" is as important and well-known as "Midnight Song" among the Wu song tunes. Mr. Zheng Zhenduo once said: Among the Yuefu poems and Wu songs, "Huashan Gi is the most important."

"Huashan Gi" is a variation of "Breathless music". No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. For many years, Wu Shengnong dialect has been a curse in the hearts of literati who dare not stir the strings easily. The tunes of the Southern Dynasty in Yuefu have the same charm. They come out of a passionate land, with a passionate nature, even if it's just a farmer-girl, Fan in water, and king pull Pu, it won't work. There are also later literati painstakingly and gentle lingering.

All things, at the beginning of their development, have an air of innocence and generosity, because they are born, fearless, I am a pure and free myself, a lotus flower in the lotus pond, without disturbing or hindering. The poems of the Qing Dynasty were twined with emotions, short in structure and mostly in five characters. The contents were mostly men and women's love, which was regarded lightly by the later orthodox literati. However, it is difficult to achieve its innocent atmosphere. Anyone can sing or learn. Li Bai Liu Yuxi and others from the six dynasties folk songs to find fang to absorb nutrition, out immediately with flowers flaps face fresh. Yuan Qu, big is big, deep is also deep, but it is difficult for future generations to learn from the essence. There is no continuing power and development space, so after the clear, rapid annihilation. As for Qu, it already has strict postures and restrictions. It is like an educated person who knows how to act. Although the behavior is stable and will not make mistakes, once the restriction is removed, it will be at a loss to advance or retreat.

"Huashan Gi" in love pain, often strong feelings, novel ideas. Remember the seventh is also very short: "Crying the dawn, tears will float, the body is sunk by the flow. It means I cried till morning. Tears can make the pillow float, the body will be washed away by tears." With tears, write because of feelings and sad, the technique is extremely exaggerated, but because of its sincere feelings, do not let people feel absurd. Even more, the song goes, "To Loro Zhu. The Yangtze River should not be full of tears." The Yangtze River is full of tears. Such deep feeling only for you.

In fact, the world can not complain for thousands of years for Jiangnan Wu women head over head, like the scholar of south Xu moth to get a strange woman's heart, with life should be the sentence only love strangers, do not have to dance low willow floor heart month, song as peach blossom fan bottom wind. As long as they are willing to work hard for men, love in the heart of the heart to make clever, sex, showing a pulse of deep scenery has been able to make people flattered. Such people, this is like spring flowers, bright light Xiaoying, people love not, not low. This talent is history is a gift, do not know.

In terms of song, "Huashan Gi" recorded spoony woman is not only a Huashan woman. Song is also complex and diverse, there is love not self solution, song said: how Xu! What limits the world, faint heart only for you.

Have long night acacia suspect prince, song said: night acacia, the wind blowing curtains move, the words are happy to.

And there was weeping all night, and the parable of a chicken was spoken, and the song was: The crow of a rooster, but you remembered thee, and crowed in the air.

I saw someone admire them: they were all so short that they burst out without warning. Like a broken chapter, the short ones seem to be a few sentences cut out of a long poem, the beginning and the end of the sentence, are lost. But savor, and feel these few sentences, is enough, or lingering long, meaning beyond the words, or sound such as silk, tone clang. Folk songs are often like this. They are rarely elaborately carved, but they are like pure gold and jade. They have their own natural beauty, because they express their feelings directly and speak out of the heart.

From the northern and Southern dynasties to now, the middle of thousands of years, however, some feelings have never changed, today's woman, and the long night of sleeping tears wet quilt pillow woman what is different in nature? "The people of the world what limit, faint heart only for you", how many people have so long sigh heart void.

Who has not had such doubts, surprises and desponderations during the cold window window or between waking and dreaming. Who hasn't wanted to have a relationship, to love each other day and night for a long time? Soul and soul, moment and moment, perfectly fit. You tell me, what's the difference between then and now, everything? Poetry is like a mirror, we see, is our own face.

There is another song in "Huashan Gi", which I remember very well: I was so upset that I went to bed and unchained the rope, and I went through the screen. For a man's unfeeling and heartache, so sad to hang himself, honesty is weak and ignorant. However, the woman's heart is like water. Most women believe that everlasting and willing to use life to stick to love. A woman's crazy, crazy to take their own life to stick to love is willing to. From ancient times to now, women for love of the story can be found everywhere, the earliest about Yu Shun's two concubines E Huang and female Ying, tears Xiaoxiang drowned and died, Huashan woman into the coffin, Zhu Yingtai also fled into the tomb of Liang Shanbo. Don't come out again.

I have no intention of commenting on such a story, everyone has their own understanding. I just always thought that if E Huang and Nyuying died first, Shun would certainly not be martyrized by his body. Shun's kingdom could not be separated from Shun's kingdom, and Shun's kingdom could not be separated from Shun's kingdom. As for Zhu Yingtai died first, Liang Shanbo will not cry to open the tomb, also have to put a question mark.

Men can only for the elusive love body has not been acacia disease, even depressed, just like Liang Shanbo, but can not think that the love has been paid life. Men have responsibilities heavier than Mount Tai, these responsibilities do not allow them to die for love. So a smart woman can sing for love, can cry for love, but don't be silly to use life to stick to love, natural and unrestrained laissez faire a little, maybe will live better. Without life, where does love sprout?

"Huashan Gi" love story, there are two kinds of legend. The other is the happy ending, according to the Yuan Dynasty Lin Kun compiled "Chengzhai Miscellany · Huashan Gi" records, the story probably did not change, is still the scholar for a strange woman lovesick illness, was the mother of the scholar, the mother went to Huashan near the woman, found to explain the situation, the girl for the scholar deeply moved, He secretly took off his cloak and taught her to take it back to the man's bed. When the scholar got better, he found some women's clothes under his bed. He burned the clothes and drank the ashes. Car over the woman's door, the woman came out to meet, song and coffin open, jump into the embrace of the scholar, the scholar resurrection, the two families celebrate, for their wedding.

I do not like this outcome, because it is too deliberately to pursue perfection, with wishful cover up ingredients, cover up the thin cool of the world itself. I was very strange, why the woman to master mother will dress (cover knee) close placed under the man's mat, and not by his mother frankly told the female heart has been Xu? Did the woman cast a spell on the shield knee, but when she told it, it would not work? Why did the man insist on death, will cover the knee burned, burned into ashes to drink down, also not good, the idea of marrying the girl home? If there were any obstacles, there is nothing in the book. Reluctantly added details have their own contradictions and cannot be justified. Obviously, it was edited by later literati, striving for perfection, but losing the nature of poignant beauty.

Thankfully, all the people have not changed the "joy of no reason" these four words, this is the "Huashan" story of the deep soul - love a person need a reason?

The Huashan Mountain in the poem "Huashan Gi" does not refer to the Huashan Mountain among the five mountains, but the Huashan Mountain in Jurong, Jiangsu Province. Nanxu is now Zhenjiang. At the end of the Western Jin Dynasty, the north was in chaos, and the Eastern Jin was biased to the left of An River, and its capital was established in Jianye (today's Nanjing). At that time, people from the north rushed to the south, so the government of the Eastern Jin Dynasty set up Xuzhou for overseas Chinese, and the state administration was at Jingkou (today's Zhenjiang). In the time of Liu Song of the Southern Dynasty, it was officially named South Xuzhou. Since then, Nanxu has been the alias of Zhenjiang. Many data show that Wu Ge "Huashan Gi" took place in Dantu Stone Bridge Huashan village, "goddess tomb" site, still exists today, the local people call it "jade goddess dun". Ancient Dantu Stone Bridge built on the Huashan temple, known locally as "Jade Temple", has been destroyed.

The lovers in "Hwasan Gi" are both unhappy and happy. They were buried together in the coffin and their families hosted a ghost wedding for them. People only pity, but no objection. It is said that the Dantu stone bridge Huashan village every spring, before and after Qingming Festival, young men and women to offer incense next to Jade female pier, burning paper, praying for the blessing of a happy marriage, happy ancient customs still exist.

Huashan men and women love each other, more like two people germinating a Zen machine. No expected beginning, no accurate end. The edge of life in a read between. And later "Butterfly Lovers" is gradually a variety of world fireworks atmosphere, acquaintance, marriage, see again, another match, born away, die together. The story began to follow the rules of the secular human evolution, become a sad love story, rather than love.

Love is invisible, but there are love stories. To this day, the local people in Dantu still call Huashan Ji "Xiao Liang Zhu". Small does not mean the length of the story, but can be understood as the meaning of the beginning of the shape.

The sad song of the woman in Huashan reminds me of a legend about a bird that sings only once in its life, and its voice is more beautiful than the songs of all the creatures in the world. From the moment it leaves its nest, it searches for thorns and does not rest until it gets its wish. Then he plunged his body into the longest and sharpest of thorns, and sang freely among the wild branches.

If happy to see the flow, the coffin for non open. Her song, as desperate as the thorn bird, rose above her own pain in her dying hour, and made the lark and the nightingale pale. It's a beautiful song, and it dies. Yet the whole world listens and God smiles in the sky, for the best can only be bought with great pain.

If happy to see the flow, the coffin for non open. -- Songs sway the hearts of the world.

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