"A God of Beauty in a Troubled World?
Author: Liang Heng
Li Qingzhao is remembered because of the famous song "The Sound of the Voice". It is a kind of cold beauty, especially the line "searching, cold and clear, miserable and sad", simply become her personal brand, she was taken as the embodiment of sadness, and her interpretation of "how a word sadness".
In fact, Li Qingzhao in writing this word before, there have been too many happy. When Li Qingzhao was loaded with all the happiness that a young girl in a boudoir can get, she stepped into the river of love, and her beautiful life went to the next level. Her son-in-law, Zhao Mingcheng, was a flamboyant young man, and the two of them were literary confidantes, in love with each other. The two of them, in addition to the general literary elegance of poetry, qin and chess, had a more compatible career combination - the study of gold and stone.
The honey-like life nourished her graceful and vigorous artistic creation. Let's take a look at the two lyrics: The red lotus root is fragrant and the jade woven mat is in the fall, I gently untie my robe and go to the orchid boat alone. Who sends a brocade letter in the clouds? When the geese return, the moon is full in the west tower. The flowers are drifting away and the water is flowing away, a kind of lovesickness, two idle sorrows. There is no way to dispel these feelings, but they are on my mind. (A Pruned Plum)
On a flower stall, I bought a branch of spring that wanted to bloom. I'm not sure if I've ever had a good time, but I'm sure I'll be able to make it. I'm afraid that I'll guess that my face is not as good as the flower. I'm not sure if I'm going to be able to do that, but I'm going to try to make sure that I'm able to do it. （
The Jin people smashed the capital city of Bianjing (Kaifeng) with a hammer, and Li Qingzhao's love nest in Qingzhou, Shandong Province also fell down, and the family began to live a wandering life. In the second year of the South China Sea, Li Qingzhao died of an acute illness. A man named Zhang Ruzhou into her life. Just after the marriage, Zhang took good care of her, but soon revealed his original form, it turned out that he wanted to take possession of the artifacts that still existed around Li Qingzhao.
These things Li regarded as life, and the "Jinshi Lu" has not been organized into a book, of course, can not be lost. In the helpless, Li Qingzhao embarked on a desperate, fish death net, denounced Zhang Ruzhou's crime of cheating the king, Li Qingzhao also went to prison. Due to the help of friends, Li only sat in jail for nine days to be released. But this has left a heavy scar in the depths of her heart. The spark of love in a woman's heart was extinguished forever, how could this not make her depressed?
In 1134, the Jin people once again invaded the south, and Zhao Gong abandoned the capital and fled again. Li Qingzhao second exile to Jinhua. The country's fortunes were difficult, and her heart was overwhelmed with sorrow. Some people invited her to visit the nearby Shuangxi attractions, she sighed, no desire to travel: the wind and dust incense flowers have been exhausted, day and night tired of combing their hair. Things are different, want to talk about tears first. I heard that Shuangxi spring is still good, also want to pan light boat. I am afraid that my small boat can't carry many sorrows. ("Wuling Spring")
Has gradually entered the twilight of Li Qingzhao did not have children, guarding a small isolated compound, there is no one around the loved ones, the country has been difficult to ask, the family is afraid of mentioning, only the autumn wind sweeping the yellow leaves in front of the door circling, and occasionally there are one or two old friends to visit. She has a friend surnamed Sun, whose daughter is ten years old and extremely intelligent.
One day when the child came to play, Li Qingzhao said to her, you should learn something, I'm old, I would like to teach what I have learned in my life. I do not want the child said out of turn: "only algae is not a woman thing." Li Qingzhao could not help but draw a breath of cold air, she felt a dizziness, hand on the door frame, so that she barely did not fall.
Li Qingzhao felt as if she had fallen into an endless abyss on all sides, a terrible loneliness came to her. She walked in a daze among the falling leaves and yellow flowers of Hangzhou in late autumn, and recited this song, which condensed the pain of her whole life and heart and established her position in the history of Chinese literature:
Seeking and searching, cold and quiet, miserable and sad. It's hard to rest when it's warm and cold. The three cups and two cups of light wine, how to beat it, the evening wind rush. The geese have passed by, but they are sad, but they know each other from the old days. The yellow flowers are piled up all over the ground, emaciated and damaged, who can pick them now. I've been watching the window, and I'm not sure how I'm going to be able to get away with it alone. The sycamore tree is also drizzling, to the dusk, dotted and dotted. This time, how can I say the word "sorrow"?
What is Li Qingzhao looking for? As a woman, she can not be like Yue Fei as galloping on the frontier, but also can not be like Xin Qiji as the court proceedings, and not even like Lu, Xin as political and literary friends can be painful to make wine scolding the seat, the pain of patting the railing. She didn't even have the chance to socialize with them, only to be sad alone.
She with extraordinary talent and diligence, but also through the power of love, in the academic completion of the "Jinshi Lu" masterpiece, in the word art reached an unprecedented height. However, that society does not think strange, do not think merit, even the ten-year-old girl said "talent algae is not a woman thing. Li Qingzhao what else can be said? She had to chew their own bleak, and is only a sad.
With the progress of the times, Li Qingzhao many painful things and feelings have been answered, but we occasionally look back at the storm a thousand years ago, we can always see that standing in the autumn wind and yellow flowers in the search for the beauty of God.
Expanded Information:
The beauty god in the chaos of the world" tears drop and fall, for the main character Li Qingzhao's tragic life, for her transcendence of space and time state of mind, and that "how a word of sadness". Li Qingzhao was born into an official family in 1084, the seventh year of the Song dynasty.
The text says: "Li Qingzhao's father, Li Gefei, was an official of considerable standing in the imperial court, both a scholar and a literary scholar, and a student of Su Dongpo. Her mother was also a famous girl, good at literature. Such a birth made her perceive life, experience beauty, have an open vision, and have a noble temperament."
This kind of family and Li Qingzhao's later poems revealed the charm, enough to make her enjoy the beauty, mastery of beauty, while creating, while judging others, study of literature and art theory. Yes, Li Qingzhao was both talented and affectionate, she was rich in learning, her words moved Beijing and China, and her atmosphere was like a rainbow. In the feudal Song Dynasty, Li Qingzhao had the happiest marriage, she and Zhao Mingcheng is a literary confidant love affair, really heavenly good fortune, one in a hundred.
Here, Li Qingzhao had too much joy and happiness. Only later, in 1129, Zhao Mingcheng died of an acute illness. Qingzhao, like a reed in the wind, faltered and began the deep sorrows of the second half of her life. Li Qingzhao's ordeal is witnessed, she experienced remarriage and divorce, physical and mental upheaval, fleeing around, but also to endure the loneliness of transcendence of time and space, and even bear the shackles, jailed.
Mind and body have been severely damaged, and is already in her old age. She was even regarded as an alien by others when she was working with her heart and soul to write the Record of Golden Stones! Like Lu You such passionate patriotic poets, also think "talent algae is not a woman thing", Li Qingzhao what else can be said? She had to chew their own bleak and deep sadness, Li Qingzhao, she knew herself from the Xia Shang to Song, women have talent, writings of Liao Ruoxing, and the word art is only one of her ah.
However, heaven is not beautiful, let Li Qingzhao in the Song Dynasty, in that kind of time to escape, chaotic times, like Li Qingzhao such a person is really redundant ah, how can she not worry about it? And she, family sadness, national sadness, love sadness, academic sadness everything sad, and who can really understand her heart? "Talent algae is not a woman's business" is the people's evaluation of her, she is so, how can not worry about it.
So she chanted out her life of suffering metropolis of the "slow sound": searching for, cold and quiet, miserable and sad. The first warm and cold time, the most difficult to rest. Three cups and two glasses of light wine, how to beat it, the evening wind rush. The geese have passed by, but it is sad, but it is an old acquaintance. The yellow flowers are piled up all over the ground, emaciated and damaged, who can pick them now. I'm not sure if I'm going to be able to do that, but I'm going to be able to do it, and I'm going to be able to do it.
Wutong more and rain, to dusk, dripping. The first time, how a word of sadness! Li Qingzhao ah, your search, your pain miserable tragedy are now innocent. Autumn wind and yellow flowers, ah, a blink of an eye, all with you to go, your life, bumpy more end of the strange! Sprinkle drip drip, sadness! You are like Xianglin's wife and like Qiu Jin, only more sorrowful and more legendary than them! You are really a beautiful god in the chaotic world!
Li Qingzhao was born into a family of scholars, early life is well off, her father Li Gefei collection of books is very rich, she was a child in a good family environment to lay the foundation of literature. After her marriage, she and her husband, Zhao Mingcheng***, devoted themselves to the collection and organization of paintings, calligraphy and goldsmiths. When the Jin soldiers entered the Central Plains, the southern part of the country, the situation is lonely.
The lyrics he wrote were mostly about his leisurely life in the early period, but in the later period, he lamented his life, and his mood was sentimental. The form of the good use of white description techniques, open up their own way, the language is beautiful. On the word emphasizes the concordance, advocate elegance, put forward the word "other is a family", opposed to the method of poetry and literature for the word. He was able to write poems, but not many have survived. Some of his poems are very generous, unlike his lyrics.
Li Qingzhao was good at poetry and good at writing, and even better at words. Li Qingzhao's words, known as "Yi'an Words" and "Shuyu Words", were named after her name and collection. Li Qingzhao's words were known as "Yi'an Lyrics" and "Shuyu Lyrics", named after her name and collection. According to the compilation of present day people, there are about 45 of her lyrics that have been handed down till now, and there are more than 10 other doubtful lyrics. Her "Soyu Lyrics" is both male and marvelous.
She not only had profound literary training, but also had a bold creative spirit. In general, the content of her creative work is characterized by the changes in her life during the Northern and Southern Song dynasties.