"Rain Alley" is Dai Wangshu's famous work. The whole poem gives people a hazy and deep sense of beauty: the narrow and gloomy rain alley, the lone walker wandering in the rain alley, knotted like lilacs. The girl with sorrow and resentment, as sad and confused as a dream, floats by...
The girl described in the poem has the same color, the same fragrance as lilac, and the same fragrance as lilac. Sadness, lamentation in the rain, sadness and hesitation. What is the beauty of a lilac-like girl?
First of all, her color is like lilac, with a touch of lavender like mist, blooming calmly in the rainy season in the south of the Yangtze River. Lilac color, a traditional Chinese color. Light purple, elegant and quiet, is a symbol of nobility and melancholy. In ancient times, the purple color had the meaning of "purple air coming from the east", and it was a beautiful and fairy aristocratic color. Grape, eggplant, wisteria, cherry blossom, hibiscus, lilac, these are all different shades of purple in the Chinese color spectrum. Lilac color is slightly darker than cherry blossom and slightly lighter than hibiscus. These three colors are all based on a kind of flower tree.
I think the characteristic of lilac color is ethereal. The light purple of April lilacs is like a thin veil, gentle and diffuse, with flowing purple light. Who doesn’t want to indulge in this psychedelic purple? When we talk about willows in early spring, we always say smoke willow. As the first plant to wake up in spring, the faint smoky green on the willow tips always attracts special attention. This feeling is as ethereal as yarn, lightly touched, and hazy as the wind swings, spreading the breath of spring. If you want to take a closer look, it is as hazy as the fog on the river. Lilac has the same style as a willow tree. When the flowers bloom, there is a cloud of purple mist. If you encounter such a tree on the roadside or on the shore, it will be fragrant and overflowing with light purple. If there has just been a spring rain, the light rain gradually stops, and the tender fragrance is moist, the feeling is very touching. The lilac girl in Dai Wangshu's painting, after a sudden glance, her graceful figure passed by in the rain alley. Lilac girl has a sense of dreaminess. What color is she? She is fairy purple, separated by a hazy distance.
Secondly, she smells like lilac. Lilac is so named because its flower tubes are as slender as nails and are fragrant. Clusters of tiny flowers, with hundreds and thousands of heads, are overflowing with fragrance. The lilac-like girl walks gently past you and gradually goes away, but the fragrance is still lingering in the air and lingers for a long time.
How to write about Diao Chan, one of the four beauties, in "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms"? When he appeared for the first time, it was just said that he was good at singing, dancing, and good at sex, and there was no other outstanding feature. But we first showed Diao Chan's beautiful appearance from the side through words such as "Lu Bu watched intently", the two people's expressions of affection, and then Dong Zhuo smiled and said: "He is truly a god among immortals!" Later, Luo Guanzhong used two hymns to praise Diao Chan's singing and dancing skills. In one of them, when Diao Chan was singing, the original text of "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms" was as follows: Zhuo said: "Can you sing?" He ordered Diao Chan to hold a sandalwood board and sing in a low voice. A song. It's exactly: "A bit of cherry opens the lips, two rows of broken jade spray out the spring. Lilac tongue spits out the steel sword, to kill the evil and rebellious ministers." Dong Zhuo praised him endlessly (see Chapter 8 of "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms" "Wang Situ cleverly used a series of tricks" As a result, Diao Chan was a peerless singer. When she opened her mouth to sing, her lips were as red as cherries, her teeth were like two rows of broken jade, and her tongue spit out fragrance. Liang Sanri. Its wind and charm are fascinating. As a world-famous spice, lilac is an evergreen tree in the Myrtle family, 10-15 meters tall. When blooming, the fragrance is unparalleled. When the buds turn from light green to dark red, they are picked and dried to turn into yellowish brown. They are also known as "chicken tongue fragrance" and "lilac fragrance". They are shaped like nails and can be used for cooking and cooking. Used as medicine, incense, and tea. Historically, cloves were introduced into China as an imported "Southern medicine" (medicine grown in tropical areas) in the 3rd century BC. The people of the Han Dynasty once described Shang Shulang very elegantly as "Huai." Xiang holds orchid" - holding the fragrance of chicken tongue, that is, the tropical spice clove, in his arms, and holding peran, a fragrant herb.
Because of the lingering fragrance, it was referred to as "lilac tongue" in ancient times The word "lilac" refers to the teeth in a woman's mouth. The common lilac in the north of my country, whose scientific name is North China lilac, belongs to the genus Oleaceae and is a deciduous shrub and small tree, along with the spice lilac from tropical areas. It doesn't matter at all. Whether the lilac in Dai Wangshu's "Rain Alley" refers to an evergreen tree of the Myrtaceae family or a small deciduous shrub of the Oleaceae family, they all refer to fragrant grass and trees, exuding a fragrance like blue musk deer.
The lilac girl comes from the depths of Chinese culture, from the symbols in the Book of Songs, to the extensive use and modification in Chu Ci, to the more detailed metaphors in the novels of the Ming and Qing Dynasties, and to the "Lilac Girl" with profound cultural connotations. Vanilla Beauty”.
In the end, her sorrow was like lilac. When the lilac flowers are not in bloom, their inflorescences are cone-shaped, like a human heart. The buds are densely covered on the branches and remain in bud, just like a person's sad heart. They are full of silk knots, so they are called "lilac knots". Lilacs were often used by ancient literati to describe people's worries and worries, which are difficult to resolve, and to describe the sorrow of separation. Lilac is a complex of infatuated love. The image of lilac in many classical poems ranges from Du Fu's "The lilac is weak, and its branches are about to fall" to Li Shangyin's "The plantains do not show their lilac knots, but they are all sad in the same spring breeze", Feng Yansi's "The branches of the frost tree are empty, and the lilac knots are broken in the heart", to Li Jing's "The blue bird does not send foreign messages from the clouds, and the lilacs are empty and knotted in the rain", most of them are the bitter love that is desired, the affectionate love in vain, thousands of times, the heart The knot is difficult to untie. Dai Wangshu created a symbolic and lyrical image of a lilac-like girl with a sad head, which was obviously inspired by some works in ancient poetry.
The melancholy Lilac girl is a girl who is delicate, elegant, charming and lovable. As long as she takes one more look, she can't help but be attracted. In the mournful song of the rain, her color disappeared, her fragrance dispersed, her eyes were even as breathless, and her melancholy was as melancholy as lilac. The Lilac girl drifted away and reached the end of the rain alley, "reaching the crumbling fence." Is that dilapidated and decaying fence the girl's destination? The danger of this situation, the many fates, and the pitiful life experience make people miss him even more, and the love will never be forgotten.
"Like a lilac branch floating through the field in a dream, this girl is floating beside me." This poem is both real and imaginary, hazy and trance-like. The color and fragrance of lilacs are all dreams. Just as misty, as if present and far away, lingering and melancholy. Maybe I have written so much, and my interpretation of Lilac Girl doesn’t make much sense. You don’t have to ask so specific questions, and you don’t have to answer so accurately. Poetry is poetry after all, as the predecessors said: "Poems can be interpreted, cannot be interpreted, and do not need to be interpreted." Especially Dai Wangshu's early poems, most of them are not direct imitations of reality, but are often the catharsis of a hidden soul. "Rain Lane" may be a real life encounter, a fantasy that emerges from deep thinking, or it may be a dream written.
All the best poetry is infinite. The curtains can be lifted one after another, but the innermost naked beauty of its true meaning can never be exposed. It seems that getting it is the attitude we should have when reading poetry. Good poetry makes people helpless: the lines are so beautiful that it feels disrespectful to try to dissect its meaning; the poetry is so dense that it would feel disrespectful to just appreciate the beauty; the meaning of poetry is so mysterious that even trying to understand it thoroughly feels disrespectful. Presumptuous. The glasses are full of flowers and moonlight, and the feelings in the hands are empty.