Hair like snow
Wolf-toothed moon
"Wolf-toothed moon" refers to the fact that the moon has the same color as a wolf's tooth, rather than the shape of a wolf's tooth. , because although the wolf's teeth are in the shape of a sickle-shaped hook, they can only be regarded as half of the first or last quarter moon, and the roots of the other half of the deeply buried teeth are not in the same sickle-shaped hook shape, and the word "wolf tooth moon" It is also clear that the adjective is describing the color of the moon rather than its shape.
Therefore, the "wolf tooth moon" means that the color of the moon is painted with a layer of slightly mottled beige like a wolf tooth. It mainly uses the image of "wolf tooth" to emphasize the depression and vastness of the scenery. .
It should be noted that the word "Langya Yue" has not yet been quoted in any ancient poems, so its original source cannot be indicated, nor can it be explained that in addition to describing the scenery, "Langya Yue" does not describe the scenery. Examples and usage of other rhetorical quotations.
In other words, if someone wants to quote or explain the term "wolf tooth moon" in the future, they will only have the explanation and source here! "Langya Moon" first appeared in the lyrics of Fang Wenshan's "Hair Like Snow": "Langya Moon, the beauty is haggard, I raised my glass and drank up the wind and snow...
"Langya Moon" is The moonlight is described as the color of a wolf's fang, emphasizing the depression and vastness of the scenery.
伊人
The origin of the phrase "伊人" can be traced back to the "Book of Songs? Qin Feng? Jianjia Pian" written more than 2,500 years ago: " The jianjia is green, and the white dew is like frost.
The so-called Yiren is on the side of the water...
"Yiren" means another person, and its usage mainly refers to that person or the person you like. third person.
In ancient times, it was universal for both men and women. Nowadays, it mostly refers to young women. "Yiren" is the girl you fall in love with.
Another way of borrowing the phrase "伊人" is to allude to a wise king or a virtuous minister, or it may also refer to the common people who follow good customs.
For example, Tao Yuanming's "Poetry of Peach Blossom Spring" of the Jin Dynasty contains: "The Ying family is in chaos, and sages avoid their world.
In Huangqi's Shangshan, the beautiful woman passed away in the clouds...
"The beautiful people also passed away" in the poem refers to "the people who lived in the Peach Blossom Spring also left the land of Qin".
Stirring up the Dust
According to the "Sixth Patriarch's Altar Sutra", the fifth ancestor of Zen Buddhism, Hong Ren, wanted to know the state of enlightenment of his disciples one day, so he asked his disciples to write verses and teach themselves. The great disciple Shenxiu took the lead in writing a verse: "The body is like a bodhi tree, and the mind is like a mirror. I always brush it diligently to prevent it from causing dust." The Sixth Patriarch Huineng retorted: "The Bodhi Book There is no tree, and the mirror is not a stand. There is nothing in the first place, so how can it cause dust?
"The meaning of Shenxiu's verse is that as a disciple of Buddhism, you should be clean and self-loving, resist temptation, and not let the Buddha's teachings pass you by. The Sixth Patriarch Huineng believed that Buddhism was not a concrete vessel in the first place. Since there was no representation at the beginning, where did the space come from to attract dust? The two men had different levels of enlightenment to Zen Buddhism. They are often cited by later generations to explain the extent of their understanding of Buddhism!
Beauty
"Beautiful Beauty" is a term of metonymy. It mainly has two borrowed meanings. One refers to youth and youth; the other refers specifically to women and beauties.
In Li Bai's poem "Gift to Meng Haoran": "My love for Master Meng is known all over the world.
The beauty abandons the crown, and the white head lies on the pine cloud...
" And in another poem by Li Bai, "Changgan Xing": "In August, the butterflies are yellow, flying on the grass in the West Garden; I feel this hurts my heart, and I sit and worry about the old beauty...
" Beauty. Here it refers to youth and youth.
In addition, Bai Juyi's "Ci of the Harem" in the Tang Dynasty includes: "I can't dream with my tears wet in my turban, and I sing in the front hall late at night."
The beauties are cut off before they grow old, and they recline.
" and Wu Weiye's "Yuanyuanqu" of the Qing Dynasty: "On that day, Dinghu abandoned the world, defeated the enemy and took the capital down to Yuguan. All the six armies were in mourning, and they rushed to the top. Anger is beauty...
"The beauty here refers to women and beauties.
The idiom "A beauty has a bad life" comes from the 70th chapter of "Journey to the West": "...It is true that since ancient times, beauties have a bad life, and they are speechless to the east wind...
" It means that beautiful women have had bad fates since ancient times, and their endings are usually not good.
Qing History
The "Qing" here refers to bamboo slips, and "Shi" refers to history or history books.
Because in ancient times before paper was invented, most ordinary books were made of bamboo slips.
Bamboo slips are bamboo pieces strung together. The ancients compiled them into a book shaped like the word "book". They were used as writing tools by the ancients and were also used to record history, so they became known as "book" in later generations. Qingshi is the name for history books.
The idiom "leaving a name in history" means leaving a reputation in history and immortality.
In addition, the word "history" also refers to history books. Because there is a layer of bamboo green on the surface of the bamboo, which contains moisture and is difficult to engrave, the ancients put the bamboo slips on the fire to bake.
Fire-roasted bamboo slips are easy to carve and are insect-proof.
At that time, people called this burning process "finalization", also called "history".
Therefore, the word history has also been extended by later generations to be compared to history books.
For example, Wen Tianxiang's "Crossing the Lingding Ocean" contains: "...The emperor is afraid on the beach, and the emperor is afraid, and the Lingding Ocean sighs at Lingding.
Since ancient times, no one has died in life, so he keeps his loyalty. According to history."
Three Thousands
The original sentence of "Three Thousands of Weak Waters" comes from Chapter 91 of "A Dream of Red Mansions": "... Baoyu was stunned for a long time, and suddenly laughed. ：Although there are three thousand weak water, I only drink one ladle.
"The word "weak water" first appeared in "Shangshu".
In the chapter "Yu Gong": "...lead weak water to Heli.
"Weak water was used in ancient times to refer to dangerous and distant rivers. Nowadays, "weak water" is used to refer to dangerous and distant rivers. "Extended to the love river.
"Three Thousands" is derived from Buddhist terms. For example, the three thousand worlds in Buddhism describe the infinite and boundless vast universe that breeds life.
"One scoop of drink" is found in "The Analects of Confucius."
"Yong Ye Chapter": "The Master said: "How virtuous! Return to Ye."
One basket of food, one ladle of drink, living in a shady alley...
"" The original meaning of "Wei Shui is three thousand miles long, but only one scoop is taken to drink". , although there are many people I can date, but I only like you, it refers to a person's single-minded relationship.
Hair is Like Snow
The song title of "Hair is like Snow" is original like "East Wind Breaks" and is not plagiarized from any classical poetry or lyrics. It is mentioned in Jay Chou's "November" In the traditional Chinese version of Chopin's lyrics, there is a line of quotation under the title of the song "Hair Like Snow". The original sentence is as follows: "In a very frozen place, there is a woman in the snowy land, with a charming voice, white skin, and eyes like the moon. Its hair is like snow; a poem laments: Winter butterflies will be miserable forever.
"This quotation does not come from any ancient historical data, but is actually created by the author to create the classical temperament of "Hair is like snow". Deliberately fabricated sentences in the form of classical Chinese.
The title of the song "Hair Like Snow" is inspired by Li Bai's poem "About to Enter the Wine": "If you don't see it, the water of the Yellow River comes up from the sky, rushing to the sea and never returns; if you don't see it, the mirror in the high hall will be sad and white." "My hair is like black hair in the morning and turns into snow in the evening..." After reading it, the author lamented that his green hair turned into snow overnight, hence the term "hair is like snow".
Invite the bright moon
In the lyrics of "Hair is like Snow": "Invite the bright moon, let the memories be bright...
" and "I raise my glass and drink it up" The wind and snow...
"These two sentences are borrowed from Li Bai's poem "Drinking Alone under the Moon": "A pot of wine among the flowers, drinking alone without any blind date; raising a glass to invite the bright moon, facing each other to become three people... ….
"The author split "Toast a glass to invite the bright moon" into "Toast a glass" and "Invite the bright moon" and incorporated them into the lyrics respectively, but only based on the popularity and familiarity of the poem, which is consistent with the original The meaning of the sentence is irrelevant.
Raise a glass to the bright moon and make three people's shadows. The three people in this sentence refer to Li Bai, the moon, and Li Bai's own shadow.
Bronze Mirror
Modern people often use mirrors made of mercury mirrors to dress their hair. However, before the advent of ancient glass mirrors, the ancients used copper-tin alloy casting methods to make copper. After the bronze mirror is poured, the mirror surface is polished to reflect the surface. It is used to correct clothes and groom appearance in daily life.
There is a famous sentence related to bronze mirrors in "Tang Shu Wei Zheng Biography": "Taizong said to Liang Gong: 'Using copper as a mirror, you can straighten your clothes; using ancient mirrors, you can know the rise and fall;' Using people as mirrors can reveal gains and losses.
I try to use these three mirrors to guard against my mistakes. > '"
2. Chrysanthemum Terrace
In ancient China, "six" was the yin number and "nine" was the yang number. The ninth day of September coincides with the two yang numbers. , so people call it "Double Ninth Festival", also called "Double Ninth Festival".
The origin of the Double Ninth Festival can be traced back to the early Han Dynasty.
After Madam Qi, the beloved concubine of Han Emperor Liu Bang, was brutally murdered by Empress Lu, the maid Jia who served Madam Qi was also expelled from the palace and married to a poor man.
Jia Mou reported: In the palace, on the ninth day of September every year, people wear dogwood, eat bait, and drink chrysanthemum wine in order to live longer.
Folks have the custom of climbing high during the Double Ninth Festival, so it is also called the "Climbing Festival". Because everyone has to wear chrysanthemums to appreciate the chrysanthemums during the Double Ninth Festival, so a chrysanthemum stand is put down at a high place to watch the chrysanthemums. Chrysanthemum Terrace is the theme song of "A City Full of Golden Armor". Synopsis of the story: The film tells the story of the Tang Dynasty. The emperor, queen and general are the three core characters in the film.
The prototype of the story comes from Cao Yu's "Thunderstorm", but the background is set in the Tang Dynasty.
Yuan Chao (Jay Chou) is the most skilled general in martial arts, so he was appointed as the head of the palace guard...
3. Fireworks are easy to cold
Internet rumors Fang Wenshan explained that the allusion behind the lyrics and story of the song "Fireworks Easily Cold" originated from "Luoyang Jialan Ji".
The fact is that there is no such story in the main text and notes of Luoyang Jialanji.
This statement is a false statement made up by Fang Wenshan or netizens to hype up the song by wrapping it in the guise of classical culture.
"Fireworks Easily Cold" has nothing to do with "Luoyang Jialan Ji", but the fictional story describes the thousand years of prosperity and collapse that Yang Xuanzhi wrote more than 1,500 years ago. In the ancient capital of Luoyang, the love story between a royal general and the woman he admires.
After the general met the woman by chance, the two fell in love at first sight and made a private commitment for life. At this time, the general was recruited by the court to fight on the border. In the years of war and chaos, the imperial capital Luoyang has been reduced to ruins and dilapidated. In the end, the woman stayed with the general and became a nun. When the general returned from the storm and found the ancient Jialan Temple where the woman became a monk, she had already passed away.
The general could only listen to the rain falling one after another outside the ancient Jialan Temple. He recalled the past when he envied others and lamented that human affairs are just like fireworks, easily cold and easy to separate.
Historical background
The story of "Fireworks Easily Cold" took place during the Southern and Northern Dynasties. At that time, the Southern Song Dynasty headed by Emperor Wu Liu Yu of the Song Dynasty, and the Northern Wei Dynasty headed by Emperor Daowu Tuoba Gui, It was a divisive period in Chinese history.
Beginning in AD 420, wars between the Southern and Northern Dynasties continued due to the expansion of power and the annexation of territory. During this period, the Southern Dynasties suffered more losses than wins.
In 422 AD, Emperor Wu of the Song Dynasty Liu Yu died of illness. Emperor Tuoba Si of the Ming Yuan Dynasty in the Northern Wei Dynasty launched a large-scale attack on the Song Dynasty and successively captured Jintang (Luoyang), Hulao and Huatai.
In 430, Emperor Wen of the Song Dynasty Liu Yilong recovered the lost territory south of the Yellow River, forcing the Wei army to retreat. The Song Dynasty successively occupied Huatai, Luoyang, and Hulao.
In the same year, the Northern Wei Dynasty counterattacked across the board, conquering Jintang, Luoyang, Hulao and Huatai.
In 449 AD, Tuoba Tao defeated Rouran, and then directed his troops against Liu Song. In order to prevent the Wei army from going south, Emperor Wen of the Song Dynasty sent troops to attack the north.
Because Emperor Wen of the Song Dynasty showed his merits, he poked good generals and killed Pei Fangming and other famous generals, which greatly reduced morale. In addition, with the continuous wars, the national strength gradually declined. The army had no generals to defend the enemy for a long time, and he ignored the courtiers. In the 11th year of Zhenjun Taiping's rebellion, the Wei army launched an attack on Wei. The Wei army launched a counterattack and crossed the Yellow River with millions of people, approaching step by step. The Song army had no choice but to retreat south. From then on, Emperor Wen of the Song Dynasty was no longer able to compete for the Central Plains.
In 493 AD, Emperor Xiaowen of Wei Tuoba Hong moved the capital to Luoyang.
Frequently went south to attack Qi (in 479, Xiao Daocheng, the leading general of the Song Dynasty, established the Qi Dynasty on behalf of the Song Dynasty). So far, the Northern Wei and Southern Qi had been engaged in a 23-year war...
The story of "Fireworks Easily Cold" is a description of a poignant love story in that war-torn era.
It started to rain. The general looked at the mist and rain outside the door, and his thoughts drifted to a far away place...
During the period of Emperor Wen of the Song Dynasty, a city-defending general was ordered to garrison Luoyang City. I met a local woman, hit it off instantly, and soon made a private engagement for life.
At this time, the Northern Wei Dynasty invaded, and the general was ordered to go out. When he said goodbye, he took the woman's hand and said, "After I win the battle, I will come back to marry you..."
The two of them fell in love. Farewell, the woman stood guard at the city gate, watching the general sitting on the saddle, and left without looking back...
The general left for several months, during which Liu and Song retreated steadily. Emperor Wen of the Song Dynasty killed two generals in a fit of anger, and the Northern Wei Dynasty launched an all-out attack to forcefully cross the Yellow River. Emperor Wen of the Song Dynasty ignored the advice of his courtiers and launched a strong attack. After being defeated, Luoyang fell.
Emperor Wen of the Song Dynasty had no choice but to withdraw his troops, while the seriously injured general fled to his hometown.
After the general recovered from his injuries, he originally wanted to return to the court, but at this time Liu Song was defeated, and there was only a dead end for him to go back.
The general has never been afraid of death, but thinking about the oath he made and being disheartened by Emperor Wen of the Song Dynasty for his indiscriminate killing of good generals, he had no choice but to commit himself to a foreign country, hoping that one day the war would end and the war would be over again. Return to her side.
At the gate of the city where they said goodbye, there was a woman who often sat on a stone slab waiting for her beloved to come back.
Whenever she met someone returning from the front, the woman asked if she had seen the general, but there was no news of the general returning victoriously.
The woman never gave up and still waited day after day.
Several decades passed, and finally the woman became a nun after she was not seen by the general.
This story was passed down to the general, and finally reached the ears of the general.
But the general cannot go back. At this time, the Northern Wei Dynasty has moved its capital to Luoyang. This is an indisputable fact. The war between the Northern and Southern Dynasties is still going on. He must survive until the day the war ends...
I don’t know how many years passed, but the war finally ended.
For the first time, the general returned to the place he thought about day and night.
Dressed as a commoner, he came to the dilapidated and mottled city gate. He walked to the place where they parted, next to the long withered tree, and touched the piece that she had been wearing every day. The stone slab he was sitting on while waiting for his return...
The elegant sound of the flute came from the outskirts of the city. People passing by told the general that there was a woman here who had been waiting for her beloved to return...
< p> Setting foot on a familiar land again, his inner feelings were so complicated, as if everything had returned to the time when he was envious of others...He searched for her traces in this dilapidated and lonely city. , but could not be found, the rain from the sky fell one after another...
He believed that she had been waiting for him...
The old man in the lonely city told him that she had always been alone... Until the day he died...
The monk returned to the futon and sat quietly, beating the wooden fish...
The rain from the sky was still falling, falling on the On the stone slab outside the Zen room...
Topics outside the song
In 547 AD, Yang Xuanzhi, Sima of Fujun Mansion in the Northern Wei Dynasty, passed through Luoyang and saw "the city walls collapsed and the official offices overturned." , temples ashes, temples, towers, and ruins." I saw "the walls were covered with wormwood, the alleys were filled with thorns, wild beasts burrowed on the deserted steps, and mountain birds nested in the trees in the courtyard." I lamented, "There are more than a thousand temples outside and inside, but today they are few and far between, and the bells are ringing. "Rarely heard of", looking back on the past, he wrote "Luoyang Jialan Ji".
Is this book just about the sorrow of parting and parting like "Fireworks Easily Cold"? If so, it would not have such a high historical status.
Yang Xuanzhi used the rise and fall of Buddhist temples to reflect the rise and fall of the country, allowing us to see how the powerful Northern Wei Dynasty perished in forty years.
When people talk about arrogance and extravagance, the first thing that comes to mind is the Western Jin Dynasty. Shi Chong and others were keen on fighting for wealth, and high-ranking officials were extravagant.
The Northern Wei Dynasty went further than the Western Jin Dynasty. It is said that Yin Jian was not far away. However, the Northern Wei Dynasty not only failed to learn the lessons of the Western Jin Dynasty, but also repeated the same mistakes.
According to "Luoyang Jialan Ji", in the Northern Wei Dynasty, "the princes and princesses of the imperial clan were good at the wealth of mountains and seas, lived in the richness of Sichuan and forests, competed to build gardens and houses, and competed with each other.
"The king of Gaoyang, Yuanyong, was as rich as any other country. His official residence was the same as the imperial palace, his garden was comparable to the forbidden garden, he had six thousand servants and five hundred courtesans. He blocked the roads when traveling with ceremonial guards. When he returned, he sang and danced day and night. One meal was worth tens of thousands." , Since the Jin Dynasty, kings have never been extravagant."
Whenever Wang Yuanchen of Hejian competed with Yuan Yong for wealth, he once said: "Shi Chong of the Jin Dynasty is a commoner, but he can still draw pheasants and foxes. Eggs and carvings are used as fuel; what if I, the King of Wei, are not extravagant?" He has more than ten horses, all with silver troughs and gold rings. On the windows are jade phoenixes holding bells and golden dragons spitting pendants.
Yuan Chen often entertained kings with banquets. There were dozens of wine vessels including crystal bowls, agate cups, glass bowls, and red jade bowls. They were exquisitely made and were not found in the Central Plains. They were all from the Western Regions.
He also displayed female musicians, famous horses and rare treasures, and invited kings to visit. There were countless money and silks in the treasury.
He said something very conceited to Wang Yuanrong of Zhangwu: "If you don't hate me, you won't see Shi Chong; if you hate Shi Chong, he won't see me."
This Yuanrong was also known as a wealthy man After returning from Yuan Chen's house, he sighed and became seriously ill for three days.
When Empress Dowager Hu was in power, she asked officials to go to the treasury to carry silk and give them as much as they carried.
All the ministers tried their best to carry it, but Yuan Rong and Chen Liuhou Li Chong carried it too much and injured their ankles.
The magnificent temples recorded in the book were all built with money.
The vitality of the Northern Wei Dynasty was quickly exhausted in such squandering.
The Six Towns Uprising dealt a heavy blow to the rule of the Northern Wei Dynasty. The Erzhu family's rebellion destroyed the city of Luoyang and also destroyed the Northern Wei Dynasty.
It only took forty years from the peak of the Northern Wei Dynasty to the end of the Northern Wei Dynasty - it was like fireworks.
4. Red Dust Inn
Speaking of Fang Wenshan’s lyrics, I think his lyrics are becoming more and more sophisticated. Previous classic Chinese style works such as "Dongfeng Po" and "Blue and White Porcelain" It is relatively easy to understand, but the later "Fireworks Easily Cold", including this song "Red Dust Inn", are more difficult to understand.
I think it may be that Fang Wenshan's lyrics are getting bigger and bigger. "Fireworks Are Easy to Cold" is adapted from "Luoyang Jialan Ji" written more than 1,400 years ago, while "Red Dust Inn" is about singing a legend of the world. , the horizons are becoming wider and wider, and the momentum is becoming more and more magnificent.
Jay Chou has been in the industry for more than ten years, and Fang Wenshan is still the best writer of Chinese style.
Nowadays, Chinese style is popular, and a large number of poets write about Chinese style, but they are far behind Fang Wenshan.
I remember that Fang Wenshan seemed to have written lyrics for other singers. I don’t know who that singer was.
Only Fang Wenshan’s lyrics and Jay Chou’s singing are the best combination.
Fang Wenshan's lyrics are becoming more and more profound and difficult to pronounce. It is really difficult for Jay Chou, who was born in "Nunchaku" to sing.
I think "Blue and White Porcelain" and "East Wind Breaks" (including "Chrysanthemum Terrace") are relatively easy to sing, while "Fireworks Easily Cold" and "Red Dust Inn" are more difficult to sing.
"Red Dust Inn" seems to be about a person who is in the world and is tired of the world. However, just as those celebrities who wrote poems praising Tao Yuanming all pursued making achievements, Fang Wenshan wrote this mentality perfectly, " How can a person who has a country in his heart be happy and carefree?" He always thinks about how he can be happy with fame and fortune.
This is still the case in the entertainment industry. You have to work hard to sing and act, and show off your spots and exposure just to attract popularity. If you really want to quit the world, you will end up like Miss Tang Lijun in "Party A and Party B" ending.
The sentence "Fighting in the arena is nothing more than fame and fortune" is really the finishing touch and hits the nail on the head.
5. Blue and white porcelain
Fang Wenshan met several friends who appreciate antique art, and sometimes made bronzes and other works with them.
"I'm Very Busy" album Cover
During the chat about Song porcelain and Ming and Qing furniture, which spanned thousands of years and discussed the past and present, he was inspired to use those handed down Chinese artworks as the title of the song.
The first thing that Fang Wenshan thought of at that time was bronze wares. Originally, the title of the song was to be based on the bronze wares that had been cast since the Yin and Shang Dynasties. The thickness of bronze symbolized the steadfastness of love; the mottled patina of thousands of years. To metaphorize the vicissitudes of world affairs; to illustrate the mystery of the oath with the incomprehensible inscriptions on the vessels.
But when he first started writing, he found that the melody of Jay Chou's song was gentle, euphemistic, elegant and refined, so that all that came to his mind were images of misty Jiangnan.
And because the bronzes at that time were also made into weapons for killing enemies, the word "bronze" seemed too thick and clumsy, full of the smoke of fighting, so the lyrics that were still being conceived had not yet been written. Have given up.
Later, Fang Wenshan chose Ru Kiln porcelain, which was very popular during the Song Dynasty, mainly because of its rarity.
Due to factors such as the war, changes in the glaze formula and the kiln firing process, there are only about 70 Ru kiln treasures handed down in the world, which can be called a national treasure and extremely precious.
But the problem arises again, because the pure and high-quality Ru kiln has only one color, which is "sky blue", without any fancy patterns at all, and the shape is simple and elegant. In my opinion, it is just like today Although the works of the master of minimalism have a simple connotation and a durable texture, they always feel inadequate to describe the strange and changeable love that is both love and hate.
Although in the end I did not use Ru Kiln as the title of the lyrics, in the process of collecting writing materials, I came up with the sentence "After the rain, the sky and the blue clouds break the virginity, this color is the future."
< p>" inspired him to write the first line of the chorus "The sky is blue and waiting for the misty rain".This remark is said to have originated from Song Huizong, because the Ru kiln at that time was exclusively used by the Song royal family. After the kiln officials finished firing the Ru kiln porcelain, they asked Song Huizong to name the color of the Ru kiln porcelain. Comment: "After the rain, the sky and blue clouds break the virginity, this color is the future.
" From then on, azure became the color name designated by Ru kiln porcelain.
But later Fang Wenshan gave up using Ru Kiln as the title of the song. Not only because its characteristics are not suitable for lingering and pathos love, the name of Ru Kiln is also not poignant enough.
After several twists and turns, the title was finally determined to refer to blue and white porcelain, which was first fired in the Tang Dynasty and has lasted for more than a thousand years. It is the most representative export art in early China.
After Fang Wenshan decided on the lyrics of "The sky is waiting for misty rain", it didn't take long for him to write the second line of the chorus "And I'm waiting for you", so the key to the first line of the chorus The words are born from conception: "The sky is blue waiting for misty rain, and I am waiting for you."
Because the azure color described in the lyrics cannot appear on its own, it must wait patiently for a rain that does not know when it will come, so that it can appear with the azure color in the clear and clear sky when the cumulus clouds have dispersed. Color appears.
Because the sky will appear blue after the rain and the sky clears up. Only when it rains first can the sky be blue. But Fang Wenshan said the other way around, if you want to see the sky blue, you can only wait for it to rain first.
Also, the reason why "Misty Rain" is used instead of "Raining" is purely because the artistic conception of "Misty Rain" is more beautiful.
The word "re" used in the lyrics is Fang Wenshan's famous verse from the Sixth Patriarch Huineng: "Bodhi has no tree, and the mirror is not a stand. The experience gained from "Into the Dust".
When writing the sentence "The plantain provokes the shower door knocker and causes the patina", Fang Wenshan first uses the classical Chinese phrase "the plantain provokes the shower door knocker and causes the patina" to express the scene, and then proceeds with the more vernacular next sentence A section of "And I pissed you off when I passed by that Jiangnan town" is considered a confrontation.
Because the plantain and the door knocker are static objects, they can only passively wait for the showers and wait for the patina to slowly oxidize after years of erosion; but the "I" of the personal pronoun is different from the plantain and the door knocker. Because "I" can move freely, I accidentally "provoked" you when I passed by a small town in Jiangnan. I didn't passively wait for you, but took the initiative to get to know you.
Therefore, although the verb "provoke" is also used, its activeness and passivity are completely different. Moreover, in this passage, Fang Wenshan used the word "provoke" three times in a row, with the same meaning. The usage is different and interesting.
In short, Fang Wenshan wrote this song very hard, but he also felt very accomplished
6. Thousands of Miles Away
The lyrics of "Thousands of Miles Away" It describes the love between sons and daughters during a period of great war. The phrase "where deep love lies, life and death are hard to guess" points out that love in war years often ends in tragedy.
The lyrics delicately describe the feelings and sentiments of the lost love, and Fang Wenshan's smooth writing adds a lot of points to the song.
Continuing the tragedy of the previous album "Hair Like Snow", Jay Chou and Fei Yuqing sang the tragedy of the great era in a male-male duet.
This duet song performed by Fei Yuqing and Jay Chou, who have completely different styles of music, can stand the test of time better.
The Chinese style created by Thai bells kicks off the story, and Fang Wenshan’s poetic lyrics describe the era that belonged to Xu Zhimo and Lu Xiaoman, a war-torn era, when lovers separated for safety, "I I'm sending you away, thousands of miles away." Who would have thought that we would never see each other again.
Jay Chou invited Fei Yuqing to sing this classical-style love song, which is a masterpiece. The touching melody and images were all handled by Jay Chou. From the music to the idea of ??the story, and then to the shooting of the musical movie, Jay Chou In one go, weaving this epic drama of the times.
7. Dongfeng Po
The name "Dongfeng Po" comes from an ancient folk music form called Qu Po.
The sentence "After you leave, the wine warms the memory and I miss you" comes from Li Qingzhao's sentence "It should be green, fat, red and thin".
8. Wushuang
The MV of the song "Wushuang" tells a story of revenge for love, but there is no female character in the whole story.
9. Passerby from the End of the World
The plot is performed by Darren Qiu Kaiwei, Jay Chou's younger brother. It describes that this ancient town is holding a festival related to Hanfu. Darren plays a photographer who shuttles around the festival to capture the activities. Wonderful scene, but accidentally captured a heroine who made him attracted. From then on, the camera secretly captured many scenes of girls, and the heroine was a painter who came to this event to sketch. When she discovered Darren, she couldn't help but start I drew him, so the two met in the poetic ancient town of Xitang
10. Preface to Lanting
"It has nothing to do with the wind and the moon. I will write the preface and wait for you to return to the shore of Xuanbi Yijue." "Thousands of Waves"
Following "Chrysanthemum Terrace" and "Blue and White Porcelain", Fang Wenshan then writes Chinese style with the theme of "Orchid Pavilion Preface", which is the best in calligraphy! The beautiful words and sentences are amazing! Using the flowing lines of calligraphy, the meticulous ancient woman's gentle steps are described as she opens the door and comes out under the moon; and then uses "A thousand-year-old monument is easy to touch, but it is difficult to touch your beauty, and the true work can never be given to anyone" to describe the woman's unparalleled beauty. It can be imitated and compared; "Yan Nanfei turned around and brushed off your tears", which is a metaphor for the Eastern Jin Dynasty in Wang Xizhi's time. It was the time when the royal family moved southward and was in a state of decline, leaving the beautiful lady in the north to "sleep with a handful of moonlight in her hands and memories"; although It has nothing to do with romance, I am waiting for you to reply to a poem with a preface, but when I am hanging the pen in my hand and about to write it down, the thoughts raging in my heart are like thousands of waves on the shore. How can I understand love? No matter how I write, it will not be right. If it is not If you really fall in love once, you probably won’t be able to copy the ever-changing love like the Orchid Pavilion sequence in your lifetime!
Jay Chou sings the chorus repeatedly in the manner of a Peking Opera Xiaodan, which feels like a play within a play, adding to the classical beauty of the Orchid Pavilion preface.
"Lanting Preface" is a work by the famous calligrapher Wang Xizhi of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, who is said to be the best in cursive script in the world. At the end of the Western Jin Dynasty, the Jin Dynasty royal family moved to Jiankang (today's Nanjing), and wealthy families such as Wang and Xie moved to Jiankang (now Nanjing). Jiang, so people gathered in eastern Zhejiang.
It is said that on the third day of March in the ninth year of Yonghe (353 AD) of Emperor Mu, the 33-year-old Wang Xizhi of Kuaiji, Sun Tong and Sun Chuo of Taiyuan, Wang Binzhi of Guanghan, and Xie An of Chenjun , Gaoping Xi Tan, Taiyuan Wang Yun and other forty-one fathers and sons held a memorial ceremony at the Lanting Pavilion in Shanyin, Kuaiji, each chanting four or five character poems.
When the elegant collection was coming to an end, everyone recommended Wang Xizhi's preface to the Lanting Preface to the elegant collection.
Wang Xizhi was already a bit drunk at the time, so he picked up a rat-whisker pen and wrote on the cocoon paper in an instant. Both the article and the words were the best of the moment, and people praised it as an eternal masterpiece.
"Lanting Preface" has a graceful writing style and exquisite language. It is a masterpiece among ancient prefaces and postscripts. What is more precious is that the art of calligraphy has reached its pinnacle.
This preface has twenty-eight lines and three hundred and twenty-four characters. Each word is "The sky is free and the sky is free."
All repeated words are written in different ways. The same, such as five "huai" characters and seven "no" characters. Different positions and different expressions are all shaped according to the category, and they are ever-changing.
Among them, there are as many as twenty characters for "Zhi". Some are as neat as regular script, and some are as flowing as cursive script, but they are all different in size and in various shapes, which is amazing.
After Wang Xizhi sobered up, he wrote dozens more books in consecutive days. However, he always felt that it was not as good as the first one, so he treasured it even more. He kept it secretly at home and did not show it to others easily. He also asked his descendants to keep it properly as a legacy. Family treasure.