"Phoenix Seeking Phoenix" Author: Sima Xiangru Phoenix Xi returned to her hometown and traveled around the world to find her phoenix. I didn't know what to do when I didn't meet Xi. Why don't I go to Sishang today? There are beautiful women in the boudoir, and the people in the room are poisoning my intestines. Why do you want to be a mandarin duck? We can fly together! Burning, burning, burning, burning, burning, burning, burning, burning, burning, burning, burning. Who knows in the middle of the night? My wings fly high and my thoughts make me sad. One of the works I appreciate is the legendary Phoenix, which is called Phoenix by men and Phoenix by women. The ancients called forest, phoenix, turtle and dragon the "four spirits" of heaven and earth, and phoenix was the king of birds. "The Inscription of Yi Dynasty" says: "There are 360 species of feathered insects, and the phoenix is the longest." Evergreen admired Lin Xiangru's talent since childhood and changed her name to "Xiangru", which was already famous in the literary world at that time; Wen Jun is talented and handsome. She is by no means an idle woman. So that place is Phoenix, which means heroic and pretentious. "Traveling around the world" strengthens a layer of implication, which not only closely follows the myth and legend that Phoenix "started in the country of oriental gentlemen, flew across the four seas, crossed the Kunlun Mountains, drank the mainstay, weakened his feathers and stayed in the wind cave at dusk" (Guo Pu's note "Erya" quoted the sky as the old cloud), but also metaphorically refers to similar official travel experiences: before that, he had traveled to the capital and was appointed as a warrior knight by Jingdi. Recruiting scribes in Liang Xiaowang is like "living with all the students for several years" under its door. Later, because of the death of Liang Wang, the opposition to "returning home" explained that "good birds choose wood to live." Secondly, the ancients often used "Feng Huang Yu Fei" and "chorus of husband and wife" to describe the harmony and beauty of husband and wife. For example, "Zuo Zhuan Zhuang Gong Twenty-two Years": "The wife of Chu Yi. His wife said that Ji means Feng Huang Yu Fei, harmonious and sonorous. " Here, just like the phoenix courting Wen Jun, "traveling around the world" means a rare couple. Third, Phoenix is related to music. Such as "Shangshu Yiji": "90% Xiao Shao, the phoenix comes to the instrument." The Legend of the Immortal also contains: Nong Yu, Mu Gong Maid, and her husband Shaw History play the flute, and the Phoenix comes to stop at their door, and Mu Gong is a phoenix terrace. Later, Nong Yu and his wife both left Phoenix. Therefore, Li He tasted the beauty of the music of "The phoenix cries when the jade is broken in Kunshan" ("The Songs of Yu Liping"). Wen Jun's elegant music, like "seeking the emperor" with the sound of the piano, is a metaphor for finding a bosom friend with the heart of the piano, which reminds people of the "high mountains and flowing water" music exchange between Yu Boya and Zhong Ziqi, thus giving off the feeling that a bosom friend is hard to find. ; The second song is bolder and more intense, secretly dating Wen Jun in the middle of the night and eloping together. "Breeding tail" refers to the mating of male and female birds and animals. Yao Dian in Shangshu: "When people lose time, birds and beasts breed tails." Biography says, "Emulation is the fruit, and handover is the end." "Princess", spouse. Say: "Princess, a horse." "Friendship and understanding", communication and affection, that is, love are congenial. Midnight, that is, midnight. The first two sentences call for Wen Jun to have a quiet marriage, while the third and fourth sentences imply that they love each other and elope overnight, and no one will know. Five or six sentences show that you are far away, reminding each other not to let me down, and feeling sorry for homesickness in vain. Gai Xiangru had already bought off the secret love of Wen Jun's handmaid in advance, and had known about Wen Jun's widowed psychological state and love ideal. Now he has made a careful choice, so he dares to be so bold. The reason why these two Qin Ge poems won the admiration of later generations lies in the strong anti-feudal thoughts expressed in Looking for Phoenix. For example, Wen Jun boldly broke through the snare of feudal ethics and patriarchal clan system, saying, "Without waiting for parents' orders and matchmakers' words, you will fall in love at first sight and climb over the wall with each other, then your parents and people will be mean." ("Mencius on Teng Wengong") What "women have the meaning of three obedience, and there is no special way." ("Book of Rites, Funeral") What "The husband has the intention of remarriage, and the woman has no second choice." (Ban Zhao's Women's Commandment) Sacred ceremonies such as "Men and women ... don't meet each other without money" (Book of Rites) and "caring for each other" were trampled by Wen Jun's bold elopement and became a banner for young men and women in later generations to strive for marriage autonomy and love freedom. Try to see the influence of the power of example in later literature: In the Romance of the West Chamber, Zhang Geqiang played "Phoenix Begging for Phoenix", saying, "I got this song in the past, although it is not as good as mine. I hope Miss Zhang will understand." In the wall of the horse, Li Qianjin defended her elopement with Wen Jun in front of her father-in-law. Pan Bizheng also incited Chen Miaochang and Qin Xin to combine privately in the Jade Hairpin. Qin Xin Ji directly put the story of Wen Jun on the stage ... which shows that Huang has a far-reaching anti-feudal influence. Secondly, artistically, these two Qin Ge songs with the theme of "Looking for Phoenix" not only contain passionate courtship, but also symbolize the extraordinary ideal, lofty purport and tacit understanding between the hero and heroine. The whole poem has shallow meaning, bright syllables and passionate feelings, which combines the beauty of Chu Ci with the freshness of Han folk songs. Even if it is a fake of later generations, it will not weaken its artistic value.