One is the most charming and alternative novelist in Balzac's era, and the other is the most poetic and romantic pianist in Europe. Their first meeting did not create any sparks. The 26-year-old Chopin even felt that the 32-year-old George Sand, who liked to wear men's clothes and smoke a pipe, was unfeminine.

Two years later, in a small town in France called Nohant, they fell in love uncontrollably. For the next nine years, they relied on each other, appreciated each other, and tortured and hurt each other. Their close friend, the painter Delacroix, wanted to permanently engrave the lovers in the painting, but was unexpectedly stopped by Chopin. So an unfinished work was left: Chopin, sitting next to the piano, had just finished painting his face, while George Sand, standing behind Chopin, bloomed quietly like a lily.

After Delacroix's death, this famous unfinished portrait was cut into two halves, reportedly in order to sell it for more money. Today, the Chopin portrait on the right remains in the Louvre Museum in Paris, and the George Sand portrait on the left is collected by the Copenhagen Museum. The vigorous testimony of love ends slightly absurdly, and I don't know whether to feel sad or sigh.

No matter how great the love is, it cannot withstand the trivialities of life. No wonder Zhang Ailing's "Red Rose, White Rose" is always talked about: every man has had two women like this, at least two. Marry a red rose, and over time, the red one will become a smear of mosquito blood on the wall, while the white one will remain "the bright moonlight in front of the bed"; marry a white rose, and the white one will become a grain of rice sticky on the clothes, but the red one will It's a cinnabar mole on the heart.

Love cannot be logical, it doesn’t matter what is right or wrong, I am afraid of loving to the point of being ruthless. There are many versions of the emotional feud between the writer Yang Mo and the scholar Mr. Zhang Zhonghang on the market, and it has been speculated by more people because of "Song of Youth". But something Mr. Wu Zuguang said personally makes people feel heart-wrenching when they think about it. At Yang Mo's memorial service, Wu Zuguang called Zhang Zhongxing and asked him if he was going. Zhang replied: There are two kinds of farewells, either affection or respect, or both. For her, she had neither.

Even if the whole world is turning away and speechless, true love only follows one's own heart and has nothing to do with others. The famous socialite Zhang Hanzhi passed away earlier this year. She unexpectedly chose to be buried with her adoptive father Zhang Shizhao instead of her beloved second husband Qiao Guanhua. She left a meaningful sentence: "If you go to another world, you don't want to have this world anymore. Right and wrong.”

The best things are often exchanged for deep pain and trauma. Just like the legendary thorn bird, "it only sings once in a lifetime. From the moment she leaves the nest, she searches for the thorn tree until she finds her wish. Then she plunges her body into the longest and sharpest thorn , let go of his singing voice at the last moment. The song eclipsed the skylark and the nightingale."

Shunzhi, the first emperor after the Qing Dynasty entered the customs, was such an eternal song. When he was 23 years old, Emperor Shunzhi's favorite concubine Dong E died, so he desperately became a monk. He passed away at the age of 24. After he was born, he had an epiphany, "When I came, I was confused and I lost my mind. I have never walked this time in the world." Who am I when I was born? It’s better not to come and not to go, to be happy when I am and sad when I am gone.”

The eternal love story has countless possible endings, and it is the most rare. is eternity. No matter whether it is a nameless love, a love with or without money, or a love that is predestined but not predestined, all are fleeting. The scriptures say: "The heart of the past cannot be obtained, the heart of the present cannot be obtained, and the heart of the future cannot be obtained." Unobtainable. "There is nothing to gain or lose if you have no intention of gaining."

The love that seems to be understood but not understood, for a while and for a lifetime, is the most beautiful thing when it is familiar? Master Nan Huaijin explains that "the best moment is the best". There is no past or present, no coming or going. It is equivalent to an ancient poem: "The wind and moon have no past and present, and the feelings come from the shallow and deep."

——Excerpted from the ninth issue of "Reader" in 2008 Issue author Jiang Supeng

This is the story of Chopin and George Sand. In the classical music world, the combination of Schumann and Clara is also quite famous, but I can’t find an article about them. Most of the famous music Everyone has never had true love, such as Beethoven, Chai, Bach... That's why Chopin's music has a unique romance. I hope you will fall in love with Chopin from now on