Hotta Yu also thought that his understanding of the cultural background of "Pipa Xing" was far inferior to Jiang Shuiyuan, so he had to make a false shot: "Jiang Jun's analysis of the famous objects in "Pipa Xing" really penetrated into it, which made the contemptible people feel convincing! However, the system of expounding words and dredging famous objects is only the threshold and tool for interpreting poetry, just like pointing to the moon, but the hand is not the moon after all. If you indulge in words, famous objects, and even the culture behind them, and ignore the artistic techniques and real emotions of the poems themselves, it is not the right way after all, and it is easy to fall into the bottom line!"

Jiang Shuiyuan also deeply agrees with this: "Hotta-kun is right. I wonder what you think of the artistic techniques and true emotions of "Pipa Xing"?"

Yu Hotta also immediately perked up: "I think in terms of expression, in addition to using autumn scenery such as maple leaves and ogi flowers, as well as the wonderful descriptions of Jiang Yue three times to highlight the feelings of the characters, "Pipa Xing" mainly shows their characters and psychology through their actions and demeanor. For example, 'looking for the sound and secretly asking who is the player, the pipa sound stops and speaks late', and 'after a thousand calls, she still holds the pipa and half-covers her face', all of which are very apt expressions of the pipa girl's reluctance to come out to meet people because of shyness and unspeakable pain. Another example is from 'plucking the strings three or two times on the shaft' to 'low-eyebrow letter procedures to continue', with a layer-by-layer action description, showing the characters' thoughts flying, gradually entering the role, and beginning to recall the past's expressions and moods, which is very vivid and realistic. ”

Jiang Shuiyuan felt that what Hotta Yu also said was a cliché, but he still applauded: "The analysis is good. What else?"

Yu Hotta also saw that the water source of the river was not alarmed, and decided to throw out his killer idea: "Although the above description is excellent, as long as other poets work hard, they may not be unable to write." The most wonderful thing that people think about the whole story, and what others can't write, should be the description of the sound of the pipa!"

"That's true!" Jiang Shuiyuan sat up slightly, wanting to hear Yuya Hotta's high argument.

Hotta Yuya said: "Bai Lotian has continuously used a series of exquisite metaphors such as torrential rain, whispering, falling jade plates, warblers at the bottom of flowers, flowing springs under ice, silver bottles bursting with water slurry, and iron horses highlighting the sound of knives and guns, etc., to vividly copy the process of music from sudden to slight, from fluent and crisp to stagnation in the throat, and then to sudden agitation. Here, Bai Lotian not only describes the sound of the music, but also the playing technique, but also brings out the inner connotation contained in the melody of the music, and these three are organically integrated together without a trace, forming a perfect expression of the change of sound and mood in the whole performance process, which is unprecedented!"

Jiang Shuiyuan was slightly disappointed: "What does Hotta-kun think is unique in terms of artistic techniques compared with the contemporaries "Listening to Yingshi Playing the Piano" and "Li Pinggong Hou Yin"?"

"Uh......" Yuya Hotta was speechless.

Regardless of asking, this guy must not have read the last two poems. Jiang Shuiyuan did not chase after him, but said softly: "I have always felt that the appreciation of ancient poetry and ancient texts is a thankless task, because the ancients may have ulterior motives when writing, but later generations are addicted to words and sentences, and can accurately capture the true intention of the author, and the result is often that the author may not have it, and the reader may not have it." Just like Yuan Mei's "Huang Sheng's Borrowing Books" in the Qing Dynasty, many people praise the "books can't be read unless borrowed" in the article, in fact, if you think about it, you can know that Yuan Mei, who wrote the article, and Huang Sheng, who borrowed the book, really cared about the last sentence of the article, that is, "the book must be returned quickly". The same is true of "Pipa Xing". ”

Yuke Hotta was also stunned: "Then Jiang Jun, what do you think is the true intention of "Pipa Xing"?"

"What do you think, Hotta-kun?" Jiang Shuiyuan asked rhetorically.

Every time Jiang Shuiyuan asks a question, it means that he has to give a different, profound and reasonable explanation. After two or three times, Hotta Yu also lost his confidence in his heart, and replied hesitantly: "It should be 'full of feelings of relocation, borrowing from a merchant woman to make it', right?"

This is the comment in the Qing Gaozong's "Imperial Selection of Tang and Song Dynasty Poems". Jiang Shuiyuan first pointed out the source of that sentence, and then said his own opinion: "It is true that the poetic eye of the poem "Pipa Xing" is 'the same as the end of the world', through the emotion of the drift of the merchant woman, lamenting the fall of the dwelling. But we can understand it on a deeper level. For example, what is 'falling'? In the interpretation of "Shuowen Jie Zi", the fallen person is a thing that gradually sinks from the surface of the water to the bottom of the water; the one who falls is said to be zero and the wood is said to fall, that is, the leaves of a tree fall from the high branches to the ground. It can be seen from this that the so-called 'degenerate' is that they used to live a very good and respectful life, but now they are living a very poor and humble life. Isn't that right?"

Yuke Hotta also nodded: "That's right. The poem has mentioned the gap between the lives of the two before and after, such as the pipa girl, who used to be 'the first part of the famous teaching workshop', 'Wuling was young and contentious', and after growing old and declining, 'the boss married a merchant woman', and could only 'guard the empty boat at the mouth of the river'. The same is true for Bai Letian, who moved from Beijing to Sima of Jiujiang County, and can only 'not hear the sound of silk and bamboo all year round' and 'live in the low humidity near the Huanjiang River'. ”

Jiang Shuiyuan said: "In fact, for Bai Juyi's previous favor in Beijing, you can also refer to the "Biography of Bai Juyi" in the "Old Tang Book", which mentions that in November of the second year of Yuanhe, Li Chun of Tang Xianzong called Bai Juyi to Hanlin as a bachelor; 'Juyi thinks that he is the master of good literature, and he is not promoted, and he wants to store it in his life and repay his kindness'. In the fifth year of Yuanhe, Bai Juyi was changed to an official, and Li Chun, Tang Xianzong, said to Cui Qun, 'Juyi officials are lowly and thin, confined to capital and land, and cannot be superordinated, and their officials can listen to their own play'; ”

Yuya Hotta's eyes widened: "Do you remember all this?"

"I've seen it before. Jiang Shuiyuan understated this matter, "Let's not talk about Bai Juyi first, but also talk about the pipa girl." Does Hotta-kun feel that the Pipa Girl regrets the life of poverty and luxury in the capital when she was young?"

Hotta Yu also went through "Pipa Xing" in his heart, and then replied: "I shouldn't regret it, right? The preface of the poem says 'self-narrated the joy of childhood', and the poem says 'laughing this year and next year', all of which are based on the word 'huan'. Although it is mentioned later, 'dreaming of juvenile things in the middle of the night, dreaming of makeup and tears', it is not a tear of regret that cannot be eaten, but a tear of loss that is not what it used to be. ”

"Exactly!" Jiang Shuiyuan changed his words, "The Pipa Girl is like this, and so is Bai Juyi." "The Imperial Selection of Tang and Song Dynasty Poems" said that "the feeling of relocation is borrowed from the merchant woman", which can be described as a sentence. Some people even suspect that there may not really be a pipa girl in the world, but it is just a fictional story made up by Bai Juyi to express his derogatory feelings, such as what Hong Mai said in "Rong Zhai Five Strokes" in the Song Dynasty. From the Pipa Girl's lack of regrets, it can be seen that Bai Juyi does not regret his negligence when he was in Beijing, and he does not resent the emperor's Qin Dynasty, he will only feel sad that he is like the Pipa Girl, and now he is 'drifting and haggard, and migrating to the rivers and lakes', because of 'old age and decay', 'snubbing Kurama in front of the door, and the boss marrying a merchant woman'. In this way, it is not difficult to see that "Pipa Xing" not only conforms to the Confucian poetry of mourning but not sadness, resentment but not anger, and gentleness and generosity, which is in line with his previous "Xin Yuefu", and also conforms to the literary tradition of "vanilla beauty" in "Lisao"

Hotta Yu couldn't help but be dumbfounded: "Ah! "Pipa Xing" can still be interpreted like this?"

"Why can't it be interpreted in this way? Could it be that Hotta-kun can find the sad verses in 'Pipa Xing'? At most, it is 'touching the people's words, it is the beginning of the evening to feel the intention of moving' and 'living in Xunyang City' and 'Jiangzhou Sima Qing's shirt is wet', how can there ever be a sentence of resentment against His Majesty the Emperor who is glorious, great, and correct?"

Hotta Yu also thought about it for a long time and didn't find a place to refute the water source of the river, so he had to hold on and said: "Jiang Jun's high argument is reasonable, but the argument is too tortuous, novel and scathing, which can make people take it orally for a while, but it is difficult for people to be completely convinced!"

Jiang Shuiyuan said with a smile: "I just talk casually when chatting with Hotta-kun, and I don't write papers or give speeches in public, so why bother to be stable?"

Looking at Jiang Shuiyuan's expression of 'ear of preface play', Hotta Yu was also so depressed that he almost vomited blood. After thinking about it for a long time, he also decided to make a big news: "Although Bai Lotian has a far-reaching influence on Tianchao and our mud bombardment, and contemptible people also like Bai Lotian very much, but objectively speaking, Bai Lotian is just a second-rate writer." The so-called 'rhetoric is sincere', not only rhetoric, but also writing articles and poems, and it must be true to express feelings, so that there is no choice but to write like this to express feelings. But Bai Lotian overemphasized that 'articles are written for the time, and songs and poems are written for things', and he also requires his works to be understood, so it is obvious that his intention is not sincere. Always thinking about how others criticize you, you always have this kind of mind to compete with others and have some meaning, and the works you write are naturally second-rate. What does Jiang Jun think?"

Jiang Shuiyuan replied lightly: "If I am not mistaken, this should be a point of view put forward by Ye Jiaying in his monograph "Ye Jiaying Says Poems of the Middle and Late Tang Dynasty". Have you read that book? I've read it too. ”

“……”

This time, Hotta Yuki was not only so depressed that he wanted to vomit blood, but he couldn't wait to find a crack in the ground to get into it, and never appear in front of Jiang Shuiyuan. However, the reality is as cold as iron, he will not know the ninja shadow escape technique, and the river water source will not disappear out of thin air. After a long time, he bowed deeply: "Jiang Jun is knowledgeable and innovative, and he is admired. ——It's just that it's almost time for dinner, let's go and taste the world-famous Taixue steamed buns together! ”

At this moment, someone lined up and said with a smile: "Bai Lotian has a poem that says well, 'If the wine army poetry and enemy meet, you can still have a saddle when you are old'. With this blessing, what does it matter if you don't eat too many steamed buns?" )