King of the Southern Tang Dynasty and Second Emperor Li Jing (II)
In the first year of Jiaotai (958), in the first month, the Zhou army attacked Chuzhou, and the defenders Zhang Yanqing and Zheng Zhaoye defended the city very strongly, and the siege was not broken for 40 days. Zhou Shizong personally supervised the army to dig tunnels into the city and burn them, the city walls were destroyed, Zhang Yanqing and Zheng Zhaoye were killed in battle, the Zhou army was very angry, and the people in the city were almost killed. The Zhou army also captured the four states of Hai, Tai and Yang. Zhou Shizong went to Yingluan Town to face the Yangtze River, Li Jing knew that he could not support it, but he was ashamed that he bent down to remove his name, so he sent Chen Jue to serve Hou Zhou, asking for the throne to be passed on to his eldest son Li Hongji and obey Hou Zhou.
When the Zhou army marched south, there were no water warfare equipment, and soon Li Jing's army was repeatedly defeated, and the sailors were obtained, so hundreds of warships were built, and the surrendered soldiers taught the Zhou army water warfare, and Wang Huan led the Huai River. Li Jing's navy failed many times, and the warships on the Huai River were all captured by the Zhou army. Hundreds of Qiyun boats were built again, Zhou Shizong went to the Beishenyan of Chuzhou, Qiyun boats were big, and they could not pass, so they dug the Lao Stork River to connect, so they reached the big river. At first, Li Jing was confident in the water war, thinking that the Zhou army was not an opponent and could not reach the Yangtze River. When Chen Jue was ordered to send an envoy, he saw that the Yangtze River was very majestic, and thought that it had fallen from the sky, so he begged: "The minister is willing to return to China to get Li Jing's watch, dedicate all the states in Jiangbei, and abide by the treaty." Zhou Shizong agreed, and then gave a letter to Li Jing and said: "The emperor respectfully asks the lord of Jiangnan." It's just to comfort Li Jing's suffering. At this time, Yang, Tai, Chu, He, Shou, Hao, Si, Chu, Guang, Hai and other prefectures had been obtained by Zhou, so Li Jing offered Lu, Shu, Qi, and Huang four prefectures, and drew the Yangtze River as the boundary. In May, Li Jing ordered the removal of the emperor's title, renamed the lord of the country, known as the lord of the Southern Tang Dynasty in history, and used the later anniversary name, when it was the fifth year of Later Zhou Xiande (958).
At first, Sun Sheng sent an envoy to Zhou, but was left behind, Zhou Shizong asked Sun Sheng about the truth of Jiangnan, Sun Sheng did not answer, Zhou Shizong became angry and killed Sun Sheng. Zhou had withdrawn his troops, so Li Jing gave Liu Renzhen as the Taishi, and posthumously named Sun Sheng as the Duke of Lu. Zhou Shizong sent Zhong Mo and Feng Yanlu back to China. Li Jing also sent Zhong Mo and others to meet the Beijing master and write a watch by hand, saying that the kindness of the parents of heaven and earth could not be repaid; Please also send an edict like a feudal town, and send Zhong Mo to state in person that he is willing to pass on the throne to his eldest son. Zhou Shizong sent Zhong Mo and others back to China and comforted Li Jing with a generous edict. Li Jing took Zhong Mo as the waiter of the Ministry of Rites and Feng Yanlu as the waiter of the household department.
When Li Jing was the crown prince, Feng Yanlu and others entered the East Palace together, and Chang Mengxi, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, said many times since Li Yu was alive that Feng Yanlu and others should not be allowed to approach the prince. Li Jing succeeded to the throne, Feng Yanlu was autocratic, and Chang Mengxi always rejected him. Li Jing has already ceded the land and called the minister, and when it comes to the court as a big dynasty, Chang Mengxi laughed and said: "Do you ever want the monarch to be like Yao and Shun, and today you are a small dynasty?" Zhong Mo has always been good friends with Li Deming, and after he came back, he heard that Li Deming was killed because of Song Qiqiu and others, and wanted to report Li Deming's grievances, but he couldn't attack. Chen Jue is Song Qiqiu's comrade and has always had a vendetta with Yan Xu. Chen Jue once was ordered to send Zhou back and said that Zhou Shizong thought that the reason why Jiangnan did not immediately obey the order was because of Yan Xu's plan, and persuaded Li Jing to kill Yan Xu and apologize. Li Jing suspected, so Zhong Mo asked to send an envoy to Hou Zhou to investigate the matter. Li Jing had already ceded the land and claimed to be a minister, so he sent Zhong Mo to the court to apologize, saying that if he did not immediately cede the land, it was not a strict plan, hoping to pardon him. Zhou Shizong was shocked and said: "Yan Xu can plan, this is loyal to his master, can I kill loyal ministers?" After Zhong Mo returned, he said that Chen Jue was treacherous, and Li Jing was angry, exiled Chen Jue to Raozhou, and killed him. Song Qiqiu and Chen Jue formed a party to commit a crime, and were exiled to Qingyang and given death. With the emperor's younger brother Jing Sui as the envoy of the Hongzhou Festival, and Yan Wang Hongji as the crown prince.
In September of the sixth year of Xiande (959), the crown prince Hongji died, and Li Jingfeng's sixth son Li Congjia (Li Yu) was the king of Wu and lived in the East Palace. Zhong Mo said that Li Congjia was frivolous and indulgent, and asked Li Congshan, the prince of Jiguo, to be good, Li Jing was furious, and belittled Zhong Mo as the son of the country, and made Li Congjia the prince. Zhou Shizong sent someone to Li Jing and said: "I and Jiangnan, the righteousness has been decided, but I am worried that future generations will not be able to accommodate you, so I can build a city god and rectify the key points for future generations when I am alive." Li Jing then repaired the cities, planned to move the capital to Hongzhou, the ministers did not want to move, only the privy envoy Tang Hao agreed to move the capital, so Hongzhou was promoted to Nanchang Mansion and the southern capital was built. In the first year of Jianlong (960), Zhao Kuangyin was inspected in front of the palace of the Later Zhou Dynasty, launched the Chenqiao Mutiny, usurped the Later Zhou regime, and established the Song Dynasty, which was for Song Taizu. In the second year of Jianlong (961), the prince was left from Jiajian State, and Li Jing moved to the southern capital. But Hongzhou is narrow, and the palace camp can't accommodate it, and the ministers miss going back day and night, and Li Jing regrets it and is angry. Tang Ho was ashamed and scared, fell ill and died.
In June of the same year, Li Jing died at the age of 46. The crown prince Li Congjia succeeded to the throne, returned to Jinling with a funeral, and sent an envoy to the court, hoping to restore Li Jing's emperor name, Song Taizu agreed, so he called Li Jing "Emperor Xuanxiao of Ming Dao Chongde Wenxuanxiao", the temple name Yuanzong, and the tomb was in Shunling (located in Jiangning District, Jiangsu Province today).
Li Jing not only has certain achievements in politics and military, but also has great achievements in poetry and songs.
The word has been produced since the Sui and Tang dynasties. The process by which it is produced is that there is a score first, and then there are lyrics. The earliest words, also called quzi words, were produced in the folk and spread in cities with more developed commerce, and appeared as folk songs. Its subject matter is mainly about love, but there are also social and religious themes.
After the Middle Tang Dynasty, the Tu doctor class gradually began to write lyrics, and by the late Tang Dynasty, the practice of literati writing words became more prosperous. Although the Tang Dynasty's lyrics and ideas were good and bad, and the art was refined and coarse, they had a common characteristic, that is, they were a bit like today's pop songs, in capitalist society, most of the pop songs were sung by singers in bars; In the Tang and Song dynasties of feudal society, the lyrics were mainly sung by kabuki at banquets of the bureaucratic gentry.
However, in the later period of the Five Dynasties, the words came to the hands of the Southern Tang Dynasty monarchs, a little different from before, although they have not completely gotten rid of the tradition of pop songs in writing lyrics, but the style has improved, the writing attitude is more serious, and the improvement of the artistic level is more significant, like the words written by Li Jing, the lord of the Southern Tang Dynasty, although there are only three or four songs that have been handed down to this day, they are all meticulous works, and they are the first-rate works in the history of literature, so the modern scholar Wang Guowei gave a high evaluation of Li Jing's words in "Words in the World". In this context, if we read Li Jingci again, we will have a deeper understanding that we should treat them with a historical materialist attitude and give them a proper evaluation.
Li Jing "Mountain Flower Son Part I":
There are five hooks on the real pearl in the hand, and the hatred of the previous spring is heavy. Who is the lord of the flowers falling in the wind, think about it.
The blue bird does not pass on the message outside the clouds, and the lilacs are empty and sad in the rain. Looking back at the blue waves of the Three Gorges Curtain, the sky flows.
Thousands of incense leaves are gone, the west wind is worried about the green waves, and it is also haggard with Shaoguang, which is unbearable.
The drizzle dreams back to the chicken, and the small building blows through the Yusheng cold. How many tears are there to hate, and the waiter is dry.
Li Jing's "Mountain Flower Child" is written about the scenery of late spring. The content is not new, it is all about lovesickness and parting. But it has a demeanor, a charm, a sense of meaning, and a sense of interest, and it is even possible to say that they have sustenance, which is not the practice of ordinary pop songs.
The first sentence encounters a question, what is a "real pearl"? Looking at the context, I know that it is a curtain woven with "real pearls", but there is such a way to write it in ancient poetry, which is to omit the physical object and only retain the adverbial made of nouns in the front. Wen Tingyun's "Bodhisattva Cha": "Painting Luo Jin Jade, Incense and Candles Disappear into Tears", the first sentence is to say that the Luo Tent Luo Gu painted with gold and jade, but the word "Tent" or "Zang" on behalf of the real thing is omitted.
There is a conjunct in the Peking opera "Ganlu Temple" "Qinglong Yanyue ghosts and gods". In fact, it refers to the Qinglong Yanyue knife used by Guan Yu, but the word "knife" is omitted, and the technique is the same as here. If you say "hand-rolled bead curtain", it looks clumsy, because there is the word "hand-rolled" above, and there is a specific object of "jade hook" below, of course, this refers to the "real bead curtain". This is the characteristic of rhetoric in traditional works in our country, who is the "rolling blind"? It should be a boudoir woman.
Li Bai's "Grievances", "The beauty rolls the bead curtain, and the moth eyebrows are deep." But when you see the tears wet, you don't know who you hate?" Can be referred to, why did she want to roll blinds? In order to look far away, so as to relieve the melancholy in my heart. Because a person is too lonely, too depressed, but after the curtains, I saw the spring scenery from upstairs, and the mood did not feel comfortable and cheerful.
I thought this should be said to be full of hatred in the spring, everything outside the building is hate, the heavy building is blocked, and I can't avoid it if I want to, so it can be seen that the sorrow in my heart is unavoidable. And the more sad I feel when I see the scenery of spring. So among the many scenes, what is the most vivid and deeply touching of tolerance and hatred? It's "flowers falling in the wind". Spring flowers are like girls, which are extremely beautiful and precious, and make people nostalgic. But the good times didn't last long, and as soon as the wind came, the flowers were thanked and fell. More important is the three words "who is the Lord". For whom do flowers bloom and for whom do they fall? Who is the master of flowers? Why is it so easy to let the beautiful spring pass away? This is a self-comparison with falling flowers, indicating that their fate is like a flower blown down by the spring breeze.
But there is another meaning.,That is, the hero's loved one is wandering in a distant place that he doesn't know.,I never see him back.,Isn't it involuntarily like a "flower falling in the wind"? This is also the reason why the protagonist is painful and lonely. From these two layers of meaning, the word "Siyouyou" naturally came out. "Yoyo" not only describes the myriad of thoughts, endless, but also describes the vast and distant, boundless. These three words are like a horse's reins that naturally strangle the first three sentences, which are both summary and endless.
These three words seem to be "virtual" to the extreme, but they contain thousands of imaginations of the reader, and people can add anything to the author according to their own experience and feelings. This is the coexistence of virtual and real, as if virtual and real, and the same is true in the first three sentences. The first sentence is real, the second sentence is virtual, and the third sentence is from real to virtual, and then calmly accept it with "thinking about it". It's like a close-up shot in a movie, sometimes pushing closer, sometimes pulling away, we can't help but appreciate the author's ability to think figuratively and deal with the focal distance between the scene and the scene.
The film is very thorough, and if you want to express the feelings of the protagonist in depth and twists, you have to use allusions. According to the Tales of Han Wu, the "Blue Bird" was the messenger of the Queen Mother of the West, who once went to the east to deliver news to Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty. Li Yin, "Han Palace": "The green sparrow flew in all directions, but he did not return. It means that once the messenger is gone, there is no news. The author's meaning here is that the person he misses is far away beyond the clouds. There has been no information for a long time, and I borrowed allusions to express my thoughts about distant people, and opened the focus again.
The following sentence of "cloves" pushes the camera closer to the eyes, and writes about the depression and discomfort in the heart of what he sees. Lilacs do not bloom until late spring. At this time, the flowers are blooming, and the lilacs are in full bloom. Here we use the poem in Li Shangyin's "Gift": "Plantains do not show clove knots." "The ancients to the clove is not open metaphor hate depression knotted in the heart, now the clove is not open, if it is a sunny day, then this flower blooms, sorrow can be slightly relieved, and now there is rain, not waiting for the flower to bloom will be destroyed to thanks.
This symbolizes that the sorrow cannot be resolved. These two sentences are used to portray people's moods through allusions and metaphors, so the so-called artistic conception is generated, but the heart of missing distant people is always there, so continue to look out of the building. The words "looking back" are real, and "Green Wave Three Gorges" and "Connecting the Sky" are virtual. The Southern Tang Dynasty is located in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River, and the Three Gorges is in the southwest of the Communist Party, which is not visible to the eye, but from the direction it echoes the sentence "Blue Bird", "The Blue Bird Flying West has not returned"! And from the dictionary, there is another layer of meaning here.
The sentence "Three Gorges" secretly wears the allusion of the goddess of Wushan, from the "Mountain Ghost" of "Nine Songs" to Song Yu's "Gao Tang" and "The Goddess Fu", all of which are written about the tryst of the goddess and the lesbian. But this place is far away from itself.,It only exists in the imagination of the protagonist.。 There is no news outside the clouds, the river and the sky are far away, and in the twilight expanse, it seems to see the river of the Three Gorges, and the whole word ends with such a magnificent and vast scene, which is really beyond the reader's expectations.
The more remote the vision, the more distant it is from the person you are missing. The more subtle the sorrow, the more intense the invitation. The hatred of Yoyo lingers in the mind for a long time, with both weather and depth, and this ending pushes the realm of the word one step further. We can't help but be convinced by Coco Li's writing talent.