Chapter 17 life and death mata

Recently, there is a popular song among young people, "Love Song 1980" by Luo Dashang.This song has a lingering melody and is known as Taiwan's new rock music, but the meaning contained in its lyrics is surprising. Let me transcribe a few lines: "I understand love, but what is forever?" "Jin Tian My joy will be the painful memory of tomorrow." "You don't belong to me, and I don't own you. No one in the world has the right to possess. Maybe we break up, so we don't look back, at least we don't need to weave some beautiful excuses."" My dear, don’t say that you and I will never be separated, my dear, don’t say that you and I will be separated tomorrow.”, this song is full of views on love’s emptiness, pessimism, and its own flow. It is a calm and objective analysis of the love views of young people in the 1980s.Frustrated, discrete, short-lived, tragic, and sentimental love in the real society is no longer the monopoly of movies, TV and novels, but everyone will find incomplete and fragmented love as long as they look around their friends. Love is happening everywhere.When the partner who once vowed to live and die together, either betrayed himself or betrayed him, and the reason for breaking up was sometimes as small as a sesame seed, and sometimes it was an impossible mystery, so the "eternal vow" was followed firmly , is the sigh of "I understand love, but what is forever?"

I think that doubting the eternity of love is a common phenomenon among modern people, so young people are no longer as infatuated as they were in the past, so eager to live and die, they have kept a distance from love from the beginning, and cannot Dedicated wholeheartedly, the love that young people yearn for the most now seems to no longer be about sharing life and death.The world of love is a love world, but a chic coincidence of "waving your sleeves without taking a cloud away".The more free and unrestrained the separation, the more applauded, the more infatuated the separation, the more ridiculed.

I often see such incidents, so I can't help but ask myself: "Do we understand love?" If love is like a thin piece of paper, there is no belief at all, and it can be separated or not separated, then what is love? Woolen cloth? The saddest thing is not that young people have no love, but that everyone has generally lost confidence in "eternal love".In ancient China, our ancestors have left us many radiant and evocative love chapters. These great loves, whether life or death, reunion or parting, although the ending is happy or sad, but it can be passed down to this day because "forever".They all believe that steadfast love is eternal, that the spirit can last forever when they are alive, and it can still be forever when they turn into lovebirds and twigs after death.

We often lament that there is no great love in modern times. Is it because modern people are indifferent to the concept of eternity?I mentioned Luo Dashang's "Love Song 1980" earlier, now let's push the time back to two thousand years ago. The original text of the song is: Flying on the other cypress boat, in the other river, with the beard and the other hair, it is really difficult for me to show off, and the arrow of death will kill him.The mother is also a god, and she doesn't forgive people!Flying the cypress boat on the other side of the river, with the beard and the other hair, it is really difficult for me, and the death arrow kills him.The mother is also a god, and she does not forgive people.

This beautiful divining poem, translated into vernacular should be: In the cypress boat rowing to the middle of the river, Sitting boy with long hair, It is my favorite lover, My love for him will not change till death. Mother!God! Why can't you always see your daughter's heart? The cypress boat floating on the river, Leaning slowly on the other side of the river, The long-haired boy paddling the boat, Is my real match lover, I love him till I die, Mother!God! Why can't you understand my mind? Reading the chapter "Caizhou" in the book, we seem to see a beautiful girl standing on the vast river bank, watching the boats drifting away, secretly making eternal love dreams and heavy vows by the river. , this kind of love, even if the mother and God's will can't understand and understand, she will not change until she dies. It is a timeless and touching love song.

This love song, which has flowed through two thousand years of time and space, is the source of the idiom "until death and obsession with him".What a resolute and brave chant of love! Standing in the time and space of 1980 and thinking about that ancient girl, we are reminded that we can be disappointed in love, but we cannot despair of love forever.We may face changes and setbacks in love, but we must not lose the silent oath deep in our hearts. In ancient Chinese poetry novels and legends, stories like "Bo Zhou" about love until death without regret are almost everywhere. The one that moved me the most was a fairy tale "I will not die without seeing Huang E" among the people in mainland China.This fairy tale is not generally known, and I would like to make a full record here:

Once upon a time, in a village, there was a beautiful girl named Huang E. Her family lived in poverty, and her food was always not enough. Whenever spring came, she had to live on wild vegetables. Therefore, in spring, she went to the wild to cut wild vegetables every day. .One day, when she was cutting wild vegetables, she suddenly heard a beautiful flute sound from the river. The sound of the flute was so beautiful that she was fascinated by it. She walked to the river and saw that it was a boy herding the cow playing the fife; she was afraid that he would see it, so she hurriedly sneaked into the reeds and eavesdropped. She didn't go home until the shepherd boy left.

The shepherd boy often came here to herd cattle, and Huang E often came here to cut vegetables. The shepherd boy loved to play the flute, and Huang E loved to listen to the sound of the flute. After a long time, they got to know each other and fell in love.So, when the sun was about to set, the shepherd boy helped Huang E cut a basket full of wild vegetables together, and the two sat on the green grass by the river, watching the clear flowing water, letting the cows graze, and the shepherd boy Play the fife. Later, their story spread, and it also reached the ears of Huang E's parents. Huang E's parents were very angry and locked Huang E at home, never letting her go out.At this time, there was an old rich man nearby who wanted to ask for a second wife. Knowing that Huang E was a famous and beautiful girl, he asked someone to come to her house to propose marriage.Although Huang E's parents were a little reluctant, they agreed because they wanted to send her out of the house earlier because of her corrupt family style.

Ever since the shepherd boy lost Huang E, he seemed to have lost his soul.Although he knew that Huang E was locked up at home, he still played his flute every day and searched everywhere, but he could no longer find Huang E. He gradually became ill and soon died. Because the shepherd boy was a poor and helpless child, he fell in the field when he died, so no one asked him.His body was pulled by wolves and gnawed by dogs. In the end, there was only one heart left, because it was too hard and nothing could destroy it. In this way, after many days, this heart became more and more like a piece of painted wood, red and bright after being exposed to wind, snow, sun and rain in the wild.

One day, a carpenter passed by and thought it was a piece of wood with very fine grain, so he picked it up and carved it into a wine glass at home.When the carpenter poured the wine, there was a nice flute sound from the wine glass. The carpenter was startled, thinking he had got a treasure, and put it away carefully. This carpenter is famous for his craftsmanship.Once, an old rich man invited him to a wedding. This old rich man happened to be the rich man Huang E was forced to marry.The banquet, dishes, and utensils prepared by the old rich man are all very particular. The carpenter said, "There is nothing in this house better than my wooden wine glass."

The old rich man said: "Then, take out your wine glass and have a look! I don't believe it will be better than my ancient porcelain cup." The carpenter took out the wine glass from his arms, poured the wine, and the crisp and clear sound of the flute came from There was a sound from inside, and all the guests were dumbfounded. At this time, Huang E, who was sitting in the new house, was weeping with sorrow and hatred.Suddenly, he heard the sound of the flute, which was exactly the same as the sound of the shepherd boy's flute. He was surprised and happy for a moment, and his heart almost jumped to his chest. While no one was watching, Huang E involuntarily walked out of the room and sneaked to the second door. The flute sounded even better.She walked to the door of the living room again, and the sound of the flute became more and more beautiful, and it was completely played by her lover by the river.At this time, she couldn't help sticking her head in regardless of how many guests were in the living room.Strange to say, as soon as Huang E stuck her head in, the sound of the flute stopped. The reason why I spent such a long time transcribing this fairy tale is that every time I think of it, my heart shakes.Its text is simple and its story simple, but its power is no less than any immortal love story. It moves us, really, because of its symbolic meaning—a shepherd boy tossed by fate, who dies in the wilderness for losing his lover, but his love never dies, his heart never dies, eaten by wild dogs, The wild wolf has eaten it, but the heart that is still alive does not melt. Finally, the carpenter carves it into a wine cup, and uses the sound of the flute to find his lover, just to see the lover's last side.Of course, the shepherd boy did not have a happy ending with Huang E. The moment the wine glass stopped abruptly with the sound of the flute was a tragedy, but "Heart of the Shepherd Boy" proved the greatness of love with tragedy, and it can make a person's heart immortal . In the vast land of China, many fairy tales told to children are such stories that encourage and inspire never to lose confidence in love and never despair in setbacks. They extol the great spirit of perseverance in love ——This kind of spirit is exactly the spirit of "until death". When we hear the song "I understand love, but what is eternity?", can we also give an affirmative answer of "I understand eternity" like the heart of an ordinary shepherd boy? —July 28, 1982