Chapter 8 The previous life of "Song of Everlasting Regret"

——The tall man is tall, and he is dressed in brocade clothes The tall man is tall, and he is dressed in brocade.Son of Marquis Qi, wife of Marquis Wei.The sister of Donggong, the aunt of Xinghou, Tan Gongwei's private. Hands are like catkins, skin is like creamy fat, collar is like grub, teeth are like gourd rhinoceros, gnat's head is moth eyebrows, smile is charming, and eyes are beautiful. Ao Ao, a handsome man, said it in the countryside.The four males are proud, and Zhu Yu is arrogant.Zhai Fu Yichao.The doctor retreats long ago, so that the king will not be troubled. The river is full of water, and the North Stream is alive.Shi Yanyi, the fish and the tuna are fafa.Jiaji reveals that the concubine Jiang is evil, and the concubine is guilty.

—— "Wei Feng·Shuo Ren" The story begins when a daughter of the Qi family grows up. She is the daughter of Duke Zhuang of Qi, and because she married Duke Zhuang of Wei, she is called Zhuang Jiang.When she was married, Wei Ren was amazed by her beauty and momentum, and wrote "Shuo Ren" to praise her. Jiang Ziya's descendants are generally beauties, and this Zhuang Jiang is so beautiful that people are stunned, otherwise he would not be the first stunning beauty to enter poetry and be passed down through the ages.The images of the women here are mostly blurred, as beautiful as the women on the river island, on the side of the water, but also like the human form in a cloud of water vapor, with a hazy poetic flavor.Only Zhuang Jiang, people spared no effort to describe her, stroke by stroke, from temperament to life experience to appearance, the pomp of marriage, and the married people, for fear of not being detailed.

There is a category of poems in the book that praises the wedding of the royal family, and "Shuo Ren" is suitable for it.It's just that it describes Zhuang Jiang's appearance so well that people in later generations are used to reading it as a famous hymn to female beauty. The beginning of the article is "a man who is tall and tall", which means tall, white and fat. This does not conform to the aesthetics of our women who are obsessed with weight loss, but in the pre-Qin era, women's beauty was like this, just like Marilyn Meng Lu, with a round belly and a little fat on her waist, is still impeccably sexy.

As I said, China pays attention to family status. This is not necessarily caused by class concepts. To a certain extent, a distinguished family status can really improve a person's level. Small households are different.From this point of view, Zhuang Jiang's life experience is also impeccable: "Son of Marquis Qi, wife of Marquis Wei, sister of Donggong, aunt of Marquis Xing, Tan Gongwei private." (She is the daughter of Marquis Qi, she is the bride of Marquis Wei, She is the prince's younger sister, she is Xinghou's aunt, and Tan Gong is her elder brother.) Needless to say, Qi State was a superpower from the Spring and Autumn Period to the Warring States Period; Wei State, although not very good, is also a direct descendant of the Zhou Dynasty Relatives, the "noble blood" is not comparable to those offshoots of the princes. Presumably this is the reason why Qi State is willing to marry Wei State, just like wealthy and powerful businessmen like to marry officials.Zhuang Jiang is the younger sister of Prince Dechen of Qi State, and her sisters are also married to prominent figures among the princes.

There is a kind of people in this world, they seem to pay nothing, or only pay a small part of the opportunity cost, and God rewards them a lot.Whether you envy or envy this kind of person, he is destined to be the darling of heaven.From the very beginning, Zhuang Jiang can also be regarded as such a person. God gave her all the good things.She is golden and delicate, and once she gets married, the person she marries will be the monarch of the Wei country. A girl with a distinguished family background, with an unrivaled face and a slender figure, wearing a gorgeous cloak and servants like a cloud, is walking on the road to Weiguo.In the future, the mountains and rivers will be bright and bright.Everything is like the beginning of that tie in the Tang Dynasty.Who would have thought that after such a gorgeous beginning, the ending would be more bleak than the separation between life and death?

Zhuang Jiang led a large and powerful dowry team, "Ao Ao, a great man, said it in the countryside. Four peas have pride, Zhu Yu is like a man, and Zhai is in court." Look at how strong the four horses are, the red silk is tied to the horse's bit, and the Chinese carriage is slowly driving to the court.) Those bridesmaids, like Zhuang Jiang, are all slender and handsome. Along the way, the mighty Yellow River flows north into the sea; in the countryside, there are the sounds of fishermen casting nets into the water, the sound of fish tails hitting the water, and the dense and lush reed grass on the river bank.These magnificent and beautiful natural scenes and joyful and festive scenes are all intended to elicit "the evil of the common people, the evil of the common people" - that is, the dowry procession is walking on the road.

"The river is full of water, and the north flows alive. Shi Yuyue, 鲣tuna hair, and Jiajiu are exposed. Shu Jiang is evil, and Shu Shi has a lot of trouble." Among the seven sentences in the fourth chapter, six consecutive sentences used repeated words. On the one hand, the elaboration greatly enhances the rhyme of the poem; on the other hand, the descriptions of these natural scenery or accompanying pomp, all express Zhuang Jiang's noble and reserved identity either explicitly or implicitly. In addition to the style, the newly married girl also has a soft and spring-like appearance.We have no way of seeing Zhuang Jiang's true face, but fortunately we can still see it through words, fortunately this beauty is not eclipsed at all. "Hands are like soft catkins, skin is like fat, collar is like grub, teeth are like gourd rhinoceros. Moth head and brows, beautiful smile, beautiful eyes." Grub-like is really beautiful, teeth like gourds are the most regular. The forehead is plump and slender, and the eyebrows are slender. A sweet smile moves people's hearts, and a glance captures people's souls.)

I can't help feeling that the description of Zhuang Jiang's beauty in the poem is like a very rich banquet. "Shuo Ren" is the "ancestor of the ages" of literary works chanting beauties, and no one can match it for thousands of years. Yao Jiheng, a native of the Qing Dynasty, highly praised this poem, saying that "there is no one who has eulogized beauties through the ages, and it is a swan song" ("General Theory of The Book of Songs").Fang Yurun agrees with his "sweet song", and points out the real beauty of this "beauty picture": "Those who have praised beauties through the ages, there is no such thing as 'clever smiles, beautiful eyes hopeful'." ("The Book of Songs") Sun Liankui's "Shi Pin Gu Shuo" also picked up this second language, and revealed the secret of why it is so well written: "The chanter of "Wei Feng" also said that 'hands are like soft catkins' and so on. Compared with things, I haven't seen her spirit. When I say, "Smile beautifully, look forward to beautiful eyes", it is a vivid portrayal. In Adu, a peerless beauty is invited out alive, and it is alive in the book. For thousands of years I can still see her smiling face.” In his opinion, in the comparison of “hands are like catkins” and so on, although the poet tried his best, he only portrayed the “shape” of a beauty, and “smiles cleverly” "" and "beautiful eyes" are only a few words, but they convey the "god" of beauty.

Zhuang Jiang's eyes are reminiscent of Mona Lisa, but I have never liked Mona Lisa's smile. Pan Xi, such a gentle and gentle oriental beauty is made of water bones, she can be lofty, but also very homely.The Mona Lisa is made of concrete bones, so you can't guess the secret behind her smile. Zhuang Jiang is not only beautiful, she is also praised for her virtue.At that time, the people of the state of Wei must be happy to see their king marry the noble princess of Qi, let alone such a beautiful and virtuous princess.You heard how the poet ridiculed: "The doctor retires early, so the king will not be troubled." The doctors leave the court early, and don't make the king work hard now, so what is the time saved for the court meeting? Obviously, it is to accompany the beautiful girl!

The theme of "Shuo Ren" has always been three main theories: one is the theory of "compassion".According to "Zuo Zhuan Yingong Three Years", Wei Zhuanggong married Qi Zhuanggong's daughter Zhuang Jiang as his wife. She was beautiful but childless, and was slandered and jealous. Wei Ren wrote "Shuoren" for her. Most ancient annotated editions such as "Mao Shi Xu" and Zhu Xi's "Shi Ji Zhuan" adopt this theory, which is called "Min Zhuang Jiang Ye".The second is the theory of "persuasion".According to the "Biography of Lie Nu Biography Qi Nv Fu Mu", when Zhuang Jiang first married, he valued clothing and appearance but despised virtue.After the Han Dynasty, the Jinwen Confucianism system mostly adopted this theory.The third is "praise".Fang Yurun of the Qing Dynasty's "The Original Book of Songs" believes that this poem is purely to praise Zhuang Jiang, and has no meaning of "compassion" or "exhortation".Many people today say this.

Suddenly I thought of "Mo Shang Sang" by Han Yuefu.Luo Fu, a poor and contented beauty, is a good girl from the Qin family. She is beautiful and witty. She marries a promising man as her husband.As for Zhuang Jiang, she was noble, beautiful and virtuous, and the man she married was the king of a country, but from "Wei Feng", she was very unhappy afterwards, not happy at all.The woman who walked into the "Book of Songs" with a bold and elegant posture, the magnificence behind her faded, and she became a bitter woman who covered her face and cried. Like another person.Qingming tears sent to the riverside to look, a thousand miles of east wind and a dream away.She can also use her verdict, and the fate of people is actually not very different. Yuhuan died in front of the crescent eyebrows, so that person would never forget the guilt for the rest of his life; Zhuang Jiang did not die, but he was much more desolate than the hanged concubine Yang, who had a supreme status and a beautiful name, which can only be imagined by future generations However, she was actually a disaster for herself, a natural beauty who kept her house!Her husband gradually became a stranger to her.It is more pathetic for a beauty to be neglected than for an ordinary woman. Looking back at the palace with carved beams and painted buildings, she was shocked to find that there was no one she could trust and rely on.Withering, but even withering, like a plant quietly dying, no one cares about it. It is really difficult to judge whether life is good or bad!Maybe you have to wait until the day you close your eyes to know how your life is going?