Chapter 108 Three Poems of Sorrow and Nostalgia/Yuan Zhen

Mourning poems are also considered as one in ancient poetry.Many mourning poems are deeply touching because of their sincerity, especially the poems mourning the death of wives and sons.The earliest poems mourning the death of his wife were the three poems "Mourning Poems" by Pan Yue in the Western Jin Dynasty, and the best and most touching ones were the three poems "Sorrowful Hearts" by Yuan Zhen. Zi" can be compared with it. Yuan Zhen's family was poor in his early years. In the first year of Yuanhe (806), at the age of 28, he was admitted to the imperial examinations. He was the first in countermeasures.His first wife, Wei Cong, was the youngest daughter of Wei Xiaqing, a dignitary in the imperial court. She married Yuan Zhen in the 19th year of Zhenyuan (803), when Yuan Zhen was still a commoner.Although his family is poor, Wei Cong is very virtuous, and the two are deeply affectionate as husband and wife.Unexpectedly, seven years later, that is, in the fourth year of Yuanhe (809), Wei Cong passed away.Yuan Zhen was very sad and wrote many poems to mourn his deceased wife.He said in "The Book of Poetry and Music", that he "unfortunately rarely has the sorrow of husband and wife, and cherishes the feelings, and wrote dozens of poems, taking Pan Zi's "Mourning for Death" as the title".In his collection of poems, there are also works of mourning his wife, such as "Eight Poems of Spring in Six Years".

The reason why Yuan Zhen's "Sorrow and Heart" is touching is that what he narrates are the little things in life, but it is these little things that make people feel the deep affection between husband and wife. "Gu I have no clothes to search for a suitcase, and she sells wine to pull out gold hairpins", how warm it is; Some people thought that Yuan Zhen took a concubine and married a wife after Wei Cong's death, and that he was the author of the famous Tang legend.In the story, Zhang Sheng is a lucky person, who always abandons Cui Yingying and calls it "make up for mistakes". Many people think that Zhang Sheng is actually Yuan Zhen himself, so they believe that Yuan Zhen's words and deeds are wrong. One, he is actually a frivolous villain.These words, if they were said by the ancients, are understandable, but now some people who study Yuan Zhen also accept this point of view, which is a little strange.Mourning a dead wife and remarrying are two different things, how can they be confused.Could it be that Yuan Zhen is worthy of his dead wife if he has to live in widowhood from now on?Is it considered emotionally specific?What era is it today, and my mind is still so cold.