The Tang Dynasty was a kingdom of poetry and a dynasty of peerless elegance. The poet can not only show the heroic pride of "drunk and lying on the battlefield", but also show the calm and free and easy "spring breeze and horseshoe disease" in the examination room, and can also move the heart with the infatuation of "wishing to be a winged bird in heaven and a branch in the ground" on the love field.
Talented people and beauties jointly build the blood and tenderness of Datang. The literati of the Tang and Song dynasties all had a common preference: raising singing and dancing girls. Those beautiful maidens learned to dance and sing from an early age to please their masters.
We can't evaluate this fashion from a modern perspective, which was an elegant preference at the time, and it was an unavoidable social custom in the Tang and Song dynasties. Sikong Shu of the Tang Dynasty has such a hobby.
This poet was one of the ten talents of the Great Calendar, and he was very talented. However, despite his talent, his life was stagnant in the position of a subordinate and he lived in poverty. However, Sikong Shu is an upright person, and he has many friends, and most of them are unwilling.
The poetry and wine entertainment between them made Sikong Shu leave many farewell poems, which also won him fame. However, Sikong Shu's most famous poems are the poems he gave to the singers before his death.
Sikong Shu's official position is not high, and his income is not much, but he is obsessed with singers. He didn't have any private property, and spent almost all of his income on raising singers.
Sometimes, he even starved himself to make the singers shine. This may be the unique spirit and emotion of the Tang people.
However, there is a time when everything in the world will come to an end, and Sikong Shu is old, and he knows that his life is coming to an end. According to the rules, he was ready to dismiss the singer, which was also a common practice among literati at that time, after all, the singer needed to continue to survive, and letting go at this time was a more responsible attitude.
Bai Juyi also gave away his favorite singer in his later years, and the reason is also for this. Despite Sikong Shu's difficult life, he still prepared a table of first-class wine and food, striving to make the parting decent.
He saw a table full of delicacies, but he didn't want to put down chopsticks, and when he saw the spring in the garden, he didn't want to appreciate it. The singers also have deep feelings, and they cried with pear blossoms and rain when they parted. Sikong Shu was full of emotion, recalled the past, and wrote this poem "Marrying a Prostitute in Illness": Life is unsatisfactory in the world, and there are many sad things in front of you.
* Teach singing and dancing to the fullest, and leave others to be happy teenagers.
The novelty of the poem is eye-catching, but the subject matter is not complicated. At the beginning, the poet directly expressed his feelings at this time: "Everything is sad in the present".
For Sikong Shu's life, his only hobby is this, the so-called everything, in fact, is just one thing. But because of his obsession with this matter, this matter has become the whole of his life, and it is also the work of his life.
Then, the poet leads us into that poignant scene with a white sketch. It was a celebration of good food and beauty, but it symbolized eternal parting.
The poet knows very well that he will wait for the last moment of his life with a sick and weak body, and the woman he loves will not accompany him to the end of his life. In the last two lines, the poet expresses endless sentimentality.
For this group of singers, he spent his whole life to provide them with food and clothing, so that they were talented. However, he had to let go and let them go. Sikong Shu also knew that the quality of these singers was very high, and they would soon find a new master, which would also be the beginning of their new happiness and satisfaction.
Although the poet's ruthlessness often causes the singers to endure the ravages of time, giving up may be their best arrangement. The poem expresses the helplessness and pain of the poet's inability to give the singer a decent life.