People in the Song Dynasty said that young people do not know the feeling of sorrow. This statement is very profound when you think about it carefully. I remember secretly reading "The Romance of the West Chamber" during the "Cultural Revolution". In my drunken state, I didn't understand the benefits of "turning one's eyes before leaving", even though it said: "The phrase 'autumn waves' is a key point in the novel "The West Chamber"" . This is probably the state of "not knowing the feeling of sorrow" and still "falling in love with the upstairs". Later, I gradually understood, so when looking at a beautiful woman, I only like to look into her eyes and experience her flirtatious looks.
I don’t know who created the beauty’s eyes into autumn water waves. It not only expresses the clarity and brightness of the eyes, but also a kind of liquid flow of longing to be soaked and absorbed. The gain effect of retention is really wonderful.
As far as I know, the first person to use the word Qiubo in literature was Li Yu, the emperor of the Southern Tang Dynasty who could only write lyrics but not govern the country. He can be said to be a truly romantic emperor in history, with good lyrics and unique style of diction. Even the great writers of his contemporaries and later generations have publicly acknowledged it. It is probably because of this that women like him very much. They really like him, without any element of power. For example, his love affair with Xiao Zhou, Empress Zhaohui's sister, was very common. Xiao Zhouhou came to the palace when her sister was ill and fell in love with her brother-in-law Li Yu. Li Yu, who had countless beauties around him, was also fascinated by this. On a night when the flowers were bright, the moon was dim, and the mist was misty, Xiao Zhou came quietly to have a tryst with Li Yu, carrying gold-laced shoes and wearing only stockings. The two of them had trembling heartbeats and enjoyed themselves to the fullest every time. Later, the great Empress Zhou died of illness, and her younger sister took over her position. For this reason, Li Yu seriously wrote three songs "Bodhisattva Man" for the fiery eyes and desperate true feelings of the Little Empress Zhou. One of them wrote about her eyes: : "The eyes are dark, and the eyes are about to flow." I think Xiao Zhouhou's eyes are very seductive, and Li Yu's use of "autumn waves" as a metaphor is just right, and it is also the strength of this romantic emperor, because future generations will We know that he is good at using "water" to create images. The most famous one is "Ask you how much sorrow you can have, just like a river of spring water flowing eastward."
Most people only know that he can use spring water better than melancholy, but they don’t know that he can use autumn water better than eyes. These two great inventions are enough to amaze future generations. It seems that the emperor must also have some skills in housekeeping. If he cannot manage the country well, it doesn't matter if he writes good lyrics. Just like some emperors like to kill pigs and some like to beat up furniture. The country is lost, but the reputation remains. But what people are concerned about is, I wonder if Emperor Li could still see the "autumn waves" in his melancholy from the river of spring water flowing eastward?
It seems to be the experience and tradition of Chinese men to pay attention to the eyes when looking at beauty. They know well that "the eyes are the sun and moon of the body and the essence of the five inner parts." Ya Shenggong said as early as in "Mencius Li Lou Shang": "Nothing is good in the eyes, and the eyes cannot hide the evil. If the heart is righteous, the eyes will be dull; if the chest is not right, the eyes will be dull. Just listen to it. In other words, if you look at his eyes, you will see that he is a human being." He said there is no better way to observe a person than to observe his eyes. Because eyes cannot cover one's ugliness. If a person's chest is upright, his eyes will be bright; if his chest is not upright, his eyes will be dim. When listening to a person speak, pay attention to his eyes. Where can the good and evil of this person be hidden? It seems that Master Meng first observed people by looking at their eyes. I wonder how he evaluated the eyes of beautiful women, and whether he was also affected by his eyes. This is a taboo of the venerable, and future generations will not know. Wang Chong of the Han Dynasty was quite honest. He said bluntly in "Lunheng": "Beauty has different aspects, but they are all better than the eyes." The "Huainanzi" of the same period also said: "Beauties have different bodies, and beauties have different aspects, but they are all beautiful." This is so clear that Gu Kaizhi, a great artist of the Jin Dynasty, concluded: "The beauty of the four-body beauty is in the eyes." By this time, in theory, men have completed a unified understanding of eyes.
In fact, long before Mencius, men had long been conquered by the eyes of beauties. During the Spring and Autumn Period, a master's eyes not only fascinated folk poets, but also impressed the government's poets. "The beautiful smiles are beautiful, and the beautiful eyes are full of hope." Zhuang Jiang's eyes made all the Wei people below Wei Zhuanggong jealous. , was recorded in the Book of Songs and has been passed down through the ages.
The great poet Qu Yuan was not exempt from the vulgarity. He praised beauties at the top of his lungs in "Shao Siming" and boasted: "The house is full of beauties, and suddenly I am alone with the rest." All the beauties in the room are in love with him, Use your eyes to reach a tacit understanding of affection with him. Who would have thought that Qu Zi, who had a sullen face and was passionate about the governance of his family and country, could flirt with a beauty like this? "A ruthless person may not be a true hero." Don't be surprised by this. Most men are like this. Moreover, the Chu Di girls that Qu Yuan worked with always exuded charm with their eyes. Even Song Yu, who was extremely slanderous and lewd, could never forget the look of the Hunan girl in her life. She was fascinated by the little girl's "happy smile and peeping eyes". Just taking a sneak peek at them, the details of the movement of their eyes are firmly remembered in my mind.
The beautiful woman's eyes are as charming as autumn water, which makes men ecstasy and makes them difficult to resist. Bai Juyi, the great poet of the mid-Tang Dynasty, paid special attention to singing girls in his life. Needless to say, he sympathized with the pipa girl, and he was also full of tenderness towards the girl playing the zither. In the poem "Zheng", he vividly wrote: "The eyes are like autumn water." "Peel spring onions with ten fingers." (Later, this poem was favored by Li He and Wei Zhuang in the late Tang Dynasty. Li He used it in "Tang Children's Songs": "The bones are heavy and the gods are in the cold sky, and the eyes are like autumn water.") "Wei Zhuang copied it from the famous poem "Qin Women's Song": "There is a Jurchen fairy in the west, and an inch of horizontal wave cuts the autumn water.") It's amazing. No wonder he also grasped Yang Yuhuan's eyes so accurately: "Look back and smile. If you are born, the sixth house will have no color. "You see how powerful a woman's eyes are, not only can they cut off the beauty of others, but they can also make the same sex lose their beauty. What's more, Li Shangyin, the poet of the late Tang Dynasty who best understood the subtle love between humans and gods, couldn't help but laugh when he saw the statue of Mrs. Li from the Han Dynasty (note, we haven't seen the real person yet): "The longevity palace does not hesitate to cast the south People's soft intestines have been cut by autumn eyes. "The eyes of a beauty (Mrs. Li is definitely a beauty) are not only seductive, but also extremely lethal. Isn't it scary? In fact, there is nothing to be afraid of. How to explain the "broken heart"? The most beautiful result is to be struck by the eyes of a beautiful woman.
Men know in their hearts that the most lethal thing is the autumn wave. The most difficult thing is the frailty and fever after being infected with the autumn wave. Soon after Li Yu was infected with the "horrible" autumn wave, he "shed tears to Gong E" , the country changed hands, and lives were at risk. Therefore, passionate men are always defeated by the ripples of women's glances, so that Zhou Bangyan of the Song Dynasty could only shake his head and sigh: "The scoundrel is Hengbo."
A string of glances, a string of stories; how many glances, how many stories, I don’t know how many people’s autumn waves have caused the joys and sorrows of many people and the changes in their country and country in the Spring and Autumn Period.
Hungry eyes are about to see through, greedy mouth is empty, and my bones are full of lovesickness. How can I look at him before he leaves?
That turn! Xiudao is a niche student, even a tough guy wants to be affectionate.
This is the first and most eclectic piece of music and lyrics in the famous "The Romance of the West Chamber", and it is also the most famous passage about love in Chinese history. Originally, Zhang Sheng was shocked by Cui Yingying's beauty after meeting her, but at this time Cui Yingying saw the stranger and was eager to avoid it and go away. Looking at the departing figure, Zhang Sheng's eyes were filled with sadness and his mouth was drooling. He was not sick but had lost his normal state and entered a state of obsession and fanaticism, which was a "bone-marrow lovesickness infection". He was gone, and it seemed that there was hope. No more. However, in an instant, life suddenly came to her. When Zhang Sheng couldn't hold it anymore, Yingying turned around and gave him a look that woke Zhang Sheng out of his wits, and the sun suddenly became bright in front of him. "Yingying's eyes are as bright as autumn water, flashing lightly and fluently, containing and conveying many feelings of kindness, tenderness, enthusiasm, attachment and yearning." The mood and charm between her and Zhang Sheng provided a kind of implicit and clear message, which allowed Zhang Sheng to realize her deep affection and courage without letting other people present notice it; neither The daughter of Shi Xiangguo has a well-educated and elegant demeanor, and she adheres to feudal etiquette regardless of her family status... This is just as Ming Dynasty scholar Xiao Meng pointed out in "Xiao's Study on Neighbors": "Orchid and musk deer leave fragrance, The bead curtain reflects the face, and the image is gone; the autumn wave turns in front of the spring light, and the emotion is gone. "A poor and worried scholar with great ambitions to take the exam, and a lady from the prime minister's house who pays great filial piety, co-acted a provocative comedy in this solemn and solemn holy place of the Buddhist temple.
This eternal love affair has stirred up countless love affairs between men and women. It not only made Cui Zhang fall in love, but also made the play "The Romance of the West Chamber" famous throughout the ages. After Wang Shifu, countless literati rushed to create "the love story before leaving". "Critical article. As far as I know, the Ming editions of "The Romance of the West Chamber" are all accompanied by "On the Turn of Autumn Waves" signed by Guo Zisheng. Later, Xu Zhen of the Qing Dynasty wrote "Beauty Book" to discuss the charm of beauties, and also specifically included "One Turn of Autumn Waves before leaving" as The last condition. The rhyme of his beauty is:
Shadows in the curtain, walking on the moss, leaning on the railing to wait for the moon, embracing the clouds sideways, smiling sweetly after singing and dancing when tired, and having a fleeting look before leaving.
As the last rhyme, "The eyes turn before leaving" shows the importance of eyes in the rhyme of beauty. In this regard, I feel that at least we have captured the key point. It is much healthier and more beautiful to look at the charm of a beauty and pay attention to the eyes than to look at the little feet. From this point of view, the charm of autumn waves is the charm of beauty. Who could have imagined that Yingying's turn and glance back then had such a great aesthetic impact.
Looking at someone with dark eyes is a specialty of Chinese women and an enjoyment of Chinese men. So, do foreigners with blue eyes and yellow eyes also do this? Some, but they are not as long-standing and traditional as the Chinese.
It is said that among Chinese readers, ordinary-looking women love to read "Jane Eyre" most. This is probably a delicate balance. It was in the book "Jane Eyre" that Charlotte Bronte wrote: "The soul has an interpreter in the eye - often unintentionally, but a faithful interpreter." "Often unintentionally ", which means that the critical moment is intentional. You see how foreigners can explain it! At the critical moment, Jack London wrote about Lissie's eyes in "Martin Eden" and said: "Since people were divided into men and women, the charm of women from generation to generation has come alive in her eyes." At critical moments, blue eyes sometimes replace the role of the mouth. When Kachusha met Nekhlyudov in "Resurrection", "Her eyes seemed to be asking, am I doing this right?" Yes, dear, yes, this is done right; everything is right, everything is beautiful. My heart is full of love!" The communication of Qiubo achieved quite a tacit understanding and gentleness here, unlike in Balzac's. "Aunt Beckham" said it so directly: "His eyes are like a pair of love letters." Eyes really contain infinity, and it is difficult for anyone to get to the bottom of it, so Pushkin said that Olenina's eyes "are full of deep thoughts." His spirit, how much childish simplicity, how many lingering words, how much tenderness and how many dreams..." Facing a pair of beautiful eyes is like reading an encyclopedia of life. But don't just think so, listen to Chaucer's cry in "The Canterbury Tales": "Your eyes kill me, Amore!"
Eyes can kill, so what's the point? Going back to Li Shangyin's "soft intestines have long been cut by Qiu Mu", Chinese and foreign men probably don't need to negotiate on this issue.
Why do eyes have such magical power? I wonder if it has something to do with it being the concentration point of all sensitive nerves in the human body? Morris, the famous British biological anthropologist who once wrote the book "The Naked Ape", once gave the following definition of eyes in "The Secret Language of the Human Body":
It is about 2.5 centimeters in diameter, but Like the most sophisticated television camera since the Stone Age. The light-sensitive cornea at the back of the eye contains 137 million cells that transmit incoming information to the brain. These photoreceptor cells can process 1.5 million pieces of information at any one time. However, it is the organ that grows least in the human body from birth to adulthood.
It’s amazing, the “organ with the least growth” can release energy that moves the heavens and the earth. This kind of energy is not acquired overnight or is born. Being able to "make" good looks comes from the accumulation of many aspects of life, and is a combination of knowledge, literacy, temperament and other aspects. Not everyone can "turn" the upcoming turn, or they can "turn" it if they want to. I think back then, even though Mr. Zhang was a little poor and sad, his taste was still quite high, and he was not a person who would fall over at the sight of his eyes. Therefore, for women, although it is good, if they are good at making flirtatious glances, if they are not done well, they will become "flying eyes". If they are indiscriminate, they will never have good results.
But men should also be good at appreciating what is "autiful eyes" and what is "flying eyes"? Don't be so affectionate when you see a woman's eyes, thinking that it's just a glance, but in fact it may not be a ripple at all. At most, it just "flys" at you. You should understand. There is a line in the poem "Hundred Steps of Hong" by Su Dongpo of the Song Dynasty: "The beautiful lady refuses to return her eyes, and the young boy wants to talk to prevent the flying shuttle." This involves a very interesting allusion: Xie Kun, the second ancestor of the Xie family in the Southern Dynasty, was named Youyu. When I was young, I fell in love with a neighbor, a beautiful girl who knitted by the window. Xie Kun once teased her at the window, but she ignored him (that is, she refused to return his gaze). Xie Kun still refused to leave and continued to flirt boldly. The girl was in a hurry and unexpectedly swung a flying shuttle over, hitting Xie Kun right in the face, knocking off two of his front teeth on the spot. This matter was rumored as a joke among the scholars, saying that "if you are too successful, your children will break their teeth." Unexpectedly, Xie Kun didn't care after that, and he didn't care about the two missing front teeth to the girl. He calmly said: "Broken teeth are nothing, they don't prevent me from singing!" From today's perspective, Xie Kun's behavior It was generous, but it was still not worth it. I lost two front teeth, but I didn’t get any eyes in return. I would like to remind today's men that if a beautiful woman does not send you her eyes, you should retreat as soon as possible, be more knowledgeable, and avoid the pain of "flying edges". Otherwise, although you can "howl", you will not get high scores in the karaoke competition.
The art of amorous glances can be said to be a patent for Chinese women. Shen Yun Ju