An article "The Story of the Drunken Pavilion" shows us Ouyang Xiu's literary achievements and martial arts at the same time, which not only makes readers feel his concise and beautiful writing skills, but also makes readers feel his noble feelings of saving the world and enjoying the people. All kinds of signs seem to show that Ouyang Xiu is a meticulous and serious demeanor.
However, just as Confucius, a sage, has a joke that the wall of dirt can't be closed, how can Ouyang Xiu, a drunken old man, be willing to be lonely?
Ouyang Xiu has a unique preference for the new folk songs popular in the Northern Song Dynasty. Among the existing European Ci, there are dozens of works with Fisherman's Pride as the epigraph, all of which praise the love of young men and women in Jiangnan water town. However, ordinary poets describe their affection for their children, and basically set the place of occurrence in the boudoir courtyard, while Ouyang Xiu moved it to the wild, which made the story more charming and added a lot of spring scenery.
Fisherman's Pride
Recently, the stream in front of the gate rose. Langchuan secretly visited each other several times. The boat is too small to open a red bucket account. No direction. The shadows of acacia are empty and melancholy.
may my body be a red lotus (hàn dàn). Born in Qiu Jiang every year. I hope lang will be the bottom of the flower. No barrier. Go back and forth with the wind and rain.
This is a famous poem about sex, that is, the joy of sex. It is a lovely and lively poem that is rare in Ouyang Xiu's works. The poet started with a rising water, aiming to draw out the "Lang boat", because Lang's boat can only be rowed after the water rises. The rising of the stream provides conditions for the two to meet each other, and it also implies that their feelings are full.
The word "stealing" indicates that this is a secret love. "Small boat is hard to open a red bucket account. No direction. There is nothing in the shadow of acacia. " Ouyang Xiu started suddenly, and the speed was too fast to catch up with: the boat was too small to hang a red bucket account, and there was no way to make out, so he could only stand in the shadow of Albizia. "Fighting with each other" is often used to describe the harmony between men and women in ancient poetry.
And the "melancholy" here is actually more about the chagrin of wanting more. The previous words such as "difficult to open", "no plan" and "empty" repeatedly talked about the distress of incompatibility, and repeatedly emphasized it, which shows its "melancholy" feelings. It can be seen that the purpose of young men and women hanging red accounts is to keep out, and the purpose of keeping out is to "love". More crucially, Ouyang Xiu set the location on a small boat, and its intention is self-evident, giving people a feeling of youthful excitement and happy life.
In the next film, Ouyang Xiu imagines: "I wish my body were red. Born on the Qiu Jiang every year. " "Han Han" is another name for lotus. A woman romantically imagines with her lover. She hopes to turn herself into a fiery lotus and bloom in Qiu Jiang every year. The woman was on a lotus-picking boat, witnessing the autumn lotus on the river, and she couldn't help but have such wishful thinking. "I hope that Lang will be the bottom of the flower." I hope you will become a river wave under the lotus flower.
Lang is a flower bottom wave, and my concubine is a red lotus. What do you do? "There is no barrier. Traveling with the wind and rain. " In this way, we can travel with the wind and rain without obstacles and stay together forever.
To describe the intimate relationship between men and women with these two subtle metaphors can be described as Ouyang Xiu's invention patents, which are novel and lively, making people astonish. But if you think deeply, isn't this a woman's fantasy of sex? "No barrier" corresponds to "red bucket account". People need to avoid other people's eyes from time to time, but lotus and waves don't need to be strangers, just go with the wind and rain.
Ouyang Xiu is really a literary master. Even such an explicit plot can be written in such a vague and romantic way, which is a fantastic pen.