Introduction of Peacock Flying Southeast

During the Jian 'an period at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, Liu Lanzhi, a young girl, studied embroidery since childhood, and was good at playing the piano and reciting poems. /kloc-married Jiao Zhongqing at the age of 0/7. She worked hard day and night and did housework diligently, but her mother-in-law could not tolerate her. So, she wrote to her husband who was a small official in Lujiang County and told her unbearable suffering. Zhong Qing came back to plead for his wife, but his mother scolded him and asked him to divorce his wife and marry another bride. Zhong Qing knelt down and said, "If you send this girl today, you can't remarry for life." Mother was furious.

Because she still wanted to get back to the county government, Zhong Qing had to let her wife go back to her family first and take refuge temporarily. Lan Zhi naturally understood that such a farewell was tantamount to giving up, and it was difficult to see you again in the future, so she left her usual sachets, dowry and other things to Zhong Qing as a souvenir. After the cock crowed at dawn, Lan Zhi dressed herself up, bid farewell to her mother-in-law and sister-in-law, and boarded the bus with tears in her eyes. At this point, Zhong Qing has been waiting by the roadside, and the husband and wife meet. Feelings, bowed their heads and whispered: "I swear that heaven will not be negative."

Liu Lanzhi was sent home for more than ten days, and the county magistrate sent a matchmaker to propose to his son, but Lan Zhi politely refused. A few days later, the satrap asked him to propose marriage again, saying that the five sons of the satrap were not married, and they were willing to marry the Liu family for a hundred years, but they were rejected. This has annoyed Lan Zhi, Big Brother and Thunderstorm, and his life is hard to break. However, Lan Zhi was forced to make all the arrangements.

The matchmaker there reported that the Liu family had agreed to get married. Just three days later, it was another auspicious day, and the satrap immediately sent people everywhere to prepare gold and silk bride price in order to get married as soon as possible. When Zhong Qing was in office, he heard about this change and hurriedly asked for leave.

The next day, Lan Zhi was silent all day, just cutting clothes with tears. Suddenly, I heard the familiar neigh of horses. When I went out and looked at each other from a distance, I knew I was an old friend. Lan Zhi hand caressed the saddle and told the story one by one. Zhong Qing mentioned the oath of that day, so the two had to meet in the grave and go home. After returning home, Zhong Qing said to her mother: "Today, the strong wind blew off the trees, and the orchids in the yard were frosted;" The child's life is like the sunset in the western hills, and the mother will take care of herself in the future. " Then she bowed again and left with a sigh.

On this day, the wedding carriage and horses were particularly lively, and the bride had already entered the door. After dusk, the crowd gradually dispersed, the night was deep and everything was silent. Lan Zhi drowned with a skirt. Zhong Qing learned that she was wandering under the tree and hanged herself. Then buried next to Huashan Mountain.

Through the narration of the marriage tragedy of Liu Lanzhi and Jiao Zhongqing, the whole poem exposes the evil of feudal patriarchal clan system and feudal ethics in destroying the lives of young men and women, and praises Lan Zhi and Zhong Qing's unswerving love and spirit of resisting oppression.

Finally, this poem expresses the broad masses of people's strong belief in freedom of marriage. Because it raised an extremely common problem in feudal society, it made this tragedy more typical and touched countless readers for thousands of years.

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Creation background

The writing age of Peacock Flying Southeast has always been controversial. Judging from the "preface" of this poem, it should be a work in the Jian 'an period at the end of Han Dynasty, so it belongs to the category of "Han Yuefu".

During the period of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, "in terms of marriage system, there were rules and regulations such as' seven haves' and' all parents in the world'." All parents in the world "is the main reason of Liu Jiao's tragedy. In the atmosphere of this era, under the arrogance of Jiao Mu, Jiao Zhongqing dared to stand on the side of Liu Lanzhi, showing a firm attitude of "sleeping with Lan Zhi and being friends with him", which is commendable.

Peacock Flying Southeast marks the maturity of China's ancient narrative poems in art, which is mainly manifested in three aspects:

1, successfully created artistic images such as Liu Lanzhi and Jiao Zhongqing.

Liu Lanzhi not only dares to love and hate, but also dares to say and do, and has a strong rebellious character. Moreover, when she was separated from her sister-in-law and Zhong Qing, she sent gifts and messages, and made an alliance with Platts. Her grief was full of warm affection. She is full of emotions and images, which is different from the simple character in general narrative poems.

Compared with Lan Zhi, Zhong Qing's image is more complicated. He forbeared to seek his mother, compromised for perfection, and seemed weak, but this was an era limitation that ordinary people could not surpass at that time, not to mention that as a government official, he was inevitably restricted by feudal laws and regulations. But his request is an open contradiction to his mother's life at that time, and it is really a big disrespect to feudal ethics.

On the other hand, he disobeyed his mother's orders, exiled Lan Zhi on the surface, but remarried in secret, which shows that he is stubborn, just hiding the needle in cotton and is very strong. As for him, he accused his mother of killing himself and imagined that he would urge his mother to agree to reunite with Lan Zhi, which was his lack of understanding. But as far as its attitude is concerned, it has actually developed from a general contradiction to a threat.

However, although the ignorant Jiao Mu loves her son, she insists on marrying another woman. After disillusionment, Zhong Qing did not give in to her mother and eventually died, which fully showed Jiao Zhongqing's rebellious character. This is a typical example of wanting to be a dutiful son, but unwilling to know nothing about filial piety under the conflict of vital interests. The contradiction between dark environment and reality has created Zhong Qing's ideological character.

The author not only wrote the personality of the characters, but also wrote the unique complexity of their characters, which is both flesh and blood and god, touching and credible, and is by no means the realm that lyric short poems and ordinary narrative poems can reach. The main characters in this poem are all like this. For minor characters, the author also pays attention to the description of personality, so he can write different characteristics of similar characters.

2. The story is complete and the contradictions and conflicts are constant.

"Peacock Flying Southeast" tells the story with characters as the center, with twists and turns and complete beginning and end. The story is legendary: a woman who was abandoned because of divorce was unexpectedly visited by a county magistrate and a magistrate and proposed to her son. Obviously, this is an extremely accidental and dramatic plot. But the author does not simply pursue bizarre stories, but uses plots to describe the relationship between people. The author wrote this adventure, which not only set off the beauty of Lan Zhi, but also praised Lan Zhi's loyal and single-minded character, and portrayed her completely different from Liu Xiong and Liu Mu in comparison.

Moreover, a long narrative poem is easy to be straight, but this poem is full of twists and turns, which makes people feel that it is very long and deserves to be called "the saint of novels". In particular, it describes the conflicts between characters through three pairs of continuous contradictions with Jiao Mu, his mother and Mr. Liu, and summarizes the common contradictions in society at that time, so as to reflect a society through a family and make this poem a portrait of a complex society. This was beyond the reach of other narrative poems at that time.

3. The language is popular, personalized, clear and simple.

This poem describes modality and things, which are easy to understand. In particular, the dialogue of the characters truly and aptly reflects the character and psychological activities of the characters.

The dialogue between Liu Lanzhi and Jiao Zhongqing shows their love and their character of fighting for their ideals. Zhong Qing's mother-child dialogue not only shows Jiao's love for her son, but also shows her hatred for the bride. The dialogue between Lan Zhi's mother, daughter, brother and sister shows her unique feelings for her daughter and Mr. Liu's despicable and snobbish heart.

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