The Creative Background of Yan Shu's Huanxisha

This is one of the representative works of Yan Shu's Zhu Yu's ci. The author has held an important position all his life, and his career is flat, but his achievements are average. Work is carried out in singing, drinking and leisure.

It also often reveals the sadness of bureaucratic literati and the loneliness brought by spiritual emptiness. The word "Huanxisha" is written about the author's disappointment over the passage of time and regret over the disappearance of spring.

Although this is a common theme in ancient poetry, the author has a unique experience, novel ideas and wonderful sentences, so this word has become a famous article that has been passed down through the ages.

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This is the most popular chapter in Yan Shu's ci. The whole poem expresses the feelings of mourning for the last spring, and expresses the sadness that time flies and it is difficult to catch up.

Start with the sentence "a new word and a glass of wine, the weather was old last year". Write about the present situation of drinking and listening to songs. From the complex sentence patterns and light and smooth intonation, we can realize that the poet started with a relaxed and happy mood and a natural and unrestrained attitude when facing the present situation. It seems that the protagonist is addicted to feasting and chanting.

Indeed, as the "Prime Minister of Taiping" who enjoys honor and worships Shang Ya, singing and drinking is one of the entertainment ways that the author is used to and willing to care about. However, while listening and drinking at the same time, this situation unexpectedly triggered a recall of a similar realm of "last year": the same late spring weather as "this year", facing the same pavilions, the same songs and wine as before.

However, it seems that under the surface of everything, we clearly feel some irreversible change, that is, the long-lost years and a series of personnel related to them. This sentence contains a sense of nostalgia with the same scenery and completely different personnel.

The next part is to express the intention of the former with the brushwork of scene blending. "It has nothing to do with flowers, it seems to meet Yan." Both of these sentences describe spring, and the beauty lies in the neatness of the antithesis. As a natural odd-even sentence, this sentence is clever and implicit, fluent and implicit, with harmonious phonology and profound meaning. It shows the poet's ingenious thinking and deep feeling of using function words to form a neat antithesis and sing a sigh vividly, which is also the reason why this word is famous.

But what is worth pondering is the meaning of this couplet. The fading of flowers, the disappearance of spring and the passage of time are irresistible natural laws. Although it is useless to regret lingering, they all say "helpless", which is inherited as "the sun sets"; However, in this late spring weather, I feel not only helpless disappearance, but also gratifying reappearance. The returning swallows are like old acquaintances who built their nests here last year.

This sentence should be "when will you come back". Falling flowers and the return of Yan are also eye sights, but once they are associated with "helplessness" and "deja vu", their connotations become very extensive and their artistic conception is very profound, which is a symbol of good things.

The reason why this word is a household name and widely read is that it is thoughtful in love. These words seem to inadvertently describe common phenomena, but they have philosophical significance and inspire people to think about the universe and life from a higher level. Ci involves such a profound thought that time is eternal and life is limited, but it is very implicit.

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