The earth endures, and the sky endures; One day, both will end. What does it mean when this endless sadness lasts forever?

It means: even if it lasts forever, there will always be an end, but this resentment of life and death will never end.

Source: Tang Bai Juyi's Song of Eternal Sorrow.

Original text:

The emperor of China is eager to shake the beauty of an empire. He has been looking for it for many years, but he has never found it. Until a child of the Yang family, barely grown up, grew up in an inner room where no one knew her.

However, due to God's undisguised favor, he was finally elected as a member of the royal family one day. If she just turns her head and smiles, there will be a hundred spells, and the powder and paint in the sixth house will go up in smoke.

It was early spring. They bathed her in the pure swimming pool, which warmed and smoothed her cream-colored skin. Because she was tired, a maid lifted her up when the emperor first noticed her and chose her as his bride.

On the night of spring, the warm hibiscus curtains covered her floating hair, the petals on her cheeks and the golden ripples on her head when she walked. But the night in spring is short and the sun rises too fast. Since then, the emperor has given up his early hearing.

He wastes all his time on parties and revelry. He is the lover of spring and the tyrant of night. There are other 3,000 peerless beauties in his court, but his love for them is all concentrated on one person.

The Golden House is newly dressed to serve the night. When the table in the Jade Tower is cleaned, she will wander around and drink wine slowly. Brothers and sisters are all in the countryside, because she illuminates and glorifies her family.

When a girl was born instead of a boy, she brought happiness to every father and mother in the empire. ... high rose plum palace, into the blue clouds, and the wide breeze carries magical notes.

Soft songs and slow dances, strings and bamboo music, the emperor's eyes can never get enough of her. Until the sound of drums came from Yuyang, which shocked the whole earth and broke the melody of rainbow skirts and feathers.

The Forbidden City, a nine-story palace, is faintly visible from thousands of cars and horses heading southwest. The flag of the empire opened the road, moving and pausing, but it was thirty miles from the capital and outside the west gate.

The soldiers stopped, and no one moved until they might trample those moths under their hooves. The flower hairpin fell to the ground, and no one picked it up. There was also a green and white emerald tassel and a golden hairy bird.

The emperor couldn't save her. He could only cover his face. Later, when he turned to look, there was blood and tears. Hidden in the yellow dust from the cold wind, they crossed a cloud line at the crack in the path of the dagger tower.

Under Emei Mountain. The last few came, and the flags and banners lost their colors in the fading sun. However, just as the water in Shu is always green and the mountains are always blue, your majesty's love is eternal and deeper than the sky.

He stared at the desolate moon from his temporary palace, and he heard the bell cutting his chest in the late rain. In last contact that day, when the dragon car came home, the emperor stayed where he was and didn't want to leave.

The memory and pain are buried in the soil of Maweipo. Where is her jade-white face? . Rulers and lords, when their eyes met, cried on their coats. They rode horses, loosened the reins and slowly returned to the capital.

Pool, garden, palace, everything is the same as before, Taiye Lake hibiscus, Weiyang Palace willow. But the petals are like her face, and the willow leaves are like her eyebrows. Whenever he looks at them, what can he do but cry? .

Spring breeze comes, peaches and plums bloom, and leaves fall to the ground after autumn rain. Autumn grass in Xigong Nanyuan, red leaves piled up on the steps without cleaning.

Bai Fuxin, a disciple of Li Yuan, and the thin-eyed eunuch in her pepper yard; . Fireflies were flying on the throne, while he was meditating in the twilight. He will extend the wick to the end and still never fall asleep. ..

Bells and drums will ring slowly in the long night, and before dawn, the Milky Way in the sky will gradually become clear. The porcelain mandarin duck on the roof became thicker and thicker due to the morning frost, and his kingfisher blue cover felt more and more lonely and cold.

Year after year, life and death are separated, but no beloved soul has visited his dream. There lived a Taoist priest in Lingqiong. He was a heavenly guest and could summon ghosts by paying attention.

People were moved by the emperor's constant meditation, and they begged the Taoist priest to see if he could find her. He blazed his own trail in space, cutting through the sky like lightning, going into the sky and looking around.

Above, he looked for the green void, below, the yellow spring, but he didn't find the one he was looking for in either place. Then he heard about a magical island on the sea, with mountains in nothingness.

There are pavilions in the five-color sky, and exquisite immortals walk back and forth. One of them-they call it forever true, has a face of snow and flowers like her he is looking for.

So he went to the golden gate of the West Hall, knocked on the Jasper Gate, and asked a girl named Xiaoyu to tell Shuang Perfect. This lady woke up from a dream in her canopy when she heard the news of Emperor China's envoy.

She pushed open the pillow, got dressed, shook off her drowsiness, opened the pearly curtain, and then opened the silver screen. Because she was in a hurry, her muddy hair band hung aside, and when she came along the platform, her flowered hat was loose.

The wind blew the fairy's robe, as if she were dancing in a rainbow skirt and feather dress. Tears fell from her sad pale face, like spring rain on pear flowers.

But when she thanked him, her eyes shone with love. Since they broke up, his appearance and voice are strange to her. Because happiness has ended in the court of the brilliant sun, and the moon and dawn in Xianshan Palace have become long.

But when she turned to look down at the earth and tried to see the capital, there was only fog and dust. He expressed his feelings for the old man and sent him back a shell box and a gold hairpin through his special envoy.

But it kept a branch of the hairpin and a side of the box, broke the gold of the hairpin and broke the shell of the box. "Our souls belong to each other," she said, "just like this gold and this shell." Somewhere, at some time, on earth or in heaven, we will be together.

She sent him a message through his messenger, reminding him of the oath that only their two hearts knew. On the seventh day of July, in Changshou Palace, we told each other in secret in the silent midnight world.

We hope to fly in heaven, two birds become one, grow on the earth, two branches of a tree ... the earth lasts forever, and the sky lasts forever; One day both will end, and this endless sadness will last forever.

Translation:

Tang Minghuang prefers beautiful women. After becoming emperor, he has been looking for beautiful women for many years, but he found nothing. The Yang family has a daughter who has just grown up and is very delicate and charming. She grew up in a boudoir, and outsiders don't know that she is absolutely beautiful.

Born beautiful, she was hard to bury in the world and soon became a concubine around Tang. When she looks back and smiles, she is charming; The concubines of the six officials are all eclipsed.

When the spring was chilly, the emperor bathed her in Huaqing Pool, and the warm spring water washed her skin. Maid to help her, like the water lotus as weak as a graceful demeanour, which began to get the emperor's favor.

The temples are like clouds, the face is like flowers, and the head is wearing golden steps. Warm the hibiscus account and spend the spring night with the emperor. Love only hates the short spring night and sleeps until the sun is high. The king loved his children's gentle hometown deeply and never went to court again.

I am too busy to serve you. Travel with the emperor in spring and sleep at night. There are no fewer than 3000 concubines in the harem, but only she enjoys the favor of the emperor.

Dress up in the golden house and spoil the king every night; Let's enjoy the jade feast upstairs. Being drunk will add a little charm. Brothers and sisters are proud of her, and the lintel of the Yang family is radiant and enviable.

Therefore, parents all over the world have changed their ideas and become patriarchal. In the Huaqing Palace in Mount Li, the Jade Qionglou towers into the sky, and the breeze wafts in all directions in Yue Xian.

Singing and dancing are more in tune and the orchestral melody is vivid. The king watches it all day, but he never gets tired of watching it. The drums of the Yuyang Rebellion were deafening, and the gorgeous feather clothes stopped playing in the palace.

Suddenly, the Jiuchong Palace was dusty, and the king fled to the southwest as soon as possible with a large number of ministers, workers and beautiful women. Team stop-and-go, only one hundred miles to the west of Chang 'an.

The Sixth Army stagnated and demanded the death of Yang Yuhuan. The king had no choice but to kill Yang Yuhuan at Mawei Slope. The ornaments on the imperial concubine's head were scattered all over the floor. A green and white jade tassel and a golden hairy bird, precious headdresses one after another.

The king tried to save him, but he hid his face and cried. Looking back at the scene of the tragic death of the imperial concubine, his blood and tears could not stop flowing. The autumn wind swept away the fallen leaves, and the loess vanished, winding through the plank road, and the motorcade set foot on the Jiange ancient road.

There are few pedestrians under Mount Emei, the flag is colorless, and the sun and the moon are dull. The beautiful scenery of Shu attracted the king's love.

Watching the moon in the palace is full of sadness, and listening to music on a rainy night is sad. After the rebellion subsided, Zhou Tianzi returned to Chang 'an, passed by Maweipo, thinking about things and people, and hesitated. Under the steep hillside, in the desolate yellow grave, the beautiful scenery is no longer visible, only the grave lies in the mountains.

The monarch and his subjects looked at each other, and their skirts were wet with tears. East Jing Wong was very sad, so he believed that the horse would come back to the hall from the reins.

The pond garden is still there, the hibiscus flowers beside Taiye pond are still there, and the weeping willows in Weiyang Palace have not changed. Furong looks like Yuhuan's face, while Liu Yeer looks like her eyebrows. How can this scene not be sad?

Spring breeze blows away peach blossoms and plum blossoms, which makes people feel sad; Autumn rain drops on the plane blades, and the scene is even more terrible. Xingqingguan and Ganlutang are depressed everywhere, and autumn grass is growing. The fallen leaves in the palace are full of steps and have not been swept for a long time.

The actor's head turned white and the beauty of the maid-in-waiting faded. At night, fireflies are flying in the palace. When the lights are exhausted, the king still finds it difficult to sleep.

Counting the delayed bells and drums, the more you count, the longer the night feels. Look up at the stars until dawn in the east. Who sleeps with the king in the cold jade quilt?

Yin and Yang are separated by one year. Why did you never appear in my dream? Lin Qiong lives in Chang 'an. It is said that he can attract the soul of the imperial concubine with magic.

The feeling that the king missed the imperial concubine moved him. He accepted the emperor's orders, did not dare to neglect, was diligent in searching, and kept out the wind all around.

Take the cloud into the air, go straight like lightning, rise to the sky and everywhere, and there is nothing in heaven and earth. I suddenly heard that there is a fairy mountain surrounded by white clouds on the sea. Fairy mountain surrounded by white clouds.

Exquisite buildings and pavilions are supported by colorful clouds. There are countless fairies, all of which are graceful. One of the characters is so real, her skin looks like snow, and it seems that it is Yang Guifei that the king is looking for.

The Taoist priest came to the west of Jinque, knocked on the gate of the jade carving, and called softly, asking Xiaoyu to call the maid Shuangcheng to report. It is true that the king's angel has arrived and woke up from the tent.

Put on your clothes, push away the pillow and go out to sleep. Open the screen one by one and put down the bead curtain. Half-combed with clouds, I just woke up and came down from the altar before dressing, wearing a wreath askew.

The gentle fairy wind blows the sleeves and flutters slightly, just like a dress and a feather dance. Loneliness and sadness, tears are always flowing on your face, just like pear flowers with rain in spring.

He gazed affectionately at the emperor's envoy and thanked the king deeply. I haven't heard from her since we met in Maweipo. The marriage of Zhaoyang Temple has long been cut off, and the loneliness of Penglai Palace is still long.

Looking back at this world, Chang 'an has disappeared, leaving only dust and fog. I can only express my affection with the keepsake of that year. You can give this box of gold hairpin to the king as a souvenir.

One for the gold hairpin, half for the cymbal box, gold for the gold hairpin, and precious cymbals for the cymbal box. I hope our loving hearts are as loyal and strong as Huang Jinbao's, and we will have a chance to meet again forever.

When I left, I kindly asked the alchemist to take a message to the king, saying that only the king and I knew the oath. At that time, there was no one in the hall of eternal life at midnight on the seventh day of July, and we made a pledge of eternal love.

In heaven, I want to fly with me. On earth, I want to grow up together. Even if it lasts forever, there will always be an end, but this resentment of life and death will never end.

Extended data

1, Bai Juyi tells a love story in Song of Eternal Sorrow.

Song of everlasting regret was written in the first year of Yuanhe (806). At this time, the Tang Dynasty was the middle Tang Dynasty. Bai Juyi was just thirty-four years old. Bai Juyi once loved a girl named Xiangling deeply. However, due to family background and social atmosphere, Bai Juyi was forced to separate from Xiangling for her future.

Due to the social background, Bai Juyi could not combine with Xiangling, but this relationship made him unforgettable. Later, Bai Juyi wrote three poems in memory of Xiangling: Hu Aixiang Mausoleum on a Winter Night, Mourning Autumn Farewell and Farewell.

After this incident, Bai Juyi vowed never to get married again. It is precisely because of this unforgettable emotional experience that Bai Juyi's feelings throughout his life have had a far-reaching impact. As the emotional basis of Song of Eternal Sorrow, Bai Juyi inevitably added his own personal feelings when describing the love tragedy of Yang Guifei and Tang Xuanzong. Therefore, from the perspective of understanding people and discussing the world, the theme of Song of Eternal Sorrow is more in line with love.

2. Relevant figures in Song of Eternal Sorrow

1) Li Longji

Li Longji (September 8, 685-May 3, 762) was born in Luoyang, the capital of gods, in 685, and his reign was from 7 12 to 756. The longest-serving emperor in the Tang Dynasty was Tang Ruizong's third son, mother Dou Defai. The temple name "Xuanzong" is also called the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty, because posthumous title is the Great Sage, the Emperor of Daming and the Emperor of Filial Piety. In the Qing Dynasty, Emperor Kangxi's name "Michelle Ye" was a taboo. He was often called "Emperor Huang Ming", and another one was called "SHEN WOO, Emperor Wensheng of Kaiyuan".

In the first year of Tang Long (7 10), Li Longji and Princess Taiping jointly launched the "Tang Long Political Revolution" and killed Wei Hou. In July12, Li Danchan was located in Li Longji, and was later granted the death of Princess Taiping, and gained the supreme sovereignty of the country.

In the early stage, he paid attention to bringing order out of chaos, appointed Yao Chong, Song Jing and other sages, and made great efforts to govern the country. In the later period of his rule, he loved Yang Guifei, neglected state affairs, favored treacherous officials such as Li and Yang, made policy mistakes and tried to stabilize the frontier of the Tang Dynasty by reusing An Lushan and other ethnic groups beyond the Great Wall, which led to the eight-year Anshi Rebellion and laid the foundation for the decline of the Tang Dynasty. In 756, Hengli succeeded to the throne and honored him as the emperor's father. He died in 762 and was buried in Tailing.

Yang Yuhuan

Yang Yuhuan (765438+June 22-July 200915,756), this figure is too real. She is rich in appearance, good at singing and dancing, and has a smooth melody. She was a court musician and dancer in the Tang Dynasty. Her musical talent is rare among empresses in past dynasties, and she is praised as one of the four beauties in ancient China by later generations.

First of all, she is Princess Li Mao, the son of Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty. After being ordered to become a monk, she was canonized by her father, Emperor Xuanzong of Tang Dynasty. In the 15th year of Tianbao (756), An Lushan launched an Anshi Rebellion and went into exile with Li Longji in Shu, passing through Mawei Post Station. On June 14th, Yang Yuhuan died in Mawei Station.

3. The theme of this poem and its supplementary arguments.

The theme of Song of Eternal Sorrow has always been controversial. There are three representative views as follows.

(1) The allegorical theory holds that this poem is based on the love affair between Li and Yang, exposing the profligacy and shamelessness of the ruling class, satirizing lewdness and misunderstanding of the country, which led to the "Anshi Rebellion". Warn the supreme ruler to take a warning and avoid making the same mistake. As for the description of eternal hatred in the second half of the poem, it is not sympathy for Li and Yang, let alone praise, but satirizes his decadent country through the embarrassing scene of losing everything in his later years, and finally tastes bitter.

(2) According to the concept of love, the first half of this poem does have satire and dissatisfaction with Li and Yang's profligacy and neglect of state affairs, but this is not the main idea. The whole poem describes their bizarre experiences and praises their love in most of the space. Critics also believe that the love between Li and Yang described in the poem actually transcends historical facts and has certain typical significance. Through this love tragedy, the author praises people's loyalty and singleness to love, and reflects people's pursuit and yearning for happy love. Although Li and Yang are imperial concubines, their love is consistent with people's lives and feelings.

(3) According to the dual theme theory, on the one hand, this poem satirizes Li and Yang's dissolute and disastrous lives, on the other hand, it gives deep sympathy to their love tragedy and sincere love, and pays more attention to the latter. This duality runs through the whole poem from beginning to end, and the contradiction between Li and Yang, as the makers and undertakers of love tragedy. The embodiment of conflict is mainly the two characters themselves, and the inevitable result of conflict is the long-term hatred of the characters.