Feng Yansi's "Magpie Treading Branches" (Who said that the idle love has been thrown away for a long time) Appreciation and Analysis.

Who said that the idle love has been thrown away for a long time,

Every time when spring comes, the melancholy is still the same.

They are always sick in front of the flowers,

and they are always thin in the mirror.

Willow on the riverbank,

To ask for new sorrows, what is it that happens every year.

The wind is blowing in the sleeves of the small independent building,

and the new moon in the flat forest is coming back.

[Appreciation]

Feng Yansi was a man of the Southern Tang Dynasty in the Five Dynasties, and was once a prime minister. It is strange to say, every time to the chaotic times, always out of the literati less out of politicians. Among them to the period of the two Jin Dynasty, North and South Dynasty and the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period for the prevalence. Perhaps because of the chaotic times, the literati know more about life, the preciousness of life, and to sing the praises of it, or, the literati lamented the chaos of the times, know how to get rid of the depressed mood. So their works are more sincere than the general period of works! Also because of the war lost, not many preserved and precious! To their articles, later readers therefore with such a mood to read, more tolerant, less harsh.

This word is also included in some books in the works of Ouyang Xiu, but "Yangchun collection" collected as Feng Yansi's work should be credible, as early as the early Northern Song Dynasty has been transmitted.

"Who said the idle love throw long", there are publications is "abandoned" not "throw". From the meaning of the word: "abandon" has the meaning of abandonment, throw away; "throw" is not to throw things away, but set aside, idle, forget the meaning. From the surface of this word alone, the first section of the song "who said" has the meaning of rhetorical question, questioning, in which "long" and the next sentence "every spring", it is clear that the cycle, there is a continuity of the meaning of forgetfulness. The meaning of "forgetting" is revealed, not "abandoning" the meaning of completely; and then linked to the whole word, in which the "idle feeling" actually refers to entertaining with a beautiful person. "Who said that the idle love has been thrown away for a long time" comes out of nowhere and comes very abruptly, like a loud rebuttal of other people's questioning of the author, which is a kind of artistic performance effect and a kind of realism. We may as well imagine: this is a defense word when the beautiful woman complains about the author, because she has not dated her for a long time, and then she suddenly visits, and the beautiful woman bursts into tears of joy and jumps on the author all of a sudden. Tears of joy, all of a sudden jumped in the arms of the author, and then constantly beating the author for pettiness, or even "when to come back, the deep closure of the incense pavilion. To be I want, especially cloud fatigue rain, wrapped embroidered coverlet, not with the same happy. The end of the deeper, ask me in a relaxed manner" (Liu Yong "Jintang Chun") scene, and then, the author for their own defense, very aggrieved to tell the word. The first section of the song should be: Who says I have left you behind? The truth is that I miss you all the time, even when the spring comes and the spring is bright and cheerful, my thoughts of you are still as heavy as usual. I often take the flowers in the yard as you, and you drink with you, every time to get drunk, even if the resulting drink bad body, I also "with Yi drink people emaciated, the face gradually thin end not regret".

The next section of the song is a narrative, with the scene reflecting the mood. "Riverside green willow on the embankment" sentence suddenly look, it seems that "before the village after the store", how will suddenly come up with such a sentence to it? In fact, the author is nominally writing the scene, in fact, is the author of a kind of melancholy and lamentation! This is the beginning and the end. Riverside green and willow on the embankment there is hope, every spring began to green, and I? But "this 'hate' endless", and you meet but no fixed date, I do not know is that day ah! The "new sorrows" in "To ask for new sorrows, what happens every year" refers to other sorrows besides "meeting with a beautiful woman". In order to meet with a beautiful person but not, the author is a little angry, anthropomorphized to the "new sorrow" to ask, in addition to the beloved with the love of this "sorrow", what can be year after year so tormented me? That is to say, all the "sadness" is not as bad as the "sadness" of missing you but not being able to do so. I have no choice but to go to the small bridge alone to look at your direction, my heart is empty, and I can't calm down for a long time. The author actually writes "wind full sleeves" of "full", in fact, strongly reflecting the "heart of the empty" and "body of the skinny". "The sleeves are full, but my heart is empty. "I'm still thin because I miss you. Striking contrast, reflecting the author's extraordinary art of writing. "After the crescent moon in the flatwoods," "flatwoods" is the wind rest, the woods are calm. The "new moon" is the wind and the clouds, "the moon is hidden", the wind is calm and the moon pokes its head out again. The meaning is: you see, how much I miss you, "the clouds of worry" and the swaying of the forest is also because of my unsettled mood, after I left, they all returned to normal.

Some people think that this is a song portraying the painful feelings of a male youth after the loss of love. The "monologue under the tradition" does not think so, according to the social environment at that time and a lot of literature to analyze, in ancient times, women due to men abandoned or moved away from the situation is more, and also objective, but the man is rarely tormented in this regard is unlikely. Therefore, the author insists that this is still the word "girl's grudge" triggered.

(Monologue under the tradition)