The Three Realms of Human Words

Reading "Words on Earth", gossiping about the three realms of life

"Those who have achieved great endeavors and great knowledge in ancient and modern times must pass through three realms, 'Last night the west wind withered the blue trees. I went up to the tallest building and looked at the end of the road.' This is the first realm.

'The belt is gradually widening, for the consuming people pine.' This is the second state.

'I've been looking for him for a thousand years, but when I look back, I see that he is at the end of the lights.' This is the third state."

This is what Wang Guowei said in "Words on Earth", with the help of the words of Yan Shu, Liu Yong, and Xin Qiji in the Northern Song Dynasty, that if you want to achieve great things in life, you have to go through the "three realms".

These three realms, that is to say, we have to go through three stages in the pursuit of ideals, the first stage, there should be a lofty goal, the second stage should have a tough will, perseverance and determination, the third stage shows the highest realm of realization of ideals.

The three great wordsmiths, Yanshu, Liu Yong, and Xin Qiji, never dreamed that one person would later magically link their words and phrases together and, moreover, become inspirational quotes.

These three words are from three different generations of wordsmiths, the intention of these three words is not Wang Guowei to express the "realm of life"? We might as well know about these three writers first!

The first realm? I went up to the west tower alone, looking at the end of the road

This word is written by Yanshu, "Butterfly Lovers", the original text: "Threshold chrysanthemums worried about the smoke and orchids weeping dew. The canopy is cold, and the swallows have flown away. The bright moon is not familiar with the bitterness of separation and hatred, and the slanting light penetrates the vermilion house at dawn. Last night, the west wind withered the blue trees. I went up to the west tower alone and looked at the end of the world. I want to send a colorful paper and a ruler, but I don't know where the mountains are long and the waters are wide."

From this line, "The moon is not familiar with the pain of separation and hatred, and the slanting light penetrates through the vermilion house at dawn," we can read that the theme that the author wants to express is "separation and hatred," and the upper part of the section writes about the sleepless night that he had experienced.

The next section is from the indoor to the outdoor, he found that last night scraped a night of autumn wind, so that all the leaves on the trees blew down, "alone on the west tower, looking all the way to the end of the world," he climbed a tall building, before I could not see the end of the world because of the tree branches and leaves, blocked the line of sight, and now the leaves scraped, the line of sight stretched, so I could see the far end of the world, and I could see the far end of the world, I could see the far end of the world. But now that the leaves have been scraped off, the line of sight has been lengthened, so that he can see the faraway place. In the last two lines, he wants to write a letter to the person he misses because of his parting, but he doesn't know where the deceased is.

Who is the person Yanshu misses?

Yanshu was very proud of himself, he felt that he had taken a young, beautiful and multi-talented concubine, and was very honorable in front of his friends. On weekdays, as he doted on his concubine, this made his wife jealous, and she found an opportunity to sell the concubine. From then on, Yanshu sulked.

Later, when Zhang Xian knew about this, he specially wrote a lyric "Bi Peony" "Looking over the Blue Bridge, but the twilight clouds are a thousand miles away, a few mountains, a few waters." Zhang Xian's talent has to be admired. Instead of writing about how Yan Shu misses his concubine, he writes about how the concubine, after being sold, can't forget Yan Shu, even with a sense of resentment.

Yan Shu listened to this, and was really in tears. His lover was far away, and whenever he remembered the bits and pieces of the time we had spent together, all kinds of sadness would come to his mind. "Alone on a tall building, looking at the end of the road," in that one miserable and difficult days, only the thoughts of the lover, into eternal poetry, in order to be in the depression of the wind and rain, constantly licking wounds, soothe that lonely and helpless weak heart.

"Looking at the Blue Bridge, but the twilight clouds of a thousand miles", I did not expect Zhang Xian's words, so Yanshu could not help but weep, and therefore wrote out this ancient famous song.

Ancient lyricists often write on the surface of the love of men and women, in fact, write is the feeling of the ruler and his family, Yanshu really only write hate?

Yan Shu was a young man of ambition, and in today's terms, he was definitely a "schoolmaster", which used to be called a "prodigy". He was appreciated by the nobility at an early age, and at the age of fourteen, he was directly recommended by the nobility to participate in the examination of the scholar, the examination at a glance at the topic, he said to the examiner, this topic I wrote ten days ago, and will memorize, if I take this topic to obtain the first prize, I feel that it is a kind of humiliation, and I hope that you can change the topic.

Song Emperor Zhenzong knew about this and appreciated Yanshu's honesty, so he promoted him all the way, and Yanshu became the equivalent of a prime minister at a young age. However, to understand Yanshu's life, Yanshu has been relegated three times, think about it, a gifted and intelligent, frank and honest people, get the emperor's trust, can be relegated three times, which shows that he is in the political ecology of the court, is not how good.

So, maybe this lyric is a kind of longing and yearning for the future when he was in a political predicament!

The second realm?

Liu Yong is a great lyricist known to everyone in the Northern Song Dynasty, and he is definitely a "superstar" in the Northern Song Dynasty pop lyric world. Liu Yong's words are popular in the city alleys, green houses, and even the countryside women and children are also well known.

The original text of this pop song is:

Standing on a dangerous building, the wind is fine, looking at the extreme spring sadness, eerily born in the sky. In the remaining light of the grass and smoke, I have no words to tell you who will be with me at the appendage.

Proposed to put the crazy picture of a drunk, drunk when the song, strong music is still tasteless, the belt gradually broaden the end do not regret, for the Yi consumed people emaciated.

It seems to be a word about love and separation. The first que is about a person who climbed a building and looked into the distance, saw the green color stretching to the distant sky, and thought of a beautiful woman in a faraway place. Thoughts are hard to endure, borrowing wine to dispel sorrows, a drunkenness to solve a thousand sorrows, but the forced happiness has no flavor at all, for the sake of the heart of the person, the love is hard to bear, the clothes gradually loose, the figure is emaciated, he can never let go of this person.

Then this lyric is also just a love word about missing a person?

It's not quite true.

Liu Yong talented and arrogant, renowned, because of the unrestrained personality, he has always been difficult in the road of civil service, fifty years old before the entrance examination, after the examination, there is no good development. Only in a few places to serve as officials. After experiencing too many setbacks and blows, his heart is cool.

"Clothes are gradually broadening the end do not regret, for Yi consumed people haggard", in that period of bitterness and helplessness, in the end, who will help themselves to tide over the difficult times, to realize the grand ideals and ambitions it, under the helplessness of a lifetime of bullying Liu Yong, thought of the prime minister of the dynasty Yanshu, and would like to go to ask for help from Yanshu, who is also a lyricist, to recommend.

Yan Shu received Liu Yong, he was very arrogant, asked: you write words?

How could Yanshu, a famous lyricist in China, ask him if he wrote lyrics? Liu Yong heard the humiliation in Yanshu's words, Liu Yong was not humble, replied: I am like you, also write some words.

Yan Shu said: Although I write words, but it is not possible to write "needle and thread lethargy with Yi sitting" so fleshy sentences.

This statement exposes Yanshu's hypocrisy, as he not only knows that Liu Yong wrote the words, but he can also memorize them.

Liu Yong saw that Yanshu could not possibly help him and had no choice but to turn around and leave.

So this word can also be understood as Liu Yong in the pursuit of political career, suffering and humiliation, so much so that it leads to their own, suffering, figure emaciated, "the belt gradually widen the end do not regret, for the I consume people emaciated," but, although the road is difficult, the pursuit of their own did not stop.

The third realm, the search for him a thousand degrees, the twilight look back, that person is in the end of the lights

Xin Qiji left a lot of words in his life, and this "case of green jade"? The original text:

The east wind releases thousands of flowers at night, and even blows them down, the stars are like rain. The BMW carves the car, the fragrance is full of the road. The phoenix xiao is moving, the jade pot light turns, the night fish and dragon dance. The moth and the snowy willow are in golden strands. Laughing and smiling dark fragrance to go, the crowd to find him a thousand degrees. When I look back at twilight, that person is at the end of the lights."

The first section of this song is about the Lantern Festival, fireworks and lanterns;

The second section is a touching story, among the people, he found a woman with a unique headdress, he could hear her laughter, and passed by her, he smelled the powder on her body, and now he is not interested in enjoying the lanterns. I only have you in my eyes". Suddenly, the woman disappeared, in the crowd, he searched many times, almost hopeless despair, but when he turned around, the woman was in the lights.

At first glance, it is still a love word. In fact, this word has a deeper meaning. With the help of "beyond the lights", Xin Qiji may also be writing about his own destiny, "beyond the lights" may be his desire to realize the aspirations of the ideal expectations.

Xin Qiji in the history of literature, is a heroic figure, he is not only a literary hero, but also a hero. Since Xin grew up in the north under the rule of the Jin Dynasty, he was also less exposed to the traditional cultural education that made people conform to rules and regulations, and in him, there was a kind of chivalrous spirit of the Yanzhao warriors.

In the thirty-first year of Shaoxing, at the age of twenty-two, Xin Qiji also gathered 2,000 men to join a powerful insurrectionary army led by Geng Jing, and served as secretary in charge. On his way back from his mission, he heard the news that Geng Jing had been killed by the traitor Zhang Anguo and that the rebel army had been routed, so he led more than fifty men to attack the enemy camp, captured the traitor and brought him back to Jiankang, where he was handed over to the Southern Song court for execution.

Xin Qiji's amazing bravery and decisiveness made him famous for a while, with "a strong and heroic voice, for which the cowards rose, and the Holy Prince of Heaven sighed three times at the sight of him". He was appointed by Emperor Gaozong of the Song Dynasty to be the judge of Jiangyin, and began his career in the Southern Song Dynasty, when he was only twenty-three years old.

In the first period of his service in the Southern Song Dynasty, he wrote a lot of enthusiastic suggestions about the northern expedition against the Jin Dynasty, such as the famous "Ten Essays on Beauty and Celery" and "Nine Discussions", etc. Although these proposals were well received by the people at that time, they were not accepted by the people at all. Although these proposals were highly praised and widely recited at the time, the court, which was no longer willing to fight, was lukewarm, and was only interested in the practical talents shown in Xin Qiji's proposals, so he was sent to Jiangxi, Hubei and Hunan to serve as a transit ambassador, a kind of important local officials to govern the deserted government, and rectify the law and order.

This is obviously very different from the ideal of Xin Qiji, although he did a very good job, but because of the deep sense of time, life is short and ambition is difficult to fulfill, but more and more feel depressed and pain.

However, the reality was harsh on Xin Qiji. At the age of forty-two, Xin Qiji was removed from his post due to impeachment and returned to Shangrao. During the next twenty years, he spent most of his time in the countryside, except for two years when he served as a governor of Fujian and as an ambassador for peace.

As a hot-blooded man, a man of the world, in the very promising prime years was forced to leave the political arena, which in turn made him unbearable.

So, he often enjoys the landscape and the quiet interest, and the deepest part of his heart and constantly surging waves, sometimes for the ideal of a lifetime of excitement, sometimes due to the reality of the ruthless and angry and discouraged.

At the age of sixty-four, Xin Qiji was appointed governor of Shaoxing and ambassador of eastern Zhejiang, and the spirit of the aged poet was revitalized.

But he was once again dealt a severe blow, and was forced to leave his post under attack from some of his advisers, returning to his home in the first year of his reign. Although he was summoned to serve for the next two years, he was so sickly and frail that he died in the fall of the third year of the Kaixi era.

Xin Qiji's life is a life of tragedy, which is also cast his life of literary splendor.

After reading these three words, if the author's life is trivialized, or their political life is trivialized, only from the angle of love, then it can be explained, but the works of the ancients are often borrowed by men and women's feelings of lovesickness to write about the feelings of rulers and ministers, family and country. Those works that seem to be men and women in love may contain a scholar's orientation to his own life and the pursuit of his own ideals.

"Human Words" is a book on words, not a book of inspiration, we feel the charm of the words of the great words, but also to experience some of their feelings of family and country, which is undoubtedly a good book.