Picture: Calligraphy description of Li Qingzhao's Ci\ Figures provided by the author
The concern about Li Qingzhao was purely accidental. One day, I suddenly wanted to practice calligraphy, so I found a copy of calligraphy at home, which happened to be Li Qingzhao's Slow Voice. "Seeking, cold and desolate, sad and sorrowful". I feel that the whole person is covered with a kind of sadness and sadness. How can I feel a word of sorrow!
I wonder what the famous poetess experienced and wrote such sad words. So I found her biography and read her life of ups and downs between the two Song Dynasties in a book of moderate thickness.
He was born in a scholarly family and has read poetry and books since he was young. As a girl, she was comfortable and comfortable. Her early works show a relaxed and happy life: an outing "intoxicated with no way to return, and mistakenly entering the depths of lotus flowers" ends with a scene of fun and joy, such as "fighting for a ferry, fighting for a ferry, and starting a flock of gulls and herons".
At that time, she was indeed the lucky one who was blessed by heaven. In that age when meaningless love only talked about family status, her marriage was also very ideal. It is said that "Touch the Crimson Lips and Stop the Swing" wrote about the love at first sight between her and her husband Zhao Mingcheng when they first met: in a hurry, they accidentally "slipped the golden hairpin in the stockings", while being shy, they couldn't help but peep at it, and "they walked away in shame, looked back at the door, but smelled the green plum", describing the girl in love with spring so nimbly and lightheartily, which made people smile.
Li and Zhao both love calligraphy and painting of gold and stone, and they are happy with each other. A song called "Drunken Flower Yin" tells us how much we miss living in two places during the festival: "Don't forget about it. The curtain rolls the west wind, and people are thinner than yellow flowers.". Here, I use "thin" to write about solitude and meditation; In addition, in "Know it or not? Know it or not? It should be green, fat, red and thin", "thin" is used to write "hurt spring"; There is also "new thin, not dry disease wine, not sad autumn" in which "thin" is used to write the sadness of parting. Thin, originally used to describe a person's posture and figure, was familiar with her "wrong feeling" to express feelings, unexpected and vivid.
It would be a big mistake to think that Li Qingzhao can only write small words about love between children and daughters. In "Ci Lun", she mercilessly ridiculed and disparaged several people: Liu Yong's poetry is too vulgar, Su Shi's poetry is indistinguishable, and has no rhyme, Yan Shu's poetry is too ordinary, and Qin Guan's poetry is too frivolous... Some people said that her comments are tricky, more people said that her attitude is arrogant, but considering the background at that time, how dare, confident, and independent it is to say so freely.
Life is like a small boat, which can never be grasped in the current of the times. The fate of Li Qingzhao took a huge turn after the Song Dynasty crossed to the south. Her husband died of illness, the country broke down and her family died, she was displaced, she married someone wrong, she was not an official, and she was imprisoned. Although she finally got her wish to divorce, she still had to face the difficulties of life. In the bleak evening scene, there was the sad song "Slow Voice".
There are not many works left by Li Qingzhao, but later generations still extol his literary talent as "the most talented woman in all ages". However, what impressed me most was her shining independent personality and forthright spirit. Especially in that age when men were superior to women and only women were women, I admired her courage and deeds. Whether in the first half of her bright and magnificent life or the second half of her bumpy life, she let me see a beautiful woman in the north, who is totally independent and graceful.
