Chapter IX Vernacular Poems
"Psalm vernacular poetry!"
After saying that, Du Ruo asked someone to bring a pen and ink paper, and picked up the pen in front of Su Shi and started writing. Su Shi stood on Du Ruo's side with his hands tilted his head slightly, and read the title: "Goodbye Minting?"
"Minting" is a very famous pavilion on the banks of the Minjiang River in Meizhou. Standing in the pavilion, you can see the scenery on the other side of the Minjiang River.
"I visited the banks of the Minjiang River until the evening a while ago, and I wrote this poem by the way."
Du Ruo smiled faintly and began to write the main text.
"I'll leave gently,
Just as I came gently;
I waved gently,
Farewell to the clouds in the west.
The golden willows by the river,
It is the bride in the setting sun;
The beautiful shadows in the waves,
Rippling in my heart.
…………
I left quietly,
Just as I came quietly;
I waved my sleeves,
Don't take away a cloud."
Du Ruo deleted and revised it slightly and wrote this modern poem by Xu Zhimo. When he was writing, Su Shi was chanting the lyrics softly. When he heard the name "Pernatal Chinese Poetry", he probably guessed Du Ruo's new style of poetry. He was originally full of doubts, thinking about how to write poems in vernacular Chinese? Can the poems he made enter the elegant hall?
But when he finished reading the first four sentences, the doubt in his eyes had completely disappeared, replaced by an incomparable surprise.
"I left quietly, just as I came quietly; I waved my sleeves without taking away a cloud!" Su Shi read the last four sentences again, with a happy and satisfied look on his face, as if he had a peerless gourmet food, "It's so beautiful! I never thought that vernacular can be so beautiful and so lasting in style!"
Before Du Ruo could speak, Su Shi excitedly grabbed his wrist and continued: "Although he completely abandoned the rhythm of flat and tone, he read it with a catchy look, and his charm is not inferior to the metrical poem! Du Ruo, your vernacular poem is enough to open up a mountain!"
"Brother Su is so ridiculous."
Du Ruo smiled and sighed in his heart. He was recognized by Su Shi, which proved that modern poetry in later generations could also work in the literary circle of the Northern Song Dynasty. Sure enough, excellent literature can shine in any era, just like Tang poetry and Song lyrics in the 21st century, thousands of years later, countless people still liked it in the 21st century. On the contrary, modern poetry in the 21st century came to the Northern Song Dynasty in the 11th century, and some people still know how to appreciate it.
Literature and core are the same.
In the future, I will regard myself as the pioneer of vernacular poetry, so that I will not be afraid of others taking the exam. vernacular poetry, I can do whatever I want - the sea, you are all water...
"It's not a ridiculous praise." Su Shi looked at Du Ruo seriously and said heavily: "There was Du Shenyan in the Tang Dynasty to determine the rhythm of five-character regular poetry. Du Fu swept away the glitz of Tang poetry. Now Du Ruo, you are shocked and broke the restrictions on poetry rhythm! You three Du can be ranked together to highlight the Chinese literature and history!"
"Sandu?"
Du Ruo was stunned for a moment, and then he was secretly happy that he could be with Du Fu and died without regrets.
"There is no way, our Du family is so innovative."
Du Ruo muttered in a low voice and smiled modestly at Su Shi: "I am used to being free and casual. I am also entertaining myself by creating vernacular poetry. I don't want to be bound, it's nothing."
"You can't help it. After this song "Farewell to Minting" is spread, it will definitely cause shock in the literary world. This genre will definitely have countless fans in the future." Su Shi laughed and asked again: "Du Ruo, do you have any other vernacular poems? Show me a few more poems, so I can promote it for you in the future! By the way, I want to be your first disciple."
Du Ruo shook his head and smiled, "How dare I be proud of Brother Su? But I am also a new vernacular poem, and I have only received very few good poems. This poem is the best among them, just bidding Minting."
Du Ruo originally wanted to keep the real stuff and use it at critical moments in the future, but then he thought, since it was a pioneer, it was not enough to just reveal a poem, and Brother Su would definitely not have bad intentions, so he should write another poem.
"There is also a short poem called "Far and Near" Brother Su listens to you..."
"You, look at me later,
Look at the clouds for a while;
I think,
You look at me very far away, and you look at clouds very close;
"Um."
After hearing this, Su Shi's expression was dull for a while, and then he couldn't help but slamming his high-fives and exclaiming: "What a good poem! Another good poem! Although it only has a few words, it touches people's hearts. I feel very familiar with it. I seem to have heard this poem in my previous life!"
Su Shi's eyes at Du Ruo had changed from the shock he had just seen to admiration, and Du Ruo just smiled.
"This poem was also written by my younger sister?"
Su Shi appreciated the taste of the poem and smiled and said, "You are too concerned. Before, your father did not tell your younger sister. In the past, your younger sister had never looked down on you like others, you should know."
Of course Du Ruo knew that in the memory, Du Ruo was shy when he saw Su Xiaomei when he grew up, but Su Xiaomei looked at him with closeness.
"I used to be too sentimental." Du Ruo explained casually.
Su Shi smiled heartily: "But now that you have officially gotten into romance with your younger sister, you don't have to be so kind. You should be optimistic and optimistic about writing poems in the future. If you want to write less of those sad sentences."
Du Ruoyou looked at Su Shi and said to himself, "There is no fragrant grass everywhere in the world" and "there are passionate but the ruthless annoyed." I don't know who wrote it.
"I have gained a lot today and I almost forgot about the serious business." Su Shi said, "I came today. In addition to discussing poetry with you, there is another thing. Will you go outing with us tomorrow?"
"I want to study at home, so I won't go."
It’s not that Du Ruo didn’t want to play with Su Shi, but the permanent project for students to go outings is poetry and lyrics. At that time, one sentence after another will be embarrassing if Du Ruo can’t pick it up, so he still won’t go.
"Silly boy, what day did you forget tomorrow?"
"Um?"
Du Ruocai remembered that tomorrow is the third day of the third month, and that day is the Daughter's Day in the Song Dynasty. Unlike the later generations and the vulgar girl's Day, which is customized by the people, the Vulgar Girl's Day, the Daughter's Day in the Song Dynasty is as important and grand as the Qixi Festival.
On this day, girls who have already been married but have not yet gotten married will bathe with incense-smoked herbs in the morning, and then gather in their costumes to the river to dip orchids in water to pray for blessings and exorcises... This is just a written procedure. In fact, among the folk, this festival is a date for young men and women to date. After praying for blessings, girls will play with their favorite men, whisper, laugh and fight, or hold hands...
After the scene of the Daughter's Day in my mind, Du Ruo was dumbfounded. This was the feudal Song Dynasty. Who dares to believe that young men and women can actually date publicly?
"This year is my first time celebrating Daughter's Day. If you don't go, I'll call Zhao Zongze to play with my sister." Su Shi threatened that Su Xiaomei just went to the camp this year.
Du Ruo smiled bitterly: "Okay, I'll just go."
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The next day, Du Ruo brought Du Qing and Su Shi and Su Xiaomei to the city. In addition to Su Shi, Su Zhe and Su Xiaomei, there were also a group of young people in brocade clothes.
Du Ruo knew that this was a child of the Cheng family in Meizhou. The Cheng family was a top powerful family in Meizhou and even the entire Sichuan.
Before the recaptured Emperor Zhao Kuangyin of Song Dynasty, Sichuan was the Later Shu regime. Although Meng Chang, the last king of Later Shu, did not disturb the people, he could even be called loving the people as his son. The people of Sichuan lived a prosperous life. Therefore, after the Song Dynasty destroyed Later Shu, the people missed their old masters, and countless rebels in the people opposed the Song Dynasty.
This led to the constant wars in Sichuan in the decades of the early Song Dynasty, and the court imposed heavy taxes on Sichuan and suppressed them in all aspects. Sichuan began to fall into poverty and the people lived in poverty. After a generation of power, Liu E, who raised Renzong of the dynasty, could not survive in Sichuan. She followed her husband to Bianjing and finally became the queen and fabricated the "Cat Filling the Prince".
Later, Zhenzong died, and the emperor Zhao Zhen succeeded to the throne at a young age and Liu E took power, the people of Sichuan had become stable. She was exempted from various suppression of her hometown Sichuan. The country of Tianfu in Sichuan was not suppressed by the imperial court, and people's livelihood was soon restored and culture and education began to revive.
Since the founding of the Song Dynasty, Sichuan dynasties had never been a Jinshi. Until more than ten years ago, the Cheng family in Meizhou and the Su family in Meishan each produced a Jinshi, which opened the first year of the Jinshi in Sichuan.
The Jinshi of the Su family was Su Xun and Uncle Su Shi, but Uncle Su Shi was very poor in the officialdom. Now he is just a sixth-rank official and serves as a military supervisor in a small prefecture in Shandong.
In contrast, the head of the Cheng family has become a second-rank high-ranking official, has joined the third department, and is currently the prefect of Jiangning Prefecture (Nanjing) on Jiangnan East Road.
Therefore, the Cheng family is a top wealthy family in Sichuan.
Although the Su family is not as good as the Cheng family, it is the only two Jinshi families in Sichuan. The Su family itself is also a big landlord, so the two families get along well. Su Xun married the head of the Cheng family, the mother of Su Shi, Su Zhe, and Su Xiaomei. The young children of the Cheng family are all cousins of Su Shi and the three of them, so it is natural to go out to play together.
"Brother Du, don't be fine."
The leader of the Cheng family was a scholar in his early twenties who was quite good-looking. He was the eldest son of the Cheng family, named Cheng Zhicai. There was a young woman wearing a green willow robe and a quiet temperament who was his wife, and the elder sister of Su Shi, Su Zhe, Su Xiaomei, named Su Baniang.
In this era, it is common for a cousin to marry a cousin to marry him.
"Brother Cheng, you're polite."
Du Ruo bowed to Cheng Zhicai, but glanced at the Cheng family's children around Cheng Zhicai. Of course, he knew these people, and he was very familiar with them. He was also a ignorant playboy like himself.
The world of playboys in Meizhou is divided into different levels. People like Yuan Duruo are the lowest-level players who play crickets. The playboys in the Cheng family play with beautiful women who usually look down on him and don’t take him to play.
Cheng Zhicai is considered to be a promising member of the Cheng family, quite talented and knowledgeable, and he usually looks down on Du Ruo.
"Du Ruo, did you really write those two poems? Didn't you buy them from someone else for money?"
Sure enough, as soon as they met, Cheng Erlang, asked Du Ruo jokingly.
Cheng Zhicai also glanced at Du Ruo.
"My second cousin also asked someone to buy some such words for the younger sister to see?"
Before Du Ruo could speak, Su Xiaomei stood up and mocked Cheng Erlang, and Cheng Erlang was speechless.
"Haha, Du Ruo had a lot of contact with Erlang before, Erlang was joking with him." Cheng Zhicai smiled at Su Xiaomei, "Before he passed the door, the little sister started to maintain it?"
Su Xiaomei blushed to the bottom of her neck, and Su Baniang hurriedly came out to rescue the situation and said, "Let's go quickly, it's too late, it's going to be crowded by the Minjiang River."
Everyone was polite and walked towards their destination.
"Thanks."
Today, Su Xiaomei was wearing a pink dress, with a jade hairpin on her head, a plain brocade tied her waist, and a flute bag hanging around her waist, revealing half of the green bamboo flute.
She landed behind the crowd, Du Ruo walked over and thanked her gently.
Su Xiaomei lowered her head, twisted her fingers, and whispered: "My second cousin hates the most, don't mind it."
"How could it be? He said I don't mind, if I say you, then I will mind."
After Du Ruo said that, Su Xiaomei showed a shy smile, and Du Ruo directly took her hand: "Let's go and go to the Minjiang River to pray for blessings."
The two of them walked hand in hand, which made Su Shi and others smile subtly. Other men and women on the road were only envious. Their ultimate goal today is to hold hands when they were in love, but they didn't expect that they would achieve it from the beginning.
Comparing people with others is so annoying!
Du Ruo did this because Su Xiaomei was his fiancée and there was nothing to be taboo, and he also liked Su Xiaomei very much;
Second, just clicking it directly makes this young talented woman shy. When she is shy, she will be embarrassed to find her own poems and lyrics!
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Chapter completed!