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Chapter 149 The True Love Disregards Time

On July [-]th, in the Hall of Eternal Life, when no one whispers in the middle of the night.

Wish to be a winged bird in the sky, and even a branch in the ground.

Forever and forever, this hatred is endless.

The eternally famous "Song of Everlasting Sorrow" came into being at the right moment, and it has won the admiration of hundreds of generations of readers. Everyone thought that Bai Juyi wrote about Tang Minghuang and Yang Guifei.

Only he himself understands.

On that July [-]th, in my memory, you and I whispered in the middle of the night, and we promised each other that we would become birds flying together, twirling branches...

But love eventually fades away, and it can never be found again, whether it is in poverty or in hell.

How can there be forever?
There is only endless hatred, which makes me remember over and over again in the late nights when I can't sleep, and scratches my heart over and over again!
……

In the third year of Yuanhe, Bai Juyi finally got married.

This year, he was 37 years old.

Not to mention in the Tang Dynasty, even today, it is too late to get married at the age of 37. Some scholars say that Bai Juyi got married late because of the family tradition of the Bai family. Anyway, in the eyes of academic experts, How can a great poet have a petty bourgeois sentiment?
But we understand very well that Bai Juyi got married so late all because of his Xiang Ling.

At the age of 37, he still failed to marry his beloved Xiang Ling, but became a couple with the younger sister of his friend Yang Yuqing.

The new wife was born in Hongnong Yang's family, and her family status was higher than that of the Bai family. The mother looked at the new daughter-in-law and was overjoyed from ear to ear.

Only Bai Juyi's eyes were full of loneliness.

We can also see that just one year before getting married, Bai Juyi stayed at Yang's house for one night, and left a poem. The name of this poem is "Su Yang's House":
The Yang brothers were all drunk and lay down, and they got up and went to the high fast alone in their clothes.

In the middle of the night without a word, the courtyard stands, and the moon shines on the vines and flowers on the steps.

There was no one in the middle of the night, and the Yang brothers had already fallen asleep, but he put on his clothes, pushed out the door, and stood alone in the atrium, without saying a word, looking straight at the full moon hanging in the sky with his eyes.

The whole poem does not describe his psychological activities, but I always feel that he should be thinking about the person in his hometown.

……

Life after marriage is as expected, plain and uneventful. My wife is not bad. On the contrary, because she is a lady, everything she says and does is very decent.

But love is always unreasonable. If it is not for your kindness, I will definitely fall in love with you.

I have read a poem written by Bai Juyi as a gift to his wife. Between the lines, it seems to complain that his wife is too unreal, and that the weather is cold, so he didn't know how to buy clothes earlier.

In fact, he also tried to forget Xiang Ling, but the cruel reality reminded him indifferently, making it impossible for him to wipe away the bits and pieces of their time together.

Maybe even Xiang Ling doesn't know that Bai Juyi still has the bright mirror from back then, but it's been kept in the box all year round, and the mirror is rusted with copper:

The beauty bid farewell to me, leaving the mirror in the box.

Ever since the flowers faded away, there has been no hibiscus in the autumn water.

The box has not been opened for many years, and the red dust is covered with bronze.

As soon as I wipe it away today, I look haggard.

According to the heavy melancholy, there are double dragons on the back.

……

In the sixth year of Yuanhe, Bai Juyi's mother died.

The biggest obstacle to their relationship is gone. I don't know what kind of expression Bai Juyi had when he looked at his mother's peaceful face. I wonder if it is love?still hate?Or, as much as he loves, he hates as much.

But Bai Juyi is already forty years old, and he has already married a wife. He should be responsible to the Yang family, that is his responsibility as a man.

This is very contradictory, but I can guarantee that in the sixth year of Yuanhe, the person in Bai Juyi's heart was still Xiangling, because on a cold rainy night in this year, his "Night Rain" was undoubtedly To Xiangling:

I miss someone, far away from home.

I feel something, and it is in my deep intestines.

You can't go far away, and look around all day long.

The intestines can't understand deeply, without thinking about it.

Besides, at this night of the canal light, I stayed alone in the empty hall.

Autumn is not yet known, and the wind and rain are clear.

If you don't learn Tou Tuo, your heart will be safe and forgettable.

"I have something to miss, but it's far away. I have something to feel, and it's deep in my heart."

If I hadn't seen it with my own eyes, I wouldn't have believed that the sentences in this kind of romance novel were written by Bai Juyi.

Maybe it really is love.

This poem is as popular as ever, and you don’t need translation, and you can understand the general meaning. In my opinion, the last sentence is the one that really touches your heart: If you don’t learn the Tuduo method, you will never forget it.

I remember that Wang Wei, another great poet, lost his wife in middle age and hadn’t reunited for more than 30 years. I wonder if he couldn’t bear the torment of longing, so he immersed himself in Buddhism to seek spiritual relief.

Since it is painful, it is better to forget it.

But Bai Juyi is different from Wang Wei.

He doesn't want to learn Buddhism, and he doesn't want to forget everything about Xiangling.

Even if every time I remember,

It was all a heart-wrenching Ling Chi.

I never want to forget you!
……

In the tenth year of Yuanhe, Bai Juyi offended the emperor, was slandered by villains, and was demoted to Jiangzhou as Sima. If you have a good memory, you should be able to know that it was in this year that Bai Juyi wrote at the head of the Xunyang River. "Pipa Xing".

But that's not what I'm talking about.

Instead, Bai Juyi met an old friend on the way to be demoted.

It was Xiang Ling.

This year, Bai Juyi was 44 years old, and Xiang Ling was also 40 years old. When the freehand past was gone, and the veil of time was left behind, their faces coincided with those of the boys and girls more than 20 years ago, as if they had experienced half a lifetime, telling love.

We have no way of knowing the specific situation that day, but both parties have families, even if they love each other, we can only sigh that things are right and people are wrong.

And history has only left us two poems named "Reunion".

I comb my gray hair to add new hatred, and you sweep the green moths to reduce the old appearance.

It should be melancholy to be blamed by others, young people parting and old reunion.

……

It's been a dream since we meet again after a long absence.

That is to say, today's happy things, put the lamp and become empty again.

After 25 years of snowy years,
They hugged each other and cried loudly, making their true love look down on time.

……

Someone asked, why didn't Bai Juyi take Xiang Ling away at this time?You know, the obstacle between them, Baimu, has passed away.

I was also puzzled, and I also checked some information, saying that Xiangling was wandering in the rivers and lakes with her old father at this time, and she still kept her promise with Bai Juyi and did not marry.

But I never found out where the original source was. Considering it was completely unreasonable, I didn't accept it. It is likely that Xiang Ling was married at this time, and Bai Juyi already had a Yang family, so the two had to reunite. miss.

Taking a step back, even if Xiang Ling is really not married, I think it makes sense for them not to be together.

Let me just say that during the long time of separation between Bai Juyi and Xiang Ling, the people they met and the things they saw were all different. Gradually, their people will also become different, and the distance between their hearts will become smaller. It has become far away. This relationship cannot be maintained only by the fetters when they were young. There will always be such involuntary feelings in the process of growing up in life, so it is better to say that if they really want to be together, Bai Juyi shouldn't have moved...

(End of this chapter)