What does Lu You and Tang Wan's poem "The Hairpin Head Phoenix" express?
Lu You's poem "The Hairpin-headed Phoenix·Hongsu Hands" describes the poet's love tragedy and records an accidental encounter in the Shen Garden south of Yuji Temple after the poet and the Tang family were forced to separate. The scene expresses their deep attachment and longing for each other, and expresses the author's resentment, sorrow and indescribable sadness and infatuation. It is a unique and tear-jerking work. The whole poem is full of sincere emotions, uses many contrasts, has a rapid rhythm, and has a poignant rhyme.
Tang Wan's poem "The Hairpin-headed Phoenix·The World's Love" describes Tang Wan's infinite pain after being forced to separate under the pressure of Lu You's mother. The next section describes the situation and mood after parting ways with Lu You. The whole poem is straightforward, sad and moving, with complex emotions.
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The story of Lu You and Tang Wan:
Lu You was born in a well-to-do scholarly family in Shanyang, Yuezhou. In his childhood, he was in the prime of life. When people invaded the south, they often fled with their families. At this time, his maternal uncle Tang Cheng's family had many contacts with the Lu family. Tang Cheng had a daughter named Tang Wan, also known as Huixian. She was quiet and smart since she was a child, not good at words but considerate. Lu You is very similar to Lu You, who is similar in age. The two are childhood sweethearts and have a close relationship.
Although in the midst of war and chaos, two young men who were ignorant of the world still spent a pure and beautiful time together. As they grew older, a lingering affection gradually grew in their hearts. In their youth, Lu You and Tang Wan were both good at poetry. They often expressed their feelings through poetry. In front of flowers and under the moon, they recited poems and sang to each other. Their beautiful figures formed a pair, just like a pair of colorful butterflies fluttering among the flowers.
The parents of the two families and all their relatives and friends also believed that they were a match made in heaven, so the Lu family made an appointment with the Tang family with an exquisite phoenix hairpin passed down from their family as a token. The marriage of Shang Jiaqin. After becoming an adult, Tang Wan became the daughter-in-law of the Lu family.
From then on, Lu You and Tang Wan fell in love even more deeply. They were intoxicated in the world of the two of them. They did not know what time it was, and they temporarily put all their imperial examinations, fame and wealth, and even their family and relatives out of the sky.
Lu You's mother Tang is a dignified and domineering woman. She wholeheartedly hopes that her son Lu You will be named on the gold medal list and become an official, so that he can shine in the family. Seeing the current situation, she was very dissatisfied. She scolded Tang Wan several times as an aunt and even as a mother-in-law, ordering her to focus on her husband's future in the imperial examination and to neglect the love between her children.
However, Lu and Tang were deeply in love and could not look back, and the situation never improved significantly. Mother Lu was disgusted with her daughter-in-law because of this, believing that Tang Wan was really the star of the Tang family and would delay her son's future. So she went to Wuliang Nunnery in the suburbs and asked the nun Miaoyu to tell her son and daughter-in-law's fate.
After some calculations, Miao Yin said in a serious manner: "Tang Wan and Lu You are not compatible. First they misled them, and eventually their lives were in danger." Upon hearing this, Lu's mother was so frightened that she hurried home and called He came to Lu You and forced him to say: "Quickly write a divorce letter and give up Tang Wan, otherwise I will die with you."
This sentence was undoubtedly a thunderstorm on a sunny day, which shocked Lu You and didn't know why. When Lu You's mother recounted all the things that happened to Tang Wan, Lu You felt as sad as a knife. He, who had always been filial, had no choice but to cry secretly when faced with his resolute mother.