The popular song "Lonely Shazhou Cold", the name of the song comes from this poem by Su Shi...

In 2005, Zhou Chuanxiong released a new song "Lonely Shazhou Cold", which soon became a song frequently played by audiovisual stores on the streets. That's right, it was Zhou Chuanxiong who sang "Twilight", "Blue Turkey" and "Winter's Secret". The author of the lyrics is Chen Xinrong, the lyricist.

Zhou Chuanxiong

This is a song that hurts feelings. The title of the song is "Lonely Shazhou Cold", which summarizes the loneliness of the lover's departure and the loneliness of the mirror. The chorus part "When happy lovers send red to share joy/Close your eyes and feel sad and dare not look back/Still picking up the cold branches and refusing to rest with regret/Lonely sandbar who should I miss?" Echoing the title of the song, the past 'S lover has found a home, but "I" has been unable to get out of the past and enter a new relationship, full of infinite regret and sentimentality.

"Lonely Shazhou Cold" MV

"Lonely Shazhou Cold" has moving lyrics and tunes, but did you know that the song title and the above chorus are all borrowed from Su Shi's lyrics "Bu Shouzi · Huangzhou Dinghui Courtyard Residence", Su Shi's original words are not lyric love. So what does he aim to express? Su Shi was demoted to Huangzhou for the "Wutai Poetry Case". This poem was written when he lived in Dinghui Courtyard in Huangzhou. The original text is as follows:

is missing the moon and hangs out the trees, and the people are quiet. Who sees Youren coming and going alone, lonely and lonely.

startled but looked back, hate no one. Picking up all the cold branches and refusing to perch, the lonely sandbar is cold.

Missing Moon Hanging Shutong (the picture comes from the Internet)

Shangyu transitions from scenery to characters. One or two sentences describe the scenery, the moon is not full, the phoenix trees are sparse, the water leaks almost all, and the night is already deep. Su Shi used the simple brush and ink to outline the scene of the night and the quiet people-a sacred moon sprinkled faint and clear through the sparse sycamore leaves, as if hanging on a sycamore tree; except for the sound of people, no clepsydra could be heard. The dripping sound must have dried up.

Missing Moon Hanging Shutong (picture from the Internet)

three or four sentences transition to the mood of the lyrical protagonist. "I" wandered alone in the courtyard, and no one knew except the swan flying in the night sky. We have no way of knowing whether there is really a glimpse of the loneliness of these two sentences, or whether the poets use them as loneliness, but the creation of a quiet mood is very successful.

The picture comes from the network

. I am one, the wild goose is the same as the others. "Shocked but looking back, there is hatred and no one can save", portraying the lonely image of a human/geese-shaped single shadow. The protagonist knows that there is no one else in the courtyard, but looks back, which fits with the mentality of "hate no one to save". "Province" means to understand and understand, not to be understood but eager to be understood, so I look back with a glimmer of hope that a miracle will appear.

picture from the internet

"I will not pick up the cold branches to live, and the lonely sandbar is cold", picking among the cold branches and ultimately refuses to inhabit, preferring to settle on the desolate sandbank. This is both a lonely choice and a poet’s choice. It expresses the steadfast character that the poet would rather self-exile than to get along with the world. Su Shi's expression of the unity of matter and me is very natural. Readers read that they are lonely, but they will bring the image of the protagonist unconsciously.

Su Shi Sculpture (Meishan, Sichuan)

The whole poem expresses ambitions, the style is high, no wonder Huang Tingjian has a good reputation: " has a brilliant semantics, it seems that it is not to eat fireworks, there are thousands of books in the chest, and there is no dust in the writing. It is possible to do so! " From Huang Tingjian’s comments, it can be seen that Su Shi's ability to write such a high-level and ambitious poem not only benefits from his own noble character, but also benefits from the extremely profound accumulation of literature and culture. This also confirms a sentence: behind things that seem easy, there are often accumulations that you can't see.

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