Recreating the prosperous Tang begins with summoning players

Chapter 473 "Pipa Journey"

Everyone reacted one after another and began to applaud the pipa girl matchmaker.

Many people directly threw the reward money in front of the matchmaker, and the white-haired accompanist immediately bowed down and put away the reward money while thanking everyone.

Wang Chengwei looked at the matchmaker's naked face, and couldn't help asking: "You have such skills, why have you fallen to this point?"

Speaking of this, the matchmaker couldn't help but her eyes turned red, and she began to tell her own experience.

It turned out that this matchmaker was originally a famous pipa girl in Chang'an City. When Chang'an was the most prosperous, she bought real estate in Chang'an by relying on the rewards she got from the houses of high-ranking officials and nobles. She also adopted several orphans as apprentices. It was also on fire for a while.

But when An Lushan rebelled, Hong Niang hurriedly left Chang'an City with her apprentice after An Lushan invaded Chang'an.

I lived outside the city of Chang'an for two years. During this period, there was a lot of chaos, so naturally no one listened to pipa music.

The matchmaker lived with difficulty with her apprentices, but how would a well-clothed woman with a few half-grown children survive in such troubled times.

The matchmaker brought her apprentices, and at first she could survive by selling gold, silver and jewelry, but soon, all the jewelry she brought with her was sold out.

At this time, someone found the matchmaker and said that a local tycoon had taken a fancy to her apprentice and wanted to take her apprentice as a concubine.

Of course the matchmaker knew that these people were not a good match, but she couldn't even eat, and the disciples could only starve to death if they followed her.

She could only marry these lands to these tyrants with tears in her eyes. The matchmaker finally arranged for all the apprentices to marry, and she survived until the recovery of Chang'an by performing arts and begging.

After receiving the news, the matchmaker wept with joy, and immediately packed her luggage and returned to Chang'an.

The matchmaker took out her treasured land deed, only to find that the house she bought had already been burned down in the war disaster.

The matchmaker wanted to cry but had no tears. She was penniless and had no money to rebuild the house.

Only then did I find the boss of Mingyue Tower, begging him to give her a job playing and singing in Mingyue Tower.

When the matchmaker finished speaking, all the Jinshi fell silent.

The imperial court restored Chang'an, which was a long-awaited event for all the soldiers and civilians.

But when Chang'an is really restored, will everything go back to the past?

This is just everyone's good idea. Although Chang'an was restored, the pain caused by the Anlushan Rebellion to Datang has not been healed.

In other words, this pain will continue for decades or even hundreds of years and cannot be eliminated.

For a pipa girl like Hong Niang, she doesn't understand the principle of prosperity and decline.

Otherwise, I wouldn't spend a lot of money and live a luxurious life when I was young and rich.

But the things accumulated step by step in that prosperous age were wiped out after a rebellion.

Even the fact that this matchmaker can survive in troubled times is already the greatest luck in this era.

Everyone was silent, Chang'an City was restored, and the emperor and all the officials were eager to return to the luxurious and prosperous Chang'an City in the past.

But what about the people in Chang'an?

Wang Chengwei sighed and said, "The people suffer!"

This sentence, the suffering of the people, resonated with everyone.

Many Jinshi are also from poor families, so they naturally know that life is not easy.

Having just encountered troubled times, even Wei Yingwu, a son of a rich family, is also facing the predicament of family decline.

It can be said that these new scholars have not yet entered the big dye tank of officialdom, and have not lost their ability to empathize with the common people.

Wang Chengwei put down his wine glass and shouted downstairs:

"Boss, bring a pen and paper!"

When the boss heard that Zhuangyuan said that he would also take paper and pens, he immediately excitedly took out the first-class pens, inks, papers and inkstones.

Literati and poets have had their fill, and they always want to keep calligraphy treasures. Wang Chengwei is the number one scholar who enjoys poetic talent, and his poems are very valuable!
If a famous article is written, it can be sold for hundreds of dollars in Chang'an City, and it is not an exaggeration to be regarded as a family heirloom.

But when the boss took the paper, Wang Chengwei shook his head and said, "This paper is too small!"

The boss was stunned at this moment, but he was naturally clever to make Mingyue Tower so big.

The boss immediately said to the waiter: "Hurry up, go to the market on horseback and buy a roll of high-quality Longyou paper!"

When the matchmaker heard that Wang Chengwei, the No. [-] scholar, wanted to compose a poem, she immediately said, "No. [-] Yuan, please ask my servant to grind ink for you."

The matchmaker took the inkstone and began to grind ink for Wang Chengwei. She only saw that although she was dressed in plain robes, she was no longer young, but she had a graceful demeanor and detached demeanor. Everyone thought of her extraordinary piano skills and lamented that she was not at the most beautiful time of the matchmaker. meet her.

After a while, the clerk finally came back to the store with a roll of Longyou paper.

The boss spread out the paper, only to see Wang Chengwei write on the paper with a wave of his pen——

"Pipa Xing"

Sure enough, I want to write poetry!

I don't know if it is five words or seven words?

But five words and seven words, why such a long paper?
Just when everyone was still wondering, Wang Chengwei had already written it down!
I only saw that Wang Chengwei had not stopped writing after writing four sentences, and was still writing quickly with splashes of ink.

The first few sentences describe the process of encountering a pipa girl at a meeting of Jinshi. The content of the poem is plain and simple, but there is nothing outstanding.

But as Wang Chengwei wrote:

"I came out after a thousand calls, still holding a pipa and covering my face."

The crowd applauded!

This is exactly the same as the demeanor of the Pipa girl when she appeared on the stage at that time. This sentence "still holding the pipa and half covering her face" expresses the vivid movements of the Pipa girl. Just this sentence is enough to last forever!
But Wang Chengwei did not stop writing, and continued to write:
"The rotating shaft plucks the strings three or two times, and there is love before the tune is formed.

Xianxian suppressed his voice and thought, as if complaining that he was unhappy in his life.

The low-eyebrow letter procedure continued, saying everything in my mind.

Lightly close and slowly twist and pick up, the first is the neon clothes and the second six.

The big strings are like a rain, and the small strings are cut like a whisper.

Caocao is full of mixed bullets, big and small pearls fall on the jade plate. "

After finishing these few sentences, everyone fell silent.

Just like after listening to the matchmaker's pipa, everyone fell silent and forgot to applaud.

Everyone was also shocked by the beauty of Wang Chengwei's poems!

Recalling the climax of the matchmaker playing the pipa just now, everyone was even more excited!
How lucky I am today, to hear the superb pipa music by a pipa player like Hong Niang, and to witness the birth of a famous piece through the ages!
You must know that the most difficult thing in the world is the long poem.

Although long poems do not strictly require level-to-tie confrontation, the ability to write a long poem is enough to show the depth of the poet's skill.

Tang people were not good at long poems, but that doesn't mean they didn't write good long poems.

The most famous of them is Zhang Ruoxu's "Moonlight Night on the Spring River", which is known as the lonely cover of the whole Tang Dynasty.

Also because such a piece of pearls and jades comes first, many poets are reluctant to write long poems.

The subject matter of poetry pays attention to a kind of subtlety and artistic conception.

The little sentiments in life, seeing a beautiful scenery, or the little sorrow of parting, can be recorded in poems.

But these are limited to short poems, and each long poem narrates and records some grander and more subtle thoughts.

Long poems, like novels, must be endowed with more content than short poems of essays.

After these extremely gorgeous descriptive sentences, Wang Chengwei changed his style of writing and began to write about her life in Chang'an when she was young and beautiful according to the previous life described by the matchmaker.

"Thirteen learned the pipa, and it is called the first part of Jiaofang.

Qu Pai once taught good talents to dress, makeup is always jealous of Qiuniang.

Wuling was young and struggling with his head, and there was an unknown number of red ribbons.

The silver grate on the head is broken, and the blood-colored Luo skirt is turned over and the wine is dirty.

Laughter this year and next year, the autumn moon and spring breeze will be leisurely. "

That's great!
The matchmaker is also literate. When she saw these lines of poems, she felt that she had returned to the prosperous Tang Dynasty.

Wearing beautiful clothes, she went in and out of the mansions of various princes and nobles, and attended so many gorgeous and luxurious banquets.

The days of laughing at the banquet seemed to be a dream, so Hong Niang didn't want to wake up.

Everyone applauded even more, Wang Chengwei is indeed the number one undergraduate scholar in poetry!

But just like the moon is full and then it loses, the good days will always pass.

Wang Chengwei wrote about the tragic experience behind the matchmaker, and wrote:

"In the middle of the night, I suddenly dream about juvenile affairs, and the dream cries, make-up and tears are red.

I sighed when I heard the pipa, and then I sighed again.

This is a fallen person in the world, so why meet each other before! "

Now everyone felt melancholy.

In a sentence, people who are reduced to the end of the world, although everyone is a new scholar with a bright future, they will inevitably go their separate ways in the future.

Although we have seen the dawn of peace in the world today, many people have also suffered from the chaos of war.

What happened to the matchmaker made the phrase "the end of the world a fallen man" full of sadness.

Everyone was silent. The second half of this long poem completely broke through the beautiful description in front of it, and wrote down the fate of everyone in this troubled world who was enslaved by the times.

When Wang Chengwei stopped writing and left a long poem in the long scroll, Wang Chengwei silently said in his heart: "I'm sorry, Bai Letian, living in Chang'an is not easy!"

Then he threw away the pen coolly and picked up a jug of wine again.

He said to the Jinshi:

"In the past few days, after passing the examination, Wang hosted five banquets in Mingyue Tower. This was originally a happy event for everyone."

"However, after hearing what the matchmaker said recently, there are still many displaced people in Chang'an. I really feel that this delicious feast is uncomfortable."

"Before the Qionglin banquet, Wang decided not to participate in these banquets!"

As soon as Wang Chengwei said this, everyone's eyes widened in surprise.

I only heard Wang Chengwei say: "I once wrote a poem in Xue Zhizhou, Longyou, 'And there are tens of thousands of mansions, and the world's poor people are happy'!" Wang is going to set up a charity fund to help the people of Chang'an rebuild the old houses destroyed by the war. , so that they will not suffer from the extreme cold due to the cold winter!"

After Wang Chengwei finished speaking, the players who won Jinshi with him stood up one after another: "Count me in!"

Wei Yingwu and Gu Kuang also stood up: "We are poor, so we can help!"

Everyone stood up to respond.

Wang Chengwei said to the matchmaker: "Then start with this matchmaker's house. Although Wang can't build thousands of mansions, he can tide over the difficulties for the people in front of him first!"

(End of this chapter)