This paper also has a note on "On Good Songs", which inherits and extends the idea of good songs. The content of the poem alludes to the plot of the novel, expressing the author's anger and disappointment with reality, as well as his pursuit and yearning for freedom!
All right, the original song
Everyone knows that immortals are good, but their fame is unforgettable!
Where will the past and present be? A pile of grass on the wasteland is missing.
Everyone knows that the fairy is good, but gold and silver can't forget it!
In the end, I only hate getting together, but I close my eyes for a long time.
Everyone knows that immortals are good, but my wife can't forget them!
You said hello on your birthday, and you died with others.
Everyone knows that immortals are good, and only children and grandchildren can't forget them!
There have been many infatuated parents since ancient times. Who has seen filial piety for children and grandchildren?
Ok, song translation:
Everyone knows that immortals are good, but only fame can't be forgotten.
Where are the generals and prime ministers from ancient times to the present, leaving only a pile of bare graves;
Everyone knows that immortals are good, and only wealth can't be forgotten.
All my life, I only hate many a mickle makes a mickle. When you have more money, you close your eyes and die.
Everyone knows that immortals are good, but only wives can't forget them.
I talked about kindness every day when I was alive, and remarried after I died;
Everyone knows that immortals are good, and only children and grandchildren can't forget them.
Since ancient times, there have been many parents who are infatuated with educating their children, but who has seen those so-called filial children and grandchildren?
All right, song notes
The humble room is empty, but the bed is full! Dry grass withered poplar, used to be a ballroom.
Spider silk is covered with carved beams, and green yarn is attached to the awning window.
What do you say about thick fat and fragrant powder? Why are your temples frosted again? ?
Yesterday, white bones buried the loess faucet, and tonight, Yuanyang lies at the bottom of the red tent.
A box full of gold and a box full of silver, all beggars were slandered in an instant.
I'm lamenting that his life is not long, so how do I know I'm dead when I go back? ?
Well-trained, you can't be a girder in the future; Choose cream beam, who wants to live in Yanhua Lane! ?
Because the gauze cap is too small, it has a lock cangue; I broke my coat yesterday, and now I think purple pythons are long.
It's noisy when you sing and I go on stage, but you think other places are your hometown.
That's ridiculous. In the end, it was all on the wedding dresses for other girls!
"Good Songs" and "Notes on Good Songs" vividly describe the changes of human feelings and the impermanence of things in human society. In this traditional "rule by man" society, ethics has become hypocritical and corrupt, people have generally lost their faith in classical humanism, and the bad aspects of human nature have begun to swell. Coupled with the turmoil and changes in the political environment, it is very obvious that people are deeply suspicious and disappointed with the existing order.
This scene of "you sing and I come on stage" is a reflection of the greatly accelerated reform process in traditional China society, because the economic foundation of small farmers has been decaying day by day, but after all, the superstructure first began to decay, which mainly comes from greed and arrogance in people's hearts. The core figures of the upper class have become unscrupulous and materialistic because of excessive concentration, expansion and expansion of power. As a result, these rulers have seriously corrupted the overall moral atmosphere and fairness and justice of society, showing that the feudal ethical and moral ruling order has been unable to be maintained and the superstructure of feudal society is disintegrating. These signs are typical features of this era.
Cao Xueqin is great as an artist. He left us a very vivid cartoon of the last feudal society. When he tried to explain these world situations and point out the way for those who were caught in the maze, he went to the road of transcendence and the real "freedom" in philosophy and religion.
He is good at revealing the transcendental wisdom that life is impermanent and everything is empty in humorous language, and the thorough observation and classic but incisive propaganda that you can get rid of the common destiny (so-called "goodness"), so as to express your disappointment in the real society and your yearning for truth.
In this way, he naturally produced new philosophical thinking and creative thinking.