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Chapter 205: Butterfly Dream

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    Butterflies, with their elegant dancing posture, colorful colors and elegant demeanor, have always been favored by literati and ink writers, so they have become an important theme for them to express their love and aspirations.

    "Zhuang Sheng is obsessed with butterflies in his dream, and Wang Dichun's heart entrusts the cuckoo", the poet Li Shangyin expresses his joys and sorrows with butterflies;  The family is thousands of miles away, and the cuckoo branches are on the third watch of the month." Cui Tu used butterflies to convey the pain and sorrow of the wanderers in a foreign land;  The joyful scenes and curious and competitive demeanor.  Among the butterfly chanting poets of all dynasties, the most famous one is Xie Yi, a poet of the Song Dynasty. He wrote 300 "Butterfly Poems", known as "Xie Butterfly".

    In Chinese culture, the butterfly is a symbol of freedom. Its source is the story of Zhuang Zhou's dream of a butterfly "Zhuangzi. Theory of Equality of Things": "In the past, Zhuang Zhou dreamed of a butterfly, a lifelike butterfly.  If you feel it, you will see Zhou. I don¡¯t know that Zhou¡¯s dream is the butterfly and the butterfly¡¯s dream is Zhou and the butterfly. There must be a division between Zhou and the butterfly. This is called materialization.¡±

    Zhuang Zhou dreamed that he turned into a butterfly, dancing happily and leisurely, traveling around, not knowing that he was Zhuang Zhou.  When he woke up, he found that he was indeed Zhuang Zhou.  Zhuangzi uses the image of a butterfly to express his philosophical thoughts, hoping that people's spirits will be liberated from tension, and they can live happily and easily, which reflects his "everything is one" cosmology and "things and I forget both"  Life Pursuit.

    Since then, "Butterfly Dream" has become the consolation of the literati's soul. They use Butterfly Dream to compensate for their realistic wishes and relieve their psychological pressure.  "Beyond the cicada's sloughing dust, the butterfly dreams of the water cloud village" [Zhang Xiaoxiang's "Shui Tiao Ge Tou"], "Shui Yun Township" is the residence of hermits, and the poet used this to praise the noble qualities of different streams and pollution, and also expressed the broad-minded self.  "August butterflies come, both on the grass in the West Garden" [Li Bai's "Long Gan Xing"], butterflies often fly in pairs among the flowers, and the double flying butterflies become a symbol of loving couples;  Swallow butterflies fly on double flowers. Sending words to those who know each other, they will never leave each other" [Xiao Gang's "Ode to Butterfly"], this is the earliest extant butterfly poem expressing love.  ; "Ran Ran both brushed the day fence, the beauty peeked again and again" [Xu ??Kui's "Butterfly"], the double flight of the butterfly sets off the loneliness of the beauty who has lived in a boudoir for a long time and dare not contact the outside world.

    Due to the obstruction and destruction of beautiful love by feudal ethics, many men and women have dedicated themselves to love. The twin butterflies who are always with each other are often regarded as their incarnations. We naturally think of the story of Liang Zhu.  The two loved ones were forced into a feudal arranged marriage, and they both turned into butterflies after death.

    The story of Liang Zhu's transformation into a butterfly is generally believed to be influenced by Han Ping and his wife's transformation into butterflies. It was first seen in "Sou Shen Ji" written by Gan Bao in the Jin Dynasty: "Han Ping, a doctor in Song Dynasty, married a beautiful wife, and King Kang of Song Dynasty seized her, and Ping committed suicide.  Rotten his clothes, went on the stage with the king, threw himself off the stage, embraced him left and right, and started to turn into a butterfly."

    The legend of Liang Zhu's "soul turning into a butterfly" first appeared in Xue Jixuan's poem "You Zhuling Shanquan Cave" in the late Song Dynasty: "The butterfly dances to doubt the soul of the mountain, and the flowers bloom to think of the jade face."

    By the Ming and Qing Dynasties, Huadie gradually became dominated by Liang Zhu.  For example, in Feng Menglong's "Ancient and Modern Novels. Li Xiuqing's Yijie Huang Zhennv", there is a plot of Liang Zhu joining the tomb and turning into flying butterflies.  Pulling his clothes, like a cicada taking off his clothes, the pieces of his clothes flew away. Looking at the flying clothes pieces again, they turned into two kinds of flowers and butterflies. Legend has it that they were transformed by two spirits. The red one is Liang Shanbo, and the black one is Zhu Ying.  Its tomb is everywhere, and it is still called Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai.¡± Shao Quanbiao¡¯s "Zhu Yingtai Biography" in the Qing Dynasty also has a similar record, "Yingtai was in front of the tomb of Liang.  Suddenly cracked, fell into the tomb, embroidered skirt Qiru, turned into a butterfly and flew away."

    The poignant and beautiful legend of Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai turned into butterflies, on the one hand, expresses people's sympathy and wishes for Liang Zhu, and on the other hand, reflects people's yearning and pursuit of free love.

    In Chinese culture, there are many butterflies.  Under the oppression of violent politics in feudal autocratic society, although these butterflies have good wishes, they have no strength to fight.  They can only pin their hopes on another world: the world of dreams, the world of fantasy, the world after death.  They use Taoist or Buddhist theories to tell themselves that the world after death may be better.  All kinds of dissatisfaction in life, they all seek compensation in another world.  Their psychological energy is not enough to allow them to resist all kinds of pain and troubles in life, so they resort to religion and fantasy to escape from reality and this ugly real world.

    Among Chinese literati, there should be many who dream of butterflies.  These people do not have the psychological power to change the real society into an ideal society, or even have the courage to change their own destiny, they are too fragile.

    Butterfly is also a dream of Chinese people, the content of the dream is "people"I should be able to have a beautiful soul". Whenever I hear the beautiful melody of "Blessings of Love", my sadness wells up from the bottom of my heart. I hope we can be braver, don't let our souls leave, and let the world be blessed by us.  Some real beauty. (Remember this website URL: www.hlnovel.com
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