First of all, I want to share with my dear netizens the creative process of filling this "blue and white porcelain" in Jay's new album. Some time ago, I met a few friends who appreciate antique artworks. During the chat with them, I talked about the past and present for thousands of years, sometimes bronzes, sometimes Song porcelain, and sometimes Ming and Qing furniture, which led me to use those artworks handed down from China as the motivation for the Song title. The first thing that came to mind at that time was bronzes. Originally, bronze wares cast in the Yin and Shang Dynasties were used as the song title, and the thickness of bronze symbolized the faithfulness and truthfulness of love. Compare the vicissitudes of the world with the mottled copper rust of the Millennium; Explain the mystery of the oath with the incomprehensible inscription on the container. But when I first started writing, I found that Jay's Blue and White Porcelain was gentle and euphemistic, elegant and refined, so that my mind was full of pictures of misty rain in the south of the Yangtze River. Because the bronzes at that time were also made into weapons to kill the enemy, it seems that the word "bronze" is too heavy and clumsy, full of smoke, so the lyrics that were still conceived were given up before writing.
Later, I chose Ruyao porcelain, which was very popular in the Song Dynasty, mainly because of its rarity. Due to the war, kiln glaze formula and firing process, there are only more than 70 treasures handed down from ancient times in Ru kiln, which is a national treasure and precious. But the problem comes again, because the pure top-grade Ru kiln has only one color, that is, "azure", without any fancy ornamentation at all, and its shape is simple and elegant. In my opinion, it's like the works of today's minimalist masters. Although the connotation is simple and the texture is lasting, I always feel that it is not enough to describe treacherous and changeable love with love and hate. Although Ru Yao was not used as the title of the lyrics in the end, in the process of collecting writing materials, the future was achieved because of the phrase "after the rain clears, the clouds break and people die". Words inspired me to write the first sentence of the chorus "misty rain is like sky blue" It is said that this sentence came from Song Huizong, because the Ru kiln at that time was dedicated to the Song royal family, and when the kiln official asked to name its color after firing Ru kiln porcelain, the royal family approved: "Rain breaks the blue clouds, so color will be the future." From then on, azure is the color name of Ru kiln porcelain. But later, I gave up using Ruyao as a song title, except that its characteristics are not suitable for lingering love, and the name Ruyao is a bit too sad. After many twists and turns, the song was finally named Blue and White Porcelain, which was first burned in the Tang Dynasty and lasted for more than 1000 years in the early China. When I first decided on the lyrics of misty rain like sky blue, it didn't take long to write the second sentence of the chorus "I am waiting for you", so the key word of the first sentence of the chorus was born: "misty rain like sky blue, and I am waiting for you". Because the sky blue described in my lyrics can't appear by itself, it must wait patiently for a rain that doesn't know when it will come before it can appear as sky blue in the clear sky where cumulus clouds disperse. Because the sky blue will only appear after the rain, and the sky blue will only appear after the rain, but I will say that if you want to see the sky blue, you must wait for the rain to pass. Also, the reason why "misty rain" is used instead of "rain" is purely because misty rain is more beautiful in artistic conception. I use the phrase "sky blue and misty rain" to counter the vernacular saying "I am waiting for you", and I use the word "wait" one after another to emphasize that the most powerless helplessness in love is "wait". To put it another way: "How can we ordinary people master the unpredictable weather?" ? If you want to see the pure blue washed by rain, you can only wait patiently for the shower to stop naturally, just as I can only wait passively and quietly for you who will not appear. "In this blue-and-white porcelain, there is also a plant that rarely appears in the lyrics of Banana, really because of my inexplicable love for this plant. Just like coconut trees are reminiscent of South Taiwan Province Province, palm trees are equivalent to warm beaches, and cactus scenes are naturally in the desert. Somehow, I naturally associate "bananas" with Suzhou Forest Garden in the misty rain in the south of the Yangtze River in the Song Dynasty. For example, in Li Yu's Sauvignon Blanc, there is "... autumn wind, rain and harmony." There are three bananas outside the curtain, and the night is long. "In fact, as long as you carefully observe the plants that often appear in Song Ci, the frequency of" bananas "is still quite high. In addition, Matsuo Bashō, a famous Japanese haiku poet, also took banana as an alias, which added some literati temperament to banana planting.
By the way, the usage of the word "provoke" in the lyrics is the famous prediction of my sixth ancestor Huineng: "Bodhi has no trees, and the mirror is not Taiwan; There is nothing there, where is the dust? ". Because "where to make the dust" can actually be written as "where to touch the dust" or "where to touch the dust", but because the meaning of contact is not as strong as "contact", contact is just a word that contacts with other things, but the word "contact" has the meaning of uninvited invitation, which is very positive and dramatic. Therefore, I use "knocker to provoke verdigris" instead of "knocker to stain verdigris"; There is also a lyric that I used to annoy you with "Pass by Jiangnan Town with me", and I don't need to pick you up with "Pass by Jiangnan Town with me" for the same reason. In fact, I have used the word "infuriated" in Nan Quan Mama's Butterfly in Love. In the first paragraph of lyrics, "The faint years are drifting back and forth, and the screen stirs up the sunset ...", I use "screen" to stir up the sunset to indicate the light that enters the room obliquely because of the screen blocking when the sun sets, instead of blocking the sunset with "screen".
Finally, regarding the meaning of "bananas cause showers and knockers cause patina", let me explain the superfluous words here; After a heavy rain, the garden was green, the air was full of moist moisture, and crystal raindrops rolled on the banana leaves. At this time, this scene is the most poetic; There are also some rusty copper rings, which are still embedded in the door panels after wind, frost and rain, and are the oldest. I first used China's classic phrase "Bananas provoke showers, knockers provoke verdigris" to express my feelings, and then I won a passage "Walk with me through that small town in the south of the Yangtze River and provoke you" as an antithesis. Because banana and knocker are static objects, they can only passively wait for showers and slowly oxidize into verdigris after years of erosion; But the pronoun "I" is different from bananas and knockers. Because "I" can move freely, I met you by chance through a small town in the south of the Yangtze River, not passively waiting for you, but actively getting to know you. Therefore, although the verb "provoke" is used, initiative and passivity are very different, and I have used three words of "provoke" in this paragraph, which have the same meaning, but their usage is different and interesting. In short, this song is very hard to write, but it is also very fulfilling.
Song commentary
From "A solitary lamp standing by the window" in Direct Answer to "You are as beautiful as snow and you are leaving again" in "Thousands of miles away" to "I will send you away, thousands of miles away, you are silent in black and white", leaving hate is the eternal theme of singers. Blue and white porcelain brings us a surprise that this parting is described more delicately, hidden more implicitly, and has a unique charm, like a green olive in the mouth, which can be remembered slowly.
In artistic conception, "Blue and White Porcelain" is like a misty and rainy landscape in the south of the Yangtze River, and the white skirt and nepotism of Iraqis can be seen faintly between the water and clouds.
In terms of words and expressions, blue and white porcelain is a simple note written at the end of the pen, which twists and turns only because the heart is like a double screen with a Qian Qian knot in it;
In tune, blue and white porcelain is like a mountain spring flowing quietly on the stone in the breeze, clear and bright, winding.
These three things are superimposed in one place. The blue-and-white porcelain of the Song Dynasty, as the name implies, is like the best celadon of "self-care beauty". It washes away the lead, is simple and elegant, and is fresh and smooth. The Chinese style of "Blue and White Porcelain" is particularly touching, with guzheng playing and crisp pipa gurgling. Vincent fang used a series of words such as "vegetarian embryo", "lady" and "Han Li" to describe the elegant demeanor of blue-and-white porcelain handed down from ancient times. Jay Chou's singing is gentle and simple, with a little rudiment of Jiangnan opera. Wonderful lyrics and retro music constitute an R&B masterpiece.
In Blue and White Porcelain, I heard that revisiting the old place in Direct Answer is a kind of faint sadness. In Hair Like Snow, I heard the past and the sighs of future generations, and I also heard the unforgettable life waiting in Thousands of Miles away, and even heard the love vows weathered for thousands of years in Love in BC. ...
One of the most touching words in blue and white porcelain, I thought it was the word "wait".
A word "wait" sang a lot of helplessness and sighs. This kind is hopeless, waiting for the afterlife, knowing that it can't wait, but just singing in a faint tone, as if just waiting for the sunrise every day; While waiting, you can read and write, recite poems and paint, enjoy flowers and play the piano, but you will never forget the person waiting. Is it painful? No, "Blue and White Porcelain" sings so leisurely that the original sadness can slowly fade away. What if you don't arrive and love to leave? All beings are suffering, and waiting is also a good mood. It is better to meet each other in this life, only to lay the groundwork for the reunion in the next life. I can't help but feel relieved when I think about it. Even if we can't meet again, we should be grateful that we had a glimpse. Who can hide Mount Fuji with love? So is blue and white porcelain.
At least, we can look at the smoke from the kitchen in the south of the Yangtze River from a distance across the Qian Shan, and silently miss the faint back in our memory across the vast sea of people, just as we quietly watch the blue and white porcelain pass through many history and pass on from generation to generation.
The rain outside the banana curtain is urgent, and time passes in a hurry;
Blue-and-white porcelain looks old, and only I am getting old. Your beauty will always be fixed on the never-fading blue-and-white porcelain, which can be appreciated, pondered and watched.
Another explanation.
In fact, the first paragraph has clearly explained the object described in the lyrics. While painting an embryo, "I" miss a Jiangnan woman as beautiful as blue and white porcelain. In "Ran Ran Sandalwood", my heart is slightly sour, and I can't draw any more. It's the painter's hand, and the peony on the bottle is not as good as the smiling face of the Iraqis. I don't know where Jed lives, so I can't help feeling sad. Judging from the style of writing and the image of choice, direct narration at first is not gorgeous, but it has laid the tone of the whole article. It is worth mentioning that "go" is a typical expression in Taiwan Province Province, and changing it to "go" is more in line with the language habits of the mainland.
The finishing touch of the full text "The sky is blue, I am waiting for you" is elegant and affectionate. Some people mistakenly think that "the sky is waiting for misty rain" and so on, because they still lack understanding of blue and white porcelain. "Sunny rain" is the top grade of blue and white porcelain, which is rare in the world and has the most beautiful color. This glaze color can only be burned in rainy days (from the perspective of modern science, it is mainly humidity). Therefore, the emergence of azure in rainy days is one of the decisive conditions. The misty rain in the blue sky not only expresses the language, but also connects "I am waiting for you", showing how valuable Iraqis are to me. Coupled with the moving and beautiful melody, it seems to hear nature. "Smoke rises a thousand miles across the river" has a strong sense of picture, killing three birds with one stone, which not only describes the beautiful scenery in the south of the Yangtze River, but also describes the common scenery on blue and white porcelain, and even sets off feelings with scenery. The beautiful scenery added a touch of sadness to my thoughts. "At the bottom of the bottle, Han Li imitates the elegance of the previous dynasty and foreshadows my meeting with you." While spreading my thoughts, I still follow the idea of sketching blue and white flowers, and the word foreshadowing actually implies the future ending. Is "I" attached to the woman I once met?
"Sky blue misty rain, I'm waiting for you.
The moonlight was salvaged, dizzy.
Such as blue and white porcelain handed down from generation to generation, you are as beautiful as a fairy, smiling like a flower. "
Sing the same melody again. A "halo" is wonderful. What is a halo? Let me give you an example. When you drop a drop of ink into a bowl of clear water and watch it spread slowly, it will faint. People say: "Good sentences are born, and wonderful hands are occasionally acquired." In the gloom, the ending was really opened? Have you seen the Iraqi people who miss you very much? "Blue and white porcelain handed down from generation to generation is beautiful, and your eyes are smiling" is a standard inversion sentence. Yes, I saw it. It seems that everything is integrated into the beautiful scenery of Jiangnan, which seems to be the ending of a comedy. However, the author is more inclined to think that this is a long-standing delusion of "I", and hallucinations appear in front of my eyes, and the hazy moonlight disappears, but more is acacia.
"koi fish, white flowers, green color, jump to the bottom of the bowl.
I miss you when I copy my signature.
The secret you hid in the kiln for thousands of years.
Very delicate, like an embroidery needle landing.
Outside the curtain, plantains cause showers and knockers cause verdigris.
I passed by that small town in the south of the Yangtze River and made you angry.
In splash-ink landscape painting, you are hidden in the depths of ink. "
Flashback technique, telling the story of meeting Iraqis in a hurry and saying goodbye in a hurry, and sketching while recalling. I have to say that Vincent Fang has a natural sensitivity to words. He used three words to connect them together, which is very wonderful, although "the banana outside the curtain is a shower" is vividly separated from previous poems. By the way, this way is also called "unreasonable and wonderful", which originated from Yuanqu. Obviously, the shower was not caused by bananas, which doesn't make sense, but the smell came out.
There is another saying:
Jay Chou's song Blue and White Porcelain is undoubtedly a highlight of the Spring Festival Evening in 2008. But there are mistakes in the lyrics of this song-Ma Weidou, a famous collector and appraiser, said that there are two mistakes in the lyrics, one of which is "fallacy".
For this song, Ma Weidou thinks the best sentence is the beginning, that is, "the blank embryo outlines the brushwork of blue and white, from thick to light". But Ma Weidou thinks the most fallacious sentence is "At the bottom of the bottle, Han Li imitates the elegance of the previous dynasty." In this regard, Ma Weidou's explanation is that blue and white porcelain has rapidly become the overlord of China porcelain since its birth, and no one has shaken it for 700 years. But Han Li was never written on the bottom of the bottle. Only during the Chongzhen period of the Ming Dynasty, some blue and white wares occasionally wrote official scripts. Another mistake is "I missed you when I copied my signature". Ma Weidou said that the mistake of this lyric is that "Song Song's inscription is only seen on Kang Yong Gansan Dynasty enamel porcelain, but not on blue and white porcelain." Ma Weidou also pointed out that when singing in front of Jay Chou, several pieces of porcelain appeared in the background, one of which was an imitation of the late Qing Dynasty, which, in today's words, was a "fake".
Rehabilitate Blue and White Porcelain —— Pei Guanghui refutes Ma Weidou's fallacy
Pei Guanghui: former member of the Art Appraisal Committee of the Ministry of Culture, member of the Folk Collection Appraisal Committee of China, and visiting professor of cultural relics in Peking University. Famous cultural relic appraiser, blue and white porcelain scholar. He has published many academic works on blue and white porcelain such as Perfect Blue and White Porcelain, Blank Blue and White Porcelain, Transitional Blue and White Porcelain, Clark Porcelain and Kang Yong Dry Blue and White Porcelain. In the "Ghost Valley Gate Incident" at Christie's in London in 2005, he became famous overseas because he questioned the blue-and-white Ghost Valley jar auctioned by the company, and was called the first China cultural relic expert to say no to a famous foreign auction company.
This year's CCTV Spring Festival Gala, singer Jay Chou sang a song "Blue and White Porcelain", which became the highlight of the party and received rave reviews. She won the second prize in the song and dance category of "My favorite Spring Festival Gala program". This is a song with China blue-and-white porcelain as the creative element and porcelain as the "China element", which is novel in conception and opens up a new way for the creation of "Chinese style" songs. The lyrics and singing are very beautiful, and the exquisite ancient blue-and-white porcelain pictures on the background of the big screen on the stage increase the visual impact of the program, which can be called a program with good audio-visual quality. No wonder it became popular and sung in China as soon as it was broadcast.
However, while the popularity of songs is still rising strongly, Mr. Ma Weidou, a collector in Beijing, said: The lyrics of blue-and-white porcelain are full of fallacies. "These mistakes are so low that ordinary people can see them." The tension in the entertainment press was immediately aroused, so the newspaper immediately ran such striking headlines: Jay Chou was found fault, the collector said that the lyricist did not understand porcelain (Morning News), the collector Ma Weidou said that Jay Chou's lyrics were outrageous (Chengdu Business Daily), Ma Weidou: Jay Chou's lyrics were outrageous (news noon), and Jay Chou was seriously injured.
So what "very low-level" mistakes did the lyricist Vincent Fang make? Mr. Ma chose two places:
"Ma Weidou thinks the most fallacious sentence is' at the bottom of the bottle, Han Li imitates the elegance of the previous dynasty'. In this regard, Ma Weidou's explanation is that blue and white porcelain has quickly become the overlord of China porcelain since its birth, and no one has shaken it for 700 years. But Han Li was never written on the bottom of the bottle. Only during the Chongzhen period of the Ming Dynasty, some blue and white wares occasionally wrote official scripts. Obviously, the lyricist doesn't know much about porcelain. Another mistake is "I missed you when I copied Song Song". Ma Weidou said that the mistake of this lyric is that' Song Song's signature is only seen on the enamel porcelain of the dry three dynasties in Kang Yong, but not on the blue and white porcelain'. " Beijing Morning Post: Famous appraiser: Jay Chou made a low-level mistake on blue and white porcelain.
It turns out that Mr. Ma asked the lyricist to write lyrics like an academic paper, and he could not use literary means such as fiction, imagination and exaggeration, otherwise he would inevitably make "low-level mistakes". This reminds me of a joke told by Su Dongpo, a litterateur in the Song Dynasty: Wang Qi, a poet in the Song Dynasty, wrote two poems on Zhuzhi, which he proudly recited in front of Su Dongpo. Dongpo was quite dissatisfied with this poem and said, "Good is really wonderful, but only in this way can ten bamboo poles have a bamboo leaf." Afterwards, he also told people that "it is easy to laugh in the world, but it is difficult to read Wang Qi's poems without laughing." (See Miscellanies of Song People, Volume 55, Tiaoxi Fishing and Concealing Conghua) Actually, it's not Wang Qi who should laugh, but Su Dongpo. As a great writer, we should not use arithmetic tools such as addition, subtraction, multiplication and division to criticize poetry. Literature thinks in images, and arithmetic thinks in logic. Can we confuse them? Yang Shengan in Ming Dynasty also made such jokes. He once criticized Du Mu's famous poem "Jiangnan Spring" and said: "A thousand miles of yingti green reflects red" should have been "a hundred miles of yingti green reflects red", but "this edition is mistaken for" a thousand miles ". If you follow the custom, you will hear birds singing thousands of miles away. Who will listen? Thousands of miles of green and red, who can see it? " (Yang Shen's Poems of Sheng 'an VIII)
For this pedantic view, Wang Fuzhi once cited the example of "attacking the shield with a spear" in Jiang Zhai Shi Hua, saying that "a particularly sour and pedantic person is not only in the place of the poem, but also in the source of the poem to verify things." Du Fu's poem' I want to sell wine, and I happen to have 300 coppers', so I think the price of wine in the Tang Dynasty. Cui's poem "Selling wine is no more than a thousand dollars". Selling wine in Duling Valley, and then selling it to Cui, won't you get thirty times the interest? Everyone who finds that place is ridiculous. "What Mr. Ma doesn't understand is precisely the mistake of' finding out where poetry is, restraining poetry as the source and studying things'. Therefore, as soon as it came out, it was immediately accused by the singer's fans as "picky".
However, what surprises me even more is that after repeated thinking, the two "faults" in Mr. Ma's blue-and-white porcelain words, even from the pedantic "academic point of view" of "textual research", are nothing to brag about and ask for. In other words, the description of blue-and-white brushwork in blue-and-white porcelain lyrics completely conforms to the reality of ancient blue-and-white porcelain, and there is no "low-level mistake" and "fallacy" pointed out by Mr. Ma. Now I might as well analyze the two "hard injuries" selected by Teacher Ma as follows:
1. According to Mr. Ma, the most serious fallacy is the sentence "The bottom of the bottle imitates the elegance of the previous dynasty". Outside? Because blue-and-white porcelain "Han Li never wrote on the bottom of the bottle, only during the Chongzhen period of the Ming Dynasty, some blue-and-white porcelain occasionally wrote official script". In fact, there were a large number of official script styles in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties (academically called "transitional period"), which is an important feature of blue and white porcelain in the transitional period. Although most of them are found in the body and mouth of porcelain, those at the bottom of porcelain are by no means invisible, but relatively few. For example, the Palace Museum has a blue-and-white baby play pot stove with blue-and-white official script at the bottom. Quanzhou Jinjiang Museum also has a blue-and-white unicorn-patterned elephant ear reed in the late Ming Dynasty, with a blue-and-white official script "Treasure of Hetai" at the bottom. In the autumn of 2006, Hangzhou art auction even appeared a six-character three-line official script made in Qianlong year of Qing Dynasty, a big bottle, and blue and white eight treasures wrapped in branches (batch number 13 17). It shows that the practice of calligraphy at the bottom of Qing bottle not only existed in the transitional period, but also lasted until the middle of Qing Dynasty. Generally speaking, the official script at the bottom of the blue-and-white kitchen knife (including stoves, bottles, flower beds, etc. Most of them are Tang numbers, but there are also a few praises and year numbers.
Secondly, Teacher Ma picked out another mistake, that is, "I was thinking of you when I copied the signature of Song Dynasty". Outside? Because "the inscription in the Song Dynasty has only seen Kang Yong dry three generations of enamel porcelain, and has never seen blue and white porcelain." What must be pointed out here is that Mr. Ma's understanding of what is Song Style is still vague, or it is incorrect, incomplete and not in-depth. The blue and red materials on the enamel porcelain of Kang Yonggan's three generations are one of the characters in the Song Dynasty, which is called "Song". The word "Song Style" is not a formal term in the publishing industry. It is the common name of a Song-style figure in Ming Dynasty in traditional antique circles. It first appeared in Jo Yeo-jeong's Antique Guide. In fact, Song-style figures have many faces, and there are two main types: imitation Song-style (called Song-style in Japan) and Song-style (called Ming-style in Japan and Song-style in antique circles). These two kinds of Song styles are evolved from the regular script of the brush, which is a printing font formed by the application of regular script to seal cutting. However, because the imitation of Song Dynasty was formed earlier, more calligraphy features were retained. Due to the late formation of the Song Dynasty, there are many characteristics of knife carving. In fact, it is not difficult to distinguish the two styles of the Song Dynasty: that is, the horizontal and vertical paintings of "Imitation of the Song Dynasty" are the same in thickness, and there is not much difference, and the style is close to calligraphy; "Song style" is thin and thick horizontally, with great difference between horizontal and vertical, and its style is close to that of knife carving (see Figure 3). For a long time, many people in the field of antiques have a misunderstanding, that is, they regard the so-called "Song-style inscription" (that is, the thin and vertical Song-style characters formed in the Ming Dynasty) as the only style of Song-style characters, and call the imitation Song-style characters that appear in a large number of porcelain "regular script". In fact, from the style of blue-and-white porcelain itself, it is not difficult to find the actual situation of blue-and-white porcelain: from Yongle Xuande in the Ming Dynasty to the end of the Qing Dynasty, song styles (mostly "imitation song styles" with calligraphy styles) on blue-and-white porcelain abound. Not only the year number of the Song Dynasty, but also the hall number of the Song Dynasty, the Kyrgyz number, Zanqian and so on. However, it is not surprising that many people in the antique circle turn a blind eye to the large number of Songti characters appearing on blue and white porcelain, because on the one hand, they mistakenly think that "Songti" is the only Songti character, on the other hand, they confuse a large number of "imitation Songti" with regular script. It should be further pointed out that there are not only "Song-like" but also "Song-like" blue-and-white porcelain, not "only seen on three generations of dry enamel porcelain in Kang Yong", but the number of blue-and-white porcelain is not as much as that of Song-like porcelain. Therefore, Mr. Ma said, "The inscription in the Song Dynasty was only seen in the enamel porcelain of the Dry Three Dynasties, but not in the blue and white porcelain." Not in line with the facts.
By the way, correct another mistake made by Teacher Ma, that is, the so-called "fake" stage background. Mr. Ma said: "When singing in front of Jay Chou, several pieces of porcelain appeared in the background, one of which was imitation of the late Qing Dynasty, which is a' fake' in today's words." Everyone in the industry knows that the so-called "false" identification is time-relative. For example, the porcelain that Kangxi imitated Xuande in the Ming Dynasty can be called a "fake" in the eyes of people in the Kangxi era, but if this porcelain spreads to Guangxu, it is already an "antique" in the eyes of people in Guangxu era. By the same token, if a porcelain imitation of the late Qing Dynasty and the former Dynasty is already a very qualified antique in today's 2 1 century, how can it be called a "fake"? Does Mr. Ma consider himself a "late Qing Dynasty man"? Therefore, the accusation that the stage background is so-called "false" is not established.
However, at the end of Sina's blog, Ma Weidou commented on this song, perhaps expressing his meaning: In any case, Blue and White is a popular lover in China's traditional culture, and Jay Chou has made great contributions to attracting the attention of this 700-year-old popular lover, re-dressing, and pushing it to the front desk of the Spring Festival Evening.