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金庸词话

我有一个朋友, 他博客非常好, 名字叫做: 青衫磊落卧枕听涛 (比我这个叫做 4G Space 的不伦不类的名字好多了) . 这个名字大有诗意.  卧枕听涛, 听涛自然是境界开阔.  加上卧字一衬, 儒雅之气就出来了. 有观沧海的胸怀, 又不含魏武临碣石的霸气. 但我其实更加喜欢青衫磊落这一句, 不锦衣张扬, 坦荡平和. 可是我想破了脑袋也没想出来这青衫磊落的出处, 又好像很熟悉, 只好求助谷哥大神.

大神的结果吓了我一跳, 原来是金庸大侠 <天龙八部> 第一回的回目名. 我把这句和下句读完, 隐隐觉得这个是宋词某个词牌, 再次请教谷哥大神, 果然, 这个是少年游的词牌.  我除了隐隐觉得金大侠化用古人词句以外, 还真没想到回目名就是一词.  天龙八部一共50回, 每10回成一词. 网上研究的人也很多, 我就把词抄录如下(估计各位都比我读金大侠读得仔细,  我是后知后觉) :

青衫磊落险峰行, 玉壁月华明. 马疾香幽, 崖高人远, 微步縠纹生.
谁家子弟谁家院, 无计悔多情. 虎啸龙吟, 换巢鸾凤, 剑气碧烟横.
(少年游)

向来痴; 从此醉; 水榭听香, 指点群豪戏. 剧饮千杯男儿事; 杏子林中,商略平生义.
昔时因; 今日意; 胡汉恩仇,须倾英雄泪. 虽万千人吾往矣; 悄立雁门, 绝壁无余字.
(苏幕遮)

千里茫茫若梦; 双眸粲粲如星. 塞外牛羊空许约; 烛畔鬓云有旧盟. 莽苍踏雪行.
赤手屠熊搏虎; 金戈荡寇鏖兵. 草木残生颅铸铁; 虫豸凝寒掌作冰. 挥洒缚群英.
(破阵子)

输赢成败,又争由人算. 且自逍遥没谁管.
奈天昏地暗, 斗转星移.  风骤急,缥缈峰头云乱.
红颜弹指老, 剎那芳华. 梦里真真语真幻.
同一笑,到头万事俱空.
胡涂醉,情长计短.
解不了,名缰系贪嗔
却试问,几时把痴心断?
(洞仙歌)

燕云十八飞骑, 奔腾如虎风烟举.
老魔小丑, 岂堪一击, 胜之不武.
王霸雄图, 血海深恨, 尽归尘土.
念枉求美眷, 良缘安在? 枯井底, 污泥处.
酒罢问君三语, 为谁开, 茶花满路?
王孙落魄, 怎生消得, 杨枝玉露?
敝屣荣华, 浮云生死, 此身何惧!
教单于折箭, 六军辟易, 奋英雄怒!
(水龙吟)

这几句词非常好! 真的非常好. 我发现一个网站, 上面全是金大侠诗词赏析和评论, 我就不凑这个热闹再写什么了 :) 只想顺便狗尾续貂说几句不相干的 “金庸词话”.

金庸的这些章回名当中, 其实我最喜欢的就是天龙八部和倚天屠龙记了. 以前我给小姑娘写情书, 还用 “同一笑, 相并肩” (天龙) 以及 “东西相隔似参商”, “天涯思君不忘” (倚天) 这样的词句. 也是刚学会写情书的时候正好看到了金庸的, 因此印象深刻. (不知道和我同年代的朋友们, 是不是也是这样常常引用一番金庸的词句? )

在所有的词句当中, 婉约型的我最中意的就是这句 “红颜弹指老, 剎那芳华”, 一语堪破所有爱恨别离, 辞意俱佳. 把它和 “人生若只如初见” 放在一起, 简直就是男性所能婉约的最高境界了. (用王国维的话说, 都差不多是无我之境了).

豪放型的一共有两, 一是倚天屠龙记里面的”天下英雄莫能当”, 丝毫没有霸气, 平平无奇的句子后面的波涛汹涌才是壮丽的. 好比一个英雄回到家, 对他正在刷牙的老婆若无其事的说: 恶龙死了. 另外一句倒是霸气和傲气十足的, 是萧峰见慕容复暗算段誉, 直接一把拎起慕容复, 说到: “我萧某大好男儿,竟然与你这等人齐名”. 大好男儿傲视群雄的境界, 真是让人一生向往.  郭大侠也有”为国为民, 侠之大者”的句子, 自己觉得做不到, 故而不算最喜欢.

金庸很善于化用前人的词. 比如”塞上牛羊空许约”, 化用陆游 “塞上长城空自许”. 最后一句 “教单于折箭, 六军辟易, 奋英雄怒”, 读着读着就婉约变成辛弃疾的 “倩何人唤取, 红巾翠袖, 揾英雄泪”.

因为好词都被金庸和其他人写了, 我只能狗尾续貂写写评论啦.   眼睁睁的看着好词好句却不属于自己, 当真是绝望似地渴望.  以前开玩笑吟过一句: 侯门一入深如辞海, 从此萧郎是路人甲. 在前人深厚的词的造诣面前, 只好装作看看, 瞎写一气, 做个路人甲. 萧郎成了路人甲, 就乱说一起也没事, 因为早就和侯门里的红巾翠袖, 一点关系都没有啦 :)

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OK, enough about Asian girl

I, a bitter Asian man, don’t want to insult any Asian girl. Here is a wrap-up.

The initial post is here:
Why I Don’t Date Asian Men

My response:
Why Asian girl in US doesn’t want to date me

Some other responses:
为什么我找不到中国女孩作女朋友

也说为何找不到女朋友

A funny site to see:
Bitter Asian Men

My readers, especially Asian girls, please try to be humorous and don’t treat this too seriously. If you want to send me hate mail, here is TEH ADDRASS:

youxu [A@LOLC@T] wustl.edu

MAIKE SURE U CAN LET ME LAUGH!

KTHXBYE.

(Change all [#!#$] to @)

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Qi Xi (Chinese Valentine’s Day)

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Qi Xi (七夕; Pinyin: qī xī; “The Night of Sevens”) is Chinese Valentine’s Day (sometimes called Magpie Festival) It’s on the seventh day of the seventh lunar month on the Chinese calendar; thus its name. In 2007, this festival falls today, August 19.

There is a very romatic story of Cowherd and Weaver Girl. As in late summer, the stars Altair and Vega are high in the night sky, our ancestors observed that and a love story came out.

A young cowherd named Niulang (Chinese: 牛郎; Pinyin: niú láng, “the cowherd”, the star Altair) happens across seven fairy sisters bathing in a lake. Encouraged by his mischievous companion the ox, he steals their clothes and waits to see what will happen. The fairy sisters elect the youngest and most beautiful sister Zhinü (Simplified Chinese: 织女; Traditional Chinese: 織女; Pinyin: zhī nǚ, “the weaver girl”, the star Vega) to retrieve their clothing. She does so, but since Niulang has seen her naked, she must agree to his request for marriage. She proves to be a wonderful wife, and Niulang a good husband, and they are very happy together. But the Goddess of Heaven (in some versions Zhinü’s mother) finds out that a mere mortal has married one of the fairy girls and is furious. (In another version, the Goddess forced the weaver fairy back to her former duty of weaving colorful clouds in the sky because she could not do her job while married to the mortal.) Taking out her hairpin, the Goddess scratches a wide river in the sky to separate the two lovers forever (thus forming the Milky Way, which separates Altair and Vega).

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Zhinü must sit forever on one side of the river, sadly weaving on her loom, while Niulang watches her from afar and takes care of their two children (his flanking stars β and γ Aquilae).

But once a year all the magpies in the world take pity on them and fly up into heaven to form a bridge (鵲橋, “the bridge of magpies”, Que Qiao) over the star Deneb in the Cygnus constellation so the lovers may be together for a single night, the seventh night of the seventh moon.

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There are also lots of traditions, but now in China, we usually treat Qi Xi as the second Valentine’s Day in a year. We also have many beautiful poems about Qi Xi, one of my favourite is:

秋夕 –(唐)杜牧
红烛秋光冷画屏,
轻罗小扇扑流萤。
天阶夜色凉如水,
坐看牵牛织女星。

Translated as:

The painted screen is chilled in silver candlelight,
She uses silken fan to catch passing fireflies.
The steps seem steeped in water when cold grows the night,
She lies watching heart-broken stars shed tears in the skies.

I am not so that sad, of course ;)

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写字自恋一把

今天随机换了个桌面墙纸,正好是王羲之的兰亭。忍不住自己也手痒了。当然没有毛笔没有宣纸我写不了大字了,于是,我就马克笔为刀,白版为简,“”下 淡泊明志,宁静致远 八个篆字。这个,其中“远”我不会写,通过Google得到…

自恋的人写这几个字,是有点讽刺啊:)
不管了,自恋到底,贴上Blog.

既然出了个国学MM勾引孔子,俺们也在美国弘扬国学,把芙蓉JJ, 国学MM为代表的时代精神以国学为载体在异国他乡生根发芽,发扬光大。此举必将促进中美文化交流,使“我们古老的祖国像一个生气勃勃的自恋少女站在世界的面前”(此句修改自文化部部长孙家正原句,我把少年换成自恋少女)

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