“Silent Night Thoughts” Meng Chong knelt on the ground in response to the order and recited aloud Zhu Ping An’s revised Silent Night Thoughts starting from the title.
Emperor Jiajing was sitting on the lawn concentrating on jerking his cat, bent on pleasing his cat master, half of his attention was not divided, it seemed that he just took Meng Chong’s recitation as the background music for jerking his cat.
“The light of the bright moon before the bed is suspected to be frost on the ground.”Meng Chong read out the first two lines of Zhu Pingan’s revised version.
Emperor Jiajing, who was concentrating on jerking his cat, heard these two sentences read out by Meng Chong, and the action of jerking the cat on his hand involuntarily stopped.
The tiger-spotted fat cat cooed in a low voice, rubbing its head against Emperor Jia Jing’s hand twice, urging him to continue.
“Raise your head to look at the bright moon, lower your head to think of your homeland.”Meng Chong proceeded to read out the last two lines as well.
After hearing this, Emperor Jiajing couldn’t help but close his eyes, seeming to feel something and completely forgetting to jerk the cat.
In Emperor Jiajing’s mind, the bricks and tiles of the Luzhou Xingwang Mansion slowly began to emerge, and a scene from his former life experience also began to flash up in his mind in a half-clawed flash ……
“Meow meow~”
The tiger spotted fat cat saw Jiajing Emperor cold feet, can not help but dissatisfied meow up, can not stop rubbing his head against Jiajing Emperor’s hand.
“Hehe, my Dragon Tiger General is jealous.”Jiajing emperor back to God laughed, gently touched the tiger fat cat’s head to tease up, “some other day if there is an opportunity, I take the dragon tiger great general to go to my hometown Luzhou Xingwangfu around, there is not as big as here, but there is a piece of wigwam, many caves, the great general will like.”
Kneeling on the ground with his head lowered waiting for the decree of Meng Chong heard the words of Emperor Jiajing, the heart of the ripples and ups and downs, this is the saint listened to the small Zhu adults modified the “Silent Night Thoughts”, touching the scene, miss the dragon submerged in the Luzhou Xingwangfu.
“Copy several copies and pass them to the Hall of No Ease, objectively comment on them and report them to me.”
Jiajing Emperor teased the tiger-spotted fat cat for a few moments before faintly commanding Meng Chong, who was kneeling and waiting for the decree.
“Servant obeys the decree.”
Meng Chong touched his head to the ground and rose to receive the decree, leaving backwards with his head lowered.
Soon after, Meng Chong transcribed several copies of Silent Night Thoughts and sent them to the Hall of No Ease, inviting all the ministers on duty to comment on them.
“Eh? Surprisingly, it’s a rewrite of Poetry Immortal Li Taibai’s ‘Silent Night Thoughts’. Dare I ask Eunuch Meng, from whom did this ‘Silent Night Thoughts’ come from?”
Before starting the evaluation, a worthy minister asked Meng Chong who was the author of this modified version of ‘Silent Night Thoughts’.
“This ‘Silent Night Thoughts’ is from …….”
Meng Chong was about to open his mouth to tell the ministers that this “Silent Night Thoughts” came from Zhu Pingan, but just opened his mouth, his mind suddenly thought of the sentence “Objective comment” commanded by Emperor Jiajing, objective comment, if the ministers know the author is Little Lord Zhu, the comment will not be easy to take on Little Lord Zhu’s personal subjective colours.
More than one thing is better than one thing less, do more is more wrong, do less is less wrong, do not do is good.
I can’t do the errand of the Holy Spirit.
Thinking of this Meng Chong closed his mouth, laughed and smiled, said to the value of the ministers: “Oh, the adults and allow the miscellaneous family to sell a secret, wait until the adults to review the end of the miscellaneous family and then tell the adults.”
Although I do not know who the author is, but know that this “Silent Night Thoughts” is Jiajing Emperor let them review ah. Based on this, the crowd of worthy ministers were mostly in praising language when they were critiquing it.
“Hmm, to have rewritten the Poetry Immortal’s ‘Silent Night Thoughts’? What an artiste, this first line ‘watching the moonlight before the bed’ is rewritten as ‘bright moonlight before the bed’, it’s even more catchy to read.”A worthy minister couldn’t wait to comment so.
“More than that, on closer reading, the removal of the word ‘see’ makes sense. The version that was previously circulated was ‘looking at the moonlight in front of the bed’, which is an intangible thing, so it’s not good to purposely come to ‘look’ at it, and if you purposely go to ‘look’ at it, it’s not easy to take theThe moonlight is an invisible thing, it’s not good to ‘see’ it, and if you deliberately ‘see’ it, it’s not easy to mistake ‘moonlight’ for ‘suspected frost on the ground’, right? And changed to ‘the light of the moon before the bed’, is ‘moonlight’ inadvertently reflected in the eyes, leading to the next sentence of the ‘suspected frost on the ground’, read up to make people feel much more natural, can be said to be natural..”Yuan Wei has always been keen on this kind of thing, and can show what he is good at, so he took over the words of the previous minister, and further elaborated, digging deep into the considerations behind the change of words, singing praises for the revised version, “Especially the change of ‘raising the head’ to ‘lifting the head’, it can be said to be the finishing touch of the poem, raising the head always gives a feeling of relaxation dejected, while raising the head seems heavy, better highlighting the weight of homesickness.”
“Rather, what Lord Yuan said is very true. In fact, strictly speaking, there are dozens of versions of ‘Silent Night Thoughts’ that have been passed down, and the ones that are popular today are only the ones collected and printed by the Song Dynasty, so no one can say whether or not there is any discrepancy between them and the original work of the Poetry Immortal Li Taibai. This revised version of “Silent Night Thoughts” is more catchy and easy to understand than the Song version. The Silent Night Thoughts is a work of monks’ school, so it is more suitable for monks’ school to recite after this modification, which is the gospel of the monks’ children in my Ming Dynasty, and should be vigorously promoted and recited. ……”
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The ministers in the Wuyi Hall were all competing to speak, and the comments praising the revised version of “Silent Night Thoughts” were endless.
Of course, there was no lack of criticism, saying that this “Silent Night Thoughts” was a “tampering” of the Poetry Fairy’s masterpiece, that it was a “blasphemy” of the Poetry Fairy’s masterpiece, and that the “mountain moon” in the original was more literate while the “bright moon” in the modified version was more elegant and the “bright moon” in the original was more elegant.The original “Mountain Moon” was more literary, while the revised “Bright Moon” was much more vulgar, but these voices were soon criticised and then drowned out in the crowd, and compared to the wave of praise, it was just a little ripple, not even a wave to turn up.
Crowd in the review, Meng Chong and several small eunuchs on the sidelines to record, especially focusing on the record of Yuan Wei’s review, wait until the crowd after the review, Meng Chong to fulfil the promise before the review, will be the “Silent Night Thoughts” of the modifier – Zhu Pingan told the crowd, and then went to the Jiajing Emperor to go back to the orders.
After hearing that “Silent Night Thoughts” was made by Zhu Pingan, Yuan Wei, who sang the most energetic praises before, suddenly froze, his mouth opened as if he had swallowed a rat, and all kinds of emotions, such as hardness, diaphragm, regret, etc., came to me, if I had known that this “Silent Night Thoughts” was changed by Zhu Pingan’s murderous knife, and I also sang praises of him, I bah, I don’t give him a black out of the Shang to I don’t have a surname of Yuan …….Yuan Wei’s intestines are all green with remorse.
Unfortunately, there is no if, time is hard to return, the water can not be retrieved.
In the imperial garden, Meng Chong replied truthfully to the cat-jerking Jiajing Emperor with the comments of all the duty ministers of the Wuyi Hall.
“Since this is the case, then I also have to be true to my word, don’t you think so, my Dragon Tiger General.”
Jiajing Emperor lifted the tiger spotted fat cat up with both hands, holding up its two fat paws in the air to make a soaring shape, teasingly said
