明代 妓女 景翩翩 詩歌 小考

Abstract

Jing Pian pian(景翩翩) is a very famous ‘jinü(妓女)' of the Ming Dynasty. She wrote a relatively large number of poems and lived a very unfortunate life. Her poems were handed down in the book of 『QingLouYunYu(靑樓韻語)』 and 『LieChaoShiJi(列朝詩集)』. This paper analyzes Jing Pian pian(景翩翩)’s 58 poems in four subjects: parting, longing, lamenting and daily life. She wanted to marry someone who appreciated her talent but experienced a marriage that failed due to fraud, which resulted in her suicide. She expressed her feelings through poems. The poems of parting show the pain of separating oneself, the poems of longing reveal the feeling of yearning after being apart, the poems of lamenting disclose the fate and unfortunateness of ‘jinü(妓女)’, and the poems of daily life expose the surrounding landscape of daily life. In particular, the poems of daily life, which have a light and cheerful tone, cause appreciators to experience poems of a different taste from most of her other poems that are tinged with a sad color. Although Jing Pian pian(景翩翩) lived a tragic life, the poems that have been handed down still live on for posterity.