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Revision as of 17:21, 22 March 2014
Chapter 9 of Book 1
Origin of the Chapter's Title
The title 眉间心上，无计相回避 (méi jiān xīn shàng ， wú jì xiàng huí bì) is from the poem Yu Jie Xing (御街行) by Fan Zhongyan (范仲淹), a scholar-reformer from the Song Dynasty.
The poem describes "the poet's grief upon an unjust or acrimonious separation (the particular circumstances of it are not entirely clear)."[1]
Tong Hua uses Song poems to describe separation and longing; for example in Book 1 Chapter 14 and Book 1 Chapter 15, which foreshadows the Chinese subtitle of Book 2.
眉间心上，无计相回避 can be translated as these:
- The furrowing of my brow
I know that I have no way of escaping it.[2]
- It weighs on my mind and brows,
Yet there is nothing I can do to fend it.[3]
- Brow furrowed, No choice but mutal avoidance.[4]
The context of this line can be read in this passage:
"My heart has been broken, and I have no way of drowning my sorrows; before the wine has reached my lips it turns to bitter tears. The broken lamp winks out light, and I recline crooked on the pillow. I know too well what it is like to sleep alone. This manifests itself in the contortions of my heart, and the furrowing of my brow; I know that I have no way of escaping it."[5]
Another translation of this passage:
Already rent is my heart, I cannot be more intoxicated,
Before I could further drink up, I've already shed more tears.
Lying askew on a pillow by the gleam of a dimming lamp,
How familiar I am with what it's like to 'sleep and dwell 'in loneliness.
So often reminded of this I am, it weighs on my mind and brows,
Yet there is nothing I can do to fend it.[6]