怨曲新声： 论华语流行歌曲对传统“闺怨词”的继承与发展

New Voices of The Boudoir Repinings Poems: Research on Chinese Popular Songs’ Inheritance and Development of The Traditional Boudoir Repinings Poems

Abstract

闺怨诗是中国古典诗歌里的常见类别。二十世纪以来，随着女性社会与经济地位的改变，与 “闺怨”相关的文学作品似乎已逐渐淡出人们的视野。于此同时，现当代流行歌坛涌现出大量抒写女性情感和境况的歌曲，以传统或现代的表达方式谱写出与过去相似或新颖另类的闺怨情致。本文从流行歌曲大量涌现的上世纪三十年代开始至本世纪初，选取近百年间由女歌手原唱的，摹写女性怨望心声且具有较高传唱度或代表性的华语流行歌词进行赏析，重点从它们对古典文学的模仿借鉴、古意新词的尝试创新以及闺怨情感延续变迁带来的创作革新等三个方面，探究古今闺怨曲的承袭和流变。可以看到，闺怨题材的文学作品不仅没有淡出人们的视野，反而随着时代的发展不断变化，通过流行歌词呈现出多样化的色彩。新时代的 “闺怨曲”作者们与时偕行，书写、记录下不同阶层、不同身世际遇的女性悲欢离合、感时伤世的心曲，让广大女性从中得到情感的寄托，升华情感认知，这是流行歌曲和古代诗教一脉相承的精神所在。

Boudoir-plaint poetry is a common category in classical Chinese poetry. With the development of women's social and economic status since the 20th century, literary works related to "boudoir-plaint" seem to have gradually faded out, while a large number of songs expressing women's emotions and situations have emerged in the modern and contemporary pop music, conveying similar or novel boudoir plaints in both ancient and modern ways. This article selects several highly representative Chinese pop songs depicting boudoir plaints composed between 1930 when pop songs proliferated and the beginning of 21st century that were originally sung by female singers in the past 100 years. In order to explore the inheritance and innovation of the Boudoir-plaints poetry over this period, lyrics will be analyzed in following three aspects, their reference and heritage of classical literature, the continuation and change of boudoir plaints, and the innovation and expansion in composition. It shows that the literary works about boudoir plaints not only did not fade out, but moved with the times, demonstrating a great diversity across time. The boudoir-plaint poets of the new era walk with the times, writing down the joys and sorrows of women of different social strata and life experiences, providing emotional sustenance and cognition for them, contributing to their temperamental refinement and self-cultivation. In this way, the spirit of the ancient poetry is inherited by modern pop songs.

Keywords: Boudoir, Poetry, Lyrics, Modern Popular Songs, Cantonese songs