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- Yang Tiefu, Wu Mengchuang ci jianshi (The Ci Poetry of Wu Wenying, with Notes and Ex-
planations), ed. Chen Bangyan and Zhang Qihui (Guangzhou: Guangdong renmin chubanshe,
1992), 1. - Much of my interpretation of Wu Wenying’s “Prelude to the Oriole’s Song” and of other
materials related to this great song lyric is drawn from Lin, “Space-Logic in the Longer Song Lyrics
of the Southern Sung.” - Liu Yongji, Weidishi shuo ci (Discourses on the Song Lyric from the Weidi Studio) (Shanghai:
Guji chubanshe, 1987), 58. - The first three themes were noted by the late Qing and early Republican scholar Chen Xun
in his book Haixiao shuoci (Haixiao’s Discourses on Ci Poetry), in Mengchuang ciji (The Collected Ci
Poetry of Mengchuang) (Taipei: Shijie shuju, 1967). Curiously, he did not give a theme to the last
section of the song lyric (8b–9a). The modern scholar Wan Yunjun has added pingdiao (mourning
for the dead) as the theme of the fourth section, but he has changed the theme for the first section
to duyou (journey alone) (“Lun jinren guanyu songci yanjiu yixie pianxiang” [On Some Orienta-
tions in the Recent Studies on the Ci Poetry of the Song Dynasty], in Jinian Gu Jiegang xueshu
lunwen ji [Collected Essays in Commemoration of Gu Jiegang’s Scholarship] [Chengdu: Bashu shushe,
1990], 802). I think that Chen Xun’s shangchun (lament for spring) is more precise. - Yang, Wu Mengchuang ci jianshi, 185–186.
- Yang, Wu Mengchuang ci jianshi, 213–214,
- Yang, Wu Mengchuang ci jianshi, 193–195.
- Yang, Wu Mengchuang ci jianshi, 210–211.
- Yang, Wu Mengchuang ci jianshi, 191.
- Yang, Wu Mengchuang ci jianshi, 1–2.
- Yang, Wu Mengchuang ci jianshi, 266–267.
- Liu, Weidishi shuo ci, 60.
- Yang, Wu Mengchuang ci jianshi, 192.
- Chen, Haixiao shuoci, 9a.
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