Thank you for inviting me. My experience, to understand ancient poems, to understand their authors and to understand the origin of their creation, still needs to start with the Book of Songs. Cheng Junying's annotation to The Book of Songs is 1985.
Published by Shanghai Ancient Books Publishing House, each book includes three parts: explanation, annotation and translation. The explanation mainly adopts the attitude of "discussing poetry with poetry", and pays attention to preventing students from giving far-fetched explanations. The annotations are easy to understand, the translated poems are attached to the original history, and the original poems are basically adhered to sentence by sentence. Reading the Book of Songs can directly understand the author's original intention, background and life experience. As a lover and creator of poetry, I think The Book of Songs is an inexhaustible treasure.