From: Jiuge, Mrs. Xiang, the work of Qu Yuan, a great poet of Chu State during the Warring States Period, the original text is as follows:
Celebrate the wedding day by boasting a white cup. What's on the tree when the bird is among the apples? In yuan there, and Li Lan, and I think the childe dare not speak. Looking from a distance, look at the flowing water.
Translation:
Standing on a white cup and looking around, I met a beautiful woman tonight. Why do birds gather in the water plants? Why is the fishing net hanging on the treetops? The grass in Shui Yuan is green, and the orchids in Lishui are in bloom. I miss Mrs Xiang, but I dare not say it. Looking into the distance, I saw the river slowly flowing.
Works always take waiting for someone to come as a clue, expressing deep resentment to each other in frustration, but the love between them is consistent.
Extended data:
Nine Songs of Hunan is one of the eleven songs of Chu Ci, and it is a poem dedicated to the water god of Xiang Army. It is a companion to Nine Songs of Xiang Army. Although the title of the poem is "Mrs. Xiang", the hero in the poem is Xiang Army, and the theme of this poem is mainly to describe the life and death of the couple, who never meet each other.
The whole poem is lovesick, lyrical and touching; In addition, the works absorbed the straightforward lyrical way of folk love songs and used the traditional method of comparison, which strengthened its artistic appeal and had a great influence on later literary creation.
Qu Yuan was a poet and politician of Chu State during the Warring States Period in China. Qu Yuan is the first great patriotic poet in the history of China, the founder of China's romantic literature, the founder and representative writer of Songs of the South, and has created the tradition of "vanilla beauty", and is known as "the father of Ci Fu" and "the father of China's poetry". Chu Ci, with Qu Yuan's works as the main body, is one of the sources of China's romantic literature, which has a far-reaching influence on later poetry.
References:
Baidu Encyclopedia-Jiugexiang Lady