How easy it is to get old all one's life,
Double Ninth Festival comes every year.
Today is the Double Ninth Festival,
The chrysanthemums on the battlefield smell good.
Year after year, the autumn wind blows hard,
That's not the glory of spring.
But better than the sunshine in spring,
On the endless Tingjiang River, there is endless autumn frost.
The original text is as follows:
Cai Sangzi Chongyang
Author Mao Zedong
Life is easy to get old, but it is hard to get old.
Today is Chongyang, and the yellow flowers in the battlefield are particularly fragrant.
The annual autumn wind is not as strong as spring.
Better than spring, just like Wan Li frost on the vast river.
Creation background
This word was written on 1929 Chung Yeung Festival (10,1). At this time, it has been two years since the autumn harvest uprising led by Mao Zedong. At this stage, Mao Zedong's life was not comfortable: the Seventh Congress of the Red Fourth Army lost the post of secretary of the front committee, and Comrade Chen Yi took over the post of secretary of the front committee. His guerrilla tactics were labeled as "hooliganism" and accused of being as difficult as Huang Chao and Li Zicheng. At the meeting, he stressed the need to strengthen the party's leadership over the army, and was labeled as "paternalistic", which was opposed by his subordinates.
He was infected with malaria and lacked scientific treatment. He was almost caught while recuperating in Sujiapo, Yongding County. When the Eighth National Congress of the Gongsi Army was held, he was carried to Shanghang County on a stretcher to continue his illness, but he did not resume his post as secretary of the front committee. At that time, Mao Zedong was upstairs in Linjiang, Shanghang County for illness. The Double Ninth Festival is coming, and the yellow flowers in the yard are blooming like scattered gold.
On the Double Ninth Festival, I climbed to the top of the mountain on a crisp autumn day. I look around the world, a welcome wine, enjoying chrysanthemums under the moon, and planting dogwoods everywhere to miss the festivals of my ancestors. Mao Zedong's dream and reality changed again, so he coined this word.
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The beginning of the word "life is easy to get old, but not easy to get old" directly talks about the objective law of life and the development of the universe and expresses a materialist's attitude towards life. "Double Ninth Festival, Double Ninth Festival Now" tells the story that the passage of time is not transferred by human will. Revolutionaries devote themselves to the people's revolutionary cause, and seize every minute. They feel that time flies and it is another Double Ninth Festival in a blink of an eye.
Then there is "yellow flowers in the battlefield are particularly fragrant", which means that under the great situation of the rapid expansion of the revolutionary base areas, wild chrysanthemums in the battlefield are in full bloom and full of fragrance, because on the Double Ninth Festival, wild chrysanthemums are more beautiful and fragrant than usual. The word "Xiang" vividly expresses the positive attitude and happy mood of comrades. He enthusiastically praised the great situation of the people's revolutionary war with the yellow flowers on the battlefield of the Double Ninth Festival, which is the part of his writing that is full of passion and climax.
"Not like spring, but better than spring", not only the battlefield yellow flowers are particularly fragrant, but even the wind and light in the whole autumn are better than spring. Wan Li Frost, which describes the color of the autumn river, is wider and higher. Frosted trees are colorful, even more gorgeous than spring.
From ancient times to the present, the themes of many poems describing autumn are depression and sadness about autumn, expressing feelings of parting and missing, and sadness about life frustration. For example, Li Yu, the queen of the Southern Tang Dynasty, in "Welcome to Huan", "Lonely Wutong deep courtyard locks the clear autumn", and the loneliness is vividly on the paper; The desolation of "Hengyang geese go without paying attention" in Fan Zhongyan's Fisherman's Pride in Song Dynasty, how can people feel inferior?
In the Song Dynasty, Liu Yong's "Lin Yuling", "Affectionate parting is worse than snubbing the clear autumn festival", and it is undoubtedly worse in the bleak cold autumn; In the Southern Song Dynasty, Li Qingzhao's "Drunken Flowers", "The festival is the Double Ninth Festival ... The night is cool, the curtain is the west wind, and people are thinner than yellow flowers", which describes the sadness of parting and bitterness, which is extremely bleak.
However, this poem by Comrade Mao Zedong violates the ancient style of mourning for the death in autumn. He faithfully described the gorgeous autumn scenery on the battlefield, and compared it with the excellent situation of the rapid development of revolutionary armed struggle. He sang the magnificence of autumn scenery in the battlefield, expressed his feelings with scenery, praised the wider and wider revolutionary base areas, cheered the great achievements of holding high the revolutionary red flag all over the country, and expressed a true revolutionary's great feelings of optimism and confidence in the revolutionary prospects.