From the Spring and Autumn Period Zheng Guofeng Feng Feng Yu (selected from The Book of Songs), the original text is:
The wind is cold, the rain is cold, and the crow outside the window is urgent. How can I not feel relaxed and happy when I see you in the wind and rain?
The wind blew through the rain, and there was a cock crow outside the window. I don't need to see you in the wind and rain.
The wind and rain darkened the sky and the cock crowed outside the window. How can I be unhappy when I see you in the wind and rain?
Translation:
The wind and rain are cold and sorrowful, and chickens crow as companions. How can I continue my upset mood when I finally see the gentleman return?
The wind is crazy and the rain is crazy. Finally seeing the gentleman return, why does the disease of lovesickness linger?
It's raining hard and chickens are crowing. How can you not be happy when you finally see the gentleman return?
Extended data
Creative background:
With regard to the background of this poem, ancient scholars mostly advocated the theory of "thinking of a gentleman", while modern scholars mostly advocated the theory of "reunion of husband and wife" or "meeting of lovers", believing that this poem was written by a woman waiting for her husband or lover.
Theme of the whole poem:
This poem is about a woman reunited with her long-lost husband (or lover). In the choice of situation, the poem did not write endless lovesickness before writing, nor did it write the reunion after meeting and laughing, but re-emphasized the feeling of being overjoyed when "seeing".
Source of works:
The Book of Songs is the earliest collection of poems and the beginning of China's ancient poems. Collected poems from the early years of the Western Zhou Dynasty to the middle of the Spring and Autumn Period (pre-1 1 century to the 6th century), with a total of * * * 31/,among which 6 poems are full, that is, there are only titles but no contents, which is called full poems.
The author of The Book of Songs is anonymous, and most of them cannot be verified. They were collected by Yin Jifu and edited by Confucius.
The Book of Songs is rich in content, reflecting labor and love, war and corvee, oppression and resistance, customs and marriage, ancestor worship and feasting, and even astronomical phenomena, landforms, animals and plants. It is a mirror of the social life of the Zhou Dynasty.
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