This poem is from Qin bamboo slips. The original poem is:
The Millennium is frost. The so-called Iraqis are on the water side.
Tracing back and forth, the road is blocked and long. Swim back from it, in the middle of the water
It's been a long time, and it hasn't changed for thousands of years. The so-called Iraqis are in the water.
Tracing back and forth from it, the road is blocked and broken. Swim back from the inside and swim in the water.
Jia Cai, peace and prosperity have not passed. The so-called Iraqis are in the water.
Go back and follow, the road is blocked and turn right. Swim back from the inside and swim in the water.
It means:
Large areas of reeds are green, and the morning dew is frosted. I miss my sweetheart. Standing on the other side of the river Go against the current to pursue her (him), and the road to follow her (him) is dangerous and long. Looking downstream, she (he) seems to be in the middle of the river.
A large area of reeds is sad, and the dew in the morning has not dried. I am a haunted person, she (he) is on the other side of the river. Pursuing her (him) against the current is bumpy and difficult. Down the river, she (he) seems to be in a small continent in the water.
The reeds by the river are lush and continuous, and the dew in the morning has not evaporated. My suitor, she (he) is on the river bank. Sailing against the current to pursue her (him), the road is tortuous and dangerous. Down the river, she (he) seems to be on the beach in the water.
If the "Iraqi" in the poem is regarded as a lover, then this poem shows the melancholy mood of the lyric hero's persistent pursuit of good love. The spirit is precious and the feelings are sincere, but the result is slim and the situation is sad.
But the most valuable thing in this poem is not the pursuit and loss of the lyric hero, but the artistic conception of "being on the water side" created by him, which has universal significance.
Good poetry can create artistic conception. Artistic conception is a pattern and a structure, which has the performance of containing all heterogeneous things with similar patterns and structures.
The structure of On the Water is: chasing troops-rivers-Iraqis. Because the "Iraqi people" in the poem has no specific reference, and the meaning of the river lies in the barrier, all the pursuits that are difficult to achieve because of being blocked in the world can be isomorphic and resonate here.
Extended data:
The origin of "the so-called Iraqis are on the water side", the national style of Jian Qin, comes from the Book of Songs.
The Book of Songs is the earliest collection of ancient Chinese poems, which collected poems from the early Western Zhou Dynasty to the middle of the Spring and Autumn Period (1 1 century to the 6th century), including ***3 1 1 first.
Six of them are Sheng poems, that is, they have only titles but no contents, and they are collectively called six Sheng poems (Nan Chang, Bai Hua, Hua Mi, You Kang, Wu Chong and You Yi), which reflect the social outlook of about 500 years from the beginning of the Zhou Dynasty to the weekend.
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.
In the pre-Qin period, the Book of Songs was called "The Book of Songs", or it was called "The Book of Songs 300" by integers. In the Western Han Dynasty, it was honored as a Confucian classic, formerly known as The Book of Songs, which has been in use ever since.
The Book of Songs is divided into three parts: style, elegance and ode. "Wind" is a ballad of Zhou Dynasty. Elegant music is the official music of Zhou people, which is divided into harmony and elegance. Ode is a musical song used for sacrificial rites in Zhou and noble ancestral temples, which is divided into ode to, and ode to Shang.
References:
Baidu Encyclopedia-The Book of Songs; Baidu Encyclopedia-The so-called Iraqis are on the water side.