"Life and death are generous, Zi Cheng said. Hold your hand and grow old with your son. " It means: live and die together. We have taken an oath. Let me hold your hand and die together on the battlefield.
"Hold your hand and grow old with your son." This sentence was originally an agreement between soldiers. Modern idioms often describe the eternity of love by holding hands and growing old together.
Guo Feng Gaofeng Drumming in the Pre-Qin period is a poem in The Book of Songs, the first poetry collection in ancient China.
Original text:
Drums are dull and soldiers actively use them. Cao Tuguocheng, I travel south alone.
From Sun Zizhong, Chen Pinghe and Song Dynasty. No, I'm going home. I'm worried.
Where do you live? Lost his horse? For it? Under the forest.
Life and death are generous, and Zi Cheng says. Hold your hand and grow old with your son.
I am rich, but I am still alive. Sorry, but I believe it.
Translation:
The drums sounded, and the soldiers will bravely train. People stayed at home to build Cao Cheng, and only I went to the south. Follow Sun Zizhong to pacify Chen and Song. Not letting me go home worries me. So where is the person? So where did the horse go? Where can I find it? In the mountains and forests. Life and death come and go, as I once told you. Hold your hand and grow old with your son. Alas, it's been too long. I can't see you. Alas, it's too far from the fulfillment of my vows.
Extended data
Creation background
There are several different opinions about the background of this poem. One is that in the fourth year (7 19 BC), the son of Wei (also known as Xu by his predecessors) joined forces with Song, Chen and Cai to defeat Zheng together. The other is that Yao Jiheng in Qing Dynasty thinks that this is actually something that was hacked by gold in Twelve Years of Spring and Autumn. Now, many people think that what Yao said is more reasonable.
Poetry appreciation
This is a typical war poem. The poet revealed his deviation from the mainstream consciousness and vented his resistance to the war. From the perspective of the essence of human war, the work calls for respecting the concrete existence of individual life and getting happiness in the details of life.
This kind of true and simple singing from the depths of the soul is the most humanized interpretation of human existence and the high standard of humanity set by our ancestors for later literary works.
"Resentment" is the overall style and ideological tendency of the poem pass the parcel. On the positive side, the poet complained about the arrival of the war, the absence of conscription, the lack of happiness closely related to himself in the war, and even the loss of his whole life.
On the contrary, poetry shows a heartfelt war-weariness in the constant deviation of individual psychology, behavior and collective requirements, in the constant struggle between individual life and national war, and in the cruel subversion of war by individual real happiness. This fierce war-weariness speech strives to respect the existence and actual happiness of individual life in the details of life.
This poem has many unique features in structure and technique. Structurally, it basically describes the complex psychology and behavior of a soldier who was forced to go south before, during and after the expedition, inserting memories into it, forming a strong contrast between the past and reality and forming a sudden collapse of the structure.
At the same time, in narrative, lyrical and emotional turmoil. Especially on the last floor, I used the word "Xi" to express my feelings and ending, as if a tearful recruiter was shouting at the sky in a foreign land and telling his distant relatives about his inner thoughts and pain.
Baidu Encyclopedia-Guofeng Gao Feng Drums