It was because of a beautiful poem in Wei and Jin Dynasties that I noticed the shrike. Folk songs in Wei and Jin Dynasties have beautiful rhymes and brisk rhythms. Have different meanings. For example, folk songs this summer.
"Summer Messi state, fold the plum to send jiangbei.
Thin clothes are as red as apricots and hair as black as crows.
Where is Xizhou? Two oars across the bridge.
It's getting late, Shrike flies away, and the night wind blows into Sapium sebiferum.
Under the tree is her home, and her emerald hair is exposed in the door.
She opened the door and didn't see her sweetheart. She went out to pick red-violet flowers. "Wei and Jin? Anonymous Song of Xizhou
People I love know that there are plum trees in Xizhou, so they go to Xizhou to pick plums and send them to Jiangbei.
And this summer, I am wearing apricot red clothes and my hair is green. In the most beautiful season, the person I love is not at home.
Where is Xizhou? You need to row a boat and cross the bridgehead ferry.
At dusk, both shrike birds came back, and the wind blew the Chinese tallow tree at the door, but mine hasn't come back yet.
Under the Chinese tallow tree is my home. I waited anxiously and opened the door, but I took the bird singing outside as a knock at the door. As a result, I didn't see Lang Jun coming back. In order to pass the time, I drove the boat directly to Nantang in front to pick lotus seeds and lotus flowers.
This poem has a fresh summer flavor of the water town in the south of the Yangtze River, and both shrike birds fly back to the Chinese tallow tree, with obvious sadness.
What kind of bird is shrike?
In the pre-Qin period, shrike was called "cloud" and pronounced "chrysanthemum", which looked like a bird with shellfish patterns.
There is a midsummer moon in the Book of Rites in the pre-Qin period, which says that in midsummer, mantis will hatch, anchovies will sing, and bitter ancestors will be silent. This anchovy is a shrike.
According to the phenology of summer solar terms, later generations classified the special phenomena of these three animals as the three seasons of mango. Once every five days, shrike began to sing, which means mango entered the second stage of midsummer. In other words, in the pre-Qin and midsummer, shrike birds were common, and cries were often heard.
"Singing in July and performing in August.
I'm Zhu Kongyang,
Lord's clothes are ready. The Book of Songs Guo Feng Huanfeng? July (now yi county, Shaanxi).
At the same time, The Book of Songs is a folk song in the pre-Qin period, which records the phenology and people's productive labor in the northern region all year round. It's about the shrike crowing enthusiastically in July. In August, it began to weave hemp and dyed silk black and yellow, while I dyed red more brightly to make clothes for your son.
In other words, shrike began to crow in April of the lunar calendar, and in July, it can be heard in almost every mountain dwelling in the north. It is a common agricultural and forestry bird.
Shrike's voice is very special. "May is hard to sing, and its voice is quiet." The shrike sings in the midsummer of the fifth lunar month, making a short "local" sound. This kind of shell-striped bird is large and fierce, and often lives in trees. In summer, it brings insects and snakes back to the top of trees to feed its young birds. The fifth month of the lunar calendar is the stage of their frequent courtship, reproduction and foraging, and they frequently sing.
At this stage, shrike birds fly in pairs and build their own homes, which is very busy.
This is also a folk song in the Wei and Jin Dynasties. Later, it was used to describe the loneliness and melancholy of a woman waiting for her husband to return at dusk. The shrikes have all gone home, and mine is still in Xizhou, not back.
It is to express his anxiety and melancholy about waiting with the hard work of shrike in pairs.
"East fly shrike west swallow, aunt weaver meet each other.
Whose daughter is squatting in front of the door, and her beautiful shadow is cast in the back room.
Lights are hung in the south window and the curtain is fragrant.
This year, the woman will be fifteen or sixteen years old, slim, beautiful, white and beautiful.
In the third spring, flowers came in the wind, leaving no pity for anyone. "Nanliang? Xiao Yan's Song of Shrike Flying East
Because shrike is a kind of woodbird that lives in the mountains and plains, it is fierce, not as docile as swallows, and likes to nest under other people's eaves. People usually identify birds only by sound.
In the midsummer of the lunar calendar, you can hear the shrike, you can see them hovering in the treetops, and it is also the time when swallows shuttle under other people's eaves for food. These two kinds of birds constitute a common rural landscape in summer.
In July and early autumn of the lunar calendar, you can still see these two kinds of birds, feeding separately during the day and returning home at night, but they all enjoy the beauty of returning home after dusk, just like the morning glory and Vega in the sky, and they always meet each other. Shrike and swallow are folk lovers and family birds.
Shrike is a woodbird, and swallow is someone else's eaves bird. Shrike flies east and swallows fly west, which shows that these two birds are still in pairs, although their destinations are different.
It was the traditional Valentine's Day in China, but there was a beautiful girl, fifteen or sixteen, who was the best age to get married. She is especially smart and beautiful, and she is the most beautiful girl in this area. Her family conditions are good, but she is not married.
The ancients, especially in rural areas, thought that the best age for girls to get married was thirteen to fifteen. After the age of fifteen, they approached older women and began to hate marriage.
This poem describes the loneliness of this beautiful girl through the pairing of shrike and swallow, and the cowherd and weaver girl are husband and wife, and they also have days together every year. She has almost passed the most beautiful flower season, but she is not married yet. Like Shrike and Swallow, she runs her own family in pairs and enjoys the hardship and continuation of human love.
This is a marriage-hate poem that compares shrike, swallow and 7-up.
But then it gradually changed its original intention.
Old Yan flies away. It turned out to be a metaphor for shrike and swallow, flying in pairs. Finally, I became a diligent swallow, busy with survival, but unable to meet at home. This is a metaphor for the separation and wandering of husband and wife in the world.
"Spring leaves in the pool, such as belt, Zi Ling angled lotus seeds.
Luo skirt cicada temples leaning against the wind, both shrike fly to the east. "In the middle of the tang dynasty? Meng Jiao's Linchi Qu
This is the midsummer of the Tang Dynasty, and there are shrike figures at this time.
The spring calamus in the pond is now in the Dragon Boat Festival in May, and its leaves are as slender as ribbons.
The water chestnut began to mature, the lotus bloomed and the lotus seeds grew.
Na Xia beauty, dressed in Xia Chan's sideburns and Xia Luo's clothes, stood at the head of the water's edge and looked into the distance. Instead of seeing her husband come back, she saw two shrike birds returning to the forest at dusk.
This is the Tang Dynasty's interpretation of the Western Zhou Dynasty music.
From the Southern and Northern Dynasties to the Tang Dynasty, hundreds of years passed. Women have different clothes, so they may have a better life. They don't have to go to the lake to pick lotus.
Her husband is not necessarily engaged in rural manual labor.
But parting and lovesickness are the same. The husband went far away, either studying abroad, being an official or guarding the border. On such a beautiful summer day in May, the woman only saw shrike flying in pairs, but she was separated from her husband. How helpless and melancholy. How much she wants to fly with her husband. Ordinary couples, the so-called love, is willing to be together.
"At that time, the wind warmed the sun, and the sound changed.
Whose young woman is dreaming, where is the sadness of her homeland?
Shrike flies, Dai Sheng is green.
It is not as good as the nightingale crying in the flowers every day, which can make thousands of families feel the freedom of spring. "In the middle of the tang dynasty? Wei's Listen to Yingge? cite
This is a poem written in summer.
Shrike is a bird of prey, so its voice is urgent. The sound itself is a low-key short sound similar to "bureau". Often heard in summer, it will cause touching melancholy, like a sad voice. How can we keep up with the euphemistic voice of oriole and make people feel happy?
It's summer, sunny and sunny. Many birds are courting and breeding at this time, and many birds are making noise.
The young woman who just got married in her hometown was awakened by the singing of birds in the summer dream, because her husband was away and the couple's feelings were so good. In the distance, when a husband hears birds singing, he will miss his wife.
When the shrike flies by, its voice is low and short, and Dai Sheng crows among the mulberry fields.
Their voices can't keep up with the beauty of orioles, and the sound of orioles makes people feel that every family is reunited, infinitely leisurely and full of spring.
This is a narrow and painful sound made by shrike, which is used to describe the emotional pain of couples who separated soon after their wedding.
The oriole is a happy bird. Obviously, this young woman is envious of the exquisite life accompanied by her husband, instead of living in a bitter voice like a shrike.
Obviously, the shrike at this time has gradually lost its original beauty in pairs, and even the exhaustion of its name reflects the hardships and loneliness of people's hearts and lives.
"Yan Shu Miao, Shu Yun is low. It's common to be petty to each other.
Now Lao Yan has everything. I mean a threesome.
Tianya Road, Ling Bo Step. How to remember each other?
Singing on the branches of azaleas. Red through the fallen flower mud. "Qing? Miao Zhusun, "Xi Qian Ying is attached to Hubei, remember Sister Yan Shu? " 》
This fine print of the Qing Dynasty was written by a woman to her best friend.
She went to Ezhou, Hubei Province as an official with her husband, and her sister stayed in Sichuan.
You and I have lived together since childhood, just like shrike and swallow, but I look very happy outside, and my husband flies like a swallow.
Actually, I miss you very much. How can lovesickness compare with meeting?
I hear cuckoo's constant crow, which is another kind of separation of human beings.
Then after the Republic of China, after modern times, even among the people, Lao Yan often used the word Lao as the prefix and adjective of swallows, referring to the separation of husband and wife.
Midsummer is also the time when shrike sings. Naturally, urbanites seldom know what shrike looks like, but it is necessary to interpret the origin of Laoyan's parting.
Because shrike swallows, although flying in different directions, have their own difficulties, but still show that happiness is a pair of families, perfect.
The first coat is better than snow to explain the love and beauty in the poem for you. .