Original meaning: We will live and die together and never be separated. We have already made an oath. Let me hold your hand and we go to the battlefield together in life and death.
This sentence comes from "Guo Feng·Bei Feng·Drumming".
Original text:
Beat the drums and boring them, and use the troops enthusiastically. The city canal of Tuguo, I will travel south alone.
From Sun Zi Zhong, Ping Chen and Song Dynasty. If I don't return home, I will feel worried.
Love in the right place? Love and lose his horse? In order to seek it? Under the forest.
The agreement between life and death is broad, as explained by Zicheng. Hold your hand and grow old together.
I can’t live without you. Yu Xunxi, I don’t believe you.
Vernacular translation:
The war drums are beating and the soldiers are busy practicing martial arts. Some built roads and walls, but I joined the army alone and went to the south.
Follow the commander Sun Zhong and unite the allies Chen and Song. He did not want me to return to Weiguo, which made me very worried.
Where can I stop? Where can I find my horse after it has run away? Where can I find the trace? Unexpectedly, it has entered the forest.
We have already made an oath to live and die together and never be separated. Let me hold your hand and we go to the battlefield together in life and death.
I'm afraid that if you and I are separated, there will be no chance of us meeting each other. I'm afraid that now that you and I are separated, we won't be able to keep our promise.
"Guo Feng·Bei Feng·Drumming" is a typical war poem in "The Book of Songs". It is a folk song of the Chinese people in Bei during the pre-Qin period. The whole poem has five chapters, each chapter has four sentences. The first three chapters of the soldiers' self-narratives of the expedition are so dense that they feel like resentment, admiration, and weeping. The last two chapters describe the soldiers' mutual encouragement, life and death together, which is touching. This poem describes the sorrow of the soldiers during the long battle. Among them, "The bond between life and death is broad, and the child is born. Holding the hand of the child, and growing old together with the child", which describes the relationship between soldiers, was also used to describe the deep love between husband and wife in later generations. The Book of Songs is the first collection of poems in the history of Chinese literature. It had a profound impact on the development of poetry in later generations and became the source of the realist tradition of classical literature.