An illusory poem

The original text of The Book of Songs:

The Book of Songs

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.

Jian Qin has created a confusing, hazy and mysterious artistic conception for us. It is only because of the barrier of water that the image appears hazy, confused and mysterious. If all this didn't happen at the water's edge, the artistic conception would be much less!

Jia Jian, that is, reeds, Jia, Wei and Lu are all reeds. The newborn reed is called Jia, Lu before flowering and Wei after growing up. Reed is a famous infatuated watcher, and has been sung by poets and poets throughout the ages! This poem describes a bleak and desolate autumn scenery. In the autumn season, at dawn, the dew is thick and frosty, and the reeds are full of crystal white frost flowers. The whole poem is shrouded in a sad and lonely mood. The poet came to the river and stood up. Through the mist and reeds, he stared at the other side of the river, which was Qionglou in Xianxiang, where "Yiren" was located (most of us would imagine this "Yiren" as a woman). The long skirt of "Yiren" appears in the poet's sight, but there is a river between the poet and "Yiren", which is out of reach. The barrier of water reminds the poet of it. The girl must be as beautiful as a fairy, her skin is better than snow, and she smells sweet all over. She is a beauty "only in heaven, but rare on earth". In order to get close to "Iraqis", the poet did not stop there. He went upstream for a while, then downstream, trying to find her and get close to her, but he couldn't reach the "Penglai Wonderland" where the Iraqis were. She seems to be on an island in the water, at the intersection of grass and grass, on the beach near the water, giving people a distant feeling, mysterious and illusory.

In ancient times when ships and bridges were underdeveloped, rivers had caused great obstacles and troubles to people's traffic. It makes things close at hand out of reach. However, the barrier effect of the river also produces a kind of barrier beauty and distance beauty, which leads to the immortal poem "Qin Feng Jia Jian" and the mysterious "Jia Jian Girl" that people yearn for for thousands of years. But in modern times with developed transportation, people will not have such troubles, but they also lack the beauty of distance.