Missing is a disease, and you are medicine.
I haven't seen you for a day, like March!
He chooses Xiao Xi, but he doesn't see you for a day, like Sanqiu Xi!
I haven't seen you all day, as if I were only three years old!
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-"The Book of Songs, Feng Wang Picking Songs"
There is a saying that has a high usage rate, which is called "If you don't see it for a day, it's like Sanqiu". It means that one day is not as long as three seasons. This sentence is generally used to describe the thoughts between lovers. Couples who are separated from each other miss each other very much and don't want to see each other right away. The days when they are not together are as hard as the years.
The source of this sentence is Brother Cai, and the original words in the poem are "I don't see you for a day, like Sanqiu Xi".
Caige is a popular folk song in The Book of Songs, and anyone who knows a little about ancient Chinese can understand its meaning.
It's like three months since I saw that girl who picked Ge!
That girl who picks Artemisia, a day without seeing her is like three autumns!
A girl who picks Ai, a day without seeing her is like the third anniversary!
"kudzu vine", that is, kudzu vine, can be woven into baskets, woven and used as medicine. It is considered to be a kind of herbal medicine with many uses, which is used by the poor at home. At the age when we just went to school with schoolbags on our backs, little girls born in ordinary families in the pre-Qin period went up the mountain with baskets on their backs to pick pueraria lobata.
The Book of Songs tang style Ge Sheng wrote: "Ge Sheng is ignorant, but he is wild.". At that time, the environment was not destroyed, and kudzu vine was everywhere. Unlike now, cities built of reinforced concrete are everywhere, and there is little original green.
"Small" and "wormwood" refer to the same plant, namely wormwood, also called mugwort. In my impression, when it comes to wormwood, I will associate this plant with two festivals for the first time. One is Tomb-Sweeping Day, and the other is Dragon Boat Festival. In many places, Tomb-Sweeping Day has the custom of eating green balls, which are made by adding the juice of tender wormwood into rice flour. As for the Dragon Boat Festival, wormwood is placed on the door. Some people say it is to ward off evil spirits, while others say it is used to avoid the plague. In the Chronicle of Jingchu Age, it is mentioned that "Ai is a human being and hangs on the door with poison gas". In addition, wormwood can also be used to repel mosquitoes, acupuncture, cupping and so on.
Pueraria lobata and Artemisia argyi are two common plants in ancient times, and picking plants is the most common job for ancient women. For example, the first sentence of Yuefu's poem "Picking Chinese Herbs Up the Mountain" is "Picking Chinese Herbs Up the Mountain and Meeting the Old Gentleman Down the Mountain". This poem is about a woman picking China weeds on the mountain, and China weeds are a kind of spice. "The Book of Songs Nan Zhou Juaner" wrote, "It is not enough to collect the children." .
In that era of simple folk customs, people lived a life of men plowing and women weaving, working at sunrise and resting at sunset. Men go hunting, work in the fields, women take children to weave at home, they go to the mountains to pick and so on.
I was traveling in Lijiang many years ago and heard such a sentence. Lijiang Naxi people regard black as beauty and fat as beauty. The reason is that hardworking and virtuous girls often work in the fields. After a long time, their skin became tanned and their waists became thicker. This kind of girl is suitable for marrying home as a wife, which is the "beauty" in their eyes.
Although people's aesthetic standard in the pre-Qin period was not black and fat, men at that time certainly felt that the girl who was suitable for marrying home must be hardworking and virtuous, and the evaluation standard of diligence and virtuous was how much work was done. If they can "knit thirteen things, learn to do fourteen things, play fifteen times and recite sixteen songs" like Liu Lanzhi, so much the better.
That's why there are so many ballads describing people's labor scenes in The Book of Songs.
Brother Cai's hero misses that girl very much. He must be beautiful and virtuous, and there is something to worry about. Perhaps his favorite thing is the girl's diligence.
Picking elder brother, picking Xiao and picking Ai should all be general terms, and girls' daily work must be more than that. It is possible that when the hero misses the girl, all he can think of is these collected scenes. Not only men, but also many folk songs written in women's voices depict such a picture, such as "Curled Ears".
Curly ears
The Book of Songs Nan Zhou
Picked and picked, half a day less than a small basket. I miss my lover, and the food basket was abandoned on the road.
When climbing the high Rocky Mountain, the horse's feet were down. Let's pour a golden pot of wine first to comfort me.
Climbing up the high mountain ridge, the horse's legs are already soft and confused. Fill my glass and keep me away from my inner sadness.
What a pity! What a pity! I am a servant, so why bother?
The husband has been away from the war for a long time, and the wife is concerned about it, even when she picks her ears.
It was many years before I knew what curly ears were here. It turned out to be Xanthium sibiricum, which often appeared in primary school textbooks. The fruit of Xanthium sibiricum looks like a jujube pit and can be used as medicine. The fruit has thorns, which can stick to animals to spread and reproduce.
Xanthium was written in a woman's style, while Caige was written in a man's style, but the content cannot be separated from missing. Missing is really a terrible thing. Once you get lovesickness, maybe it will become the most serious disease. My friends and I went to KTV to sing, and they all liked to order Zhang Zhenyue's Missing is a Disease. "I think my missing is a long-term incurable disease ..."
Miss regardless of ancient and modern. There is a famous saying in Li Bai's "Autumn Wind Poems", "Only when you enter my lovesick door will you know that I am lovesick."
Autumn wind ci
Tang Libai
Autumn wind is clear, autumn moon is bright,
When the fallen leaves are scattered, the habitat in western Western jackdaw is full of surprises.
The leaves in the wind gather when they gather. Western jackdaw has settled and the moon rises. Friends are looking forward to meeting, but I don't know where. At this time, on such a night, it is difficult to miss each other.
When you enter my lovesick door, you will know that I am lovesick.
Sauvignon Blanc is like a memory, but short acacia is infinite.
If I had known that acacia was tied in my heart like this, it would not be like you didn't know.
When you walk into the door of lovesickness, you will know the suffering of lovesickness. Forever lovesickness, forever memories, short-lived lovesickness is endless. It's better not to know that lovesickness is so worrying. But sometimes people's hearts are out of control. Just like before falling in love, everyone has countless dreams for the future partner. Some people want each other to be good-looking, while others want each other to be rich. However, once you meet the right person, no matter how poor and ugly he is, you can't stop your heart. This is especially true of missing, otherwise there would be no such thing as "lovesickness becoming a disease".
The most unbearable thing for lovers in love is separation. They can't wait to see each other as soon as they open their eyes, and even stick together all the time. Once the other party doesn't show up, they are particularly worried. The leading actor in Choi Gori must be in love, otherwise his lovesickness will not grow stronger and stronger, and it will not disappear for a day, from the initial "Xi like March" to "Xi like Sanqiu" and then to "Xi like three years old".
Missing is really a disease, except that you have no cure.