Distant Altair, Jiao Jiao Hehan girl.
Skillful hands, make a loom.
There is no chapter all day, and tears are pouring down.
What's the difference between a clear river and a shallow one?
Between water and water, there are no words.
This poem is selected from Nineteen Ancient Poems. There are many anonymous ancient poems in the Selected Works compiled by Xiao Tong, the king of Liang Zhao in the Southern Dynasties, which are called Ancient Poems. Most of these poems were written between the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty and decades before Jian 'an, and most of the authors belonged to middle and lower literati, mainly reflecting their lives, thoughts and feelings. The content can be roughly divided into two categories: one is to describe the depression and sorrow of frustrated official career, and the other is to write about the pain of wandering wives missing each other. Specifically, the parting, frustration and impermanence of life are the basic emotional contents of Nineteen Ancient Poems. Therefore, later generations often regard it as a whole, and it is named after its Nineteen Ancient Poems.
This poem tells the story of Cowherd and Weaver Girl. The title is Cowherd Star, but the hero of this poem is not Cowherd but Weaver Girl. The image of the weaver girl originated from folklore. In people's minds, the weaver girl is the embodiment of hard work, beauty and affection. This poem focuses on the sad and unfortunate side of the Weaver Girl.
At the beginning of the poem, the cowherd star leads to the girl of Hehan, and the scene of the weaver weaving is led by the "hand-in-hand loom", but this is not the focus of this poem. The sentence "Tears fall like rain all day" is a link between the preceding and the following, which suddenly pushes the lonely, sad, painful and unfortunate Weaver girl to the readers and misses her day and night. This is really "sad and pitiful", which makes readers sigh.
The reason why this poem has a long history lies in its profound connotation. On the surface, this poem is about the love story of Weaver Girl and Cowherd, but in fact it is to express the parting of the lovers who are far away from home. The feelings of parting in Nineteen Ancient Poems are homesickness and homesickness. Some wanderers are deeply homesick and miss women's boudoir thoughts and worries. The shining double stars in the sky and their beautiful love legends make it easy for women who have lived in boudoir for a long time to stay up all night and touch their full parting. This poem clearly writes fairy tales, secretly writes about real life, and expresses the sentimental feelings of boudoir women tactfully and tortuous.
In addition, this poem also benefits from its superb writing skills:
The lines are full of meaning. The wording of this poem is very clear, "Speak plainly, without adding any words, if a scholar talks to his friends." The language is simple and natural, but it is extremely refined, accurate, expressive and meaningful.
3. Simple and natural, with no traces of carving. Its writing language seems to be handy, and there is no wrong color gold carving processing, but the water is as fresh and natural as hibiscus.
4. This poem describes the artistic realm of scene blending, which is mainly attributed to the use of metaphor. Bixing technique runs through the whole poem. The whole poem is about the legend of the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl, but it also melts the parting feelings of wandering children in real life. Every sentence has nothing to do with your own affairs. In fact, you write your own feelings everywhere.
It is precisely because of the organic unity of ideological content and writing skills that the poem Farewell to the Cowherd has a lasting artistic charm.