Original text:
The snow pressed the bamboo head low, and it wanted to make itself muddy.
Once the sun rises, it is still in harmony with the sky.
Translation:
Although the heavy snow will bend the bamboo and the branches will be stained with the soil on the ground, when the weather is clear, the sun shines and the snow melts, the bamboo will still unload its burden and hold its head high.
Extended data:
Fang Zhimin's Ode to Bamboo was written between 1934 and 1935, which was also a two-year period in which China's revolution suffered greatly. After the failure of the fifth counter-campaign against "encirclement and suppression", the Red Army had to give up its painstaking efforts in the Central Soviet Area and embarked on the arduous 25,000-mile long March. Equally arduous, a small number of Red Army and guerrillas failed to follow the main force and stayed in the south to carry out guerrilla warfare.
"Half the rivers and mountains sink into the sea of blood, and how many friends turn into ants", a poem written by Marshal Chen Yi during the guerrilla period in southern Jiangxi is a portrayal of that day's bloodshed. 1935 65438+ 10, Fang Zhimin, who led the Red Ten Army to the north to resist Japan, was besieged by the enemy in southern Anhui, and he was completely wiped out. Faced with threats and inducements from the enemy, Fang Zhimin wrote immortal masterpieces "Poverty" and "Lovely China" in prison.
1934165438+1At the beginning of October, Fang Zhimin, then chairman of the Military and Political Committee of the Red Army 10, was ordered to lead the Red Army northward to resist Japan. On the way, he was besieged and intercepted by Kuomintang troops, and was captured in Huaiyushan, Jiangxi on June 29th. 1935. On August 6 of the same year, he died heroically in Xiashawo, Nanchang, Jiangxi, at the age of 36.