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Zitiao
Pre-Qin Dynasty: Anonymous
Qingqing is your collar, YY is my miss. If I didn't go to see you, didn't you get my letter?
Green is what you wear, and leisurely is my feeling. If I never visit you, can't you take the initiative?
Come on, always open your eyes, on this high tower. A day without seeing your face seems as long as March!
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The green one is your collar, and the long one is my miss. Even if I didn't pick you up, didn't you send the news? Green is what you wear, and leisure is what I feel. Even if I don't come to you, can't you come on your own initiative? Come and go, look around, on this tower. A day without you is as long as March!
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This poem is about a woman waiting for her lover on the tower. The whole poem consists of three chapters, using flashback technique. The first two chapters describe themselves as "I". Qing Ji and Qing Pei are based on couples' clothes. The other person's clothes left such a deep impression on her that she couldn't forget it. I can imagine her longing for love.
Now I can't go to the appointment because I am blocked, so I have to wait for my lover to pick me up. I can see through the autumn water, but I can't see a shadow. My deep love can't help but turn into melancholy and bitterness: "Even if I didn't go to see you, why can't you send a message?" Even if I didn't come to you, why couldn't you come on your own initiative? "The third chapter points out the location, writing that she was upset by waiting for her lover to come, and walked back and forth, feeling that although she didn't meet for only one day, it seemed as long as three months.
This poem is a representative one among many love poems in The Book of Songs. It clearly embodies the ideological and spiritual essence of women's independence, autonomy and equality in that era. The heroine boldly expressed her feelings in the poem, that is, her yearning for her lover. This is rare in all previous literary works after the Book of Songs.
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The Book of Songs is the earliest collection of poems and the beginning of China's ancient poems. Collected poems from the early years of the Western Zhou Dynasty to the middle of the Spring and Autumn Period (pre-1 1 century to the 6th century), with a total of * * * 31/,among which 6 poems are full, that is, there are only titles but no contents, which is called full poems.
The Book of Songs is rich in content, reflecting labor and love, war and corvee, oppression and resistance, customs and marriage, ancestor worship and feasting, and even astronomical phenomena, landforms, animals and plants. It is a mirror of the social life of the Zhou Dynasty.