Cai Wei's Original Text and Translation (Excerpt)

The original text and translation of the famous book Cai Wei in the pre-Qin period are as follows:

Original text:

Pea seedlings have been picked again, and wild peas have just emerged from the ground. I said I would go home, but it still didn't come true by the end of the year.

A lonely room is a lonely home, so it is a ghost. This is a reason not to live in a prosperous area.

The pea seedlings have been picked again, and the wild peas are very tender. Said he went home, and he was depressed.

Anxiety is burning, and hunger is unbearable. The location of the garrison cannot be fixed, and it is impossible to take the letter home.

Translation:

The bean sprouts were picked again and again, and Osmunda japonica just came out of the ground. I said I went home, but it hasn't come true by the end of the year. No wife, no home, everything is to fight with you. There is no time to live and rest, all to fight with you. The bean sprouts are picked and picked, and the Osmunda japonica is tender. How depressed I was when I said I was home. It's unbearable to be worried, hungry and thirsty. The location of the garrison cannot be fixed, so people can't take letters home.

Appreciation of Picking Wei

Picking Wei is a poem in The Book of Songs, the first collection of poems in ancient China. This poem sings the hard life and homesickness of the soldiers in the army in the tone of returning home and guarding the soldiers. Writing about the hardships of life, strong homesickness and reasons for not going home for a long time reveals that soldiers are willing to defend against the enemy and are deeply suffering from fighting, showing their desire for peace; The last chapter ends the poem with a painful lyric, which is touching.

This poem uses overlapping sentence patterns and figurative techniques, which embodies the artistic characteristics of The Book of Songs. The first four sentences of the last chapter describe the scenery and feelings at two specific moments, namely, going out that year and surviving today. The words are simple and profound, and the scenes blend, which is a famous sentence widely read in the Book of Songs.

Please refer to Baidu Encyclopedia-Xiaoya Cai Wei for the above contents.