Meaning: A group of nesting magpies are flying south.
From: "Dan Ge Xing" is a poem written by Cao Cao, a statesman and writer in the late Han Dynasty, based on ancient Yuefu inscriptions. Original text:
Dan Ge Xing
Han Dynasty: Cao Cao
Singing over wine, what a life! Like morning dew, it will be more painful every day.
Generosity should be treated with generosity, and worries will be unforgettable. How to relieve worries? Only Du Kang.
Qingqing Zijin, my heart is leisurely. But for your sake, I still ponder it.
Yo yo, the deer roars, eating apples in the wild. I have guests, harp blowing Sheng.
It’s as bright as the moon, when can you wipe it off? Worry comes from it and cannot be cut off.
The more unfamiliar you are, the more you cross the border, the more useless you are. Qi Kuo talks about Yan, thinking about old kindness.
The moon and stars are few and far between, and magpies are flying south. Three twists and turns around the tree, where is the branch to lean on?
The mountains never get too high and the sea never gets too deep. The Duke of Zhou vomits food, and the world returns to its heart.
Translation:
Drinking and singing, how many years will there be in your life.
Just like the morning dew, it is fleeting, too much time has passed!
The singing at the banquet was impassioned, but the sadness in my heart was hard to forget.
What can you do to relieve your depression? Only drinking wine.
You learned and talented people, you make me yearn for you day and night.
It’s just because of you that I still recite it in pain.
Under the sunshine, the deer chirped happily and ate mugwort in the wilderness.
Once talented people from all over the world come to my house, I will play the harp and sheng to entertain the guests.
When can I pick up the bright moon hanging in the sky?
The deep sorrow in my heart can't stop gushing out.
Guests from far away came to visit me through the criss-crossing field roads.
After a long separation, we reunited for a heart-to-heart talk and a banquet, reliving the kindness of the past.
The moonlight was bright and the stars were sparse, and a group of nesting magpies flew south.
They flew around the tree three times without folding their wings. Where can they find shelter?
The mountains are majestic only if they do not abandon the earth and rocks, and the sea is majestic only if it does not abandon the trickle of water.
I would like to be as courteous and virtuous as the Duke of Zhou, and I hope that all the heroes in the world will sincerely submit to me.
Extended information:
Creative background:
The writing time of this poem is not certain. One is said to be before the Battle of Chibi, and the other is said to be after the Battle of Chibi. The first theory is based on chapter novels and is unreliable. The second statement also has no historical basis. Therefore, the creative background of this poem has not yet been determined.
Appreciation:
This is a political poem that serves the political line and policy strategies implemented by Cao Cao at that time. It completely melts its political content into rich lyricism. In artistic conception. This poem uses a method of combining ambition and lyricism.
It expresses Cao Cao's ambition to recruit talents and make achievements. Cao Cao expressed these complex emotions through a low and melancholy style that was both intermittent and continuous. Quoting lines from "The Book of Songs" and famous lines from "Zi Jin" expressing a woman's deep longing for her lover.
Express the poet's desire; quote the sentence describing the banquet guests in "The Deer" to express the poet's courtesy to the talented people. and "The mountain never gets tired of being high, nor does it get tired of being deep." This is a metaphor for my broad mind that welcomes talented people from all over the world.
Borrowing the allusion of Duke Zhou vomiting food, it expresses the need to be open-minded to the virtuous and make the sages in the world return to their hearts. Although the poem "Dan Ge Xing" is full of deep sorrow, it is permeated with a proactive spirit and arouses impassioned emotions.
To give people encouragement and strength, it must not be understood as Cao Cao's advice to "people are happy in time" and so on. "Singing over wine, what's the point of life?" It means something on another level.
Introduction to the author:
Cao Cao (155-220, Gengzi in the first month of the lunar month), also known as Mengde, also known as Ahao, was born in Peiguoqiao (now Bozhou City, Anhui Province), Han nationality. At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the famous statesman, strategist, writer, poet, and founder of the Cao Wei regime conquered all directions in the name of the Emperor of the Han Dynasty.
The separatist forces such as Yuan, Lu Bu, Liu Biao, and Han Sui were eliminated internally, and the southern Xiongnu, Wuhuan, Xianbei, etc. were surrendered externally, unified northern China, and implemented a series of policies to restore economic production and social order. , which laid the foundation for the founding of Cao Wei.
When Cao Cao was alive, he served as the Prime Minister of the Eastern Han Dynasty, and later as the King of Wei. After his death, he was given the posthumous title of King Wu. After his son Cao Pi became emperor, he was honored as Emperor Wu of Wei. Cao Cao read a lot of books, especially the art of war, and once copied the strategies of various ancient schools of war.
There is also the work "Wei Wu Zhu Sunzi" which annotated "The Art of War". In 2009, Anyang City, Henan Province announced the discovery of Cao Cao's tomb, causing a sensation and controversy. At the end of 2012, Fudan University used DNA technology to confirm the DNA of Cao Cao’s family.