The skin of a lamb has five elements. Refuse to eat public food and pretend to be a snake.
Lambskin, plain silk. Pretend to be a snake and return the food.
Seam of lamb, five elements. Don't tell the whole story.
Poetry creation always needs some leisure and surplus. A person who is too busy to touch the ground, or a person who is always full of material shortage, is unlikely to have the mood and opportunity to write poetry. Of course, leisure and surplus are relative. There are always people who can find leisure and surplus in the unbearable busyness or unbearable poverty of outsiders. This is probably what distinguishes poets from ordinary people.
Generally speaking, there are three different views on the interpretation of The Book of Songs Zhao Nan Lamb. One is the school of "Great Talents" represented by Xiao Xu, who thinks that this poem is the result of The Book of Songs, Zhao Nan Quechao, thinks that talented people and beautiful women get married, and finally contributes great talents to the public as a fertility machine. Secondly, the "cool breeze and upright spirit" represented by Preface thinks that this poem is to show the frugality and integrity of the incumbent. Thirdly, the school of "eating and drinking with public funds", represented by Yao Jiheng of A Qing Dynasty, thinks that this poem is nothing but the wind of eating and drinking with public funds.
Poverty will not only limit our imagination, but also limit saints. There is a short story in Confucius' Family Talk: Confucius owed money to Chen and Cai, and his disciples didn't eat for seven days. Zi Gong surrounded the thief with what he bought and told the savage that he had got a stone. Yan Hui and Zhong will cook in the rotten house, and Emo falls into the rice. Yan Hui took it and ate it. Zigong saw it from the well and was not happy. He thinks it's stealing food. He asked Confucius, "Be kind, turn poverty into thrift?" Confucius said, "If the festival is changed, what is benevolence and sincerity?" Zi Gong said, "If I go back, won't I change my festival?" Confucius said, "Of course." Zigong told Confucius about eating, and Confucius said, "I believe it will take a long time." Although there are clouds, there must be doubts. Is there a reason? " You stop, I'll ask. He called Yan Hui and said, "If I dream of my ancestors in the past, will it help me? "I'll cook and eat, and I'll go in." Yes, he said, "it is not clean to let the Emmy award fall into rice." If you want to abandon it, it is a pity that you can eat it immediately and not sacrifice it. " Confucius said, "But what? I also eat. " When Yan Hui went out, Confucius said to Ersanzi, "My letter will come back until today." Ersanzi is convinced of this.
Hunger reached the extreme. Although Confucius believed in Yan Hui's "benevolence" and "sincerity", he was still shaken by Zi Gong's "seeing with his own eyes" and had to "try" Yan Hui's story.
In the 1980s and 1990s, the most incredible thing for southerners was the folk customs around the "ancient capital of N dynasties" in the north. When people all over the world are busy looking for opportunities to make money in the sea, some people in these places actually get together to fight chickens and beat dogs, guarding a business of selling thermos bottles and bravery handed down by their parents, not being tempted by external changes. Of course, we can't arbitrarily conclude that these people live poetically, but at least these people may not have the way of thinking like Yao Jiheng, because they have never been hungry. When they see that "the skin of a lamb is full of food", they think they are corrupt officials. When they see that "they refuse to eat food for the public, they are unwilling to do so", they think they are writing public funds to eat and drink.
The creation of poetry cannot be short of imagination, nor can the appreciation of poetry be short of imagination.
Seeing that "a sheepskin is a luxury" is not a luxury. Mr. Shen Congwen pointed out that after the ceremony of the Duke of Zhou, clothes were stipulated according to their grades and different uses. At the beginning of the week, clothes became more and more spacious, and the economy developed to a certain extent, so people could put on clothes with wide robes and big sleeves to talk about it. Fur clothes are also worn in grades and cannot exceed the system. All precious foxes, otters and minks hunted by Orion must be donated, and they are not allowed to be used privately or sold casually. "Yan Zi and Hu Qiu for 30 Years" written in The Book of Rites can be regarded as a confirmation of Shen Congwen's viewpoint. If "Sheepskin" is extravagant, is it extravagant to wear fox skin for 30 years?
Jumping out of our own situation and the limitations of the times, looking back at this song "The Book of Songs" may not have so many preconceived ideas. "The skin of a mutton is all vegetarian" may be about people who are comfortable and often give up the frugality of people who eat! This person can repeatedly "return politics to the people" and "return politics to the people", which shows that his status is extraordinary. However, this man can wear a sheepskin fur coat, and this sheepskin fur coat is also made of "five elements"-leather that has been carefully repaired many times, which shows that he is dressed in general. It's unusual to wear such an ordinary lambskin fur, and you can have a "snake face" from beginning to end-natural and graceful, and you don't care about ordinary clothes at all. Obviously, this person's moral cultivation is unusual.
Confucius praised Lutz's words, which can be regarded as "sheepskin, plain as silk", giving up food for the public, and a footnote for those who encounter snakes-"If you wear a robe, you are not ashamed of it, so is it! If you don't ask for it, why not ask for it? "
Mr. Zi Lujiang quoted this sentence from The Book of Songs as the highest praise for himself in his life. This evaluation can also be applied to Zhao Nan Lamb, the protagonist of The Book of Songs.
The lamb's fur is fluffy and loose, and five broken skins are connected together. When you come out of the public gate, you can walk calmly and gracefully.
Lamb fur fluffy, five pieces of broken skin sewn tightly. Elegant and full of ambition, I retired from the public gate.
Lambskin coat keeps warm and is made of five pieces of broken skin. Freedom has nothing to do with elegance, just because the liver and brain are in public.