Papaya Ishii
You give me papaya. I'll pay for Joan. Not to thank you, always cherish your feelings.
You want to send me a peach, and I want to give it back to Qiong Yao. Not to thank you, always cherish your feelings.
You give me wood, and I'll take Joan Jiu in return. Not to thank you, always cherish your feelings.
Word annotation
1 papaya: Deciduous shrub with fruit like melon. In ancient times, there was a custom that men and women gave each other souvenirs such as melons and fruits.
(2) Give me the papaya and give it back to Joan: You give me the papaya, and I'll return your precious jade. Throw, throw, give, give. Report and repay. Qiongju, jade name, is an ancient ornament. The following "Qiong Jiu" and "Qiong Yao" are the same.
It is always good to repay bandits: not only to repay, but to show eternal love. Bandit: Same as "No". All right, honey.
4 Mutao: Peach.
⑤ Muli: plum. [ 1]
Translation of works
You gave me papaya, and I gave you jade. This is not to thank you, but to seek eternal friendship!
You gave me peaches, but I gave you jewels in return. This is not to thank you, but to seek eternal friendship!
You gave me plums, but I gave you Baoyu in return. This is not to thank you, but to seek eternal friendship!
Appreciate:
In the Book of Songs, there is a phrase "Give me a peach and give me a plum", and later "Give me a peach and give me a plum" has become an idiom, meaning to give the other party a reply and a gift. Comparatively speaking, although Feng Wei's Papaya also has the idiom "Give a papaya (peach, plum) and return it to Qiong (Yao, Jiu)" (for example, Song Youmao's Complete Poems of Tang Dynasty recorded that "Give a tree to Qiong, and you will be righteous"), it would be a big mistake to think that "suppression" is more recited than "papaya". A little investigation will show that this "Papaya" is one of the most popular poems in the Book of Songs.
For such a well-known pre-Qin ancient poem with uncomplicated sentences, there are as many as seven ways to analyze its theme through the ages (according to Zhang Shubo's Collection of National Styles), which is really interesting. According to the preface to Mao Shi in the Han Dynasty, "Papaya is beautiful now. Tijen was defeated by Cao in Wei, but Qi Huangong saved him and sealed him, leaving only his chariots and horses. Wei people think about it, want to report it thick, and make poems. " This view was supported by Yan Gan and others in the Song Dynasty, and by Wei Yuan and others in the Qing Dynasty. According to the textual research of three poems about the same period as Mao Dawei, Chen Qiaozong's Textual Research on Lu's Legacy, Lu's "writing this article to reward the courtiers' thoughts" and Wang Xianqian's "The Collection of Three Poets' Righteousness" also have the same opinion. Since Zhu in the Song Dynasty, the theory of "men and women answering each other" has become popular. "Biography of Poetry" said: "I want to repay you with a little thing. Although it is not enough to repay you, I want to think it is good and don't forget my ears. Doubt is also a word that men and women give answers to, such as "fine woman." This reflects the innovative spirit and the spirit of doubting the ancient times of the school of poetic abandonment in Song Dynasty. However, this statement was refuted by Yao Jiheng, one of the important representatives of the independent thought poetry school in Qing Dynasty. "The Book of Songs General Theory" said: "It is ridiculous to be a friend, why should it be a man or a woman!" Modern scholars generally draw lessons from Zhu's theory and point out more clearly that this poem is a love poem. In all fairness, it is precisely because the text semantics of a poem is very simple that it is possible to explore its theme with greater freedom, just like the smaller the connotation of a concept, the greater the extension. Therefore, it is not advisable to deny a theory easily. In view of this, the author tends to understand this poem in a broader sense and regard it as a poem expressing deep affection through giving and answering.
The poem "Papaya" is very distinctive in both text and sentence structure. First of all, there is no typical sentence pattern in The Book of Songs-four sentences. It is not impossible to use four words (using four words will become "give me papaya (peach, plum) and give me Joan (Yao, Jiu); Bandits think that reporting is always good, but the author intentionally or unintentionally uses this sentence pattern to create a kind of ups and downs charm, and it is easy to achieve the effect of sound and emotion when singing. Secondly, statements have a very high degree of coincidence and overlap. Don't say that the last two sentences in each chapter are exactly the same, that is, the first two sentences are only one word apart, and although the meanings of "Qiongju", "Qiongyao" and "Qiongjiu" are slightly different, according to Li Shizhen's Compendium of Materia Medica, papaya, "Mutao" and "Li Mu" belong to the same plant. The difference between them is roughly as small as that between oranges, oranges and oranges. These three chapters are basically repetitive, and such a high degree of repetition is not much in the whole Book of Songs. The format looks like the music of Three Chapters of Yangguan written by Wang Weishi in Tang Dynasty, which is naturally determined by the duality of music and literature in The Book of Songs.
"You give me the fruit, and I will give you the jade", which is different from "returning peaches to plums". The value of returned things is far greater than that of donated things, which embodies a noble feeling of human beings (including love and friendship). This kind of emotion focuses on soul-to-heart, which is a spiritual fit. Therefore, the returned things and their value are actually symbolic here, showing the treasure of others for their family, so there is a saying that "bandits repay you." The deep meaning of "Give me papaya (peach and plum) and repay my gratitude with Qiong Cong (Yao Jiu)" is: Although you give me papaya (peach and plum), your affection is more expensive than Qiong Cong (Yao Jiu); I cannot thank you enough for your kindness. Qing Niu Yunzhen commented on this number of words in Shi Zhi: "There are better people than papaya, but taking papaya as a word is a way to set off a pattern; Qiong Yao was enough to report it, but she said that the bandit's report was a layer of stripping. "What he said is not unreasonable, but he takes things that have been basically abstracted, such as papaya and Qiong Yao, too seriously. Other people who interpret this poem seem to have this disease. In fact, the author is too broad-minded to measure the thickness at all. What he wants to express is that cherishing and understanding the feelings of others is the noblest affection. From this point of view, after the Han Dynasty, Zhang Heng's Four Sorrow Poems, "Beauty gave me Jin Cuodao, how can I still get England and Qiong Yao", although it said "return the jade with gold". It has the same meaning as "throwing wood at Joan".