Congratulations to the bridegroom·Reading history
Man and ape say goodbye to each other.
Only a few stones were polished,
When I was a child.
The flames turned in the copper and iron furnace.
When did you guess it?
No more than a few thousand cold and heat.
It is rare in this world to smile.
On the battlefield, each other bows to each other.
It flowed everywhere,
Jiaoyuan blood.
After reading this article, I felt like my head was spinning.
But I remember a few spots and traces.
A few lines.
The sacred thing of the Five Emperors and Three Sovereigns,
has deceived countless passers-by.
How many romantic figures are there?
After stealing Zhizhuang and becoming famous,
King Chen stood up and waved the yellow ax.
The song is not yet finished,
The east is white.
"Zhuangzi: Robber Zhi", "A person's upper life span is a hundred years, the middle life span is eighty years, and the lower life span is sixty years. He can eliminate illness, lose weight, death, injury, and sorrow. Among them, the one who smiles only lasts four or five days in a month."
Tao Zhi (zhí) Zhuang Tu (jué): Tuo Zhi was a great thief during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States; Zhuang Tu was a native of Chu during the Warring States. According to "Xunzi·Yi Bing", "When Zhuang Tu rose, Chu was divided into three and four." .
King Chen: Chen Sheng, the leader of the peasant uprising in the late Qin Dynasty.
Huang Yue (yuè): an ax decorated with gold that symbolizes the power of the emperor. "Shu Mu Oath" states, "The king holds the yellow ax on his left and the white jade on his right."
Translation
Man and ape have said goodbye.
It seems that only a few stones have been polished,
In childhood.
Later, the flames of copper and iron rolled in the furnace again.
If you want me to guess why?
That was just the spring, summer, autumn and winter of thousands of years.
It is rare to laugh heartily in this world,
We are at war with each other on the battlefield.
It flowed everywhere,
The suburbs were filled with pools of blood.
After reading a history book, I feel like my head is full of snow.
I only remember some scattered spots,
A few lines of old things.
The sacred achievements of the Five Emperors and Three Sovereigns,
I don’t know how many passers-by have been deceived.
How many romantic figures are there?
The robber Zhizhuang Qiu left a good reputation behind him.
In addition, King Chen Sheng rose up.
The meaning of my song is still unfinished,
The dawn has appeared in the east.
Appreciation
We all know that the poet loved reading throughout his life, especially Chinese history books, classical literature, philosophy, etc., all of which were extensively covered. "Twenty-Four Histories" and "Zizhi Tongjian" are also works that he never tires of reading. He not only loves reading himself, but also loves to talk about books with others, and tells other senior cadres to read more.
Since his youth, he has had an indissoluble bond with books. He once recalled to Snow: “I made a self-study plan and went to the Hunan Provincial Library to read books every day. I carried it out very conscientiously and persevered. I spent half a year like this, and I thought it was very valuable to me. I would go in every morning as soon as the library opened and only stop to buy two rice cakes to eat. lunch. I read in the library every day until it was closed.
“During this period of self-study, I read a lot of books and learned about world geography and world history. There I saw for the first time a map of the world, and studied it with great interest. I read Adam Smith’s The Original Rich, Darwin’s On the Origin of Species and a book on ethics by John Mill. I read Rousseau, Spencer's Logic, and Montesquieu's book on law. While I carefully studied the history and geography of Russia, the United States, Britain, France and other countries, I also read poetry, novels and stories from ancient Greece. "(Quoted from page 120 of Edgar Snow's "Journey to the West")
Chairman Mao has many good stories and stories about reading. What books he was reading has become a popular topic at all levels at that time. It is a top priority for cadres, especially senior cadres, to understand and imitate. I once witnessed such a situation in the home of a senior cadre in Guangzhou. Almost all the books in his study room were history books. The books he read were all Chairman Mao's favorites. However, his son, who was also my friend, preferred to read Western literature.
This poem "Congratulations to the Bridegroom: Reading History" written by the poet is about his own life. Reading, especially the artistic summary of reading Chinese history books, is full of poetry and historical materialism. This poem is written from the birth of mankind to socialism, running through millions of years of history, and only 115 characters are inscribed. The words are indeed majestic and rare in ancient and modern times.
The first line of the pen is "Man and ape say goodbye", describing the thrilling moment when human beings were just born, but it seems so relaxed on the surface. It was just as if man and ape made a bow and then parted ways.
The word "farewell" is very vivid and full of humor, but the "human ape" seems very huge and has a deep and distant sense of history. As soon as the two words are paired together, the poetic flavor is immediately created, and the reader's heart also changes. Was shaken up.
Then came the long "Age of Ignorance" of mankind. Millions of years passed like this. This was the earliest stage of human development - the Stone Age. In the poet's eyes, this era is just a few polished stones, as if it were just the childhood period in a person's growth process. The word "mill" makes people feel long and distant, while "childhood" makes people feel that the poet's grasp of human beings is so grand and so kind. This sentence has the feeling of being condescending, but also sighs that the past is like smoke. .
In the fourth, fifth and sixth sentences, the poet used only three sentences to explain that human beings entered the Bronze Age and Iron Age from the Stone Age. The sentence "Flame in the copper and iron furnace" is both vivid and condensed. This sentence alone expresses the symbolic meaning of the light of bronze in the flames. Human beings entered slave society and feudal society with copper and iron. But if you want to ask about the specific time, it is not easy to guess accurately. It is just the spring, summer, autumn and winter of thousands of years. Time is flying, and in the eyes of the poet, time is just a matter of "a snap of a finger". It's not insignificant, it seems to have passed in the blink of an eye.
The sentence "It is rare in this world to smile" is adapted from a line in Du Mu's poem "Climbing the Mountain in Nine Days": "It is rare in this world to smile". But the poet came up with a new meaning here (the original meaning of this sentence is that life has less joy and more sadness, that is, more crying and less laughter, more hate and less love), and injects the meaning of revolution and class struggle into this sentence, just like the poet As pointed out in the article "Abandon Illusions, Prepare for Struggle": "Class struggle, some classes won, some classes were eliminated. This is history, this is the history of civilization for thousands of years." Faced with such a severe struggle, Of course, it is rare in life to smile. And it’s not just about “laughing every once in a while”; it also involves a life-and-death showdown on the battlefield of life. This refers to the specific life-and-death class struggle, and refers to revolution as a riot, and revolution as “the overthrow of one class by another”. Violent action of a class." And the ending? Naturally there will be sacrifices and blood. The history of mankind is full of blood and massacres. The poet sighed two sentences here: "It has flowed everywhere, the blood of the suburbs." Blood can only constantly arouse the struggle of revolutionaries. How can revolutionaries laugh out loud when faced with blood? .
The first sentence in the lower part of the poem is very poetic. The sentence "After reading an article, my head is snowing" artistically condenses the poet's life of reading history books. The poet has been concentrating on reading history from his youth to his old age, and before he knew it, his black hair turned into white snow. This poem also reveals the poet's feelings about life and history. It is true that life is easy to grow old. Youth is gone in an instant, and old age is in the blink of an eye.
So what can people remember about China’s vast history of five thousand years? The poet still looks at the elephant as always, lifting the weight with ease and taking it all in one stroke. The poet said: I only remember a few spots, which are just a few lines of old things. The sacred achievements of the "Five Emperors and Three Sovereigns" are just deceptive things, but they have deceived so many people in this world. of passers-by. How many truly romantic people are there among them? Although the poet uses a question, his meaning is that the romantic figures praised in the so-called orthodox history books are all fake romantic figures.
In the eyes of the poet, the real romantic figures are those who have been scolded by the so-called history, such as Taizhi, Zhuang Qi, and Chen Sheng. These leaders of the peasant uprising are the real driving force in creating history. They rose up. , resisted the exploiting class and was a famous rebel hero.
In the last two sentences, the poet is immersed in the scene of chanting history, and his singing is still unfinished. When the poet finally cleared away the fog of history, eliminated the false heroes, and found the true heroes, he felt that the dawn of the East was already dawning. The phrase "Dongfang Bai" has two meanings. One is that the poet recited this poem until dawn, just like a sentence in Li He's poem "When Zhang Dache asked for poems after drinking and Zhang Chuxiao Lu Mu": "The poem was recited all night in the East. ". The second is a metaphor for the victory of the Chinese revolution, which has written a new chapter for history, just like the rising sun, which is bound to be glorious.