The extended meaning is: because of the lack of understanding of nature, the ancients thought that the rainbow was caused by the disharmony between yin and yang and the imbalance of marriage, so they regarded it as a prostitute. The appearance of rainbows in the east is naturally taboo, so no one dares to point with their hands.
From the Zhou dynasty anonymous "national wind, national wind, national wind", the original poem is:
In the east, I don't dare to point. Women are wired, away from their parents and brothers.
Face west and worship the rain. Women have cable, but their parents are distant brothers.
If you are such a person, you will be confused. I don't believe it, I don't know my life!
Translation:
A rainbow appeared in the eastern sky, and no one dared to point it with his hand. Women should get married as adults and stay away from their parents and brothers.
The rainbow appears in the west of the sky, and it will definitely rain in the morning. Women should get married when they are adults, and stay away from their brothers and parents.
But this man is not married according to the right path. I don't talk about credit chastity at all, and my parents don't teach me.
Extended data
Creative background:
Scholars in past dynasties have different opinions on the background of this poem. But the poet's intention is very clear, that is, to standardize the etiquette system at that time through negative preaching.
Theme appreciation:
This poem satirizes a woman's behavior of marrying the right person away from her parents and brothers without parents' orders and matchmaker's words. It shows from one side that women's marriage was not free at that time, reflecting women's rebellious spirit.
Source of works:
The Book of Songs is the earliest collection of poems and the beginning of China's ancient poems. Collected poems from the early years of the Western Zhou Dynasty to the middle of the Spring and Autumn Period (pre-1 1 century to the 6th century), with a total of * * * 31/,among which 6 poems are full, that is, there are only titles but no contents, which is called full poems.
The author of The Book of Songs is anonymous, and most of them cannot be verified. They were collected by Yin Jifu and edited by Confucius.
The Book of Songs is rich in content, reflecting labor and love, war and corvee, oppression and resistance, customs and marriage, ancestor worship and feasting, and even astronomical phenomena, landforms, animals and plants. It is a mirror of the social life of the Zhou Dynasty.
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