Title and theme: The whole poem takes the small town in the south of the Yangtze River as the central image, and writes about a beautiful young woman waiting for her return; she has been waiting year after year, and time is quietly waiting. Passed away; she had also looked forward to it with joy, thinking that her return was coming soon, but in the end she was still lonely and lost because her return had not returned after all. It describes the feelings of missing a woman in her boudoir during the war years and waiting for her return.
Original poem: Error
Author: Zheng Chouyu
I walked through the south of the Yangtze River
The face that waits in the season is like a lotus Kailuo
If the east wind does not come, the catkins of March will not fly
Your heart is like a small lonely city
The streets are just like bluestone facing the evening
The tillers are silent, and the spring curtain of March is not lifted
Your heart is a small window tightly closed
My dada’s horse hooves are beautiful Error
I am not a returnee, I am a passerby...
Appreciation: A series of images with traditional meaning and Jiangnan style, such as "lotus", "east wind", "catkins", "Blue Stone", etc., integrate the bold and open-minded temperament with the emotional charm of wanting to speak, creating a harmonious and complete artistic realm. Intense foreshadowing and care, and delicate psychological portrayal, from "The Silent Silence" to "Dada's Horseshoes" and "Beautiful Mistake", describe the wanderer "I"'s sympathy for the lonely waiting for an unknown woman in the boudoir. The war caused families to be separated, and they were disappointed again and again in the endless waiting. At the same time, they expressed their understanding and guilt for the painful longing of their loved ones who were waiting at home.
Creative background: Zheng Chouyu said that the poem originated from his childhood escape experience. When he was in elementary school, the Anti-Japanese War broke out in full force. His father was sent to the front line of the Anti-Japanese War in Hubei as soon as he graduated from Army University. Zhang Zizhong's army in Xiangyang, he followed his mother through various escapes, and saw many wounded soldiers along the way; in December 1948, he went to a village in the south of the Yangtze River, which evoked his childhood memories of fleeing, about artillery trucks, Regarding the clatter of war horses' hooves, he turned these emergent experiences into art and wrote "Mistakes". The protagonist of this poem is based on Zheng Chouyu's mother.