Kill the pheasant and bounce off the blackbird. May there be no dawn for a year.
Reading Quge belongs to Wu Sheng's songs among Shang Qing's songs in Yuefu in the Southern Dynasties. The reason why it is called "reading songs" is said to be because in the seventeenth year of Yuanjia in the Southern Song Dynasty, "after the collapse of Yuan Dynasty, hundreds of officials dared not sing lightly, or read songs because of binge drinking and theft, hence the name" (Yuefu poem). There are 89 songs, most of which are folk love songs. This is one of them.
This work describes a woman's abnormal psychology in detail. The core of this abnormal psychology is "I wish I could never start again". "Twilight" is night and "Dawn" is dawn. She wants to be connected to another one night and never dawn-only once a year at most. To this end, she wants to "kill the chicken", because the chicken likes to crow loudly at dawn, and when it crows, it indicates that the day is about to dawn; She also wants to "bounce off the blackbird", because the blackbird crows earlier than the chicken, so she wants to drive it away with a slingshot. The woman's psychological state of wanting to "never start again" is abnormal; But because of this abnormal psychology, she moved the idea of blaming Changming chicken and black mortar bird, which is conducive to seeing its funny and absurd. The sky is always bright, which is an objective law and the simplest common sense; The crowing of chickens and blackbirds has been a normal phenomenon since ancient times. However, the heroine's heart is full of absurd wishes for these simple common sense, and she vented her anger on innocent chickens and birds. Isn't this ridiculous?
So, why does this woman want to "never start again"? As the saying goes: sleep. She hopes to have one sweet dream after another in that long night. Perhaps it is some unimaginable reasons (such as men's clothing expedition). She and her lover (or husband) can't meet and enjoy the joy of love together, so she has to fly to him in her dream and snuggle up sweetly. Jin Changxu, a poet in the Tang Dynasty, wrote the poem "Spring Complaint" ("Drive away the orioles, don't cry on the branches. They woke her up when she was dreaming and said that she had gone to the camp in western Liaoning to meet him there ") revealed the specific mentality in this particular situation. Knowing this, we will feel that this woman is not only ridiculous, but also credible-her abnormal psychology and behavior are another manifestation of common sense.