The short preface explains the time, place, situation and the reason for the poem.
Modern·Chen Yi's "Three Chapters on Meiling" Original text:
In the winter of 1936, Meishan was trapped. I lay in the jungle for more than twenty days with my remaining injuries. I couldn't get rid of my worries, so I left three poems on my clothes. Spin around solution.
〔一〕
How do you feel about beheading today?
Starting a business is difficult and full of challenges.
Here we go to Quantai to recruit old troops.
With one hundred thousand banners, we will kill Yama.
〔2〕
The war in the southern country has been going on for ten years,
This head must be hung at the gate of the country.
If you all work harder,
The good news will come to you as paper money.
〔三〕
Joining yourself in the revolution is your home,
The bloody storm should end.
Taking justice and becoming benevolent is what happened today,
The flowers of freedom are planted everywhere in the world.
Vernacular interpretation:
In the winter of 1936, the Meishan guerrilla base was besieged by the enemy. At that time, I was injured and sick. I hid in the bushes and grass for more than 20 days, thinking that this time I might I couldn't break out, so I wrote three poems and hid them under my clothes. But soon, we were lucky enough to escape the enemy's siege.
〔一〕
What should I write now that I am about to be defeated and die? It took many battles to establish this revolutionary cause, how difficult it was! This time I will go to the underworld to summon the comrades who have sacrificed their lives. Lead one hundred thousand heroes to defeat the Kuomintang reactionaries!
〔2〕
The South has been fighting for ten years. After I die, my head will be hung on the city gate. Those comrades who are still alive must work harder. Be sure to commemorate me with news of victory.
〔三〕
Revolutionaries are at home all over the world, and the bloody storm should have an end. If you sacrifice your life for a just cause today, the reactionaries will surely fail. The beautiful ideal of freedom and happiness It will come true. Extended information
Writing background:
In October 1934, after the Long March of the central Red Army, the 16,328 Red 24th Division and local armed *** who stayed in the Soviet area to persist in the struggle were attacked. The enemy brutally encircled and suppressed them, and most of them were lost. He Shuheng, Mao Zetan and other senior party and Red Army cadres died in the breakout.
Qu Qiubai and Liu Bojian were captured and killed. After the enemy occupied the Central Soviet Area, they brutally killed revolutionary cadres and masses. According to some data, 120,000 people were killed in Ruijin, more than 8,300 households in Ningdu, and more than 40,000 households in western Fujian.
The few troops who broke out joined local armed forces and fought guerrillas with the enemy. After Xiang Ying and Chen Yi moved to fight, they came to the Youshan area and Meiling in southern Jiangxi in February 1935, and began an arduous campaign. Three years of guerrilla war.
Article appreciation:
The first two sentences of the first poem are inverted. It stands to reason that the order of poetry should be to first write about how difficult it is to start a revolutionary cause, and a huge price must be paid, and then to talk about how I feel now facing the upcoming sacrifice.
But if poetry is written according to this meaning, it will seem too plain. The poet's advance of "How do you feel about being beheaded today" is like a thunder in the sky, pushing the scene of a revolutionary facing sacrifice in front of the reader, creating a vast and tragic tone for the entire poem. For readers, it can produce a strong effect of concentration and eagerness to read.
The second song "Ten Years of War in the South" expresses the feelings of unrealized ambitions, the difficulty of dying in peace, and the passionate encouragement to comrades-in-arms. The sentence "This head must be hung at the gate of the country" is adapted from the story of Wu Zixu during the Wuyue struggle for hegemony in the Spring and Autumn Period, giving people a strong sense of tragedy. The tone of the next two sentences gradually slows down.
The concluding sentence, "Good news flies in as paper money" is particularly brilliant. It not only closely echoes the previous poem, but also reveals from this unexpected imagination that a communist soldier is facing danger. At this time, we still have a firm belief in optimism for the revolutionary cause.
The third poem, "Joining yourself in the revolution means becoming home" expresses the poet's magnanimity in the face of death and his firm belief that communism will win. Chen Yi joined the revolution in his early years and has since become a vanguard of the communist cause, forging ahead bravely in the hail of enemy bullets without hesitation. The arduous life of struggle forged a firm revolutionary will, and the dawn of victory was seen in the fighting spirit of the comrades who fought one after another.