Analysis of China Literature:
The Book of Songs, Xiaoya, the Thing of Hongyan, Hongyan
Hongyan
Hongyan flies in the air, and its feathers are suppressed. The man left home and went on a long journey. Poor are poor people, widows and widowers are sad.
Hongyan flies in the air and gathers in Zhongze. The man built a wall of hard labour and erected hundreds of walls. Although it is hard work, it is safe to study.
the swan goose flies and moans. But those who understand, and know that I am diligent in singing. Only those Nits, say I Complaint in my spare time.
Appreciation
This is a sad song of a vagrant in troubled times. The political darkness in the late Western Zhou Dynasty, even in the period of Zhou Xuanwang, known as Zhongxing, was full of crises. At that time, frequent foreign wars aggravated the class contradictions at home, causing a large number of subalterns and slaves to flee, forcing him to "expect the people to be in Taiyuan", that is, to strictly control the people by checking the household registration. (See Historical Records of Zhou Benji) Later, during the reign of Zhou Youwang, it was forced by foreign invasion, and the social economy withered, resulting in "I was hungry (diān, meaning' harm') and the people died in exile" ("Daya Zhaomin"). This poem is a true portrayal of the people living in exile in the late Western Zhou Dynasty, and reflects the people's dissatisfaction with the dark rule.
The poet compared Hongyan to a wanderer, explaining that he wrote this song, which was equal to Hongyan's mourning. There are three chapters in the whole poem. In the first chapter, I sigh that there is nowhere to live, and I think of the more bitter loneliness. The second chapter fantasizes about rebuilding the family so that the homeless can live a stable life; The third chapter said that he wrote this song to make the wise ruler know that it was his singing his own bitterness; And the fatuous ruler will say that he is unruly.