Author of "Jianjia": Anonymous
Era: Pre-Qin Dynasty
Original text:
Jianjia is green, and the white dew is like frost. The so-called beauty is on the water side. If you follow it back, the road will be long and blocked. Traveling back from it, Wan is in the middle of the water.
The leaves are luxuriant, and the white dew is still fresh. The so-called beauty is on the water. If you follow it back, the road will be blocked and you will be able to advance. If you go back and swim from it, you will feel like you are swimming in the water.
The jianjia is collected, and the white dew has not stopped. The so-called beauty is in the river of water. Go back from the road, resistance and right. If you go back and swim from it, you will be swimming in the water.
Translation:
The vast reeds are green, and the morning dew turns to frost. The sweetheart I miss. Just standing on the other side of the river. I went upstream to look for her, but the way to follow her was difficult and long. I looked for her downriver, and he seemed to be in the middle of the river.
There is a vast expanse of desolate reeds, and the early morning dew has not yet dried. The one who haunts me is on the other side of the river. I went upstream to look for her, but the way was difficult and difficult. ?Follow the flowing water to find her, and she seems to be on the beach in the water.
The reeds along the river are thick and the dew in the morning has not been fully collected. Where is the person of my dreams? Just over there by the water. I went upstream to find her, but the road was difficult and difficult. Follow the water to find her, and you will seem to be on the islet in the water.
Notes:
蹹葭(jiān jiā): reed, reed. Jian, a reed without long ears. Jia, the newly born reed.
Cang Cang: lush appearance. Hereinafter, "Qiqi" and "Caicai" have the same meaning.
Yiren: That person.
On the water side: on the other side of the river.
Su Huí (sù huí) means to follow the river upstream to find her. To return: to go upstream. From, to pursue, to pursue.
Traveling: wading along the current. You, Tong "flow", refers to direct current.
苋苋: The lush appearance, the text refers to the lush growth of reeds. The People's Education version is "Qiqi", and the Jiangsu Education version is "Qiqi".
Caicai: lush appearance.
沚(zhǐ): A small piece of land in the water.
Extended information:
As a lyric poem, "Jianjia" is inspired by feelings about specific things, so it can always be seen in its artistic conception. Some real human affairs scenes. However, the author of (Mengmeng) seems to have deliberately blurred out the main characters and events in it. Who is the seeker? What is he searching for? We don’t know; what is the identity of the “beau” being pursued?
Why is he so hard to get? We don't know either; so much so that we can't even confirm whether they are male or female. Especially "Yiren" has no voice, appearance or appearance. Sometimes he is in the upper reaches of the river, sometimes in the lower reaches of the river, sometimes in the middle of the water, and sometimes in the grass beside the water. He is erratic, coming and going indistinctly, which makes people doubt whether he really exists. physical presence.
Undoubtedly, due to the virtualization of the pursuer, especially the pursued, the entire pursuit of characters, events, and content becomes illusory; however, it is also due to the virtualization of this fact. The artistic conception of the poem appears so ethereal and symbolic.
The emotions expressed in the work: A man who pursues a "beau" fails to find his "beau" after three pursuits. This shows that the so-called "beau" is just an elusive dream and illusion. territory. But the dream-chasing man did not give up, but pursued his dream up and down, regardless of difficulties and obstacles.
In fact, the scene described in the poem is not the actual people and events that exist in the eyes, but a mental image. This kind of mental image is not a memory of a real thing that has been experienced, but a typical psychological situation that is synthesized, condensed and virtualized by many similar events and similar feelings. The biggest characteristic of this psychological situation is that it is neither sticky nor sluggish, and is ethereal and multi-aggregated.
"Beyond the Water" is an artistic expression of this ethereal psychological situation. Here, due to the virtualization of the pursuer and the pursued, the river, the dangerous road, and even the upstream and downstream pursuit routes, as well as various locations such as the "middle of the water" where the beautiful woman is located, are also unrecognizable. It has become a virtual symbolic image.
It is not possible to conduct in-depth research on when, where, rivers and mountains. Otherwise, Yiren would be contradictory if he was both upstream and downstream of the river. Why didn't the two of them even cross the river? has also become a problem. The success of "Jianjia" lies in the fact that the poet accurately captured people's mental images and created a psychological situation that resembles a flower but is not a flower, and is ethereal, so that the artistic conception of the poem is presented as a symbol of integrity.