In the Pre-Qin poem "Drumming", "Holding the hand of the son, growing old together with him" is a poem about staying together for a lifetime
Source: "Drumming" - Pre-Qin: Anonymous< /p>
The agreement between life and death is broad, as told by Zicheng.
Hold your hand and grow old together.
I can’t live without you.
I am disappointed, but I don’t believe it.
Translation Life and death gather and disperse, I once told you. Hold your hand and grow old with you. Alas, too long. Make it impossible for me to meet you. Alas, it is too far away for me to fulfill my oath.
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1. The creative background of "Drumming"
There are several different opinions about the background of this poem. One is that in the fourth year of Duke Yin of Lu (719 BC), Duke Wei's son Zhou Xu (also known as "Wei Zhou Xu" by his predecessors) joined forces with Song, Chen and Cai to attack Zheng. The other is that Yao Jiheng of the Qing Dynasty believed that this was actually the incident in the "Spring and Autumn Period, the 12th year of Xuangong" when "the Song army attacked Chen, and the Wei people rescued Chen" and was attacked by the Jin Dynasty. Most people today think that Yao's theory is more reasonable.
2. Appreciation of "Drumming"
This is a typical war poem. The poet reveals his departure from the mainstream consciousness and vents his resistance to the war. In its perspective on the true nature of human war, the work calls for respect for the concrete existence of individual life and the acquisition of happiness in the details of life. This kind of true and simple singing from the depths of the soul is the most humanistic interpretation of human existence and a high standard of humanity set by the ancestors for later generations of literary works.