The heroine in the poem recalls the sweetness of love life and the pain of being abused and abandoned by her husband after marriage with great sadness. This poem expresses her remorse and resolute attitude through the self-report of the abandoned wife, and profoundly reflects the oppression and destruction of women in love and marriage in ancient society.
Guo Fengwei Feng Meng is a poem in The Book of Songs, a collection of pre-Qin poems. The author is anonymous, and most of them can't be verified. It was collected by Yin Jifu and edited by Confucius.
Excerpt from the original:
Being a woman at the age of three is exhausting. Sleepless all night, there must be a dynasty. As for violence, what you say must be done. My brother didn't know, but he smiled. Calm down and think about it, and you will bow your head and feel sorry for yourself.
Being together always makes me complain. Qi has a shore and discipline has a plate. The banquet in General's Corner was talking and laughing, swearing and not thinking about the opposite side. On the contrary, I don't think about it. I'm already embarrassed!
Translation:
Being your wife for three years, you've been busy all day. Get up early and do housework in the dark, and have no leisure every day. Life is secure and carefree, but you are rude and bossy. My brothers don't know. They always make fun of me. Think back and forth, a person sad.
When we first met, we grew old together. When we grew old, we were full of sadness and resentment. Although Qishui has a wide shore, Luohe has a wide side. We had fun together since childhood, talking and laughing. Loyalty and oath are understood, but later they changed. I don't want to stay in the past, make a clean break, stop talking!
Extended data
Creation background
During the Spring and Autumn Period, productivity was still quite backward. Women are not independent economically in the family, but form a subordinate relationship with men in personality. Once a man changes his mind, he can abandon her without care.
At that time, the ideological system of feudal relations of production and hierarchical system was gradually formed. Women's love and marriage are often bound by ethical codes, interfered by parents and censured by customs, which further forms women's spiritual shackles.
The poem Feng Wei Meng reflects the heartbreaking story of an infatuated woman.
Poetry appreciation
The structure of the poem Feng Wei's Self-Defense is in line with its story, and it is also in line with the author's passionate and fluctuating emotions when describing this poem. Each chapter has six chapters and ten sentences, but different from other chapters in The Book of Songs, it is written naturally according to the development order of characters' fate. Give priority to with fu, also use BiXing. It is better to strengthen narrative and lyricism than to give it narrative and promote lyricism.
Chapter one, tracing back to one's marriage is decided by first love; The second chapter describes that he fell in love, broke through the shackles of the matchmaker's words and married himself; In the third chapter, she tells a group of innocent and beautiful young girls, tells them not to indulge in love, and points out the inequality between men and women.
The fourth chapter, expressing resentment against self-protection, points out that this is not the fault of women, but the willfulness of self-protection; The fifth chapter, then describes her hard work and abuse after marriage, as well as her brother's ridicule and self-injury misfortune; The sixth chapter describes the love in childhood and the deviation today, denounces the hypocrisy and deception of self-protection, and firmly expresses the feelings of self-protection.
Famous comments
Notes on the Book of Songs by Gao Feng, an ancient philologist: The owner of this poem is a working woman. Her husband used to be a farmer. They got married because they fell in love. After several years of poverty, their family gradually became rich. When she was old and faded, she was abandoned by her husband. The main content of this poem is to recall the past, curse the present, resent her husband and lament what happened to her.
Chen Zizhan, a Chinese literary historian, wrote "Three Hundred Poems to Solve Confusion": Meng He, like Meng He, is also a word of abandoning his wife. These are story poems about the lives of folk women, which can be read as novels. Chen Feng's Diary of Reading Poetry said: "This article is wonderful." The article ""abandoned his wife because her husband forgot the past, and the article "Meng" "abandoned his wife because her husband started fooling around and eventually abandoned it.
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