Poems about microcosms

"Decline, decline, Hu Bugui?" It's dark, it's dark, why don't you go home?

From "National Wind, Strong Wind and Decline", it is a poem of the Qin Dynasty, and the author is anonymous. With rhetorical devices such as rhetorical question, argot and intertextuality, the expression of emotion turns to emotion.

The original text is as follows:

Fade, fade! Hu Bugui? If it's not for the king, why are you still showing it!

Fade, fade! Hu Bugui? If it's not for the monarch, why are you still in the mud!

The translation is as follows:

It's dark, it's dark, why don't you go home? If it's not for the monarch, why are you still showing it!

It's dark, it's dark, why don't you go home? If it's not for the monarch, why are you still in the mud!

Comments on the text are as follows:

① Type: used as an auxiliary word. Slight: (Sunlight) Decline, dusk or darkness.

Wei Jun: Not a monarch, but a monarch.

3 exposure: exposure. Invert the text to rhyme.

4 bows: the body.

Extended data:

The Zhou Dynasty prospered by relying on literature and martial arts. In history, it was forty years that criminal measures were not used, which can be called the golden age of Zhou Dynasty. After Zhao and Mu, the national situation gradually declined. Later, Li was expelled, you Wang was killed, Ping Wang moved to the east, and entered the Spring and Autumn Period. During the Spring and Autumn Period, the royal family declined, princes merged, barbarians invaded, and society was in turmoil.

According to legend, there was an official who collected poems in the Zhou Dynasty in China. Every spring, he shakes Muduo and goes deep into the folk to collect folk songs. After sorting out the works that can reflect people's joys and sorrows, he gave them to the Taishi (the official in charge of music) to compose music and sing them to the emperor as a reference for administration.

The Book of Songs, which reflects the social life from the early Zhou Dynasty to the mid-Spring and Autumn Period, is an image reflection of China's social life during these 500 years, including the ancestor's ode to entrepreneurship and the movement of offering sacrifices to ghosts and gods; There are also banquet exchanges between nobles and resentment against uneven work and rest; There are also touching chapters reflecting labor, hunting and a lot of love, marriage and social customs.

This poem "Decline" is a poem that profoundly reflects the social reality.

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