So, not surprisingly, when Ying Zheng was given the title, his opening word was The Book of Songs, and the word "Fu Su" was selected from The Book of Songs Zheng Fengshan together with Fu Su.
The whole poem is relatively short, with only two chapters and eight sentences:
There are mountains and rivers, and there are flowers in Hebei. If you don't see your son, you will see madness.
There is Youlong in the mountains, but not a child, but a cunning child.
It is said that this poem was written for the "thorn" in Preface to Mao Shi, which tells the story of Wen Jiang, the daughter of Duke Xi of Qi.
This Qi Wenjiang was famous in the Spring and Autumn Period, and even because of her dirty with her brother Qi Xianggong, the woman of the royal family of Qi was particularly unpopular among the vassal states.
The story behind this "mountain follows father" is that Qi is powerful, and many vassal States are interested in marrying and forming alliances with Qi, so many people propose Wen Jiang. Qi Wenjiang especially likes Zheng's son and wants to marry him.
However, Wen Jiang's extramarital affair with his brother was revealed, and his son suddenly refused the marriage on the grounds of "Qi Fei Da Ou".
Wen Jiang later married, visited Qi ten years later, had an affair with him, and was killed for leaking secrets, making Lu and Qi enemies. It can be seen that Zheng Gongzi's sudden choice is very correct.
Among them, "Zi" and "Zi Chong" are all handsome men, which are used to refer to Wen Jiang's extremely beautiful appearance; And "madman" and "cunning boy" refer to Qi Wenjiang's character, mocking his bad conduct.
However, this statement is only speculation. Some people also put forward different opinions, saying that it is not to satirize childe's carelessness, but to tell the ethos of Zheng State.
These poems are flirtations between men and women in the state of Zheng when they are in love, which is against etiquette and conforms to the characteristics of Zheng Feng's "lewdness", so they are not good words, and belong to the same category as other poems in Zheng Feng, such as Qin Miao.
The profound meaning of "subduing the vulgar": The view that loyalty, treachery, beauty and ugliness are carefully identified as "satire" in poems such as "Mountain following the vulgar" actually comes from Preface to Mao Poetry, but this view has been particularly popular since the Han Dynasty.
In other words, although this view has a great market in later generations, it is not necessarily accurate, because there is a dispute between ancient Chinese and modern Chinese in the Han Dynasty, and many works like to attach themselves to it.
If we just look at this song "Mountain Residence", we can actually interpret its content in another way.
What do you mean? It means that what we think is "beautiful" is not necessarily "beautiful".
The whole poem adopts intertextuality, in which "Fu Su" means lush foliage and lush grass. It means that there are both Fu Su and Qiao Song on the high mountain; In the mud, there are both lotus flowers and Youlong.
This is not an inspiration, but two metaphors. Similar to the last two sentences, "Zi" and "Zi Chong" all refer to handsome men, while "Crazy" and "Cunning Child" all refer to ugly people.
The whole poem means that there may be a mixture of beauty and ugliness in both beautiful and sinister environments. And how to choose, this is the need for collectors to carefully identify themselves.
This is actually pointing out a "drawback" that still exists today. Sometimes it's really hard to tell beauty from ugliness.
Influenced by many factors, our cognition of things may be biased. What we think is beautiful and worthy of praise may actually be ugly and need to be abandoned.
And what is the purpose of presenting the folk songs compiled by poets to the king?
This is a warning to the king to distinguish right from wrong, think twice before you act, get rid of falsehood and recognize the essence, so as to make the world clear and the people support it.
Therefore, Qin Shihuang named his eldest son "Fu Su", in fact, he had high hopes for him, hoping that he could be alert and distinguish between right and wrong and be a qualified successor.