Meaning:
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 pursue her (him). The road to pursue her (him) was difficult and long. I looked for him/her down the river, 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 person I have been dreaming about, she (he) is on the other side of the river. I went upstream to pursue him/her, but the way was bumpy and difficult. I looked for him/her down the river, He or she seemed to be on a islet in the water.
The reeds along the river are lush and continuous, and the dew drops in the early morning have not yet evaporated. The person I am pursuing so hard, she (he) is on the river bank. I went upstream to pursue him/her, but the road was tortuous and difficult. Downstream I searched for him or her, He or she seemed to be on the beach in the water.
"Guo Feng·Qin Feng·Jian Jia" is an article in the ancient Chinese realist poetry collection "The Book of Songs". Original text:
Jianjia
Pre-Qin: Anonymous
Jianjia is green and 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.
Retrospect and follow it, but the road is blocked and you can 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.
Extended information:
Creative background:
There have always been different opinions on the content of this poem. Here, let’s interpret it as a love poem. "Jian Jia" belongs to "Qin Feng". Qin Feng's ten chapters are mostly folk songs from this area during the Eastern Zhou Dynasty.
Appreciation:
If the "sweetheart" in the poem is identified as a lover or lover, then this poem expresses the lyrical protagonist's persistent pursuit and pursuit of beautiful love. Melancholy mood. The spirit is valuable and the feelings are sincere, but the results are slim and the situation is sad.
However, the most valuable and evocative thing about this poem is not the pursuit and loss of the lyrical protagonist, but the hopeless and difficult-to-find "by the water" he created. An artistic conception of universal significance. Good poetry can create artistic conception.
Artistic conception is a pattern and a structure, which has the ability to contain all heterogeneous things with similar patterns and similar structures. The structure of "On the Water Side" is: pursuer - river - beautiful person. Because the "Yiren" in the poem does not have a specific reference.
And the significance of river water lies in obstruction, so all kinds of pursuits in the world that are difficult to achieve due to obstruction can have isomorphic vibrations and sympathetic resonances here. From this point of view, we might as well understand the poetic meaning of "Jian Jia" as a symbol.
Consider "On the Water Side" as an artistic model that expresses all difficult and difficult situations in social life. The "beauty" here can be talents, friends, lovers, achievements, ideals, futures, or even blessed places, holy places, and fairy worlds.
The "river" here can be mountains, deep chasms, clan traditions, ethics, or any other obstacles that may be encountered in real life. As long as there is pursuit, obstruction, and loss, it is the world of its reappearance and expression.
In this way, the ancients interpreted Jianjia as an exhortation to follow Zhou rituals, recruit talents, and cherish people. Today, people regard it as a love poem, and some even regard it as a water god worshiping ancestors of ancient people. I'm afraid there is a certain truth to all rituals, and it seems inappropriate to stick to one and reject the others.
Because they are all included in the symbolic meaning of "on the water side". It can be associated with the situation of love and the experience of arousing love from here. It can also be associated with the situation of ideals, career, future and many aspects of life and arouse many aspects of life experience.
The overall symbol of artistic conception makes Shanye) truly have inexhaustible philosophical meaning of life. Wang Guowei once compared this poem with Yan Shu's "Die Lian Hua" "Last night the west wind blew the green trees, I went up to the tall building alone and looked at the end of the world."
It is considered that the second one is "the most charming and charming", which obviously focuses on its artistic conception and symbolic meaning of life. The blurring of facts, the emptiness of images, and the overall symbolism of artistic conception are three aspects of a problem. From the blurring of facts to ethereal imagery, to overall symbolism.