Reading notes 8, thoughts on reading the eighth chapter of "The Book of Songs" by Fu Tong
Text/Xu Zhihai
Feng Tong
Pre-Qin: Anonymous
Cai Cai Cai Cai Cai Cai Cai Cai.
There are many things to say about the harvest.
Pick up the grass and pick it up with thin words.
Pick up the thorns and write them down in thin words.
It’s easy to pick and choose, but to say nothing about it.
It’s easy to pick and choose, but to say nothing about it.
Translation
Pick it, pick it, pick it.
Pick, pick, pick, pick, pick, pick.
Pick and pick and pick and pick. Pick them off piece by piece.
Picking and picking, picking and plucking the leaves one by one.
Picking and picking, picking and picking, I picked up my watch and pocketed it.
Picking and picking and picking, I tuck my clothes and bring them back.
Notes
Caicai: Caicai again. Fúyǐ: The name of the plant is plantain. Its leaves and seeds can be used as medicine and have obvious diuretic effects. Its spikes produce particularly many seeds, which may be related to the belief in having many children at that time.
Thin words: speaking words without meaning. It mainly plays the role of supplementary syllables.
Yes: obtained.
Duō: to pick up, to stretch your hand to pick.
拋(luō): to collect by sliding along the stem into handfuls.
Jié: Holding the skirt of clothes in one hand.
譭 (xié): Tie the skirt of your clothes on your belt and stuff things inside your clothes.
This is an annotation in Baidu. Because it is an ancient poem, there are too many traditional Chinese characters, and the poetic meaning is difficult to understand, so I will tell them all.
This poem has six lines, which in modern terms is a six-line modern poem. The whole poem has three chapters and twelve sentences, using six verbs: cai, you (i.e. twist, my personal opinion is that it means twisting off, homophonic with twist), 掇, 捋, 袺, 襥 - which are constantly changing, and the rest are all It is an overlapping image. This is indeed a very special, vivid and graphic picture of rural women working.
When I first started reading it, I didn’t know what it meant. After carefully reading Baidu's poetry, I realized that it was actually praising women's virtuous, hard-working, fearless, fiery and willing images. This is how I view this poem from a modern perspective. This scene has the feel of a consultant answering each other.
How does it feel like for consultants to answer each other’s questions?
Look at that late spring and early summer, in the fields, Aunt Zhang said like an old consultant, "Little daughter-in-law of the Liu family, look at these sweet potato leaves, only pinch the leading buds. Hold it in your hand like this, with the index finger and thumb forming a sharp arc, pinch the faucet and the buds will break. There is no need to pull the sweet potato seedlings. They will still grow. If you pinch the faucet, they will still grow and have more vitality. You don’t have to be afraid, just pinch it boldly.”
At this time, I only heard the sounds of “bang ah” and “bang ah”. Compared with the new daughter-in-law of the Liu family, she has learned to pinch the sweet potato leaves.
While I was intoxicated, someone behind me shouted, "Aunt Zhang, are there any fresher sweet potato leaves here? Come and pick them!"
"This voice made me laugh. You can tell it's the second sister-in-law Wang." Aunt Zhang lifted her dew-stained sleeves, smiled at the Liu family's new daughter-in-law, and at the same time turned around and said, "Hey, his second sister-in-law, we're coming over right now." Roll up your sleeves and put the sweet potato leaves in the woven bag you carry with you. He said, "Come on, let's go there."
The image of Aunt Zhang, the second sister-in-law, and the new daughter-in-law of the Liu family, picking sweet potato leaves in the sweet potato field came into my eyes.
This hard-working and brave "female soldier" image interprets China's ancient inheritance in the traditional concept of "passing, helping and leading". I think this is how the idea of ??"Xiang-shaped characters" was developed.
For a moment, it reminded me of Hubei writer Duan Jixiong. His article "Sweet Potato Leaves" probably also explains the kindness, simplicity and harmonious nature of the Chinese ancestors, and their views on living harmoniously.
A story records a category, and a poem records a similar beginning. Every year when the sesame seeds are about to grow and the sesame leaves are in full bloom, rural women will do a kind act like picking sesame leaves in rural forests and rural areas.
The skillful and coherent movements of picking sesame leaves are just like "picking, picking, picking, and picking leeks", and the scene of going deep into the sesame field.
Although this poem is about picking flowers, it also talks about the image of women. But as a medicinal material, Fengtuo does have good curative effects on women's diseases. According to the "Compendium of Materia Medica", Futong is also the plantain identified by pharmacologists. Plantain has the functions of clearing heat, detoxifying, diuresis, treating small intestinal fever and even urethral fever.
I think the ancients believed that plantain can cure women’s diseases, so it has a good effect on cervix, menstrual pain, and urinary tract infection.
Currently, studies have shown that plantain has antibacterial, diuretic, antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, repaired damaged cells, weight loss, liver protection, lowering blood sugar and blood lipids, and anti-peptic ulcer effects.
It can be seen from this poem that plantain was a magic weapon for body protection and repair for women in the ancient Western Zhou Dynasty.
In layman's terms, women who love beauty in the Western Zhou Dynasty all like to pick lettuce, that is, plantain.
Since women like Fu Tong so much, they should also be given as gifts to their beloved men. Yutong is plantain, which can be brewed into tea in ancient times. It can also be fried and eaten as sweet potato leaves, which is the favorite of modern people.
Plantain likes to grow near water or in humid places. If plantain is compared to "beauty grass", then women who love beauty should use "beauty grass" and love "beauty grass" ”, and collected the “Beauty Grass”.
When reading this poem, there is a fragrant and charming scene. Look at the beautiful mountains and rivers, among the flat fertile land, there are a group of kind-hearted and chaste little women who are picking and picking. Together, they Singing folk songs and following the water flow, we pick plantains today and dry them to make tea tomorrow.
It is truly a peaceful world, a vast expanse of beauty, a feeling of harmony between man and nature that is always beautiful, moving and fresh.
That day, that person, that mountain, that river, and those baskets of plantains were singing: Hard work, bravery, tomorrow will be better!
From the side of the poem, it reflects the skilled skills of the pickers, and at the same time it highlights the feeling of enthusiasm, so the open-minded human nature comes out, and likes to grow by the water, which is feminine and feminine. A gift from women, so I call it "plantain beauty plant."
Someone once tried to explain the meaning of poetry in vernacular, that is:
Picked plantain again and again, picked this grass without worries
Picked again and again Plantain, when you pick it, it starts to smile
Pick it again and again, but you can’t reach it without stretching your hand
Pick it again and again, sliding the stems Picking is better
Picked plantains again and again, the lapel of my clothes will not fall off
Picked plantains again, tucked up my pockets and went home
< p>This repeated overlapping and chanting further matches the rhythm of the poem and deepens the emotional expression.The biggest insight from reading poetry tonight is that I have a profound understanding of the meaning of plantain and its inherent essence of Chinese culture.
Good night and sweet dreams! I wish myself sweet dreams and good luck.
2018.11.19 night