Author: Dai Wangshu?
I used my injured palm,
Explore this vast land:
This corner has been reduced to ashes,
That corner is just blood and mud;
This lake should be my hometown,
In spring, the embankment is full of flowers.
The tender willow branches are broken and have a strange smell.
I touched the coolness of seaweed and water;
The snow peaks in Changbai Mountain are freezing cold.
The water and sediment of the Yellow River slip through the fingers;
Rice fields in the south of the Yangtze River, your new grass.
It is so thin, so soft ... now there is only Artemisia capillaris;
Litchi flowers in Lingnan are lonely and withered,
There, I was immersed in the bitter water of the South China Sea without fishing boats. ...
Invisible palms sweep the infinite mountains and rivers,
Fingers stained with blood and ash, palms stained with darkness,
Only the far corner is still intact,
Warm, clear, firm and vigorous spring.
On it, I stroked it with my broken palm,
Like a lover's soft hair, a baby's milk.
I put all my strength in my palm.
Put it on, send love and all hope,
Because there is only the sun, no spring,
Will dispel the haze and bring Su Sheng,
Because it's the only place where we don't live like animals,
Die like an ant ...
There, the eternal China!
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Appreciate my broken palm;
In My Broken Palm, Dai Wangshu slowly narrates the tragic fate of China, which was ravaged by the invaders during the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression period, and the China people who have lived in China for generations. The poet chooses the most typical scenery in each area to decorate it. They are not only symbols of people's sufferings and misfortunes, but also witnesses of the aggressors' sins.
The second half of the poem unfolds in an imaginary world, depicting a longing picture that is in great contrast with the previous disaster scene: although it is a "distant corner", the mountains and rivers are intact, without darkness and blood. But full of warmth, light and vitality.
The use of contrast before and after this poem makes the author's emotional tendency more distinct, which shows his deep yearning for the liberated areas and ardent hope for the bright future of the motherland.
This poem was written by Dai Wangshu in The Generation of Blood and Tears in Prison. As a great poet with a strong patriotic complex, he was deeply worried about the future and destiny of the motherland, but he did not lose hope and yearning, bringing a ray of sunshine to the people of China who were struggling in hot water.