The soil is against its home! Water belongs to its valley! Insects do nothing! Trees and grass return to their natural habitat!
This is a primitive sacrificial song. Dai Sheng's Book of Rites Special Sacrifice in the Eastern Han Dynasty said: "Changing homes is only a wax. Wax also, cable also. 20081February, gathering everything and looking for food. ..... said:' the earth goes against its home, the water goes to its ditch, the insects do nothing, and the vegetation goes to its skin.' "wax also writes"? ",the ancient year-end sacrifice. Wax is the song at the end of the year. There are two opinions about Yi family: Tang Kong's Book of Rites thinks it is Shennong family; The classic interpretation of Lu Deming in Tang Dynasty thinks that it is Emperor Yao. As we all know, Shennong was before Huangdi, and Yao was the descendant of Huangdi. In any case, "Waci" is the product of the end of the primitive commune in China or the period of class differentiation, which is certain. Dai Sheng's passage quoted above means that Yi family began to offer sacrifices at the end of the year, and wax means demand. In the twelfth month of the year, they gather together to offer sacrifices to God and ask them to bring them a bumper harvest next year. Ancient human beings were low in productivity and poor in knowledge, and could not explain unpredictable natural phenomena. In agricultural production, they are often attacked by floods, droughts, typhoons, frost and pests. The ancestors thought that there was a superhuman god in charge of everything, and they gave the harvest and brought the disaster. So everyone fears them and prays for them, hoping that they will become protectors and friends of mankind, and sacrifices will be made. This poem is dedicated to the gods.
"the soil is against its home", the same return; The house and residence have expanded to the original place. Zhou said in Wen Xin Diao Long and Zhu Lian 10: "The house is still stable." Earth, go back to the original place in Tanaka! The ancestors hoped that the land god would be stable and not let the land run away. "Water belongs to its ditch", ditch, pit and ditch. Flood, go back to that canyon! The ancestors hoped that the water god would help everyone not to let the flood flood flood. "Bugs don't do it", no, no, this sentence means, pest, don't get up and get into trouble again! The ancestors hoped that the God of Insects would help them not to let pests get up and destroy crops. "The vegetation belongs to its own ze", ze, swamp. Weeds and trees, go back to the swamp! The ancestors hoped that the god of plants would stop weeds and trees from making trouble and let them return to the forest swamp so as not to hurt crops.
This kind of eulogy is not a passive request for the gift of the natural god, but the primitive workers are exploring the laws of nature and trying to conquer and dominate the natural forces. Full of primitive people's strong desire to control and conquer natural disasters, full of yearning for a better life.
The artistic uniqueness of this poem lies in its novel conception, peculiar imagination and rhetorical devices of summoning and personification. The author abandons the audience and readers, talks directly with things, treats these natural things as human beings, dominates and directs them, and is bold, pungent, crisp, unexpected and sharp. Secondly, you can say your wish directly, without drawing, coloring and verbiage, and because this wish is urgent, all four sentences use subject-predicate structure, which is compact and urgent. Finally, with the fast pace, all four sentences rhyme, making the tone of the conductor firmer and louder. Rhyme is an important feature of poetry. As one of the sources of China's poetry, Waci has set an example in this respect.