Original text:
Who knows that the life of a group is small, and it is generally flesh and blood.
I advise you not to pat a bird. My son will be in the nest waiting for his mother to come back.
Translation:
Who says the lives of these birds are insignificant? They are as flesh and blood as human beings.
I advise you not to chase the birds on the branches, because the young birds in the nest are expecting their mother to come back.
The poem Bird warns readers to be kind to animals through the natural phenomenon of "children look forward to their mother's return" with true feelings, and at the same time uses birds as a metaphor to persuade the dignitaries at that time to learn to respect ordinary people, because ordinary people also have the same life and dignity as dignitaries.
Extended data
Creation background
It is an exhortation poem, and the specific creation time is unknown.
At the turn of spring and summer every year, birds are in the breeding season. Many rural children like to dig out bird nests to catch birds, and even many adults catch birds while working in the fields. Motivation is just for fun. The image of birds dying or struggling makes the poet feel fear and sadness.
Therefore, the poet wrote this poem, affectionately calling on people to cherish birds and live in harmony with them.
Famous comments
Ma Zhaofeng, an expert in modern history, wrote "Long song in its heyday: the peak of the Sui, Tang and Five Dynasties": between the lines revealed the poet's good wish to live in harmony with nature.
Poetry appreciation
In his poems, the poet made an exhortation to persuade people to love birds, which showed the poet's kindness and kindness.
"Whose life? General flesh and blood are generally skin. " This poem first puts forward the poet's own point of view with a rhetorical question. Rhetorical tone makes feelings stronger, showing the poet's kindness, benevolence and respect for life. Then point out that birds have flesh and bones like people.
It is true that there is no distinction between high and low in life. Everything in the world, like human beings, is alive, alive, and flesh and blood. Humans should treat them like brothers and sisters and never hurt them.
Later, these two sentences, "Don't beat the branches, the son hopes the mother will return to the nest", put forward the exhortation that human beings should be kind to animals, and touched people with the touching scene of young birds looking forward to the mother bird, which gave people a strong shock and the persuasion effect was very remarkable.
Brief introduction of the author
Bai Juyi (772 -846), a native of Xinzheng, Henan Province, was born in Taiyuan, Lotte, Xiangshan, and drunk. He was a great realistic poet in the Tang Dynasty and one of the three great poets in the Tang Dynasty.
Bai Juyi and Yuan Zhen * * * advocated the new Yuefu movement, and together with Liu Yuxi, they called the world "Bai Yuan" and "Bai Liu". Bai Juyi's poems have a wide range of themes, diverse forms and simple and popular language, and are known as "the poet's magic" and "the king of poets".
Official to Hanlin bachelor, Zuo Zanshan doctor. In 846 AD, Bai Juyi died in Luoyang and was buried in Xiangshan. Up to now, there are Bai's "Changqing Collection", and the representative works include Song of Eternal Sorrow, Charcoal Man, Pipa Travel and so on.