Long Songs in Han Dynasty: Anonymous
Green/Sunflowers in the garden, morning dew/Waiting for the sun.
Yangchun/Budeze, everything/life is brilliant.
Often fear/autumn festival, yellow/Chinese leaves decline.
A hundred rivers/East belongs to the sea, when/West?
Young people/don't work hard, the boss/ACTS sad!
Explanation:
Sunflowers in the garden are lush, and the crystal clear morning dew is waiting for the sun to shine.
Spring brings sunshine and rain to the earth, and everything is full of vitality and prosperity.
I am always afraid that the cold autumn will come, the leaves will turn yellow and the grass will wither.
When can a hundred rivers run to the sea and return to the west?
If you don't work hard when you are young, it's no use being sad when you are old.
Related content:
"Sunflower in the Green Garden" is the best state of life. The green leaves are full of vitality, and then the dew in the morning becomes colorful in the sunshine that will come out soon. Rainbow is actually rain under the action of sunlight. This is a metaphor for the best state of life.
"Spring blossoms and everything is brilliant". If they are all dry goods, then there is no way to talk about "everything is brilliant"! Therefore, judging from the dew on the leaves of "Green Garden Sunflower", the aesthetic state of life in the sun is "brilliant spring" by extension. Translated, the warm spring sunshine spreads the elegance of life to everything.
So everything is full of vitality and brilliance. These two couplets are actually about the aesthetic state of life. Youth is a beautiful time, what era and what age is the aesthetic state of life? Of course, it is youth, of course, when you are a teenager, just like the morning dew shines in colorful light under the sunshine, which is exquisite and incomparable.
"Young people don't work hard, but old people are sad", so young people should cherish time. A day's plan lies in the morning, and a year's plan lies in the spring. What about life planning? Of course, it is young! Therefore, it is the most critical point of this poem to make people rise up and give people a warning.
So if we go back to this theme, we will know that since it mainly talks about cherishing time and working hard, it is a hymn of youth, and its focus is actually on time. Therefore, from "the morning dew waits for the sun" to "the glory of all things", to "the decline of yellow flowers", and then to "when will the hundred rivers return to the sea in the east and return to the west?"
In fact, they all talk about the passage of time, and finally put forward the comparison between "juvenile strong" and "boss". This reasoning is natural. Therefore, apart from the theme, this poem has two important points. First, it embodies the strong concept of time in China culture.
In fact, this poem is about the truth that "if a teenager doesn't work hard, the boss will be sad." What is said in nature is based on natural phenomena, from "sunflower in green garden, exposed to the sun" to "everything is brilliant", to "I am always afraid that the autumn festival will come and the leaves of Kunhuanghua will fall", and then to "when all rivers will enter the sea and die".