Papaya
Author Anonymous Pre-Qin Dynasty
Give me papaya and give me Qiongju in return. It's always good to be rewarded by a bandit!
Give me peaches and give me Qiongyao in return. It's always good to be rewarded by a bandit!
You gave me wood and plums, and you gave me Qiongjiu in return. It's always good to be rewarded by a bandit!
What you gave me was papaya, but what I gave you in return was Qiongju. This is not to thank you, but to seek eternal friendship!
What you gave me was peach, but what I gave you in return was Qiong Yao. This is not to thank you, but to seek eternal friendship!
What you gave me was a wooden plum, but what I gave you in return was Qiongjiu. This is not to thank you, but to seek eternal friendship!
There is a sentence in "Jing·Daya·Yu" that "give me a peach and repay you with a plum". In later generations, "throw a peach and repay a plum" became an idiom, which is a metaphor for giving and receiving gifts and reciprocating courtesy.
"The Book of Songs" is the earliest collection of poems in my country, divided into three categories: Feng (Fifteen Kingdoms), Ya (Daya, Xiaoya), and Song (Zhou Song, Shang Song, Lu Song) part.
From the literal description, this poem describes the exchange of gifts between two people, but in essence it expresses mutual feelings. It is about a man and his beloved woman exchanging tokens to confirm their mutual love. about.
"Give me a papaya and repay you with Qiongju. If a bandit repays you, he will always think it is good." What you gave me was papaya fruit, and what I gave you in return was "Qiongju". In return The value of the gift is much more expensive than the gift, which reflects the noble emotions of human beings. This emotion includes love, family affection, and friendship.
This kind of emotion focuses on considering the other person's psychology, striving to achieve balance and satisfaction in the other person's heart, so as to achieve mutual understanding.
Therefore, what is given back and its value are valued here are its symbolic meaning, which expresses the cherishment of others' affection for oneself and the expression of love, so it is said that "bandit reporting" Yes, it will always be considered good."
The author of the following verses uses exactly the same sentence structure and format as the first verse. Only the tokens given to each other between men and women have changed. You give me "wooden peach" and I will give you back. "Qiongyao".
You give me "Wooden Plum", and I will give you "Qiongjiu" in return. See what that means. As long as you give me something, I will give you something more expensive than what you gave me.
From a formal point of view, it is just a repetition of the first stanza, with overlapping chapters and changed words, but from a point of view of expression, it shows that the emotion is deepening step by step.
Especially from the perspective of artistic expression techniques, this is a major feature of the Book of Songs. The form of repeated chapters and repeated sentences, and the chanting of three sighs in one can be said to be lingering sounds that linger around for three days without stopping. Absolutely.