Feng Wei's papaya, a national style, is a poem in The Book of Songs, the first collection of poems in ancient China. The author is anonymous. The whole poem consists of three chapters, each with four sentences.
The original text is as follows:
You give me papaya. I'll pay for Joan. Not to thank you, always cherish your feelings.
You want to send me a peach, and I want to give it back to Qiong Yao. Not to thank you, always cherish your feelings.
You give me wood, and I'll take Joan Jiu in return. Not to thank you, always cherish your feelings.
The translation is as follows:
You give me papaya, and I give it to Joan in return. Not just thanking, but cherishing feelings and being friends forever.
You give me Mu Tao, and I will give Qiong Yao in return. Not just thanking, but cherishing feelings and being friends forever.
You give me Muli, and I'll take Joan Jiu in return. Not just thanking, but cherishing feelings and being friends forever.
Comments on the text are as follows:
⑴ Papaya: Deciduous shrub (or small tree) of Rosaceae, with oblong, yellow and fragrant fruit, eaten after boiling or soaking in honey. Press: The papaya produced in Guangdong, Guangxi, Fujian, Taiwan Province and other places today is called raw papaya, which is different from the papaya here.
⑵ Joan (jū): A beautiful jade name. The following "Qiong Jiu" and "Qiong Yao" have the same meaning.
(3) Bandits: the same as "no", no.
(4) Mutao: the fruit name is hawthorn, which is smaller than papaya.
Extended data:
There are many different explanations about the creation background of Feng Wei Papaya, an ancient poem in pre-Qin dynasty. According to the statistics of Zhang Shubo's Collection of National Styles, there are mainly seven kinds of statements. The Preface to Mao Poetry in the Han Dynasty said: "Papaya is beautiful now. Tijen was defeated by Cao in Wei, but Qi Huangong saved him and sealed him, leaving only his chariots and horses.
The defender thinks about it and wants to repay it, but writing is poetry. This view was supported by Yan Gan (Historical Records) and others in the Song Dynasty, and by Wei Yuan (Wei) and others in the Qing Dynasty. According to the textual research of three poems about the same period as Mao Dawei, Chen Qiaozong's Textual Research on Lu's Legacy, Lu's "writing this article to reward the courtiers' thoughts" and Wang Xianqian's "The Collection of Three Poets' Righteousness" also have the same opinion.
Since Zhu in the Song Dynasty, the theory of "men and women answering each other" has become popular. "Biography of Poetry" said: "I want to repay you with a little thing. Although it is not enough to repay you, I want to think it is good and don't forget my ears. Doubt is also a word that men and women give answers to, such as "fine woman." This reflects the innovative spirit and the spirit of doubting the ancient times of the school of poetic abandonment in Song Dynasty.
However, this statement was refuted by Yao Jiheng, one of the important representatives of the independent thought poetry school in Qing Dynasty. "The Book of Songs General Theory" said: "It is ridiculous to be a friend, why should it be a man or a woman!" Modern scholars generally draw lessons from Zhu's theory and point out more clearly that this poem is a love poem and the author should be a young man.
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