[India] Ants are immortal
Rama came to this lotus pond,
Japanese lotus, orchid and fish grow in it;
He was delirious and sad all the time.
Rosmanna was by his side.
After seeing the lotus pond,
His facial features and limbs trembled with joy;
He talked to Lashman,
Love is enough to torture him;
"Rockman that! Look!
How beautiful the garden in Bambochi is!
Those towering trees,
It looks exactly like a mountain.
I'm suffering from grief,
Sorrow torments me again;
For Brahma's suffering,
To learn more about robbery.
This big tree has all kinds of flowers.
Flowers are like unfolded sheets,
Blue, yellow and grass green,
They're all shining.
Rochemanna. This happy breeze,
This is a day full of love,
This sweet and fragrant month,
All the trees blossom and bear fruit.
Look! Rochemanna.
Scenes of flowers and trees;
Trees shed flowers,
The clouds seem to be raining.
In the beautiful Pingtan forest,
There are many kinds of trees in the forest;
The breeze blows, the trees shake,
Blow the flowers to the ground.
Breeze blowing, happy and comfortable,
The coolness is mixed with sandalwood;
The forest is full of the smell of honey,
Bees are buzzing there.
On those beautiful mountains,
The stones on the top of the mountain sparkle;
There are big trees on the mountain.
Flowers are full of branches and touching.
Look around you,
Baldness is full of flowers;
Like a man in yellow,
Gold covered the whole body.
Rochemanna. This is spring!
All kinds of birds indulge in singing.
I've lost Sita,
Worry is painful, anxiety is unforgettable.
Sadness attacked me,
Love torments me;
The azaleas teased me heartily,
It sings happily.
By the beautiful waterfalls in the forest,
An owl is singing happily.
Rochemanna. I'm in love,
This bird tortures me even more.
All kinds of females belong to their own groups,
Playing with males,
Rochemanna. Carnival queen bee,
The song is very sweet.
I am worried, sad and unforgettable.
A girl with deer eyes,
Torture me, Rochemanna!
Like the wind in the moon forest.
On the top of the mountain,
Female peacocks surround male peacocks;
They touched my love,
I suffer from love.
Look! Rochemanna.
Male peacocks dance on the top of the mountain;
The courting peacocks also dance,
Around her husband.
The peacock's wife in the Woods,
Probably not taken by Luo Cha,
In this flowering season,
It's hard not to know more days.
Look! Rochemanna.
Those flowers are useless to me,
In the spring when this winter has passed,
The forest was crushed by flowers.
Flocks of birds are enjoying themselves,
They sang vague songs;
They seem to be flirting with each other,
It also made me endure the torture of love fire.
Now that Sito is in someone else's hands,
She is as miserable as I am;
My lover speaks very sweetly,
Black skin and eyes.
HSBC smells like flowers and sandalwood.
Blow others warm and comfortable.
I always think about my lover,
The wind blows me like a fire.
A long time ago, birds were very harsh.
Tell me to separate from her;
Now the bird has fallen into the tree again.
It is pleasant to cheer.
This bird is here,
Seems to convey a lot of information;
This bird will take me there,
Go find the girl with big eyes.
Rochemanna. My eyes
See those lotus petals;
I think I saw it.
Siddhartha's similar eyes.
The breeze is pleasant,
At first, it rose in the lotus,
Blowing out of the bushes,
It seems that Siddhartha is sighing.
Rochemanna. Look!
The pool is cool and full of lotus flowers;
Yuanyang is playing in the water,
Galanto Vides also attended;
The bowl was so crowded that Luo Po and Lan Jie were exhausted;
Wild boar and deer have also settled down.
All kinds of fun and madness,
It seems to ignite my love,
Reminds me of a dark-skinned lover,
The full moon lotus girl.
Look! On the jagged peaks,
The stag stays with the doe,
I was forced to learn more from Sita!
Deer-eye girl separated. "
(Translated by Ji Xianlin)
The poem recorded here is from the fourth chapter of Ramayana-Monkey Country. Ramayana is another famous epic in ancient India, which occupies a special position in Indian and even world literature. Ramayana can be translated into Rama Biography, which is a story about Rama's life. Ant Yuan, known as the "primitive poet", is a great figure in Homer's time. It is said that he was abandoned at birth and adopted by a village man in the mountains. He became a robber in adulthood and was taught by saints to turn over a new leaf and become an immortal. The so-called immortal, ancient India refers to Brahman practitioners. He kept practicing for a long time, but his body did not move. As a result, his whole body was buried in the soil where termites built their nests. This is the origin of the name "ant". Ramayana is a masterpiece, which came out after a long period of accumulation and perfection. This book was written at the same time as Mahabharata, about 10 century BC.
Ramayana mainly describes the love story between Prince Rama and his wife Siddhartha. The epic praises Rama as an ideal hero, while Siddhartha is the embodiment of a perfect woman who is loyal to love, insists on justice and has a strong will. Rama has the highest virtue of man and the infinite power of God. He put down a power struggle with the spirit of sacrificing his life for justice and self-sacrifice, and maintained the stability and unity within the royal family. With superb martial arts and brave and tenacious fighting, Lavana, the demon on the earth, was wiped out, and he became a righteous warrior and "protector of the people". Between father and son, husband and wife, brothers and friends, he is also a dutiful son, a virtuous husband, a good brother and a good friend. The image of Sita is a successful creation, and her loyalty to her husband is the core of her character. She suffered a lot and always maintained a strong will and fighting spirit. When Rama was exiled, she insisted on going to the forest with her and vowed to share joys and sorrows with her husband and endure the ups and downs of her fate. After her death, she mourned her husband and cursed the devil. All kinds of threats and temptations can't make her greedy and afraid. When Rama put on her husband's face as a representative of the patriarch, accusing her of disloyalty and refusing to take her in, she did not show weakness, argued, and resolutely threw herself into the fire, demanding that Vulcan come out to prove her "innocence." When she still can't get social forgiveness, she has to turn to Mother Earth and throw herself into the embrace of the earth without resentment. Sita is a good wife, of course, and her mind is no more than the so-called single-minded love, but she is disobedient to her husband. What is commendable is that she is a strong-willed woman who adheres to the principle of justice, reflects the suffering experience of oppressed women and places people's thoughts, feelings and love ideals on her.
Throughout the artistic techniques of Ramayana, we find that the poet is unique in describing natural scenery. Here, there are both panoramic views of the world and pocket paintings showing local scenery; There are both the flowing Ganges and the lush green hills; There are birds and animals that are cheerful and playful, and there are thunder and lightning that are hoarse; There are birds and flowers in spring, and a bright moon in summer ... but we should see that the poet writes landscapes for lyricism, organically combining the rich colors of nature with the ever-changing spiritual world of the characters in the poem, thus receiving the artistic effect of crisscrossing and blending water.
Here, we have excerpted some poems from chapter 1 of Monkey Kingdom, which shows that the poet is quite original in terms of immediate prosperity and lyricism, and can be called first-class. After ten songs of the Lich King were designed to rob Siddhartha, Rama was in great pain. He and his brother Rosmanna came to Bo Ban Lake to look for Siddhartha. The poet reveals the inner world of the hero through a detailed sketch of the beautiful scenery in front of Rama. As far as the techniques of landscape description are concerned, we can mainly see two points: 1. It is described with multiple perspectives, multiple pictures, multiple levels and multiple effects, thus presenting a magnificent scene. There are mountains, rivers, trees, fish, birds and flowers in the poem. Not only wrote Fengyun, but also wrote Waterfalls and Springs. Everything in the world, almost including it, constitutes a colorful picture. At the same time, in order to render Rama's melancholy and depressed mood after his wife's death, he almost described the scenery of spring, summer, autumn and winter. The same birds, the same flowers, with the cycle of seasons, change endlessly, producing an infinite harmonious rhythm of natural beauty. 2. The so-called "gray scene" is compatible with the beautiful scenery, thus achieving a contrast and contrast artistic effect. The poet noticed that for Rama, the beautiful and pleasant scenery of Banpo Lake was bound to cast a gray shadow. Therefore, the poet wrote some gloomy scenes consistent with Rama's thoughts and feelings, that is, "gray scenes." But at the same time, the poet wrote more about the beauty of nature, thus forming a huge contrast with the former. For example, the poet wrote a lot about the beauty of flowers, and now "the forest is crushed by flowers", and those flowers are naturally useless to him. For another example, poets often describe the wind with flowers, which is warm and comfortable for people, but "like fire" for themselves. Of course, there are many other things besides these two points, so I won't list them one by one.
Generally speaking, Ramayana is a treasure of ancient Indian literature in terms of ideological content and artistic style. The images of Rama and Siddhartha have always been worshipped by the Indian people. As Tagore, a great modern Indian poet, praised: "Centuries have passed, but the sources of Ramayana and Mahabharata have not dried up in India. Every day, every family in every village is reading poetry. Both in the shops in the market and at the gate of the palace are respected by the same thoughts and feelings. The immortal ant and immortal Pi Oye, two great poets, should be praised. Their names have disappeared in the great journey of the times, but their voices are still like a never-ending rushing trend today, giving strength and peace to the families of hundreds of millions of men and women in India, bringing thousands of years of fertile soil to the land of the soul day and night, making it fertile. "