Drums are dull and boring, encouraging soldiers to go to war. People stayed in China to build Cao's city, and I was the only one who went to the south.
General Sun Zizhong will mediate between Chen and Song. It's sad not to go home for a long time.
If you have a home, you can't tie up your horse and get lost. Where can I find it? It turns out that the horse is under the forest.
"Come and go, life or death," I swear to you. Hold your hand tightly and be with you forever.
I left you with a sigh for a long time, and it's hard to meet you again. Sighs are too far apart to fulfill that oath.
First, the original:
Drums are dull and soldiers actively use them. Cao Tuguocheng, I travel south alone.
From Sun Zizhong, Chen Pinghe and Song Dynasty. No, I'm going home. I'm worried.
Where do you live? Lost his horse? For it? Under the forest.
Life and death are generous, and Zi Cheng says. Hold your hand and grow old with your son.
I am rich, but I am still alive. Sorry, but I believe it.
Second, appreciation:
Guo Feng Gaofeng Drumming is a typical war poem in The Book of Songs, the first poetry collection in ancient China. This is a homesick song sung by a soldier who has gone to a foreign country and can't go home for a long time. The whole poem consists of five chapters, each with four sentences. In the first three chapters, people are asked to tell the story of the expedition, which is dense and full of complaints. The last two chapters describe the mutual encouragement between soldiers, which is touching. This poem describes the sorrow of foot soldiers who have been fighting for a long time. Among them, the description of soldiers' feelings is "life and death" and "zi cheng" "Hold your hand and grow old with your son" is also used to describe the deep friendship between husband and wife in later generations.
Third, the background:
There are several different opinions about the background of this poem. One is that in the fourth year (7 19 BC), the son of Wei (also known as Xu by his predecessors) joined forces with Song, Chen and Cai to defeat Zheng together. This theory was initiated by Preface to Mao's Poems: "Drumming" resents the country. ""Weizhou urged the use of troops to riot, so that Gong Wenzhong was on an equal footing with Chen and Song, and the Chinese people complained that he was brave and rude. " Qi Huangong was hidden in Zuo Zhuan for four years, and he instigated the ruling and opposition parties to attack Zheng. In the summer of four years (7 19 BC), Wei joined forces with Chen, Song and Cai to attack Zheng. Xu Zhengbo thinks it means that in the autumn of the same year, Wei Guo once again cut Zheng and robbed Zheng's crops. Between the two wars, soldiers were stationed in Chen and Song (Shitan). The other is that Yao Jiheng put forward in the Book of Songs in the Qing Dynasty that "In the twelfth year of Lu (597 BC), Wei Mugong sent troops to save Chen", saying: "This is because Wei Mugong made an alliance with the north and south of the Qing Dynasty, demanding that Chen be cut down by the Song Dynasty, pacifying the difficulties of Chen Song and prospering the army, so he wrote this poem out of resentment. Yao Jiheng thought that the preface to Mao Shi said that "those who are not in harmony with the classics are six", which was actually intercepted by the Spring and Autumn Period and the Twelfth Golden Year. Fang Yurun, a scholar in Qing Dynasty, regarded the original Book of Songs as "a poem that retreats without thinking". Now, many people think that what Yao said is more reasonable.