What does "曷hisjiji" mean when can I stop running around?
From "Guo Feng·Tang Feng·Buddha Yu", it is the first poem in ancient China A poem from the collection "The Book of Songs". This is a poem against corvee exploitation and oppression. It describes farmers who have been serving long-term military service and cannot farm to support their parents. The poem expresses resistance. The whole poem consists of three chapters, each chapter has seven lines, with a solemn and tragic style.
The whole poem is as follows:
Susu bustard feathers gather in Baoxu. The king's affairs are too busy to do anything but millet and millet. Who are your parents? What is there in the long sky?
The bustard wings are concentrated on the bract spines. The king's affairs are too busy, and he can't do anything. What do parents eat? The long sky, what is its limit?
The bustards gathered in the buds and mulberry trees, and the king's affairs were too busy to work in the rice beams. What about parents? The sky is long and long, is it everlasting?
The translation is as follows:
The great bustards flapped their wings and perched in groups on the thick oak trees. The servitude of the prince's family is endless, and I cannot go home to cultivate grains. How do my poor parents live? Unattainable God, when can I return to my hometown?
The great bustard flapped its wings and gathered in clusters on the jujube trees. The servitude of the prince's family is endless, and I cannot go home to cultivate grains. What do the poor parents have to eat? It’s so unattainable, God, when will I stop running around?
The great bustards flapped their wings and perched in groups on the thick mulberry trees. The prince's family's corvee never had a head, and I could not go home to cultivate rice and sorghum. What do the poor parents eat to survive? God is beyond our reach, when will the miserable days return to normal?
Notes
Bustard (bǎo): the name of the bird, which is as big as a wild goose. It lives in groups in water and grass areas and is not good at perching.
Sudden: the sound of flapping bird wings.
Extended information:
This is a poem describing the heavy labor and the hardship of the people. The first sentence of the three chapters of the poem uses the great bustard, a bird that does not normally perch in trees, but abnormally perches in trees to describe the abnormal life of groups of farmers - they have been serving abroad for a long time and cannot live and work at home to farm and support their families. The bitterness is evident.
Because the bustard is a bird belonging to the geese family. It has webbed claws and no hind toes. It can only float in water and run around in swamps and grasslands. It cannot grasp branches and perch in trees. Nowadays, bustards are actually flying in the trees, as if the farmers have abandoned their profession of farming and are engaged in hard labor all year round, unable to live a normal life. This is a metaphorical technique, which is the poet's originality.
The language of the three chapters of the whole poem is similar, which is the most common point in folk songs.
As for the three types of trees cited in the three chapters: thorn, thorn, and mulberry, they are just picked at random to facilitate rhyming, and there is no other deep meaning
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