"Shang Xie" is a love song, which is the heroine's vow of loyal love. Below is a collection of ancient poems and translations of "Shangxie" for your reference.
Original text of "Shangxie"
Shangxie!
I want to know you,
Long life will never fade.
The mountains have no tombs,
the rivers are exhausted,
winter thunder trembles,
summer rain and snow,
heaven and earth Together,
I dare to fight with you!
Translation of "Shangxie"
Oh God!
I long to know you. Cherish,
This feeling will never fade away.
Unless the towering mountains disappear,
Unless the mighty rivers dry up.
Unless the thunder rolls in the cold winter,
Unless the snow falls in the scorching heat,
Unless the sky and the earth intersect, converge and connect,
I dare I will never abandon my love for you!
Notes on "Shangxie"
①Shangxie (yé): God. Above: Pointing to the sky. Xie: modal particle, expressing exclamation.
②Know each other: fall in love.
③Ming: In ancient times, it was connected with the word "order", meaning to make. Decline (shuāi): decay, cut off. These two sentences mean that I am willing to fall in love with you and let our love never fade.
④Ling (líng): mountain peak, mountain top.
⑤Zhenzhen: Describes the sound of thunder.
⑥Rain (yù) snow: snowfall. Rain, noun can be used as a verb.
⑦Heaven and earth merge: Heaven and earth merge into one.
⑧Naigan: Caigan, the word "gan" is a euphemistic term.
Appreciation of "Shangxie"
"Shangxie! I want to know you, and I will live forever."
"Shangxie" still says " Oh my god”, “knowing each other” means loving each other. This sentence said: "Oh my god! I want to fall in love with you, so that our relationship will never break or decay." In order to prove her determination, she cited five impossible mutations in nature, "The mountain has no "Ling, the river is exhausted, the winter is thundering, the summer is raining and snowing, and the heaven and the earth are united." It means: If we want to betray our vows, we will have to wait until the mountains are flat, the river is dry, there are thunderstorms in the winter, and there are heavy snows in the summer, and the sky and the earth are united. And as one!. The heroine gives full play to her imagination, and one thing becomes more bizarre than the other, and one thing becomes more incredible than the other. When "heaven and earth come together", her imagination has lost control, and she thinks endlessly that all the environments that humans rely on for survival no longer exist. This kind of irrational, exaggerated and grotesque fantasy is a special form of love expressed by this infatuated woman. These completely impossible natural phenomena are regarded by the lyric heroine as the conditions for "breaking up with the king", which is tantamount to saying that "breaking up with the king" is absolutely impossible. The result? Only you and "Jun" will love each other forever.
The whole poem is expressive without embellishment. The three sentences "Shangxie" are written with abrupt and extraordinary momentum. They swear to the sky and speak the truth. They not only see the fierceness of love, but also reveal the long-suppressed anger. The five words "long life without end" are sonorous and powerful, full of loyalty and steadfastness. The word "desire" vividly expresses the rebellious female character who cannot be restrained by ethics and pursues a happy life. Although these three sentences do not describe the image, the image of a true-hearted, loyal and strong woman has clearly stood before the readers.
Wang Xianqian of the Qing Dynasty said: "If all five of these things are necessary, then I will not be able to destroy you." This unparalleled way of expressing love at all times and in all countries can be said to be a masterpiece. The heroine in the poem confesses her heart in the form of an oath, and uses impossible natural phenomena to prove her loyalty to love, which indeed has a strong subjective color. The poem is short but sentimental, touching the heart. As Hu Yinglin said: "The best romance, the best in short chapters!"
Volume 5 of Zhang Yugu's "Appreciation of Ancient Poems" in the Qing Dynasty commented on this poem: "The first three, the correct explanation, the meaning has been exhausted. , the last five, try your best to say it in reverse. If you dare to stop it, you can never stop it. Use five things repeatedly, two are based on the earth, two are based on the heaven and the time, until the heaven and the earth are mixed together, and there is no stack. , "The situation is strange and the writing is horizontal." It can be said that every sentence makes sense.
From an artistic point of view, the lyricism of "The Evil" is full of romanticism. The love and desire in it are like the unstoppable eruption of magma, with majestic momentum and compelling passion. Reading "Shangxie", it seems that through the bright poems, you can hear the sound of the woman's rapid breathing. "Shangxie" is a love chapter forged with blood and even life. Its language and sentence patterns are short and long, and are composed according to the mood. The syllables are short and urgent, and the words have ups and downs.
"Shangxie" had a great influence on later generations. "The Bodhisattva Man" written by Dunhuang Qu Ci Shen was obviously inspired by it in terms of ideological content and artistic expression techniques: "I have made a thousand wishes before my pillow, and I have to wait until the green mountains are rotten. The weights float on the water, until the Yellow River is completely orange." . During the day, the sun appears, and the Beidou returns to the south. It cannot rest until the third watch.
"Not only are the pursuit of steadfast and dedicated love and happiness the same, but the artistic conception of using multiple impossibilities to illustrate an impossibility is also exactly the same.