A graceful lady, a gentleman with a good temper, from "Guofeng·Zhounan·Guanju".
1. Explanation of the poem
(1) "A graceful lady, a gentleman is a good wife" means: A beautiful and virtuous woman is really a good spouse for a gentleman.
(2) Slim and beautiful figure. Yao means profundity, which refers to the beauty of a woman's soul; Yao means beauty, which refers to the beauty of a woman's appearance. Shu, good, kind.
(3) Haoqiu: A good spouse. Qiu, a borrowed word for "Qiu", means matching.
2. Introduction to the work
"Guofeng·Zhounan·Guanju" is the first poem in the "Book of Songs", the first collection of poems in ancient China. It is usually considered to be a poem. A love song describing the love between a man and a woman, it occupies a special position in the history of Chinese literature.
The language of this poem is beautiful, and it is good at using double voices, overlapping rhymes and overlapping words. It cleverly uses the expression technique of "Xing" in art to write about the young man's longing for the girl. In the first chapter, birds sing toward each other and they are in love, evoking the idea of ??a lady accompanying a gentleman. In the following chapters, the act of picking watermelon arouses the protagonist's crazy lovesickness and pursuit of women.
What "Guan Ju" sings about is a kind of love that is emotionally restrained, cautious in behavior, and aims at marital harmony. It is regarded by Confucian scholars as a model for expressing the virtues of husband and wife.