meaning
There are trees on the mountain, and trees have branches.
source
Song Yue is the earliest poem in the history of China literature praising the friendship between nobles and laborers.
original text
What a night tonight, roaming in the river.
What day is today? Together with the prince.
I'm ashamed. I don't deserve my humble opinion.
Confused mood can not only satisfy the prince.
There are trees on the mountain and branches on the tree. My heart likes you. You don't know that.
translate
What a wonderful night tonight. I swam on the river by boat.
What day is it today? I can go boating with the prince.
Thanks to the respect of the prince, he didn't dislike me and scold me just because I was a boat.
I am confused because I know that he is actually a prince.
There are trees on the mountain and trees have branches. I like you in my heart, but you don't know it.
To annotate ...
Qiān: pull. When you are rowing, you still say that you are rowing. Zhou: Quoted from Bei Tang Book Tide, Volume 106, "Boat".
Be (pi): same as "cover", cover.
Zi (zǐ Zi): Speak ill.
Shame: shame.
Ji (jρ): the same as "machine".
Prince: This refers to the son's black arm (? -529 BC), Zi Xi, the prince of Chu in the Spring and Autumn Period, was the father of the king of Chu.
Yue: Yes.
Create a story
During the Spring and Autumn Period, Xi, the mother brother of the King of Chu, was playing by the river, and bells and drums were ringing. The boatman is Vietnamese. As soon as the music stopped, he sang a song in Vietnamese with his paddle in his arms. Xi couldn't understand "E Jun Zi" and translated it into "Chu". It's the ballad above. The song sings the deep and sincere love of the Vietnamese people, and the lyrics are pun-intended, euphemistic and implicit. It is the earliest translated poem by China, and it is also the crystallization and witness of the blending of ancient Chu and Yue cultures. It directly influenced the creation of Chu Ci.