In the green garden, sunflowers are exposed to the sun.
Spring fills the earth with hope, and everything presents a scene of prosperity.
I am always afraid that when the cold autumn comes, the trees in Ye Er will turn yellow and the grass will wither.
A hundred rivers go east to the sea, when will they return to the west?
A lazy youth, a lousy age.
Translation:
It is useless to study if you don't work hard when you are young and strong. Young people don't work hard, and old people are sad to remind us to cherish time and not to waste it. If you don't cherish time and work hard when you are young, you can only regret yourself and be sad in vain when you are old.
Appreciate:
Yuefu poetry is a genre that can best represent the achievements of Chinese poetry. It often uses fu, bi, xing, intertextuality, and repeated singing to express its feelings, and this song "Long Songs" represents this feature. The author compares the fleeting time of Shaoguang to the return of a hundred rivers to the sea, feeling that "young people don't work hard, but old people are sad" and urging the world to cherish time and make a difference. The whole poem rises from the green sunflowers, and is associated with the changes of the four seasons. Compared with the river, it draws the conclusion that we should seize the time and work hard, and its comparison method is obvious.
"Long song" is suitable for expressing deep affection. This poem is expressive, descriptive, lyrical, sighing and encouraging, which makes the whole poem full of delicate connotations and endless implications. It not only inherits the tradition of "singing and chanting", but also has great formal aesthetic feeling, which is convenient for repeated chanting.
Knowledge expansion:
Yuefu is a special official institution established since the Qin Dynasty, which is responsible for distributing music, training musicians and collecting folk songs. Han Yuefu refers to the poems collected by Yuefu organs in Han Dynasty. These poems were first circulated among the Han people and preserved through Yuefu, which was called "Song Poetry" by the Han people and "Yuefu" or "Han Yuefu" only in the Wei and Jin Dynasties. Poems written by later scholars imitating this form are also called "Yuefu Poems".
Han Yuefu is another great collection of ancient folk songs after The Book of Songs, which is different from The Book of Songs (the Book of Songs is also realism) and creates a new style of poetic realism. Women's works play an important role in the folk songs of Han Yuefu. It uses popular language to construct works close to life, from miscellaneous words to five words, depicts characters in detail with narrative writing, shapes distinctive characters, completes the story, highlights ideological connotation and pays attention to describing typical details, which opens up a new stage in the development of narrative poetry, which is an important stage in the development of five-word poetry in the history of Chinese poetry. Han Yuefu has a very high position in the history of literature, which can keep pace with The Book of Songs and Songs of the South.