Your dancing posture is rippling, dancing on the hills. I admire you with all my heart, but I dare not have extravagant hopes.
From "Guofeng·Chen Feng·Wanqiu" is a poem in the "Book of Songs", the first collection of poetry in ancient China. The author is unknown. This poem describes a man's love for a witch dancer, and reflects the cultural connotation of projecting uncontrollable emotions into the external form of music and dance of the existential essence of life. ?
The whole poem is as follows:
The soup of the son is flowing, and the water is flowing on the Wanqiu. There is love but no hope.
Kanqi beats the drum under Wanqiu. There is no winter and no summer, it is worth its egret feathers.
Hitting the fou is the way of Wanqiu. There is no winter and no summer, just like the egret.
The translation is as follows:
Your dancing posture is circling, dancing on the hills. I admire you with all my heart, but I dare not have extravagant hopes.
The drums are beating loudly and dancing on the flat ground. No matter the cold winter or the hot summer, the white egret's feathers are flying in its hands.
The sound of hammering and fou clanging, dancing on Wanqiu Avenue. Whether in cold winter or hot summer, heron feather ornaments are worn on the head.
The notes are as follows:
Wanqiu: a flat earth mountain in the middle of the surrounding high mountains.
Extended information:
The opening two sentences describe the poet being intoxicated by the graceful and unrestrained dance of the witch, and his emotions arose as he danced. The two characters "xi" seem ordinary, but are actually profound. The sigh of beauty reveals the poet's uncontrollable love.
But the witch danced happily, seemingly unaware of the emotions surging in the heart of the viewer, which made the poet melancholy sigh "There is emotion, but there is no hope". The same two " The word "xi". You can also taste his resentment that unrequited love can never be a good thing and that nothing can be done.
The second and third chapters are all written in line drawing without a word of love, but the witch dance scenes depicted still convey the poet's emotional connection everywhere. In the lively and lively sound of drums and fou, the witch kept dancing, from the top of Wanqiu Mountain to the entrance of the mountain, from the cold winter to the hot summer; the space has changed, the time has changed, but her dance has not changed much. , still so high-spirited, still so passionate and unrestrained, still so profound with irrepressible wild beauty;
And at the same time - although it is not stated explicitly in the poem, readers can still fully imagine - the poet He has been watching her dancing with affectionate eyes, and has been silently chanting in his heart: How much I love you, but you don’t know! While he had a clear understanding of the impossibility of his love succeeding, he still lingered on her. His unforgettable emotion was truly amazing.
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