The "Preface to Poems" states that this poem is the work of "Xuan Jiang, the assassin of Wei". The "Collected Poems" says that this poem is: "The people of Wei stabbed Xuan Jiang and were stubborn, and they followed each other. Therefore, it was Hui Gong's words to stab him." Some people think that this poem is a satirical work of Wei Xuangong. . Jin Qihua's "Modern Translation of Guofeng" explains this poem as: "A woman's rebuke to a bad man." It is more convincing.
From the perspective of poetry, this poem should be a folk song. The poet is a woman who spurns the man who is respected by her but has corrupt moral character. This means that quails and magpies know how to stay together and fly together. But this man whom she respected was corrupt, incestuous, and reckless. He was worse than a beast. But she always regarded him as an elder brother and a gentleman. Little did she know that he was not a humble and kind-hearted person, and he was disrespectful and disrespectful, which made her feel very sad. So, in a rage, she wrote a poem to denounce him to relieve her anger.
From this, we can speculate that this poem may be the resentful work of a woman who was toyed with after being bullied by a hypocrite; it may also be the work of an abandoned woman who treats her husband erratically and even corruptly. A rebuke of family behavior; or a woman's scolding of her immoral close brother; if it breaks out again, it may be a prostitute's resentment towards a ruthless man she believed in who is good at playing with flowers. work. In short, no matter what inferences are made, the main purpose of this poem should be based on the fundamental principle of "women criticizing men".
The whole poem uses metaphorical techniques to warn people that quails and magpies still know that there are always horses to live in and constant companions to fly. However, the "unscrupulous" people in the poem are worse than beasts, and she wrongly He treats him like a gentleman. Based on this, the author forms a strong inverse contrast between the feelings and attitudes of "unscrupulous" people and animals towards love and marriage, which strengthens the critical power of the poem.
Although the whole poem only has two chapters and eight sentences, and does not directly provide any objective description of the image of the male protagonist, it can make his image very vivid and prominent. This is rooted in the dramatic and extremely powerful emotional gap created by the poem and text. This gap comes from the different attitudes of humans and animals towards opposite-sex spouses. This difference in attitudes creates this huge and disparate inverse contrast. . As a result, the male protagonist's bad image hits him directly, which is chilling but disgusting.
The first two sentences of the two chapters of the poem are exactly the same, but the position has changed, but it can give people a sense of looping and interlacing. Although there is only one word difference between the last two lines of each chapter, they avoid the monotonous feeling that is easily caused when chanting repeatedly. This should be an important artistic strategy in "The Book of Songs: Guofeng" for this kind of poetry with repeated chapters and lines.