Classic mourning poems in the Book of Songs
The Book of Songs is the first comprehensive collection of poems in my country, which contains more than 500 years of poems from the early Western Zhou Dynasty to the mid-Spring and Autumn Period. There are three hundred and five articles, and there are naturally some mourning poems in them. Now please join me from the website of sad sentences for fresh graduates to appreciate China's first mourning poem "Green Clothes" in the days before Qingming Festival.
Original text:
Green clothes? The Book of Songs? Beifeng
Green clothes are everywhere, green clothes are yellow.
The heart is worried, and it is protected!
The clothes are green, and the clothes are green and yellow.
The heart is worried, and Hewei will perish!
The green is silky, and it is ruled by women.
I think of the ancients, but I am so sad!
I am so sad and sad.
I think of the ancients, and they really win my heart!
Translation:
Green clothes, green clothes, green face and yellow lining.
My heart is sad, my heart is sad, when will it stop!
Green clothes, green clothes, green tops and yellow bottoms.
My heart is sad, my heart is sad, when will I forget it!
Green silk thread, green silk thread, you sew it with your own hands.
I miss my deceased good wife, who makes me less guilty.
Fine kudzu cloth, oh coarse kudzu cloth, put on the skirt of your clothes in the cold wind.
I miss my deceased good wife, who really cared about my heart.
Background:
This poem is also considered by some scholars to be China's first "mourning poem". Like "Gesheng", whether it belongs to the category of mourning in the history of Chinese poetry is also unclear. There is controversy. The old saying is that the main theme of the poem is Wei Zhuang and Jiang Shangji. "Preface to Mao's Poems" says: "The concubine has committed arrogance and the wife has lost her position, so this poem is written." ?Zhu Xi's "Collected Poems" says: ?Gong Zhuang was confused by his concubine, and his wife Zhuang Jiangxian lost her position, so he composed this poem. ?However, many annotations of later generations all mentioned the sound of mourning for his death, and both "Gesheng" and "Gesheng" are regarded as classics of mourning poems.
This is a poem in memory of my deceased wife. Thinking about people after seeing things is the most common psychological phenomenon in mourning and nostalgia. When a person has just emerged from deep grief, seeing the clothes and utensils of the deceased or things made by the deceased will arouse the excitement that was just suppressed and fall into grief again.
This poem has a great influence in the history of literature. Jin Panyue's "Mourning Poem" is very famous, but its expression technique was actually influenced by "Green Clothes". For example, in the first poem, there is no trace on the curtain screen, but there are traces of calligraphy and ink; the fragrance has not stopped yet, but it is still hanging on the wall?, when will you forget your sleep pleasure, and the worries will accumulate day by day? etc., it is the first and second pieces of "Green Clothes" Zhang Yi; Another example is Yuan Zhen's "Removal of Sorrows", which is also a masterpiece of mourning. The third poem says: "The clothes have been worn, but the needle and thread are still there and cannot be untied." ? All created by "Green Clothes". It can be seen that this poem actually opens infinite doors for future generations in terms of expression techniques.
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