(1) The art of war consists of 12 volumes, each with a name.
(2) Returning to see the son of heaven, the son of heaven sat in the hall.
(3) When you go out to meet a fire companion, you are both surprised and busy.
(4) A strong man will return to see the son of heaven after ten years.
On the key points of Mulan's poems
1. Bixing technology
There is a song in the folk song "Folding Willow" in the Northern Dynasties. The first six sentences are "Why bother He Lili? Women are supposed to knit windows. I don't smell the loom, only the woman's sigh. What is this woman thinking? Ask the woman what she remembers? " The first six sentences of Mulan Poetry are six sentences of Zheliu. Ancient folk songs often use the same inspiration and metaphor, and some words are similar or even the same (there are many examples of folk songs in the Book of Songs), because the words are the same and easy to remember. This is not plagiarism, because the theme and content can be completely different. The beginning of Mulan Poem is probably also "He Lili", which was changed to "chirp after chirp" by later generations. "He Lili" has no specific meaning, such as "Yahuhai" and "Yazuizi Yo", which is a phonetic word.
2. Khan and the son of heaven
"Khan" is the title of the ancient northwest nationalities to the monarch, and "Tian Zi" is the title of the Han nationality to the monarch in feudal society. But in this poem, "Khan" has become synonymous with "the son of heaven", which can no longer follow the original meaning of the so-called "fascinated king" in Guang Yun. This can only be regarded as a foreign language component in Chinese in the era of Mulan poetry. Otherwise, Mulan went because of Khan, but she was rewarded by the Son of Heaven when she came back. Isn't this inconsistent?
Since Mulan's poems come from the Northern Dynasties and Mulan is a native of the Northern Dynasties, it can be verified that Mulan is not a Han Chinese, and her monarch is naturally the leader of the separatist regime of ethnic minorities in the Northern Dynasties, and the Northern and Southern Dynasties are a period of great ethnic integration in China's history, so the most likely assumption is that the leaders of ethnic minority regimes in the Northern Dynasties are also willing to accept the title of "emperor" under the influence of Chinese culture.
"Twelve" is an imaginary number.
Twelve Volumes of the Strategy, Twelve Years of Traveling Together, and Ten Years' Return of a Strong Man-the two "twelve" and one "ten" in these three sentences are imaginary numbers. Traditionally, such numbers all mean "more". "Twelve years" and "ten years" in the two sentences "Twelve years with the company" and "Ten years of the return of a strong man" both mean more than ten years. If we use real numbers to understand them, there will be contradictions before and after. Twelve volumes of the art of war, each with its own name, aims to emphasize that Mulan's father must go out this time. Wang Zhong, a writer in A Qing, wrote an article "Interpretation of Thirty-nine", which put forward the usage rules of imaginary numbers such as three and nine, and clarified the textual research and debate about numbers by predecessors.
4. Buy horses in the east, saddles in the west, reins in the south and whips in the north.
The words "east, south, west and north" in the sentence "buying horses in the east market" are all empty positions rather than real positions. This only exaggerates the urgency of Mulan's preparation before departure, which is actually unreasonable. The words "east" and "west" in the following "open my Dongting door and sit in my Xiting bed" are also vacant, so it is not enough according to the facts. Many of these locative words are used together to create a certain atmosphere, rather than the actual reference. This kind of "imaginary position", like the imaginary number mentioned above, is an established rule in ancient Chinese.
When the window is covered with clouds, the mirror is yellow
When the Window and Facing the Mirror are intertextual. "Li Yunbian" and "Iron" were both made when the window was facing the mirror. This usage is common in ancient poems, especially in ancient metrical poems. For example, in Wang Changling's poems in the Tang Dynasty, "The moon is bright in Qin Dynasty, but it is intermittent in Han Dynasty" is an example.
"Flower yellow" is the facial decoration of women in the Northern Wei Dynasty. There are two sayings: one is that "folk women were not allowed to make up in Yuan and Wei Dynasties; Since the imperial secretary, all have yellow eyebrows and black makeup. Therefore, there is a saying in Mulan Poetry that' the mirror is full of water and the moon is yellow'. " ("Gushan Pen Dust") It is also said that the gold paper is cut into the shapes of stars, moons, flowers and birds and pasted on the forehead.