Xiaoya Cai Wei is one of China's ancient realistic poetry anthology The Book of Songs. This is a poem about soldiers returning home, which sings the hard life and homesickness of soldiers who joined the army. This poem consists of six chapters, each with eight sentences. In the first five sections, the author focuses on the hardships of life, strong homesickness and the reasons why he can't go home for a long time, revealing that soldiers have both the pleasure of defending the enemy and the pain of fighting, showing their desire for peace. The last chapter ends the poem with a painful lyric, which is touching. This poem uses overlapping sentence patterns and figurative techniques, which embodies the artistic characteristics of The Book of Songs. The first four sentences of the last chapter describe the scenery and feelings at two specific moments, that is, going out that year and surviving today. The text is simple and profound, and the scene blends, which has always been considered as one of the famous articles in the Book of Songs.
Name of the work
Xiao Ya Cai Wei
Alias of works
Go home after the war
Year of creation
Western Zhou Dynasty
Source of works
The Book of Songs
Literary genre
Four-character poem