How to understand the poem Qing Yang in Han Dynasty?

original text

Qingyang

From green watermelon, roots take root, frost moistens love, and line fishing.

Whether the sound is brilliant or not, you can hear it on your deathbed, and it will become a kind of life.

The crowd is bustling, the living die, and they eat in groups, but it is spring.

translate

Spring has come, and the grass has begun to take root and sprout. The rain and dew in spring moistens everything, and all animals and plants are covered with rain and dew. Spring thunder bursts. After hearing the sound of spring thunder, all the animals dormant in the cave became happy, and then they got up, ended their long hibernation and started a new life in spring. Plants withered in winter have sprouted, and all life can grow in spring. In spring, everything is happy, and the grace of spring extends to the unborn life. Everything thrives because it is favored by spring.

Brief analysis

Qingyang refers to spring. When the ceremony of offering sacrifices to heaven was held in the Han Dynasty, the gods of the four seasons were also offered sacrifices. This song "Qingyang" was specially written to worship the God of Spring. This song depicts the prosperity of the spring returning to the earth and expresses the desire to pray for the gods.