Qikuo: the meaning of gathering and parting. Contract, combination; Wide, far away.
Agreements, negotiations and contracts.
Live and die together, we have taken an oath. Let me hold your hand and die together on the battlefield. It is touching to describe the mutual encouragement between soldiers, living and dying together. It is also used to describe the deep affection between husband and wife in later generations.
Extended data:
The Book of Songs, Tai Feng and Drum Music
Drums are dull and soldiers actively use them. Cao Tuguocheng, I travel south alone.
From Sun Zizhong, Chen Pinghe and Song Dynasty. No, I'm going home. I'm worried.
Where do you live? Lost his horse? For it? Under the forest.
Life and death are generous, and Zi Cheng says. Hold your hand and grow old with your son.
I am rich, but I am still alive. Sorry, but I believe it.
Translation:
The drums were blaring and the soldiers were busy practicing martial arts. Some people built roads and walls, and I went to the south to join the army alone.
Follow and lead Sun Zizhong and unite allies Chen and Song. Don't want me to go back to China, which worries me.
Where can I rest? Where to find a horse after running away? Where to find it all the way? Unexpectedly, it has entered the forest.
Live and die together, we have taken an oath. Let me hold your hand and die together on the battlefield.
Alas, we are too far apart to meet again. Alas, separation is too long to keep the oath.
Guo Feng Gaofeng Drumming is a typical war poem in The Book of Songs, the first poetry collection in ancient China.
This is a homesick song sung by a soldier who has gone to a foreign country and can't go home for a long time. The whole poem consists of five chapters, each with four sentences. In the first three chapters, people are asked to tell the story of the expedition, which is dense and full of complaints. The last two chapters describe the mutual encouragement between soldiers, which is touching. This poem describes the sorrow of foot soldiers who have been fighting for a long time.
References:
Guofeng Gao Feng drumming _ Baidu Encyclopedia