Pre-Qin Dynasty: Anonymous
Guan Heming's osprey, accompanied by the small continent of the river. A beautiful and virtuous woman is a good spouse of a gentleman.
Mix shepherd's purse and salvage it from left to right. A beautiful and virtuous woman wakes up to pursue her.
If you can't pursue it, the black nightclub misses her during the day. Miss Long, I can't sleep over and over again.
Mix shepherd's purse and choose from left to right. A beautiful and virtuous woman came to her with a couple and a couple.
Pull shepherd's purse from left to right. A beautiful and virtuous woman rings the bell to please her.
Translation:
Guan Guan and Ming's pheasant doves are accompanied by small and medium-sized rivers. That beautiful and virtuous woman is a good spouse of a gentleman.
Uneven shepherd's purse, from left to right. That beautiful and virtuous woman wants to pursue her when she wakes up.
I can't get it when I pursue it, and I always miss her day and night. I miss you so much that I can't sleep.
Pick the shepherd's purse from left to right. The beautiful and virtuous woman approached her by playing the harp.
Rugged shepherd's purse, pulled from left to right. A beautiful and virtuous woman rings bells and drums to please her.
(2) Jiaxu
Pre-Qin Dynasty: Anonymous
The Millennium is frost. The so-called Iraqis are on the water side.
Tracing back and forth, the road is blocked and long. Swim back from it, in the middle of the water
It's been a long time, and it hasn't changed for thousands of years. The so-called Iraqis are in the water.
Tracing back and forth from it, the road is blocked and broken. Swim back from the inside and swim in the water.
Jia Cai, peace and prosperity have not passed. The so-called Iraqis are in the water.
Go back and follow, the road is blocked and turn right. Swim back from the inside and swim in the water.
Translation:
The river is green with reeds and frost in autumn. Where is the right person? Just across the river.
It's too long to go upstream to find her. Follow the running water to find her, as if in the middle of the water.
The reeds by the river are dense, and the morning dew is not dry. Where is the right person? Just beyond the river bank.
Sail against the current, it is hard to go climbs. Follow the running water to find her, as if on a beach.
The reeds by the river are thick and thick, and the dew has not been completely collected in the morning. Where is the right person? It's just beyond the water.
It's hard to find a way to find her against the current. Follow the running water to find her as if she were in the water.
(1) The short poem Guo Feng Nan Zhou Guan Ju occupies a special position in the history of China literature. It is the first book in The Book of Songs, the oldest book in China literature. Although judging from the nature, some fairy tales should have been produced earlier, as written records, it is a late thing. Therefore, we can almost say that when we open the history of China literature, the first thing that catches our eye is Guan Ju.
It is not known whether the editors of The Book of Songs have any intention in the arrangement of poems. However, at least the understanding of later generations does not think that Guan Yu was randomly arranged from the beginning. The Analects of Confucius mentioned the Book of Songs many times, but the only work that made a concrete evaluation was Guanju, which was called "Happiness without lewdness, sadness without injury".
In his view, Guan Ju is a model to show the virtue of the "golden mean". The Han Confucian Preface to Mao Poetry also said: "The wind rises, so the wind prevails in the world, and couples are right. Therefore, it is used by the villagers and used by the country. " This involves an ethical thought in ancient China: in the eyes of the ancients, husband and wife are the beginning of human relations, and all moral perfection in the world must be based on the virtue of husband and wife. The author of Preface to Mao Poetry thinks that Guan Ju has exemplary significance in this respect, so it is listed as "the beginning of Feng". It can be used to influence the world, not only for the "villagers" that is, ordinary people, but also for the "nation" that is, the ruling class.
In fact, the content of Guan Yu is very simple. It's about a gentleman's pursuit of a lady. If he doesn't get a lady, he will be upset and can't sleep over and over. I was very happy when I got a "lady". I invited people to play music to celebrate and make the "lady" happy. The identity of the characters in the works is very clear: "gentleman" is a general term for nobles in the era of the Book of Songs, and this "gentleman" occupies a considerable position in preparing the music of harps, bells and drums.
I used to interpret this poem as a "folk love song", but I'm afraid it's wrong. It should describe the life of the aristocratic class. Besides, it's good to say it's a love poem, but I'm afraid it's not an ordinary love poem. It turned out to be a wedding song, which was praised by the man's family and wished the bride a happy marriage. Many ballads in The Book of Songs, National Style, have both general lyrical significance and entertainment functions, and are also practical in etiquette. However, it is not known what purpose some poems were originally given to future generations, so they are only regarded as ordinary songs. It is also appropriate to sing Guan Ju as a wedding song, from My Fair Lady, Gentleman is Good, to male prostitute, Bells and Drums.
Of course, this poem itself still appears in the form of a love song in which a man pursues a woman. The reason for this is probably related to the fact that the man is the active party in the general marriage relationship. Even in modern times, when a girl has a crush on a boy, she always has to wait for him to speak first, especially in the ancients. Marry a bride, praise her as a beautiful and virtuous girl and a good spouse of a gentleman, and say that she once missed her very much and was lovesick, which must be very pleasing to the bride. Then, in a piece of music, our feelings are close to each other, and a happy marriage begins here. Even from the emotional structure of poetry, there are some twists and turns in the middle, from thinking of a wife when meeting Guan Yu to forming a good piano, chess and calligraphy: hard-won things are particularly valuable and enjoyable.
(2) If the "Iraqi" in the poem is regarded as a lover, then this poem shows the melancholy mood of the lyric hero's persistent pursuit of beautiful love. The spirit is precious and the feelings are sincere, but the result is slim and the situation is sad.
But the most valuable thing in this poem is not the pursuit and loss of the lyric hero, but the artistic conception of "being on the water side" created by him, which has universal significance. Good poetry can create artistic conception. Artistic conception is a pattern and a structure, which has the performance of containing all heterogeneous things with similar patterns and structures.
The structure of On the Water is: chasing troops-rivers-Iraqis. Because the "Iraqi people" in the poem has no specific reference, and the meaning of the river lies in the barrier, all the pursuits that are difficult to achieve because of being blocked in the world can be isomorphic and resonate here.