Nan Zhou Juan Er is a poem in The Book of Songs, the first poetry collection in ancient China. This is a poem that expresses people's feelings. It's about a woman who remembered her husband who was away from home during the process of collecting curly ears, and imagined that he had experienced various obstacles. The whole poem consists of four chapters, each with four sentences. The first chapter is actually written, and the second, third and fourth chapters are imaginary situations, combined with reality. This poem begins with the tone of a woman who misses her husband, and then describes the tone of a homesick man. The inner monologues of the hero and heroine unfold in the same scene at the same time, just like a performance drama. His language is beautiful and natural, and he is good at using folk rhetoric at that time and using realistic descriptions to set off emotions.
There are different opinions about the theme background of this poem in past dynasties. "Shi Mao's Note" said: "Curling ears" is also the ambition of empresses, and they should also assist gentlemen, seek virtuous judges and know the diligence of courtiers. Have the ambition to enter the sages, and have no worries. I miss it day and night, and I worry about it. "Yu Guanying's" Book of Songs, National Style and Selected Poems "said:" This is a poem in which a woman misses her husband. "Chen Zizhan's" Three Hundred Poems for Solving Problems "said:" Curled Ears "was written when Dr. qi zhou was working in the Central Plains and his wife missed it." Gao Feng's note in The Book of Songs says: "The author seems to be a small official who works abroad, describing him sitting in his car, walking on a difficult mountain road and thinking of his wife at home."