Li She, a poet in the Tang Dynasty, translated and appreciated the original text.

Pastoral Poetry is a poem by Li She, a poet in the Tang Dynasty. This poem describes a shepherd boy's grazing life and interests. The first four sentences focus on the hard work of the shepherd boy, and the poet uses the transformation of time and space to expand the connotation of the poem. The last four sentences emphasize the interest of grazing: the spring rain is continuous, the shepherd boy walks through the forest and grassland, plays melodious reed flute in his spare time, and then inserts wild Artemisia around his waist at will, just like a sword, which makes him brave and free and easy, so that he is no longer afraid of tigers bullying calves. This whimsy vividly shows the shepherd boy's naive mental outlook, which makes people laugh.

Pastoral ci

1 is used for herding cattle, and 2 is used for herding cattle downstream.

Cattle eat grass at night, and cows eat grass in the village valley.

Lotus leaves the forest, spring rain clears 3, reed pipe blows sedge green 4.

I am afraid that tigers will bully scalpers.

Word annotation

1, Chao (zhāo): in the morning; At sunrise.

2. Jiangqu: Jiangwan.

3. Valley: Valley

4. Subu: Wearing hemp fiber.

5. Reed tube: toys such as whistle made of reed. Cross blow: cross blow. Cyperus sedge: A perennial herb that grows in wet places.

6. Artemisia selengensis (hāo): A pole, which refers to using the stem of the pole as an arrow.

7. Yellow calf (dú): Little yellow cow.

Vernacular translation

Go to herd cattle in the morning and drive them across the winding river bank.

Going to herd cattle at night, passing through several villages and valleys.

Wearing hemp fiber out of the forest, spring rain trickles in Zhejiang, lying on the sand and grass playing the flute and blowing the green river bank.

There are wormwood around, and bows and arrows are hung around the waist, lest the tiger bully the yellow calf.

Literary appreciation

The life of a shepherd boy is uncertain and romantic. Shepherd boys have to go through difficulties and obstacles, and always get fun and love from nature. This is a song sung by a shepherd boy. In the morning, the shepherd boy drives the cattle to graze along the curved river; At night, when the shepherd boy comes back, he will cross the valley of the mountain village in the dark. It's hard to go out early and come back late to herd cattle. In the poem, "morning" and "night" mean "herding cattle" twice, the first means "herding cattle" and the second means "herding cattle". The overlap of the four "cattle herders" creates the rhythm and charm of a ballad, and at the same time shows the hard working life of herding and herding every morning and evening. Xiajiang Qu and du cun Valley also show the richness of grazing life.

The shepherd boy always spends his time in the wild. In the drizzle of spring, the shepherd boy walked through the Woods in hemp fiber; In the shepherd boy's flute, sedge grows green day by day. The shepherd boy fully enjoys the beauty of nature, which is his closest friend. The naughty and lively shepherd boy also put the chrysanthemum as an arrow in his waist, imagining that he had become a majestic warrior, and even the tiger dared not bully the calf again.

The life of the shepherd boy in the poem is not a hazy scene of herding cattle, but the poet's deep experience of herding life is everywhere. The joys and sorrows of the shepherd boy written in the poem are not only observed from the side, but also seem to have been experienced by the poet himself. Only by writing about landscapes and life in this way can we reach the realm of "never leaving" as Wang Guowei said.

The first two sentences, copying the tune of folk songs, wrote the whereabouts of the shepherd boy in the morning and evening. Simple, elegant and handy, but like a folk silhouette painting. This is a picture of a shepherd boy in the future; Let's start to write close-up photos: the spring rain is like silk, silently moistening the earth. The poet seemed to see the shepherd boy walking out of the forest in hemp fiber, and only felt that there was rain in the air. A word "fine" accurately captures the characteristics of spring rain. The next sentence is not about people, but about flutes. The word "lying and blowing" obviously makes people want to see the shepherd boy lying on his back in the sedge, innocent and happy. The melodious flute makes people feel the peace in the valley. "sedge green" takes care of the "fine spring rain" ahead, which makes people feel that everything in the mountain village is so harmonious, serene, fresh and full of vitality. The last two sentences are close-ups of the positive image of the shepherd boy. Naive cowherd dressed himself as a fully armed soldier, "not afraid of tigers bullying yellow calves" is a point of a brave captive character of a shepherd boy in the mountains. With that vivid brushwork and simple and vivid painting, the poet sketched a picture of "Shan Ye Shepherd". The fresh, lively and almost colloquial language makes the whole poem full of rich flavor of life. If you don't live at the bottom of society for a long time, get in touch with the people widely, learn from folk literature and draw nutrition from folk songs, it is impossible to write such a good work.

The content and form of this lyric poem have reached the artistic unity. Its true and delicate description of the shepherd boy's life complements its fresh, smooth, natural and lively charm. As a poem, this lyric poem is very concise and implicit. The interesting and hard grazing life and the intimate and harmonious relationship between the shepherd boy and nature are unknown, but naturally revealed from the artistic conception of the poem.