It means: You give me peaches, and I will give you Qiong Yao in return. Not just to thank you, but to cherish our affection and stay with you forever.
From the Zhou Dynasty folk song "Guo Feng·Wei Feng·Papaya" (selected from "The Book of Songs"), the original text is:
Give me papaya and repay me with Qiongju. It's always good to be rewarded by a bandit!
Give me peaches and give me Qiongyao in return. It's always good to be rewarded by a bandit!
You gave me wood and plums, and you gave me Qiongjiu in return. It's always good to be rewarded by a bandit!
Translation:
You give me papaya, and I will give you Qiongju in return. Not just to thank you, but to cherish our affection and stay with you forever.
You give me the wooden peach, and I will give you Qiong Yao in return. Not just to thank you, but to cherish our affection and stay with you forever.
You give me the wooden plum, and I will give you the Qiongjiu in return. Not just to thank you, but to cherish our affection and stay with you forever.
Extended information
Creative background:
As for the background of "Wei Feng·Papaya", the first Qin ancient poem, there have been many differences in analysis throughout the ages. Modern scholars generally believe that this poem is a love poem, and the author should be a young man.
Appreciation of the work:
"You give me fruit, and I will give you jade in return." It is different from "reciprocating love". The value of the things returned is much greater than the things received. This reflects a noble human emotion (including love and friendship).
This kind of emotion is about heart-to-heart connection and spiritual agreement. Therefore, the things given back and their value actually only have a symbolic meaning here, expressing the feelings towards others towards oneself. The cherishment of affection. The author's mind is broad and broad, and there is no sense of weight or weight. What he wants to express is: cherishing and understanding the affection of others is the noblest affection.
Source of the work:
"The Book of Songs" is the beginning of ancient Chinese poetry and the earliest collection of poetry. It collects poems from the early Western Zhou Dynasty to the middle of the Spring and Autumn Period (11th century BC to 6 BC Century), there are a total of 311 poems, 6 of which are Sheng poems, that is, they only have titles and no content, and are called the six Sheng poems (Nanmei, Baihua, Huashui, Youkang, Chongwu, and Youyi) , reflecting the social outlook of about five hundred years from the beginning of the Zhou Dynasty to the late Zhou Dynasty.
The author of "The Book of Songs" is unknown, and most of it cannot be verified. It is said that it was collected by Yin Jifu and compiled by Confucius.
The Book of Songs is rich in content, reflecting labor and love, war and corvee, oppression and resistance, customs and marriage, ancestor worship and banquets, and even celestial phenomena, landforms, animals, plants and other aspects. It is a masterpiece of Zhou Dynasty A mirror of social life.
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