The ancient poem "Celege" is read and explained as follows:
Original text:
"Celege"
Celechuan, at the foot of Yinshan Mountain . The sky is like a dome, covering the four fields.
The sky is blue and the fields are vast. Cows and sheep can be seen in the windblown grass.
Explanation:
The vast Chile Plain is at the foot of Yinshan Mountain. The sky is like a huge tent, covering the entire wilderness.
The blue sky stretches as far as the eye can see, and the green fields are endless. A gust of wind blew, and the pasture fell low, revealing groups of cattle and sheep grazing.
Notes:
① "Chile Song": Chile: racial name, lived in Shuozhou (now northern Shanxi Province) during the Northern Qi Dynasty.
②Chilechuan: Chuan: Pingchuan, plain. The place where the Chile people live is in what is now Shanxi and Inner Mongolia. During the Northern Wei Dynasty, the area from present-day Hetao Plain to Tumochuan River was called Chilechuan.
③Yinshan: In the northern part of today's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region.
④ Qionglu: A tent made of felt cloth, that is, a yurt.
⑤ Cover the four fields: Cover, there are other versions called "cover" (Volume 1 of Hong Mai's "Essays of Rong Zhai" and Volume 31 of the later volume of Hu Zai's "Tiaoxi Yuyincong Hua"); Four fields, all directions of the grassland.
⑥The sky is Cang Cang: Cang Cang: green. Cang, green, the sky is green, the sky is blue.
⑦Boundless: The appearance of vastness.
⑧See: Same as "appear", reveal.
Appreciation:
Folk songs sing about the magnificent and fertile scenery of the northern grasslands, and express the Chile people's passion for their hometown and life. The first two sentences explain that Chilechuan is located at the foot of the towering Yinshan Mountain, which makes the background of the grassland very majestic. The next two sentences use the metaphor of "Qionglu", saying that the sky is like a yurt, covering all sides of the grassland. This is used to describe the extremely magnificent scene of the sky and the wild connecting each other as far as the eye can see. The last three sentences describe a panoramic view of the grassland with abundant water and grass and fat cattle and sheep. There is stillness and movement, images and colors.