Dynasty: Ming Dynasty Author: Mao Xuan
Get up and put on new clothes. Beginner sister-in-law says goodbye.
Bow your head and be ashamed to meet people, and your hands are bound by nepotism.
Three hundred ancient poems, girl.
Relevant translation
A maiden's words notes
Sister-in-law: This is what the bride means. Knot: Knot and fondle. Fold∧
Correlation appreciation
Appreciation of girls' ci
In the history of classical poetry in China, there are few poems dedicated to girls (including girls), but most of them are poetic and have their own characteristics. Zuo Si, a famous poet in the Western Jin Dynasty, wrote a poem about charming girls, which is the earliest beautiful poem about girls' modality in ancient China. This poem tries its best to describe the poet's two daughters-Su Wan, the youngest daughter, and Fang Hui, the eldest daughter. They are lovely. As Tan commented in Ming Dynasty: "Every word is a woman and every word is a charming girl, so be reasonable, enjoy yourself and do your best." Although there are only 20 words, Mao Xuan, a poet in the Ming Dynasty, vividly describes a girl's modality, "as if in front of her eyes", which is no less than Zuo Si's 280-word poem Jiao Nv.
Mao Xuan's "Poetry for Girls", in just a few words, makes an innocent and lovely girl image jump from the paper. In the first two sentences of the poem, a girl gets out of bed and puts on new clothes, and learns to worship the bride when she gets married for the first time. Here, the girl's action of "getting out of bed in new clothes" leads to another action of "worshipping her sister-in-law", and the word "Chu" was written before, which highlights the seeds of her love. The poet wrote a girl's "learning to worship sisters-in-law" in order to describe her mentality, so the poem did not specifically describe her learning to worship, which is no different from Shi Jianwu's "Poetry for Girls". In three or four sentences, the pen turned and described a girl's shy mentality with action. "Ashamed to meet people" means directly pointing out that young girls are shy and afraid of being teased by others to "imitate their sister-in-law". "Hands tied by nepotism" is about a girl who touches her nepotism with her hands tied to hide her shyness. And if she wants to "form a nepotism", she has to "bow her head", and her unnatural psychology is covered up by the natural movements above. This poem depicts the modality of a young girl, and its language is simple and natural. Seemingly handy, but actually quite skilled. Reading it gives readers the feeling of being in the environment and seeing others. Mr. Lu Xun, a master of modern literature, wrote two poems, "I suddenly remembered my love, but pretended to look at Luo socks to cover my tears" ("Smell"), and wrote a "charming girl" (maid) who gave a banquet to a rich family, and used the action of "pretending to look at Luo socks" to cover up her "tears" at the rich family banquet and her sadness after losing her loved ones (killed by the war). These two poems by Lu Xun are a portrayal of reality, and perhaps he was also inspired by Mao Xuan's Poems for Girls when writing.
Shi Jianwu's Poems for Girls and Mao Xuan's Poems for Girls both vividly depict the image of girls with distinctive personality, and are also poetic and interesting in childishness. But the difference is also obvious. This is not only because of the subtle differences in the age of young girls and the different methods of age interpretation, but also because of the different childish behaviors and expressions of young girls. The young girl in Shishi's poems is only 6 years old, which is directly pointed out by "the young girl is only 6 years old". The age of girls in Mao's poems is not directly pointed out in the poems, and readers can find the answer between the lines themselves. This girl is not a "scholar Yue Bai" like the girl in Shishi's poems, but a "sister-in-law" who attended the wedding. It can be seen that she is over six years old. She knows how to "wear new clothes" and "be ashamed to meet people", and even knows how to hide her shame. She goes to "nepotism with her hands", which shows that she is still a "young girl" and has not yet reached adulthood, otherwise she can't do the action of "worshipping her sister-in-law".
Shishi wrote about the childish behavior of girls, highlighting their self-abandonment, which shows their childlike innocence. In terms of writing style, Shi Shixian bluntly said that girls are young and ignorant, and they can't tell "smart" from "clumsy", which laid the foundation for the later writing. Then, taking the action description of "Night in front of the temple, worshipping the new moon" as a reference, make an image footnote for "Unknown Skillfulness". Here, there is a bright ratio between the age and behavior of young girls, and a dark ratio between the "cleverness" of others and the "clumsiness" of young girls. This kind of inking makes the image of a girl come alive and move.
Mao's poems describing girls' childlike innocence mainly reflect their love seeds and are ashamed to see people's childlike innocence. Throughout Mao's poems, the technique of line drawing is used. A poem is a painting, which vividly outlines a series of actions of a girl. In writing, except for writing "learning to worship" for girls, there are similarities (in fact, the content of learning to worship is also inconsistent), and the rest are obviously different from poetry. In the poem, a series of action descriptions, such as girls getting up and wearing new clothes, going to worship at the wedding, lowering their heads, tying their hands and doting on nepotism, and the psychological description of "being ashamed to meet people", highlight the shy character of girls learning to worship, and write a "girl" at a specific age and environment as pure and lovely. The girls in Shishi's poems are young and inexperienced, and "learning to worship" is purely out of curiosity; The young girls in Mao's poems are much more sensible because they are old. Besides curiosity, the reason why she "learned to worship" lies in "Seeds of Love", and the word "early" in the poem can be said to convey a message. The brushwork of poetry is straight, while the brushwork of Mao's poetry is curved.
Li Zhi, a writer in the Ming Dynasty, once said, "There is nothing in the world that doesn't come from childlike innocence", which means that the best articles in the world come from childlike innocence (sincere) authors. In fact, the same is true of poetry. Naive and poetic, they set each other off. Although the brushwork is different, the poem will be wonderful and enduring. This is also confirmed in Shi Jian's two poems about girls written by Wu and Mao Xuan.