Original poem: Evil
Han Dynasty: Anonymous
Evil! I want to know you and live a long life.
There is no mausoleum in the mountains, the river is exhausted, there is Lei Zhen in winter, and there is rain and snow in summer. Only when heaven and earth become one can we break with you.
Translation: Oh, my God! I am willing to fall in love with you and make our love last forever. Unless the mountains lose their edges and corners, unless the raging rivers dry up and stop flowing. I dare to abandon my affection for you, unless it is thunderous in the cold winter and snowy in the hot summer, which is connected with heaven and earth!
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Regret for the Past is one of the Eighteen Poems of Gui, which belongs to Yuefu prose songs. Regret for the Past is a folk love song, a love poem with strong feelings and unrestrained momentum. In this poem, this woman expresses her eternal feelings for her lover. She swore by heaven and witnessed by the earth that she would always love her lover.
The Dictionary of Poetry Appreciation in Han, Wei and Six Dynasties holds that thinking should be combined. "Thinking" is to consider breaking up, and "evil" is a firmer oath after making up your mind. Yuefu Poetry Appreciation Dictionary holds that they are independent of each other.
Shang Yang had a great influence on later generations. The Bodhisattva Man in Dunhuang Quzi Ci is obviously inspired by it in ideological content and artistic expression. Not only is it the same to pursue loyal and single-minded love and happiness, but it is also the same to constantly explain an impossible artistic conception with various impossibilities.