Picked and picked, half a day less than a small basket. I miss my lover, and the food basket was abandoned on the road.
When climbing the high Rocky Mountain, the horse's feet were down. Let's pour a golden pot of wine first to comfort me.
Climbing up the high mountain ridge, the horse's legs are already soft and confused. Fill my glass and keep me away from my inner sadness.
I'm sorry, but I'm sorry I'm so tired, why bother!
Vernacular translation
Pick, pick, pick, turn your ears up, and less than a small basket for half a day. Missing my sweetheart, the vegetable basket was abandoned by the roadside.
Climbing that high rocky mountain, the horse was exhausted. Fill the golden pot of wine first to comfort my thoughts and sadness.
Climbing the mountain back, the horse's legs are weak and confused. Fill a large glass of wine first, lest I feel sad.
Climbing up the rocky hill with difficulty, the horse fell to one side exhausted, and the servant was exhausted, but helpless and worried!
Curled Ear, one of Nan Zhou's The Book of Songs. It is a folk song of the Chinese people in the pre-Qin period. The whole poem has four chapters. Four sentences in each chapter. It's a poem in the Book of Songs, which expresses people's feelings. At the beginning of this poem, a woman thinks of her husband who is away from home while collecting curly ears, and imagines all kinds of situations when her husband is away from home. The whole poem consists of four chapters, the first chapter is actually written, and the second, third and fourth chapters are imaginary situations and the combination of reality and reality. At first, it was written in the tone of a woman who missed her husband, and later it was written in the tone of a man who was homesick and had a hard journey. It was like a performance drama, in which the inner monologues of the hero and heroine were in the same scene and unfolded at the same time. The Book of Songs is the first collection of poems in the history of China literature. It had a far-reaching impact on the development of poetry in later generations and became the source of the realistic tradition of China's classical literature.