The Original Text, Annotations and Appreciation of the Folk Songs of Han Yuefu Shangxie

Folk songs of Han Yuefu: evil spirits

Folk songs of Yuefu in Han Dynasty refer to poems collected by Yuefu officials in Han Dynasty. Part of them are ancestral temple songs used by rulers to sacrifice ancestors' gods, which are similar in nature to the "ode" in the Book of Songs; The other part is a collection of folk music without a name, which is called Yuefu folk songs internationally. There are more than 40 folk songs in Yuefu poems, most of which are works of the Eastern Han Dynasty, which reflect the social reality and people's life at that time, express love and hate with sharp words, and tend to be realistic.

Han Yuefu folk songs are another great collection of ancient folk songs after The Book of Songs. Among them, female themes occupy an important position. From Zayan to Wuyan, the narrative writing method is used to depict characters in detail, with distinct personality, complete story and prominent ideological connotation, which marks a new stage of the development and maturity of the realistic style of Wuyan narrative poetry. Typical representative works include Mulberry on the Stranger, Peacock Flying Southeast, etc. The latter is the longest narrative poem in ancient China, and it is also called "Yuefu Shuangbi" with Mulan's poems.

Evil (y)! I want to know you and live a long life. There is no mausoleum in the mountains, the river is exhausted, thunder in winter, rain and snow in summer, heaven and earth are United, dare to break with you!

Note 1. Above: refers to the sky. 2. Evil: same as "yes", interrogative word. "Evil" means "Oh, my God". 3. acquaintance: blind date. 4. life: make, make. From the sentence of "long life", it is said that we should not only "know each other with you", but also make this kind of acquaintance last forever. 5. Rain: nouns are used as verbs and fall down. Pronunciation, remainder.

Oh, my God! I want to love you and know each other. I will never die. Unless there are no hills, the Yangtze River and the Yellow River dry up, thunder rumbles in winter, heavy snow falls in summer, and heaven and earth become one, I dare to break up with you!

Reading Tips This article is an infatuated woman's deep confession to her lover, which is very ingenious in art. After the hero in the poem takes the oath of calling heaven, he bluntly wants to "know people and judge their husbands, and live a long life", changing ink from the perspective of "not dying with their husbands", adding more affection than plain narration. The hero imagines three groups of peculiar natural variations as the conditions for "leaving the monarch": "There are no graves in the mountains and rivers are inexhaustible"-the mountains and rivers disappear; "Thunderstorm in winter, rain and snow in summer"-the four seasons are reversed; "Harmony between Heaven and Earth"-Returning to the chaotic world again. These ideas are more absurd than one, more bizarre than one, and impossible to happen. This emphasizes the hero's immortal love, so that the possibility of "parting with your husband" is fundamentally ruled out. This unique lyric way accurately expresses the unique absolute psychology of people in love. Affection and whimsy are really "short chapter miracles."

The oblique sentence pattern is irregular, which increases the difficulty of reading. From the ideographic point of view, from "the mountain has no mausoleum" to "the harmony between heaven and earth", it is best to put down all the four conditions in one breath, then arrange a big mouth, and then "dare to break with the king" readers will feel a little awkward when they start reading. They should be patiently warned that all art forms serve the content, and any language form, no matter how rigorous and beautiful, can only be a meaningless shell without ideographic function, which will undoubtedly form two skins of content and form.