The original text and pinyin of "Caige" are: bǐbi cǎi Cai Ge xīxi! One day and one day, the sun is invisible, and the sun is like three, three, and the moon is shining! bǐhe cǎicaixiaoxiaoxīxi! Day after day, we never see each other, just like three autumn days! bǐhe cǎi pickài moxa xīxi! yī a rì day bú not jiàn see, rú is like sān three suì years old xī!
"Wang Feng·Plucking Ge" is a poem in the "Book of Songs", the first collection of poems in ancient China. This poem expresses an urgent emotion of lovesickness. There have always been different opinions, including the theory of lust, fear of slander, cherishing friends, and the theory of soldiers missing their wives. Nowadays, it is mostly interpreted as a poem about missing a lover. The poem has three chapters, each chapter has three lines. The poet uses exaggeration to describe psychological activities, which is very distinctive.
This is a short poem about missing my lover. Picking kudzu is for weaving, picking Xiao is for offering sacrifices, and picking mugwort is for curing diseases. It is all women who are working hard. A man misses his lover, and missing him for one day is like three autumns (months or years). To say that a day can be as long as three months, three seasons, or even three years is of course the difference between physical time and psychological time.
Using this counterintuitive way of writing is just to express the depth and depth of his thoughts. Lovers in love all want to stay together day and night, rubbing each other's cheeks. Separation is a great pain to them. As the saying goes, "It's joy to get to know each other, sorrow to be parted." Even if it's a short separation, it seems to him or her that The time was so long that it was unbearable.
The three chapters of this poem capture the most common and torturous emotion that everyone can understand. They chant it repeatedly, changing only a few words in the overlap, and the longing for the lover becomes more and more painful. The increasingly intense emotions were vividly displayed. Chapter 2 uses "autumn" instead of "spring", "summer" and "winter" to represent the seasons because in autumn the vegetation is falling and the autumn wind is bleak, which can easily lead to feelings of separation.
Creative background
As for the background of "Wang Feng·Cai Ge", because there is no specific content, the old theory is very arbitrary. For example, "Preface to Mao's Poems" thinks it is "fear of slander" ", as the saying goes, "If you don't see the king for a day, you will be worried about slander." Zhu Xi's "Collected Poems" denounced it as a poem about "lewd running", saying, "The reason why picking Ge is a 絺猌 is to support those who run wild." Because referring to this person, it means that I miss him deeply, but it seems that I have been missing him for a long time."
Wu Maoqing's "Mao Shihui Lu" believes that picking Ge (Xiao, Ai) is a metaphor for cultivating talents in daily life. "You can only use them temporarily. If you ask for them too urgently... one day will last as long as three months." "; Mou Ting's "Shiqie" also said that "if you stab someone to get a wife... you will only indulge in her beauty. If you don't see her for one day, you will miss her for as long as three months."