Feng Wang Caige is a poem in The Book of Songs, the first poetry collection in ancient China. This poem expresses an eager yearning, and there are always different views, such as lust, fear of slander, caring for friends and thinking of women. Today, it is mostly interpreted as a poem about missing a lover. The whole poem consists of three chapters, each with three sentences. The poet's exaggerated description of psychological activities is very distinctive.
Original: I don't see you for a day, such as March. He took care of him, but he didn't see him all day, just like him. I haven't seen you for a day, and I'm three years old.
Comment on words and phrases:
(1) Feng Wang: The wind of the capital, that is, the music tunes around Luoyi, the capital of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty. The Book of Songs is one of the "fifteen national styles", and there are ten articles today.
(2) collection: collection. Pueraria lobata: Pueraria lobata is a vine whose tubers and stems are edible and can be made into fibers.
⑶ Xiao: Plant name. A kind of Artemisia, namely Artemisia argyi. Aroma, used for sacrifice in ancient times.
(4) Sanqiu: Three autumns. Usually autumn is a year, and then there is a usage that specifically refers to autumn and March. Sanqiu here is longer than March, but shorter than three years, which means the same as three seasons and nine months.
5. Artemisia argyi: a perennial herb, Compositae, with erect stems, white, and four or five feet high. Its leaves are used as medicine to treat moxibustion.
[6] year: year.
Vernacular translation:
I haven't seen a girl picking kudzu for a day, it seems to be March!
I haven't seen the little girl for a day, as if I had been separated from her!
I haven't seen that girl picking moxa all day. It seems to have been three years!