The feathers of mayflies, the clothes are beautiful. My heart is full of worries, and I will return to my home.
Mayfly wings, picking clothes. The sorrow in my heart has come to rest with me.
Mayflies dig and read,
like snow. My heart is full of worries, please tell me.
[Explanation]
Bemoan the shortness of life, like
a mayfly.
[Note]
1. Mayfly (floating fú yóu): the name of the insect.
2. Chu Chu: "The Biography of Mao": "Chu Chu has a distinctive appearance."
"Feng Shi Lei Chao": "The feathers of the mayfly, the clothes are Chu Chu, just like Chu Chu's clothes , Like the feathers of a mayfly. ”
3. Where I am: "Zheng Jian": "What should you do?"
4. Caicai: Still "Chu Chu", with distinctive appearance.
5. Read: Cave. "Justice": "When the mayflies first dig out of the ground, they rarely say (joy)."
6. Say (tax shuì): rest. "Ji Zhuan": "Say, give up your breath."
[Reference translation]
The wings of the mayfly are thin and light, and the clothes are gorgeous and vivid. My heart is so sad and pitiful
!
The mayfly spreads its wings and dances, and the clothes are gorgeous and bright. My heart is filled with sorrow, and I wonder where I will end up.
The mayflies flew out through the holes, their arms as white as white
. I feel so sad in my heart, where is my destination? Explanation: After the larvae of the mayfly emerge, they will have shiny and bright clothes.
My heart is sad and sad! With beauty is when I return.
Mayflies have beautiful wings, like shiny new clothes.
My heart is filled with sorrow and sadness! With beauty is my destination.
The mayfly emerges from the water like a mass of snow-white mourning clothes.
My heart is filled with sorrow and sadness! Having mourning clothes is the final destination.
Comments:
Cao, the name of the country. When King Wu of the Zhou Dynasty destroyed King Zhou of the Shang Dynasty and established the Zhou Dynasty, he enfeoffed his brother Zhenduo in Cao Di, which is in the southwest of Dingtao, Shandong Province, and is also considered to be the land of today's Caozhou. In 487 BC, due to constant wars at that time, Chu State often attacked Song State and other countries, so some countries formed alliances based on their own terrain, military strength, etc. Cao State once formed an alliance with Song State and Jin State. Thirty years later, Cao State turned its back on Song and Jin, so Song attacked Cao State, while Jin sat idly by and did nothing to help. Song finally destroyed Cao State and annexed Cao State's land. As "Zuo Zhuan of Spring and Autumn Annals" said: "In the spring of the eighth year, the Duke of Song attacked Cao Cao and returned to Chu's Master Zi Fei Palace. Cao's people criticized him, but he couldn't do it, so the master treated him. When the Duke heard about it, he was angry and ordered him to go against it, so he destroyed Cao and executed him. Cao Boyang and Sicheng were strong enough to return and kill them. "The eight years here refers to what happened in the spring of the eighth year of Duke Ai of Lu. ***There are four poems and essays.
Mayfly: A type of insect. If it lives in water, it can live for one to five or six years; when it matures into an adult, it has two pairs of extremely thin and shiny wings and two or three filaments on its tail. The adults fly on the water surface and have a survival period of only a few hours to about a week.
This poem uses the short-lived ephemera to symbolize something with a short life. So what does this poem symbolize? The author thinks it is still a metaphor for the short-lived Bao Si who only used her beauty to seduce King You of Zhou and confuse the country and destroy the Western Zhou Dynasty. According to the Records of the States of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, Bao Si was a maid during the reign of King Li of the Zhou Dynasty who became pregnant due to the imprint of Xiao Yuan's turtle. It was not until the last years of King Xuan of the Zhou Dynasty that she gave birth to a woman. Her mother's pregnancy lasted for more than fourteen years. In the year of 1948, Empress Jiang, the wife of King Xuan of Zhou Dynasty, thought it was unlucky, so she ordered her maid to throw it away by the ditch. Later, she was picked up by the people who praised the land, and she raised her until she was fourteen years old. Rong, a beauty with a beauty that captivated the country, was later bought and presented to King Zhou You by the people who admired the land. This led to King Zhou You's promiscuity. Bao Si entered the palace in the fourth year of King You of Zhou, and King Zhou You and Bao Si died in the eleventh year of King Zhou You. That is, it was only more than six years after Bao Si entered the palace. He died when he was only about twenty years old.
In this poem, mayflies are used to breed in the water for five or six years to symbolize Bao Si’s gestation in his mother’s womb for more than forty years; mayflies are used to breed into adults and their short life is used to symbolize Bao Si. The short life of adulthood. That is to say, since mayflies have beautiful coats, they have become short-lived creatures; Baosi was picked up from the ditch, just like the larvae of mayflies that have lived in the water since childhood. After the larvae hatch, they are The deadline of its life is very similar to Bao Si's life experience. From here we can see that the literary expression method "Xiang" in "The Book of Changes" has been applied to the extreme. Floating is used to describe Bao Si, who has a beautiful appearance but a short life. This is really vivid. So this is Cao people's satire on the reason why King You of Zhou died in the Western Zhou Dynasty, and it is also a satire on the short life course of Bao Si who confused King You of Zhou.