Qin bamboo slips are one of China's ancient realistic poems, The Book of Songs, and the author is anonymous. The whole poem consists of three chapters with eight sentences in each chapter. This poem was once regarded as a mockery of Qin Xianggong's failure to consolidate the country with Zhou Li, or as a pity for its failure to attract hermits and sages; Now it is generally believed that this is a love song, which is about the melancholy and depression when you pursue what you love but can't get what you love. ?
The whole poem (excerpt) is as follows:
The Millennium is frost. The so-called Iraqis are on the water side.
Tracing back and forth, the road is blocked and long. Swim back from it, in the middle of the water
It's been a long time, and it hasn't changed for thousands of years. The so-called Iraqis are in the water.
The translation is as follows:
The river is green with reeds and frost in autumn. Where is the right person? Just across the river.
It's too long to go upstream to find her. Follow the running water to find her, as if in the middle of the water.
The reeds by the river are dense, and the morning dew is not dry. Where is the right person? Just beyond the river bank.
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This poem is written for those who admire it in their hearts.
Chen Zizhan's "Three Hundred Poems for Solving Problems" said: "There is no doubt that the poem" Sword House "is a work that the poet wants to see but can't see. Who is this man? Is he an old man who understands Zhou rites, or an old minister of the Western Zhou Dynasty who cares for the Zhou Dynasty and the old master? .................................................................................................................................................................................. is difficult to judge because of different opinions. "
The last two chapters only slightly change the first chapter, and this kind of repetitive singing with only slight changes in words is a common technique in the Book of Songs. Specific to this poem, this change lies in the rhyme-the first chapter "Cang, Shuang, Fang, Chang and Yang" belongs to the rhyme of Yang.
The second chapter "Sadness, Sadness, Sadness, Sadness, Sadness" belongs to fat micro-rhyme, and the third chapter "Picking, having, wandering, right and turbid" belongs to partial rhyme-thus forming the effect of harmonious internal rhythm and uneven rhythm between chapters, giving people the feeling of stability and change.
At the same time, this change has also caused the reciprocating advancement of semantics. Such as "white dew is frost", "white dew is not sad" and "white dew is not endless"-dew at night condenses into frost flowers, which melt into dew due to rising temperature, and the dew evaporates under sunlight-indicating the continuation of time.
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