Long Songs is a classical poem by China, which belongs to Yuefu poetry in Han Dynasty, and it is a famous piece to persuade the world to cherish time and forge ahead. On the whole, this poem mainly means that the seasons change rapidly and time is gone forever, so people are advised to cherish their youth and make efforts to make a difference. The whole poem conveys feelings with scenery and is reasonable from feelings. With vivid images such as morning dew is easy to dry, Qiu Lai leaves fall to the roots, and a hundred rivers flow to the east, it entrusts the philosophy of life that "if a teenager doesn't work hard, the boss will be sad". With the help of the morning dew, the flowers fall in autumn, and the running water goes east and never returns, there is a sigh that time flies and life is short, encouraging people to firmly grasp the life that flies with time and make efforts to make use of it. Its emotional tone is positive. Its main idea is embodied in the last two sentences, but the poet's thoughts are not simply expressed, but concrete images rich in aesthetic feeling are extracted from the real world and taught in aesthetics.
Yuefu is a royal musical organ established since the Qin Dynasty. It not only sings the poems of literati, but also undertakes the task of collecting folk songs. During the period of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, a large number of poems were collected from the people, which were rich in content and wide in subject matter. This poem is one of Han Yuefu's poems. Long-line songs refer to freestyle singing with "long singing" as the tune.
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Long song line/long song line
Han Dynasty: Anonymous
The trees in the garden are lush, and the crystal dew rises in the sun.
Spring fills the earth with hope, and everything presents a scene of prosperity.
I am always afraid that when the cold autumn comes, the trees in Ye Er will turn yellow and the grass will wither.
The river runs to the sea, and when will it return to the west?
If young people don't work in time, they will only regret for life when they are old.
This is a song about life. Singing life begins with the sunflower in the garden, which is called "making things interesting" in writing, that is, "saying something else first causes the words to be sung". In the spring morning, the sunflower in the garden is slim and graceful, with dew rolling on the green leaves, shining in the early morning sun, like a teenager full of youthful vitality. The poet extended from the vigorous growth of sunflowers in the garden and wrote about the whole nature. Because of the sunshine and rain in spring, everything shines with the brilliance of life, and everywhere is full of vitality and prosperity. These four sentences, literally, are praises to spring, but in fact, they are comparisons between things and people, and they are praises to the most precious thing in life-youth. Life is full of youthful vitality, just like spring is beautiful all year round. In this way, there is a metaphorical meaning in writing, that is, the so-called "Xing and Bi".
The time sequence of nature is constantly changing. In a blink of an eye, spring arrived in Qiu Lai. Sunflowers and everything in the garden experienced the growth of spring and the long summer. In autumn, they mature, and the once radiant leaves become brown and withered, losing their vitality. Life is the same, from the growth of youth to the death of old age, we have to go through a metabolic process. This is an immutable law of nature. The poet expressed his fleeting treasure of "youth" with "always afraid of autumn festivals", and one of the words "fear" showed that people were powerless to the laws of nature, and the withering of youth was inevitable. Then from the change of time series to the endless time and infinite space of the universe. Time is like a river that dies in the east, and it will never return. From the time scale, people's life cannot be revived after old age. In the face of this eternal nature, isn't life like the morning dew on the leaves, which dries up at the sight of the sun? Isn't it like a green sunflower leaf that withered in the autumn wind? Poetry turns from exploring the universe to thinking about the value of life, and finally comes to the conclusion that "young people don't work hard, but old disciples are sad", ending the whole poem. This reasoning process is not written literally. Readers can follow the poet's thinking track and make up for it with their own life experiences: everything in nature has a process of blooming and falling, and the autumn harvest is fruitful. In life, there is also a process in which young people work hard and old people achieve something; Everything in nature, as long as there is sunshine and rain, can bear fruit in autumn, but people are different, and it is impossible to succeed without their own efforts; Everything withers in autumn, but it realizes the value of life, so it is not sad; People, on the other hand, are unsuccessful because they are young and don't work hard. Isn't it a trip to the world for nothing? Mobilizing readers to think is undoubtedly better than replacing readers to think. It is precisely because of this that this poem avoids the life sermon that is easy to be boring, and makes the final epigram look vigorous, profound and implicit, like Hong Zhong's sonorous voice, which deeply touches the readers' hearts. The word "disciple" at the end of the sentence is meaningful: first, it says that the boss has accomplished nothing and life is a waste; Second, waking up in old age will not help, but there is no way, which is intended to emphasize the need to work hard in time.
Reading this poem, we will naturally think of the famous saying about how people should spend their lives in How Steel is Tempered. "The most precious thing is life. Everyone has only one life. Therefore, a person's life should be spent like this: when he looks back on the past years, he will not regret wasting his time, nor will he be ashamed of nothing; In this way, when he is about to die, he can say frankly: I have devoted my life and all my energy to the most magnificent cause in the world-the struggle for the liberation of mankind. It is undoubtedly of positive significance to guide readers to work hard in time and not waste their time.
This is a famous Yuefu poem in Han Dynasty. The poem uses a series of metaphors to show that we should cherish time and work hard as soon as possible. The first four sentences of this poem paint us a beautiful spring scene. There are dewdrops on the green sunflowers in the garden. After sunrise, the dew dried and the sunflowers were bathed in the sun. Everything in the world is blessed by the rain and dew of nature in spring, shining with unparalleled brilliance. However, when autumn comes, they will lose their bright luster, turn yellow and fade. Everything has ups and downs, and people also have a process from adolescence to old age. Time is like the water of a big river, which flows eastward into the sea and never returns. If you don't cherish time and work hard when you are young, you will only be sad when you are old!