1, "State Wind - Name Wind - Strike the Drum"
Pre-Qin: Anonymous
Strike the drum and its boring, enthusiastically use the army. The city of Tucuo is a watercourse, and I am traveling southward alone.
From Sun Zizhong, I leveled Chen and Song. I was worried when I was not able to return.
Where do I live and where do I live? I have lost my horse. I have lost my horse. I am not sure if I can do this.
It is a matter of life and death. We will grow old together.
You can't live with me. In contempt of Xunxi, not I believe.
Translation: The war drums are beating loudly, and the soldiers are busy practicing martial arts. Some are building roads and walls, but I am the only one who has marched to the south. I followed the commander Sun Zizhong, and united the allies Chen and Song. They don't want me to go back to Wei, which makes me worried. Where can I rest and where can I stop? Where can I find my horse?
Where can I find it? We have sworn to be together in life and in death. Let me hold your hand, and we will go to the battlefield together. We are too far apart to meet again. I can't keep my promise because I've been apart for too long.
2, "Farewell to the End of the South"
Tang Dynasty: Wang Wei
Middle-aged quite good road, late home in the southern mountain frontier.
When I was in my middle age, I was quite fond of Taoism, and in my later years, I came home to the southern mountain area.
When I was in my middle age, I was quite good at Taoism, and in my later years, I came home to the southern mountains.
Occasionally, the old man in the forest is worth it, and he talks and laughs about it without a return date.
Translation: After middle age, there was a strong desire for Taoism, and it was not until his later years that he settled down on the border of Zhongnan Mountain. When he was interested, he often traveled alone to play, and he enjoyed and intoxicated himself with happy things. Occasionally walk to the end of the water to seek the source, or sit and watch the rising clouds change. I met a few village elders in the forest by chance, and occasionally talked with them and laughed and chatted with them every time I forgot to return home.
Expanded Information
1. The Background of the Composition of "State Wind - Name Wind - Striking Drums"
There are several different stories about the background of this poem. One is that in the fourth year of Duke Yin of Lu (719 B.C.), the Duke of Wei, Zhou Yu (also known as "Wei Zhou Yu"), united with Song, Chen and Cai to attack Zheng.
This theory was first advocated by the "Preface to Mao Poetry": "'Beat the Drum', complaining about Zhou Yu." "Wei Zhou Yu used his army in a riotous manner, so that Gongsun Wenzhong would level Chen and Song, and the people of the country complained that he was brave but impolite." Zheng Zhuan uses the Zuo Zhuan - the fourth year of Duke Yin's reign as a reference to the fact that Zhou Yu attacked Zheng. In the summer of the fourth year of Duke Yin of Lu (719 B.C.), Wei united with Chen, Song, and Cai*** to attack Zheng.
Xu Zhengbo thinks it means that in the fall of the same year, Wei once again attacked Zheng and robbed Zheng's crops. Between these two wars there were soldiers garrisoned in Chen and Song (Shi Tan).
The other is Yao Jiheng's Poetry and Scripture in the Qing Dynasty, who said, "In the twelfth year of Duke Xuan of Lu (597 B.C.), Duke Mu of Wei sent troops to save Chen": "This is the alliance of Duke Mu of Wei in the northern part of the city of Qingbei, who begged for Chen to be felled by Song, and to pacify the difficulties in Chen and Song, and who had raised a number of armies and troops and whose subordinates complained about it, and composed this poem. "
Yao Heng thought that the preface of the poem "and the scripture does not fit the six", this is the "Spring and Autumn Annals - Xuan Gong 12 years," "Song division to conquer Chen, Wei people save Chen" and was Jin felled things. The Qing Dynasty scholar Fang Yurun "Poetry Original" that is "the soldier thought of returning to the poem is not allowed".
Today, many people think that Yao's theory is more reasonable. Whichever the background is, it is certain that the poem reflects the resentment and longing of a soldier who has been in the army for a long time but has not returned.
2. Background of the composition of "Farewell to the Final South"
Wang Wei's works in his later years were written after the first year of the Qianyuan reign of Emperor Suzong of the Tang Dynasty (758). In his later years, Wang Wei was the right minister of Shangshu, which was not a small position. In fact, due to the repeated changes in the political situation, he had long seen the difficulties and dangers of his career, and wanted to get rid of this troublesome world. He ate fasting Buddha, leisurely, after about forty years old, began to live also official and hidden life.
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