Ai Qing Modern Poetry Book

Snow falls on the land of China

Snow falls on the land of China,

Cold is blocking China ah ......

The wind,

Like an old woman who is too sad

Follows closely

Stretching out the claws of the cold fingers

Tugging at the lapels of the pedestrians,

with a rambling ......

as old as your land

for a moment

that emerges from the forests,

driving the wagons of

your Chinese peasants,

with their leather hats

braving the the snow

Where are they going?

To tell you the truth

I, too, am descended from farmers--

Because of your

wrinkled faces etched with epileptic bitterness

I can so y

know

the

years

of the people who lived on the steppes of hardship.

And I

am no happier than you are

-Lying on the river of time

the waves of suffering

have several times engulfed me and swept me back up again-

Wandering and imprisonment

have lost the most precious days of my youth,

and my life

is as haggard as yours

Oh.

Snow is falling on the land of China,

The cold is blocking China,......

Along the river on the snowy night,

A small oil lamp is moving slowly,

The light is reflected in the tattered crow's boat,

with its head hanging down

Who sits there,

Who sits there,

Who sits there,

Who sits there,

Who sits there,

Which sits there? Who sits there?

--Ah, you

hairless and unkempt woman,

is it not

that your home

-the nest of happiness and warmth

has been burned down by a violent enemy

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Burned down?

Is it not true

that on such a night as this,

deprived of the protection of men,

in the horror of death

you have suffered from the play of the enemy's bayonets,

and ahem, on such a cold night as this one

countless

of our aged mothers,

like the foreigners, have been burned down? people

not knowing what journey tomorrow's wheels

will roll on?

-and

The roads in China

are so rough,

so muddy, ah.

Snow falls on the land of China:

The cold is blocking up the China O ......

Those territories that have been gnawed by the beacons,

numerous, the settlers of the land

lost the livestock they raised

lost the fertile fields they put fields

crowded in the filthy alleys of

life's despair;

the starving earth

reaches out to the shadowy sky

and extends its begging

trembling arms.

China's pain and disaster

is as vast and long as this snowy night!

Snow is falling on China's land,

Cold is blocking China, O ......

China,

Can my feeble verses

written on a lightless night

give you some warmth?

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The North

The poet of the Kerchin grasslands

said to me:

< p>"The North is sad."

Nice,

the north is sad.

The

desert winds blowing from beyond the Seychelles,

have swept away

the greenness of life in the north

with the light of the hour,

-a dull gray-yellow,

clouded with a layer of unraveling sandy fog;

The whistling of that day,

bringing terror,

madly

sweeping over the earth

desert wildernesses

frozen in the October wind;

villages,

ancient towns,

hill slopes,

riverbanks,

wrecked walls and Mounds,

all covered with earth-colored melancholy ......

Lonely pedestrians,

bending forward

covering their cheeks with their hands,

in the wind and sand

troubled to breathe,

step by step

struggling to Onward ......

A few donkeys

-beasts with sad eyes

and weary ears,

carrying the land's

painful weight,

Their weary feet,

slowly stepped over

the

long and lonely roads of the North ......

those creeks have long since dried up

the river bottom has been painted with car withdrawals,

the land and people of the North

are thirsting for

The flowing spring that nourishes life!

The dead forests

and low houses,

sparsely

and gloomily

dispersed

under the gray canopy;

in the heavens,

the sun was not to be seen,

only the geese in great flocks

frightened geese,

Calling out their uneasiness and misery,

Fleeing from this desolate region,

Fleeing to the

South, where the green shades of the sky are ......

The North is sad;

And the ten thousand miles of the Yellow River

rages with turbid waves,

pouring disasters and misfortunes on the vast north

;

and the frosts of the ages,

carve out

the

poverty and hunger of the vast north,

ah.

And I

-this traveler from the South,

but love the sad North.

The sandy winds

and the cold air in my bones

never made me curse;

I love this sad country,

and a boundless desert,

has aroused my veneration:

-I see

our ancestors

and I see

those of us who were born in the north.

Our ancestors

lead the flock,

attacking the reed flute,

immersed in the dusk of this desert ......

The

ancient

loose loam layer that we stepped on

buried with the skeletons of our ancestors,

ah!

The land they cleared,

thousands of years ago

they fought here

against the nature that struck them,

they defended it

and never once were they dishonored,

they died.

and bequeathed the land to us-

I love this sad land,

its vast and lean lands,

bringing us with simple words

and wide gestures,

and I believe that:

The words and gestures

Strong in the earth,

will never perish;

I love this sad land

O ancient land,

which nourished

that for my love

the hardest

and oldest race in the world.

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The winter pools and marshes

For W. I.

The winter pools and marshes,

Lonely as an old man's heart-

Heart that has experienced the bitterness of the world;

The winter bog,

Dry as an old man's eye-

Eyes that have lost their light by toil;

The winter bog. p>The pond in winter,

deserted like an old man's hair-

thin and gray like frosted grass

The pond in winter,

gloomy like a sad old man-

< p>Old man hunched under a gloomy canopy.

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Handcart

In the territory where the Yellow River flows

At the bottom of the countless dried-up rivers<

The handcart

With its only wheel

Makes a shrill sound that makes the gloomy vault of heaven spasm

Buds through the cold and silence

From this foot of the hill

To that foot of the hill

Thoroughly resounds the sorrow of the people of the North

On the days of the ice and snow

And in the poor hamlet to hamlet

wheelbarrows

with individual wheels

carved in deep ruts in the gray and yellow earth

through the expanse and the desert

from this road

to that one

intertwined

with the sorrow of the people of the North Country

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The Times

I stood under the low eaves

and gazed out at the savage hillocks

and the high and empty The sky,

and for a long, long time in my heart, as if I had felt some miracle,

I saw a glittering thing

which inspired my heart like the sun,

and came rumbling and rolling through the heavens with a heavy roar,

with a stormy roar

and... ...

I looked to it divinely and rejoiced! '

When I heard from the cloudy side of the snowy mountains

The rolling of the great wheels on the uneven road

Like the grooms who run to the wedding-plates

-Even though I knew that what it brought me

Was not a holiday revelry. festive revelry

and some vaudeville laughter

but a sight more cruel than a thousand slaughterhouses,

and yet I still ran to it

with as much zeal as a life could muster.

I am not weak - I am not complacent,

I am not one whom I can comfort or deceive myself

I am not content with that which the world has ever given me

- neither honor, nor Shame

and whether it be gloomy stares and night-like hatred

and the happiness with which men's eyes shine

I feel empty where you do not know

Give me the world to live in

I am forever stretching out my arms

I ask to climb the mountains

I ask to cross the sea

I will meet higher praises, greater slanders

More insoluble grievances, and more fatal blows-

All for the sake of the deep chasm of time I want to rise from ......

No more personal suffering will be be greater than mine -

I was faithful to the times, devoted to the times, and I was silent

unwillingly, like a captured prisoner

silent before being escorted to the execution ground

I was silent for the sake of not having words loud enough

Like the early summer's Thunder rolls across the cloudy sky

Shuffling my passion in my raging cry

Dedicated to that which excites me so much and surprises me so much

I love it more than anything I've ever loved

For it to come I would deliver my life

Delivered to it from my inward body up to my soul

I look so humble in front of it

Even want to lie on my back on the ground

Let its feet tread over my chest like a road

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Dayan River - my nanny

Dayan River, is my nanny.

Her name is the name of the village where she was born,

She was a child bride,

Dayan River, is my nanny.

I am the son of a landowner;

and I grew up on the milk of the Dayan River

Son of the Dayan River .

Dayan River raised her family by raising me,

and I, who was raised on your milk,

O Dayan River, my nanny.

Dayan River, today I see the snow reminds me of you:

Your grass-covered grave pressed by snow,

The dead waffle on the gable end of your closed home,

Your yards square garden that has been seized,

The moss-covered stone chairs in front of your door,

Dayan River, today I see the snow reminds me of you. of you.

You took me in your arms and caressed me with your thick palms;

After you built the fire,

after you patted the charcoal dust from your apron,

after you tasted the rice cooked,

after you put the dark bowl of sauce on the dark table,

after you mended your sons' clothes torn by the thorns of the hillside,

after you mended your son's clothes torn by the thorns of the hillside,

after you mended your son's clothes torn by the thorns of the hillside,

and after you had taken me into your arms, you took me into your arms and caressed me.

After you had wrapped the hands of your youngest son who had been cut by a woodchipper,

After you had pinched the lice from your husbands' shirts, one by one,

After you had picked up the first egg of the day,

you took me in your arms with your big, thick palms and stroked me.

I am the son of a landowner,

After I have eaten all the milk of your great weir,

I am led back to my own home by the parents who bore me.

Ah, River Weir, why do you cry?

I have become a new guest in the house of my parents!

I touched the red lacquered and carved furniture,

I touched the golden pattern on my parents' bed,

I stared at the plaque on the gable top that I didn't recognize as "Heavenly Lunar Sympathy and Happiness",

I touched the silk and shell buttons of my new clothes,

I looked at the unfamiliar buttons on my mother's arms,

and I saw the new clothes on my mother's back. I looked at my unknown sister in my mother's arms,

I sat on a painted kangstool with a fire bowl,

I ate rice that had been polished three times,

but I was so coy! For I

was a new guest in the house of my parents who had given me birth.

The River Weir, for the sake of life,

After she had run out of her lotion,

she began to labor with the arms that had held me;

She washed our clothes with a smile,

She carried the basket of vegetables to the frozen pond at the edge of the village,

She chopped the turnip with a smile,

She cut the radish with the icy shavings,

.

With a smile, she hollowed out with her hands the lees of the wheat that the pigs ate,

With a smile, she fanned the fire of the stove where the stew was being made,

With a smile, she carried the doughpan to the square

To dry the soybeans and the wheat,

Daianhe, for the sake of life,

After she had run out of her emulsion,

She carried me in her arms. And labored.

Da Yan He, who loved her breast child dearly,

was busy cutting the winter rice candy for his sake at the annual festival,

used to walk quietly to her house at the edge of the village for his sake,

came to her side and called out "Mom" for his sake,

Da Yan He, who painted him in a big red and green color,

had a great deal to say about his life. He drew a big red and green picture of Guan Yunchang

and put it on the wall beside the stove,

Da Yan He would boast to her neighbors about her breasts;

Da Yan He once had a dream she couldn't tell anyone:

In the dream, she ate her breast's wedding wine and

sat on the brilliantly colored hall,

while her beautiful daughter-in-law affectionately called her "mother". And her dainty daughter-in-law affectionately called her "mother-in-law."

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Dayan, who loved her breast, loved her dearly!

Da Yan He, who died before she woke up from her dream.

When she died, her breast was not beside her,

When she died, her husband, who usually scolded her, wept for her,

Five sons, each weeping sadly,

When she died, she softly called out her breast's name,

Dayanhe, who had died,

Died,

Dying, when she died, her breast was not beside her.

The Great Weir, with tears, went!

With the forty years of abuse of human life,

with the endless misery of slavery,

with a four-dollar coffin and a few bundles of straw,

with a few feet of ground where the coffin was buried,

with a handful of paper money ashes,

Dayanhe, she went away with tears in her eyes.

This is what Dayanhe does not know:

Her drunken husband is dead,

The eldest son has become a bandit,

The second died in the smoke of artillery fire,

The third, the fourth, and the fifth

And me, I am writing the spell given to this unjust world.

When I returned to my native land after a long drift,

in the hillsides, in the fields,

brothers met, it was with more intimacy than six or seven years ago!

This, this is for you, the quietly sleeping Dayan River

Unknown ah!

Dayan River, today your breast is in prison,

writing a hymn presented to you,

to your purple soul under the yellow soil,

to the straight outstretched hand with which you have embraced me,

to the lips on which you have kissed me,

to the gentle face with its mud-blackness,

to the breasts with which you have nourished me,

to the breasts with which you have raised me,

to the breasts of the river,

which are more intimate than they were seven years ago,

this is for you, the silent sleeping river Dayan.

To your breasts that nurtured me,

To your sons, my brothers,

To all that is on earth,

My weir-like nannies and their sons,

To the weir that loved me as her own son.

Dayan River, I grew up on your milk

your son

I honor you

and love you!

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Notice of the Dawn

For the sake of my prayers

Rise up, O poet

And tell them

that what they have been waiting for is coming

that I have come in the dew

by the light of the last star

I have come from the east

from the sea that is raging with the waves

and I will bring light to the world

and warmth to mankind

by your righteousness. p>By the mouths of your righteous men

Please carry my message

Notify mankind whose eyes are burned with longing

And the cities and villages far away that are steeped in misery

Ask them to come and welcome me

Herald of the day, bearer of the light

Open all the windows to welcome

Open all the doors to Welcome

Please sound your siren to welcome

Please blow your horn to welcome

Please ask the scavengers to clean the streets

Please ask the porters to remove the garbage

Let the laborers walk the streets with a wide stride

Let the vehicles flow through the squares in a brilliant procession

Please ask the villages to wake up from the damp fog as well

Open their hedges to welcome me

Ask the village women to open their chicken coops

Ask the peasants to bring their oxen from the barn

Lend your warm mouths to inform them

That I have come from over the mountains and over the forests

Ask them to clean the sunny yards

And the ever-dirty patios

.

Please open the windows that are papered with flowers

Please open the doors that have spring scrolls on them

Please wake up the attentive women

and the men who snore

Please wake up the young lovers too

and the sleepy maidens

Please wake up the sleepy mother

and the babies by his side

Please Wake up everyone

even the sick and those in labor

even the aged

those groaning in their beds

even the wounded in wars of justice

and the refugees displaced by the fall of their homeland

Please wake up all the unfortunate

I will give them comfort all together

Please awaken all the unfortunate

I will give them comfort all together

Please awaken everyone who loves life. Wake up all those who love life

Workers, craftsmen, and painters

Wake up the singers with their songs

With the sound of the grass and the dew

Wake up the dancers with their dances

With their morning coats of mist

Wake up those who are healthy and beautiful

To say that I'm coming to knock on their windows

I will give them comfort. windows

Please be faithful to the poet of time

Bring tidings of comfort to mankind

Please prepare them for a welcome, please prepare all for a welcome

I will come when the rooster crows for the last time

Ask them to gaze into the heavens with pious eyes

I will give the most gracious light to all who look to me

Tell them while the night is almost over

that what they are waiting for is coming

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To the The Sun

Morning, I awoke from my sleep,

and rejoiced at the sight of your light;

- though last night I was still sleepy,

and haunted by countless nightmares.

Your fresh, gentle, bright light,

shone on my long unopened window,

and painted the window-paper pale yellow as pollen,

and embedded it in a light blue and neat lattice of shadows,

and, filled with thankfulness in my heart, I arose from my bed,

and opened the door of the window, which had been shut for a winter,

and let thee bring the bright tablecloth, woven of all gold silk,

and spread it on my table by the window.

So, to my surprise, I saw you:

Such truth as brooks no doubt,

You stood on the top of the opposite mountain,

and smiled so brightly.

I opened my eyes hard to see you,

longing to capture your image,

how intense, how trance-like, how solemn!

Your light stings my pupils.

O Sun, thou immortal philosopher,

Thou bringest joy to the earth,

Even the most unfortunate sees thee,

and feels thy comfort in his heart.

You are the forge of time,

the gildersmith of the good life;

You cast the days into innumerable golden wheels,

which hover over the ancient wilderness ......

If it were not for thee, Sun,

all life would lie prostrate in the gloom,

Even if it had wings, it would only fly like a bat

in the eternal night.

I love you as men love their mothers,

You feed my ideas and thoughts with light and heat--

To make me live passionately and agonize for my ideals,

until my life is taken away by death.

After a long, lonely winter,

Today I want to go up to the top of the mountain,

dismiss my clothes, be naked,

and bathe my soul in your light ......

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Fossilized fish

How lively the movements,

How energetic,

Leaping in the waves,

Floating in the sea;

Unfortunately encountering a volcanic eruption

or perhaps an earthquake,

you lost your freedom,

and were sorted into the dust;

after how many hundreds of millions of years,

the geological prospectors,

found you in the rock formations,

still lifelike.

But you are silent,

not even sighing,

scales and fins intact,

but unable to move;

you are absolutely still,

unresponsive to the outside world,

not seeing the sky or the water,

not hearing the waves.

Gazing at a piece of fossilized rock,

the fool also learns the lesson:

Leaving motion,

there is no life.

To live is to struggle,

to move forward in the struggle,

even in death,

the energy must be utilized cleanly.

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Tiger shells

Beautiful tiger spots

Sparkling on you

What is What polished you to such a shine

What polished you to such a shine

Fineer than the finest china

Harder than white gems

Smooth and oval like a goose's egg

No pinprick of a scratch can be found

How many years at the bottom of the sea of despair

Rolling on ten thousand hectares of waves

All covered in armor of jade ___

protecting the most vulnerable of lives

If it weren't for the occasional wave that swept me onto the beach

I never thought I'd see such beautiful sunshine

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Mutually Discovered

--Title "Changlin Diamonds"

The Treasure of Things and the Treasure of Heaven

People of Great Joy

< p>--Wang Bo

I don't know how many billions of years

Buried deep in the ground

Existence is the same as non-existence,

Even hope is stifled

A girl turns the ground deep

Suddenly she sees it jump out

The girl's eyes and the diamond

flashed at the same time

like flipping a switch

in a flash

the two kinds of light shone on each other

wondering at each other's beauty

the radiant diamond

was like a patch of yellowish sunlight

illuminating the land of the motherland

The teaser There are countless treasures underground

Bright diamond

No substance is harder than it

The girl contributes it to the country

Used to knock on the door of industry

The Changling brigade gets the diamond

Diamonds come to earth with brilliance

And even more brilliant than diamonds

is the girl's The idea of loving the motherland.

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Lost years

Unlike a lost bundle

can be found at the lost and found back,

Lost years

are not even known to have been lost somewhere -

there are those that have disappeared piecemeal.

Some are lost for ten or twenty years,

some are lost in noisy cities,

some are lost in distant wildernesses,

some are lost in crowded stations,

some are lost in the cold and quiet under small oil lamps;

lost is not like a piece of paper that can be picked up

rather, it is more like a bowl of water thrown to the the ground

dried up, not a shadow to be seen;

Time is a flowing liquid-

it can't be salvaged with a sieve or a net;

Time can't be made solid,

it'd be better if it were fossilized,

even if tens of thousands of years could be be found in rock formations i

Time is also like a gas,

like smoke rising from the head of a speeding train!

Lost years seem like a friend,

broken off, endured some suffering,

suddenly got the news; that he

had left the earth long ago

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Bonsai

Seem to be relics of antiquity

The plants here have become minerals

The main trunks are of bronze, and the boughs of the techniques are of iron wire

Even the leaves are the color of copper and green

In the antique garden

Winter does not cold in winter and heat in summer

With shelves of rosewood and mahogany

The prominence of their status is further demonstrated

In fact, they are the products of misfortune

Long ago, they lost their original color

In all kinds of pots

Suffered from suppression and aggravation

Every process of growth

There are The twisting of wires and the torture of knives and scissors

are at the mercy of others, unable to stretch freely

Partly developed, partly shriveled

by an imbalance of the standard

mutilated and typical,

like an old man with a rickety building,

boasting of strange deformities

some have pushed up their bellies,

some have revealed tuberous roots,

while others have been forced out.

Some have exposed their tuberous roots

leaving behind a few thin, curved branches

Sesame-sized leaves indicate that there is still youth

like a group of battle-hardened and wounded soldiers

supporting a crippled life

But all the flowers and trees

have to have their own heaven and earth

Roots absorb nutrients from the soil

Branches and leaves bear rain and sunlight

.

Branches and leaves bear the rain and sunlight

Free to stretch and develop normally

Moody under the sky

Accepting nature's caresses

Exuding their own fragrance

Nowadays, however, everything is turned upside down

The young ones become old, and the old ones become young

In order to satisfy the curiosity of the human beings

To boast of the flower breeder's Skill

Soft to bend and distort

Grass without words and axed

Maybe it's a kind of art

But written with a sneer at freedom

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For the female sculptor, Deti Zhang

From your fingers flows hair

Like the ebb and flow of waves

The forehead leaves the hardship of years

From your fingers flows eyes

With sad eyes

Lips pursed tight

From your fingers flows eyes

With sad eyes

Lips pursed tight

And from your fingers, you can see the beauty of the world, the beauty of the world. /p>

From your fingers flowed a me

With my breath

With my body heat

And I was silent

Perhaps it was unfortunate

I was prolonged by you

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I love this land

If I were a bird,

I should also sing with a hoarse throat:

This storm-battered land,

This ever-raging river of our sorrows,

This ceaselessly blowing wind of agitation,

and the unmistakably gentle dawn from the forest ......

-and then I died,

and even my feathers rotted inside the land.

Why do I often have tears in my eyes?

Because I love the land so much ......

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The sun

From the tombs of ancient times

From the dark ages

From yonder side of the stream of human death

Shocking the sleeping mountains

If the wheel of fire soars above the dunes

The sun rolls towards me ......

It breathes life into me with a light that is hard to hide

It makes the branches of the tall trees dance to it

I make the rivers run to it with wild songs

When it comes, I hear

The pupae of the winter hibernation turn underground

The crowds speak in loud voices in the open fields

The cities call to it from afar

with power and steel.

So my heart

is torn open by the hand of flame

The stale soul

is laid aside on the river's bank

I have the certainty of man's regeneration

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The Coal Conversation

--A-Y. R.

Where do you live?

I live in the mountains of ten thousand years

I live in the rocks of ten thousand years

Your age-

I am older than the mountains

Bigger than the rocks

From whence have you been silent?

From the time when dinosaurs ruled the forests

From the time when the earth's crust shook for the first time

Are you already dead in your deep resentment?

Dead? No, no, I am alive -

Please give me fire, give me fire!

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Beggars

In the North

Beggars wander on both sides of the Yellow River

In the North

Beggars cry out in the most tiresome voices

Crying out in pain

Saying that they come from the disaster area

From the war zone

Starvation is horrible

It causes the old to lose their kindness

The young to learn hate

In the North

The beggar stares at you with stubborn eyes

Watching you eat any food

And the way you pick your teeth with your fingernails

In the North

The beggar stretches out his never-retracting hand

Ebony hand

Asked for a copper

To anyone

Even the soldier who can't spare a copper

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Bridge

When land is divided from land by water,

When road and road were cut off by water,

wise men stood by the water:

and so arose the bridge.

Mankind, who suffer from trekking,

should be thankful for bridges.

The bridge is the link between land and land;

The bridge is the love between river and road;

The bridge is the way station where ships and vehicles nod their heads in salute;

The bridge is the place where the boat rider and the walker wave goodbye.

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Trees

Tree by tree, tree by tree

Lonely and detached from each other

The wind and the air

tell their distance

But under the earth

their roots grow

In the unseen depths

They tangle their roots together

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