Chang Song Xing

Han Yuefu

The sunflowers in the green garden are waiting for the sun to set in the morning dew.

Budze in spring brings brilliance to all things.

I am often afraid that when the autumn festival comes, the yellow flowers and leaves will wither.

When hundreds of rivers reach the sea from the east, when will they return to the west?

If a young man does not work hard, the old man will be miserable.

Era:

Three Kingdoms Period

Meaning:

"If a young man doesn't work hard, the old man will be miserable!": We must take advantage of our youth to return the favor. Be young, work hard, don't get old and achieve nothing, leaving only sadness. If you don’t know how to be strong when you are young and strong, your hair will turn gray when you are old, you will accomplish nothing, and your sorrow will be useless. This sentence comes from "Yuefu Poetry Collection·Chang Ge Xing".

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In the morning, there are green sunflowers in the garden, and the crystal dew is waiting to dry in the sun. Spring spreads the hope of happiness all over the earth, and all living things show prosperity and vitality. I often worry that the chilling autumn will come and the flowers and leaves will turn yellow and wither. Thousands of great rivers are rushing eastward and flowing into the sea. When will they flow back westward again? If you don’t know how to be strong when you are young and strong, your hair will turn gray when you are old, you will accomplish nothing, and your sorrow will be useless.

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Changgexing: the name of a Han Yuefu tune. Kwai: Mallow, one of the important vegetables in ancient my country, can be used as medicine. Xi: Dawn, extended to the sun shining. Yangchun: warm spring. Bu: Giving, giving. Deze: Favor. Autumn Festival: Autumn. Kunhuang: describes the appearance of withered and yellow vegetation. Hua: Same as "flower". Bad: For the sake of rhyme, it can be read as "cuī" according to the ancient pronunciation. Disciple: Baibai Baichuan: River.

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This poem is selected from the Han Yuefu. Yuefu was a court music institution established since the Qin Dynasty. It was expanded on a large scale during the reign of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, and a large number of poetry works were collected from the folk, with rich content and a wide range of themes. This poem is one of them. Changge: Long singing, also refers to writing poetry; Xing (xíng): a genre of ancient songs, the abbreviation of songxing style, the number of words of poetry and the length of sentences are not limited. Long song line refers to the free style singing style with the tune of "long singing". Bad: pronounced "cuī". In ancient times, people did not pronounce the sound "shuaī". This poem is selected from Volume 30 of "Collection of Yuefu Poems", "Ping Tune" in Zodiac and Songs. "Yuefu Jietie" says that this ancient saying "suggests that youth is not long, and you should work hard for happiness. It will be sad to have no boss." It is obviously a misinterpretation to understand "hard work" as "hard work for happiness." Many of the five-character ancient poems of the Han Dynasty lamented the short life span and advocated enjoying timely pleasures. From the overall concept of this poem, the main meaning is that the seasons change quickly and time is gone forever. Therefore, it advises people to cherish their youth and work hard to make a difference. The emotional tone is positive. "Collection of Yuefu Poems" is a collection of Yuefu poems compiled by Guo Maoqian in the Song Dynasty. It has one hundred volumes and is divided into twelve categories. Starting from the Han and Wei dynasties and ending with the Five Dynasties, there are more than ten ballads from before the Qin Dynasty. In addition to the music collected by the feudal court, it also preserves a large number of folk music lyrics and "New Yuefu Poems" created by literati ("New Yuefu Poetry Collection" includes "Mulan Poetry" and "Peacock Flying Southeast"). The book has a general introduction for each category, a title explanation for each song, and a review of the origin and development of various lyrics and lyrics.

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"The sunflowers in the green garden are waiting for the sun in the morning (zhāo)" Garden: Garden, a place for growing vegetables, flowers, fruits, and trees . Kwai: One of the important vegetables in ancient my country. There are two types: purple stems and white stems, with the white stems being the better. Large leaves and small flowers, purple-yellow flowers. Morning dew: dew in the early morning. Wait: verb, wait. Day: sun. Xi: Dawn, extended to the sunshine. ○Describe the image of Aoi. To support things. "The spring sun spreads its blessings." Yangchun: warm spring. Cloth: verb, here it means to spread. Deze: Favor. Spring brings sunshine, rain and dew to all things, so it is said to be a blessing. All things: all kinds of living things on the earth. Shengguanghui: describes the appearance of all things full of vitality and prosperity. ○A tribute to spring. "I am often afraid that the autumn festival is coming, and the yellow flowers (huā) and leaves will decline (cuī)." Chang: an adverb, indicating the persistence and consistency of a situation or time. often. Fear: verb, worry. Autumn Festival: Autumn. To: verb, to. The autumn air is chilling, and all things tend to decline and die due to their growth, so you are worried. Kunhuang: The appearance of color decay.

Hua: Same as "flower". Decline: aging, decline. ○From spring to autumn, plants complete a life process. I can't help but have all kinds of feelings. "When hundreds of rivers reach the sea from the east, when will they return to the west?" 』Baichuan: refers to all rivers in general. East: A directional noun is used as a verb to mean facing east or east. Hai: sea. Ho: Interrogative pronoun, used before a noun or noun phrase to modify it. Often used to express inquiries about time, place, and things. Time: noun, time. Complex: adverb, used before a verb to express ‘the recurrence of a certain situation. It can be translated as "again" and "again". West: locational noun used as a verb, to the west, toward the west. Return: verb, return. This sentence means that time passes like running water and will never return. ○The change of seasons is associated with the separation of the sun and the moon. Confucius said: The deceased is like a man who does not give up day and night. "If you don't work hard when you are young, you will be sad when you are old." If you don't work hard when you are young, you will only sigh in sadness when you are old. Less: Teenage period. Zhuang: adulthood. Together they refer to the first half of a person's life when they are full of vitality. Effort: Use your strength as much as possible. It means diligence. Boss: refers to the period when a person’s vitality declines. Actor: adverb, indicating that the execution of the action has not achieved results. Can be translated as "empty". sad: sad. ○It boils down to the realization of the value of life, and the scene is touching. One of the most famous verses is "If a young man doesn't work hard, an old man will be sad." "If a young man does not work hard, an old man will be sad." This poem uses the metaphor of the green sunflower in the garden. In fact, under the sunshine and rain throughout the spring, all things are striving to grow. Because they are all afraid of autumn. Coming soon, I know how powerful the autumn wind is. The rhythm of life in nature is like this, so why is life not like this? If a person does not take advantage of the good time to study hard when he is young, he will waste his youth in vain and regret it when he is old. It's too late. This poem reflects on the perishable life of youth and encourages young people to cherish time, work hard, and keep in mind the warning that "an inch of time is worth an inch of gold, and an inch of gold cannot buy an inch of time." It is inspiring.

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This is a song that sings about life. It starts from the sunflower in the garden. This is called "supporting things to rise" in writing. That is to say, "preface other things to evoke the words to be chanted." The sunflower in the garden stands gracefully in the spring morning, with dew rolling on its green leaves, shining brightly in the morning sun, like a young man full of youthful vitality. By extension, the vigorous growth of sunflowers in the garden refers to the entire natural world. Due to the sunshine and rain in spring, everything is shining with the light of life, and there are vibrant and prosperous scenes everywhere. These four sentences are literally the opposite. The praise of spring is actually a metaphor for the most precious thing in life - a hymn to youth. An era when life is full of youthful vitality is as beautiful as spring in all seasons. In this way, it also has a unique way of writing. The meaning of the metaphor is the so-called "Xingerbi". The time sequence of nature is constantly changing. In the blink of an eye, spring passes and autumn comes. The sunflowers and all things in the garden experience spring growth and summer growth. In autumn, they mature and the leaves that used to be shining are shining. It becomes scorched, withered, and loses its vitality. The same is true for life, growing up from youth, and going through a metabolic process. This is an unchangeable natural law. The cherishment of "youth" is fleeting, and the word "fear" in it shows people's powerlessness against the laws of nature and the inevitable withering of youth. Then it is associated with the endless time and infinite space of the universe from the change of time sequence. Like the river that passes away, it will never return. Measured by the time scale, human life cannot be revived after death. In the face of this eternal nature, life is like the morning dew on the leaves that is dried by the sun. Isn't it just like the green sunflower leaves that wither and wither in the autumn wind? The poem turns from the exploration of the universe to the thinking of the value of life, and finally introduces the sentiment of "If a young man does not work hard, he will be sad." Nai's conclusion ends the whole poem. This reasoning process is not written literally, but readers can follow the poet's thinking track and supplement it with their own life experiences: All things in nature have a process of spring and autumn, and life also has a youth. The process of hard work and success with old age; all things in nature can bear fruit in autumn as long as there is sunshine, rain and dew, but people are different. They cannot succeed without their own efforts; all things decay in autumn, but they realize the value of life, so it is not enough Sad; people are not like that. Because they are "young and don't work hard" and become old and achieve nothing, isn't it equivalent to walking through the world in vain? It is undoubtedly better to mobilize readers to think than to think for them.

Because of this, this poem avoids life preaching that is easily annoying, and makes the final aphorism appear powerful, deep and implicit, like the long tolling of a bell, deeply touching the hearts of readers. The word "tu" at the end of the sentence has a profound meaning: first, it means that the boss has no success, and life is wasted; second, it means that when you wake up in old age, you will not be able to help, and you can only sigh, which is intended to emphasize that you must work hard in time. Reading this poem, we will naturally think of the famous saying in "How Steel Was Tempered" about how human life should be spent. "The most precious thing for a person is life. Everyone has only one life. Therefore, a person's life should be spent in this way: when he looks back on the past years, he will not regret for wasting time, nor be ashamed of having accomplished nothing; this way , when he is about to pass away, he can say frankly: I have dedicated my entire life and all my energy to the most magnificent cause in the world - fighting for the liberation of mankind." Guide readers to work hard in time. Don't waste your time, this attitude towards life is undoubtedly positive. This "Long Song Xing" is different from other literati poems in the Han Dynasty that lamented the shortness of life and advocated carpe diem. It is a poem that sings the opposite tune and is a rare masterpiece.

Introduction to the work

Han Yuefu "Yuefu" was originally the official office in charge of music in ancient times. The "Yuefu Order" was established during the Qin and Western Han Dynasties under Emperor Hui. During the reign of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, the Yuefu was larger in scale, and its function was to manage the music used in the court, as well as to collect folk songs and music. After the Wei and Jin Dynasties, the poems collected and sung by the Yuefu organs of the Han Dynasty were collectively called Yuefu poems. Yuefu poetry is a genre that best represents the achievements of poetry in the Han Dynasty. The basic principle of Han Yuefu creation is "feeling sadness and music, and responding to events" ("Hanshu Yiwenzhi"). It inherits the fine tradition of realism in The Book of Songs and reflects the social reality of the Han Dynasty broadly and profoundly. The most outstanding artistic achievement of Han Yuefu is its narrative aspect. Secondly, it is good at selecting typical details and expressing the character's character through the words and deeds of the characters. Its forms include five-character poems, seven-character poems and miscellaneous poems. What is particularly noteworthy is that the Han Dynasty Yuefu has produced a number of mature five-character poems. Most of the Yuefu poems from the Han Dynasty that have been handed down have been included in the "Collection of Yuefu Poems" compiled by Guo Maoqian from the Song Dynasty.

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This poem uses scenery to express feelings, and is based on emotion. It embodies the philosophy of life of "young people don't work hard, old people are just sad" in the morning dew. The vivid images of things like things changing easily, autumn leaves falling, and hundreds of rivers flowing eastward make the philosophy of life expressed both thought-provoking and easy to understand. The first six lines of this poem reveal the natural law of spring and autumn. These six lines of poems mainly describe the changes in the growth and decline of plants and flowers in nature. They use the method of holding things up to pave the way for the transition to cherishing time. The seventh and eighth sentences use vivid and ingenious metaphors to reveal the objective law that time, like running water, will not turn back and that people will never become young again when they get old, thus highlighting the central meaning that people should cherish precious time. The metaphor is appropriate and contains profound philosophy, giving the poem a strong logical power. The last two sentences further point out that if a person wants to make a difference, invent and create something, he should study hard from youth and constantly expand his knowledge. Otherwise, he will waste his years and lament for nothing! These two poems are life mottos summed up by ancient poets from practice. They still have positive educational significance for the majority of young people today. The whole poem may seem ordinary, but it contains all the colloquial expressions of the time, but if you appreciate it carefully, you will feel that it has profound meaning. It contains extraordinary content in ordinary sentences. The words are simple and profound, light but full of flavor. After reading it, I was very inspired.

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If a young man does not work hard, the old man will be sad. This poem uses the metaphor of green sunflowers in the garden as a metaphor. In fact, under the sunshine and rain throughout the spring, everything is striving to grow. Because they are afraid that autumn will come soon, and they know how powerful the autumn wind is. The rhythm of life in nature is like this, so why not in life? If a person does not take advantage of the good time to study hard when he is young, his youth will be wasted in vain, and it will be too late to regret it when he is old. This poem reminds young people of the perishable life from the beauty of youth in front of them. It encourages young people to cherish time, work hard and keep in mind the warning that "an inch of time is worth an inch of gold, and an inch of gold cannot buy an inch of time." It inspires people to forge ahead. The first four sentences in the center illustrate that good times are fleeting and fleeting, and will never return, through the fleeting morning dew, withered flowers and grass, and the return of all rivers to the sea. The last sentence expresses one's heart directly, advising people to cherish time, work hard early, and not wait until they are old to sigh in vain. .