Chapter 28 the songs our ancestors sang

Dear children: Today I want to tell you about a song our ancestors sang. I know that children are playing various games, such as playing ball, kicking shuttlecock, or jumping rubber bands. When everyone is happy together, they will sing a few words and sentences casually, with rhythm and rhyme Here comes the ballad.This kind of ballad is always very nice, the sentences are very short, it can express the emotions in your heart, or tell about the life around you, and it is loved by all of you. Thousands of years ago, our clever, brave and industrious ancestors farmed, hunted and did all kinds of productive labor together in our vast and vast land. They sang all kinds of feelings in their hearts with a few casual words, and the songs they sang were later recorded in words, which are called "poems".

Our ancient poems consisted of three-character lines, four-character lines, five-character lines, seven-character lines, and nine-character lines.The shortest of each poem is three or four sentences.Every sentence or every other sentence or every few sentences rhymes, which means that the sound of the last word of these few sentences is similar, so it is very loud and pleasant to read.For example, there is a poem written 2,500 years ago by our ancestors who lived in Shaanxi, called "Jianjia".Read it out: The reeds are green, and the white dew is frost.The so-called Iraqis are on the water side.

If you follow it back, the road is long and obstructive; if you follow it back, you will be in the middle of the water. This is a poem about missing a friend.Jianjia is a kind of aquatic plant. The meaning of this poem is: the green Jianjia aquatic plant has turned pale yellow.The white dew has also turned to frost.But my friend is still on the other side of the river!I went along the river bank to find him, the road was difficult and long, and I crossed the water to find him, but he seemed to be in the middle of the water, and I couldn't always reach him. This is a poem with eight lines. The last character of the first, second, fourth, sixth, and eighth lines is "Cang", "Shuang", "Fang", "Chang", "Yang", They all have similar sounds and rhyme, how pleasant to read!

This "Jianjia" is one of the hundreds of ancient poems collected in it. The Book of Songs is a collection of poems that reflect the life and social conditions of the people from the Zhou Dynasty to the Spring and Autumn Period in our country. We Chinese people have a fine tradition of loving poetry. After the Book of Songs, for thousands of years, we have many poets who have written tens of thousands of poems in various genres.The contents of the poems include praising nature, praising labor, satirizing the dark politics of the ruling dynasty at that time, describing the pain of working people's life, describing scenery, describing friendship, and other kinds of content. All the things in it, all the emotions that occur, the poet can write it beautifully in poems.

In our literary history, the most prosperous era of poetry was the Tang Dynasty, more than a thousand years ago.Among the many poets in the Tang Dynasty, there are two names, like two big stars in a sky full of stars, who are always noticed and loved by people. These two great poets are Li Bai and Du Fu. Here, I will first introduce to the children a five-character quatrain by Li Bai, which is a poem with five characters and one sentence, and there are four sentences in total.The last word in the first, second and fourth sentences rhymes.The title is "Night Thoughts": Looking up at the bright moon, bowing your head and thinking about your hometown.

This poem was written by Li Bai when he was away from home as a guest. "Night thinking" is the emotion he aroused in a certain night. He saw the white moonlight shining in front of his bed, and he thought it was a layer of hoarfrost on the ground. When he looked up, he looked at the bright moon, and when he lowered his head, he thought of his hometown. These twenty characters are all common characters, but Li Bai put them together naturally and cleverly, expressing his emotions so vividly!How nice it sounds! I will introduce to the children another seven-character quatrains by Du Fu, which is a poem with seven characters and one sentence, and there are also four lines. The last word of the first, second, and fourth lines also rhymes.The title is "Giving Flowers to You":

This song should only exist in the sky, how many times can it be heard in the world? Hua Qing was a musician in the Tang Dynasty. When Du Fu lived in Chengdu, Sichuan, he heard his performance and admired it very much.Jincheng is Chengdu, because it is next to Jinjiang, so it is called Jincheng. "Si" is a stringed instrument that is played by hand, such as Qin, Se, and Pipa, and "Guan" is an air instrument that is blown by mouth, such as Xiao and flute!In this poem to Hua Qing, Du Fu said that every day in Jincheng there is the sound of a lively ensemble of various musical instruments. Here, such beautiful music can only be found in the sky, how can it be heard often in the world?

Children, there are many short poems like the above two poems in ancient poems. The words are very beautiful, and they are very pleasant to read.This is a rich and precious heritage left to us by our ancestors, and we should value it and love it.