Chapter 24 Epiphyllum flies down, one thought for a thousand years

——A gentleman is in service, but he does not know his period When a gentleman is in service, he does not know the period.Hey?The roosters perched in the grove, and at nightfall, the sheep and cattle came down.A gentleman is in service, so why not think about it! When a gentleman is in service, he does not spend the day and the moon, so why is there a man?The chickens live in Jie, and the sun is at night, and the sheep and cattle are enclosed.When a gentleman is in service, there is no hunger or thirst! —— "Wang Feng Gentleman in Service" When she was holding the mountain in the shadow of the sun, she drove the cattle and sheep down the mountain, and drove the chickens back to the pen.Life is so peaceful.If she hadn't turned her head, she would have stared at the distant mountains outside the village, and murmured that sentence - a gentleman is in service, and he doesn't know the time.Hey? (My husband is on a military service, and I don't know when the return date will be. When will he be able to return to his hometown?)

Like chanting and singing, it seems to reveal her pain of missing.Husband is serving abroad, how can people not worry about it? ("A gentleman is in service, so why not think about it!") Li Bai's poem: "Silkworms are hungry and concubines want to leave. Five horses don't linger." The beauty who feeds silkworms has a strong heart and a weight.The husband of the beauty here is not at home, she has to take care of the whole family, and the chickens, cattle and sheep seem to be her own children who need to be taken care of. Even though she is so busy, she still misses her husband, and she is so calm and carefree.

If Siqing is like Du Liniang and Liu Mengmei, even if you don't regret life and death, you can only read it as a storybook erotic novel. If you praise it, the whole story is as exquisite as the flowers carved on the hill screen, which is decoration or entertainment.On the contrary, like this country girl, she said nothing deliberately romantic and did not show any pretense.She works at sunrise and rests at sunset, and lives sincerely and steadily, but people have to say that she is as beautiful as a real flower, fragrant and swaying. The so-called "servant" in "gentlemen in service" cannot exactly refer to what it is.In most cases, it should refer to going to the frontier for defense.Also, "gentlemen" at that time generally referred to figures of the aristocratic class, but the "gentleman" in the poem raised chickens, cattle and sheep at home, and obviously his status was not very high, probably he was just a warrior.Speaking of "nobles", it seems very bullish. In fact, the production level was low in the pre-Qin period, and the life of the lower nobles was no better than that of ordinary farmers in later generations.Even in the 1930s and 1940s, the actual living conditions of the small nobles among the minority ethnic groups in the Southwest were not as good as those of the peasants in the south of the Yangtze River.

It is a poem in which the wife misses her husband who is far away from serving, but it is not the same as the general poems about missing women.The thinking poems in this book are written from the perspective of women, thinking about the hardships of their husbands away from home, or from the perspective of men, imagining how the boudoir misses him at this time, but there is a natural posture.After it first broke the title, it no longer insists on describing longing, and no longer positively describes the sorrow and even resentment of the wife missing her husband, but lightly depicts a picture of the evening scene of the countryside: in the afterglow of the setting sun, the chickens return to their nests , Cattle and sheep slowly walked down the hillside outside the village.The brushstrokes here seem to be completely effortless, not even an adjective.Unlike the literati's rhetoric of the later generations, who always want to portray in-depth and vigilant, they are used to being light-hearted, deliberately writing a thought to the point where a leaf is startled.Doing the opposite, deliberately lifting weights lightly.This is why I have always liked this poem.It is so indifferent, so deep.

I learned this poem when I was in junior high school, and it was one of the earliest enlightenment chapters I learned.I prefer it because of its poetic accuracy without so many specious and profound interpretations.A person is clear without burden, and a poem is clear without burden.Although I learned it many years ago, I can still remember the poetry, and easily recall the pictures in the poem and the artistic conception shown. We seem to be able to see the woman staring at the chickens, cows, sheep, and the winding road outside the village leading to the distance. After so many years, she seems to be still there, and she has been moving us.

Her deep feelings for her loved ones are like a crystal clear stream, winding and winding, which will never run dry for thousands of years.Her thoughts are set off by the daily wind and moon, and then expressed vividly with the words "I don't know the period", "The sun is not the moon", "It's so good", "It's so good", "Why don't you think about it", "There is no hunger and thirst" to express her thoughts. The pen is broken and deepened, and it becomes more and more obvious that she is full of thoughts and feelings, and her heart is like a lotus flower, which is both amazing and natural.

People who are familiar with rural life often see such evening scenes.The days of farming are hard work, but when evening comes, everything returns to peace, tranquility and beauty.The cattle, sheep and poultry return to the pen, the smoke curls up, the lights dance warmly, the farmer and his wife and children chat about idle topics... The picture itself has its own special flavor.There is a natural wit.After this, "A gentleman is in service, why not think about it", we clearly feel that the heroine's melancholy has become much stronger.If you try to remove the three sentences in the middle, "Chickens live in the nest, the sun is over, sheep and cattle come down", and the last two sentences are directly continued after "He Zhizai", the feeling will be completely different.

Poetry is like this, if the lyric rhythm is too fast, without elaboration, and the ups and downs of the mountains and rivers cannot be shown, the lyric effect will not come out; it is like a person who is too anxious to speak, but cannot express it calmly, or the rush to speak is dull and tasteless. Not impressive. The synesthesia of dusk is oppressive and gloomy, and the deep twilight makes travelers yearn for home, but from the perspective of farmers, it is the most relaxing and warm moment.At dusk, the earth licks and closes the wound, showing a gentleness that is not there during the day.Saying goodbye to the busy day, farmers can finally straighten their backs and watch the things they cherish with their lives gather around them with a smile. This is the most common and most interesting moment in the ancient farming society.But in this poem, the woman's husband is still far away.At this moment, the flaws in her life appeared most acutely!She looked forward to it so wistfully.

Waiting for the return of relatives, the most worrying thing is the uncertain return date. It seems that every day there is hope, but every day is disappointed.If it's just that you go out for a long time but the return date is certain, it's not so annoying.It is in this kind of psychology that she in the poem asks "He Zhizai" with a sigh - when will she come back? This is a very simple poem.The two chapters overlap each other with only a few changes.The two stanzas of the poem are almost completely repeated, which is the most common device in ballads-to promote lyrical emotion with overlapping chapters.But the last sentence of the second chapter is also the last sentence of the whole poem, but it has completely changed.It turns the wife's expectation into her husband's concern and wishes: it's fine if he can't come back, but I hope he doesn't suffer from hunger and thirst when he is away.These are also the most common words, but the feelings contained in them are so kind and profound.

This ancient ballad directly touches the most sensitive part of people's hearts with unadorned language: Even if you are not by my side, I want you to be well.If one day, I know how to miss you like this, this is the real miss. Don't underestimate the missing woman and dusk in this poem. Its expression of "there are paintings in the poems, and poems in the paintings" is really natural.The scene of sunset is chosen to be depicted, which contrasts with the sentimental mood of thinking about women and pregnant people.This artistic conception of thinking about returning home at dusk is original and pioneering, and has been refined and reproduced countless times in countless poems, dramas, and novels in later generations.

Reading Song Ci last night, seeing Liu Yongduanhong's voice standing full of the setting sun, I couldn't help but linger in this sadness, and performed it over and over again.The thoughts of the independent dusk are as stunning as the epiphyllum, and at first they flew down from the sigh of a woman.