What is the meaning of the scarab in "Scarab"?

"People should believe that what they don't know can always be understood, otherwise they won't think again." This is a sentence that Goethe once said. Goethe has given the answer to whether high school students should understand the original intention of "rich husband" and whether it is suitable for reading "out of scope" poems.

What is a "rich man"

Everyone is familiar with the definition of the rich. After all, everyone wants their daughter to get a rich man and live a rich life from now on. The rich husband first appeared in the poem "To Be Old" by Li Shangyin, a great poet in the Tang Dynasty, and wrote: "It is a disappointment for Xiangshan to marry a rich husband for no reason." This poem describes the story of a spring night. A noble woman married an executive husband, but because of her high position, she had to go to the early court and delayed her daughter for a while. And the rich husband has since entered the public eye.

Scarabs talk about it all day, but what does the scarabs in this scarabs really mean? In the eyes of modern people, the beetle must be "golden". In addition to the basic conditions, the most important thing is to have money, which is to say money in a popular way. I have a car and a house, and my daughter won't suffer when she gets married. It's best to enjoy the cool under the big tree with her family and help this and that. The so-called "one person ascended to heaven".

But there is another saying about the rich. According to the past customs in some places, the son-in-law visited his father-in-law for the first time and wanted to prepare a scarab for his father-in-law. The moral here is that he wants his father-in-law to live a long and healthy life and make a lot of money.

Of course, although it is called a scarab, it is not necessarily made of gold. Money can give real gold. If you have no money, you don't have to force it. You can also send porcelain turtles coated with gold powder. Therefore, if you praise someone's uncle for his wealth and status, you can call him a "rich husband".

High school girls answer amazing questions

There are thousands of interpretations of "Scarab" in The Scarab Husband, but what is its original meaning? A variety show "Chinese Poetry Conference" had this question in one issue, and a female student who was still in high school gave the answer and explanation.

Chinese Poetry Conference is a large-scale studio cultural puzzle program developed by CCTV itself. From the first issue of the first season of 20 16 to February 2020, it has been broadcast for five seasons, with participants ranging from respectable old people in their sixties and seventies to urchins who haven't graduated from primary schools. Everyone takes part and enjoys it. The theme covers a variety of poetry categories, such as bold and unconstrained, graceful and restrained, pastoral, frontier fortress, chanting things, chanting bosom, chanting history and so on. Not only watched the program, but also increased my knowledge and carried forward the guiding spirit of Chinese excellent traditional culture.

The "rich husband" mentioned above was in the ninth scene of the second season of the Chinese Poetry Conference. There is a question about scarab. The topic is how to understand the "rich husband" in Li Shangyin's poem "Ask You" and "Marry a rich husband for no reason and live up to the early years of Xiangshan"? There are three answers, A is the precious token of love, B is the symbol of wealth, and C is the symbol of rank.

If you want to answer this question correctly, you must understand the meaning of this poem and the rules and regulations of the poet's time. It is impossible to answer the question correctly just by literal meaning. So for these three answers, according to the thinking and life experience of ordinary people, many people will choose the first answer or the second answer, because modern people think that beetles mean wealth and are the representatives of money. But the correct answer is C.

In the prosperous Tang Dynasty, officials carved fish to distinguish grades, such as copper, silver and gold. In the era of Wu Zetian, turtles were used to distinguish the ranks of officials. The bronze turtle represents five-level officials, the silver turtle represents four-level officials, and the golden turtle represents officials above three levels. The higher the official position, the more government affairs are handled and the busier the work is, so this poem by Li Shangyin came into being.

This question is the last poem in Scene 9. The respondent is a senior high school student with the age of 16. This is Paige. She answered all the previous questions correctly. This is her last finale, and the ending is in jeopardy. See this topic, Wenye Jiang is very calm. As the saying goes, "When reading thousands of books, she writes like a god." She has read many poems, so naturally she won't panic. She was calm and chose the answer without hesitation.

Although Wenye Jiang won the first prize, in the later "Flying Flower Order" competition, due to the menacing opponent, the music on the competition field made people too nervous, which led to Wenye Jiang's brain blank and forgot all the poems she had thought of in advance, which made her lose the qualification to be a champion. Although there are some regrets, Wenye Jiang said that she won't regret coming here and stopping playing, but her love for poetry has not stopped, and she will like poetry even more.

Should Jiang Wen know what a "rich husband" is?

Jiang Wen, a senior one student in no.1 middle school of shanghai, was only 16 years old when she attended the China Poetry Conference, but she read a lot of poetry books, and her love for poetry is endless.

She said that she really began to like poetry in the sixth grade. Suddenly, she thought poetry was beautiful. No matter the artistic conception or words, she can't extricate herself from poetry and is deeply attracted by it. So the page began to read a lot of poems to understand what the poet wanted to express and experience the poet's feelings on the spot.

When Wenye Jiang answered the question "A rich husband" correctly, some viewers began to talk about this topic. Although they were shocked, they thought that at Wenye Jiang's age, they should not understand the meaning of this poem. This poem is not suitable for a high school student to interpret, and there is even a poem "Fengcheng is cold and afraid of spring dawn". They think that this poem is not an ancient poem read by students of Wenye Jiang's age, which greatly affects the physical and mental development of flowers in the motherland and will make them worse.

This concept of the people who eat melons is somewhat backward and feudal. Although the original intention is good, the method is wrong. Just like every child will ask his parents where they are from, most parents will be vague and think it is a very shameful thing to explain to their children how they came into this world. Some parents even told their children whether he picked it up in the trash can or in the mountains. In fact, such an answer not only failed to answer the child, but also made the child feel inferior.

Although the child is young, he knows a lot. It's 2 1 century. The information brought by TV, computer and mobile phone often makes children precocious. Some things, instead of letting them listen to other people's nonsense and go the wrong way, let their parents explain, solve problems and tell them the beauty of the world. This is the correct way to educate children.

The society is progressing and our thoughts are changing. We should keep pace with the times. Nothing is suitable for him to know. He should know everything, good or bad, and he has the right to know. You shouldn't force him to wear a young hat and refuse to let him know something you think he can't know.