The Original Text and Appreciation of The Book of Songs

Meng tells the story of a disgruntled woman accusing a man of changing his mind. This is a long poem about abandoning his wife and telling the tragedy of marriage. The following is the original text of the book of songs "Meng" and its appreciation.

The Book of Songs-Meng

Embrace trade silk for self-protection.

When robbers came to trade silk, they came to me.

Sending a child involves gas, as for Dunqiu.

When I was a robber, I had no good media.

There is no anger in the child, and autumn lasts.

Take the other side of the wall to get back to the customs.

I didn't see the resumption of customs, so I cried.

Seeing the resumption of GATT, I was full of laughter and laughter.

Well, Parr, the body is not responsible.

Driving your car to bribe me to move.

Mulberry leaves flourish before they fall.

In the nest, there is no mulberry.

I am a girl, so I don't have to worry about it.

The anxiety of scholars can still be said;

You can't say a woman is worried!

Mulberry fell, yellow, and fell.

Self-pity, poor three years old.

Qi Shuitang Tang, driving a car gradually.

Women are unhappy, and scholars do their best.

Scholars are also extremely useless.

Being a woman at the age of three is exhausting.

Sleepless all night, there must be a dynasty.

As for violence, what you say must be done.

My brother didn't know, but he smiled.

Calm down and think about it, and you will bow your head and feel sorry for yourself.

Being together always makes me complain.

Qi has a shore and discipline has a plate.

General's corner banquet, talking and laughing.

Swear, forget it.

On the contrary, I don't think about it. I'm already embarrassed!

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The young man came over with a smile and exchanged cloth coins for silk. Not to buy silk, but to talk to me about marriage.

After the chat, I'll send you ice cream and take you all the way to Dunqiu. Not that I want to postpone the wedding, but that you haven't found a good matchmaker.

Please don't be angry with me. Let's fix the wedding date in autumn. Climb broken walls, think of you, and look back at the local conditions and customs.

Looking at the distance, I can't see the complicated shadow, and I bow my head and cry. I'm glad to see my concern, and I'm glad to keep talking.

You ask BuBu, BuBu as auspicious words. Bring your car, and I'll take my dowry.

When Mulberry Ye Er did not fall down, the leaves were luxuriant and the color was moist. Little turtledove, little turtledove, don't be greedy.

Good girl, good girl, don't be infatuated with men. Men are addicted and can leave if they want to.

It is impossible for a woman to get out of love. Mulberry leaves fell, yellow in color, and fell all over the floor.

I have suffered for three years since I married your family. The strong current wet the curtains of my car.

I have nothing wrong as a wife, but you have many mistakes as a husband. Men's psychology is unpredictable, half-hearted and immoral.

Being your wife for three years, you've been busy all day. Get up early and do housework in the dark, and have no leisure every day.

Life is secure and carefree, but you are rude and bossy. My brothers don't know. They always make fun of me.

Think before and after. A person is sad. When we first met, we grew old together. When we grew old, we were full of sadness and resentment.

Although Qishui has a wide shore, Luohe has a wide side. We had fun together since childhood, talking and laughing.

Loyalty and oath are understood, but later they changed. I don't want to stay in the past, make a clean break, stop talking!

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This is a famous narrative poem in The Book of Songs, which tells the whole process of a woman's growing up, proposing marriage, staying together, getting married, and a man's change of heart, making a clean break, expressing the grief and indignation of her abandoned wife.

This reminds us of such a question: how can the relationship between husband and wife last? In traditional society, this issue can not be discussed, because the ethical code stipulates that the wife is attached to her husband and wants to "marry the chicken and follow the dog." On the other hand, there are few restrictions on husbands. In fact, as we said before, you can be lenient with your husband, you can have three wives and four concubines, and you don't have to focus on one woman.

Nowadays, traditional concepts and moral standards have changed with the times. In monogamous society, the problem of maintaining the relationship between husband and wife has not been solved, and this problem is more prominent because of the great change of ideas.

It is obviously naive to maintain the relationship between husband and wife only by beauty. Flowers are never red. Beautiful flowers sometimes wither. No matter how beautiful the face is, there will be a semi-old person in Xu Niang who will grow old and go to Huang Zhi. More importantly, when two people live under the same roof day and night, beautiful faces can't make up for all kinds of frictions and contradictions between them. Whether the personality is consistent, whether the living habits can accommodate each other, and whether the concepts are consistent are more important than face. The integration and complementarity of the two is conducive to the long-term, healthy and sustainable development of Sino-US relations.

It is also naive to think that feelings will not change, or that feelings can replace everything. The passion of first love can't always be high. With marriage, having children and living, the heat will gradually decrease, and may even approach indifference. If the expectation of emotion is too high, the greater the disappointment and the deeper the frustration. So, when couples get along for a long time, they have no feelings? Definitely not. Emotion is indeed an important adhesive to make the relationship between husband and wife harmonious, but it is not a castle in the air, but has a realistic basis. Attraction of appearance, conformity of personality, consistency of taste, harmony of sexual life and so on. It is a source that constantly provides vitality for emotions. On the other hand, the changes of these factors will also have a subtle influence on emotions. How to realize all kinds of changes and make them develop in the direction you want requires a lot of energy. If you are insensitive to this, it will be too late until one day you suddenly find that things have changed for the better and your feelings have changed dramatically. Western proverbs say that Rome was not built in a day. Similarly, the feelings between husband and wife, as well as emotional changes, did not happen in one day. They must loosen the soil, water, fertilize, prune, shed leaves and prevent freezing as often as planting flowers, so that they can thrive.

There is no constant emotion in the world, only the emotion that is constantly updated and enriched in change. There is no love in the air, only love that grows in a real and plain life.

The relationship between husband and wife involves too many factors. The change of any one factor will cause a chain reaction. This is not only a question of not changing one's mind, but also a question of women's independence (men also have independence problems). From Tian Ling's standpoint, judging the infinitely rich and complicated relationship between husband and wife only by a fixed concept and simply accusing it of being wrong and immoral has been greatly outdated and rigid.

Extension:

Guo Fengwei Feng Meng is a poem in The Book of Songs, the first collection of poems in ancient China. This is a long poem about a woman who abandoned her wife and confessed her marriage tragedy. The heroine in the poem recalls the sweetness of love life and the pain of being abused and abandoned by her husband after marriage with great sadness. This poem consists of six chapters, each with ten sentences. Chapter one, tracing back to one's marriage is decided by first love; The second chapter describes that he fell in love, broke through the shackles of the matchmaker's words and married himself; In the third chapter, she tells a group of beautiful young innocent girls not to indulge in love and points out the inequality between men and women. The fourth chapter, expressing resentment against self-protection, points out that this is not the fault of women, but the willfulness of self-protection; The fifth chapter, then describes her hard work and abuse after marriage, as well as her brother's ridicule and self-injury misfortune; The sixth chapter describes the love in childhood and the deviation today, denounces the hypocrisy and deception of self-protection, and firmly expresses the feelings of self-protection. This poem expresses her remorse and resolute attitude through the self-report of the abandoned wife, and profoundly reflects the oppression and destruction of women in love and marriage in ancient society.