The Significance and Original Text of the Ancient Poetry "Cowherd Star"

Yuan Chen Tan is one of the nineteen ancient poems, which was produced in the Han Dynasty and is a five-character poem written by literati. With the help of the myth that the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl are blocked by the Milky Way and can't meet each other, this poem expresses the feelings of women's parting and lovesickness, and writes the sadness that husband and wife on earth can't get together. Between the lines, there is a certain sense of dissatisfaction and conflict. This paper sorts out the original text and its translation of Far Morning Altar for your reference.

The original text of "Jumping Altair" is Jumping Altair, a woman in Jiao Jiao.

Skillful hands, make a loom.

There is no chapter all day, and tears are pouring down.

What's the difference between a clear river and a shallow one?

Between water and water, there are no words.

The distant Altair, the bright Vega.

Weaver (Weaver) stretched out her slender white hand and was fiddling with the loom (weaving), making a weaving sound.

(She misses the cowherd and has no intention of weaving), so she didn't knit a piece of cloth all day and cried like rain.

The Milky Way is clear and shallow. How far apart?

Although separated by a river, we can only stare deeply and cannot talk in words.

Key Notes of Jumping Altair ① Jumping: Far away. Altair: commonly known as Altair, it is the main star of Tianying constellation, south of the Milky Way.

2 bright: a bright appearance. Hehan: Galaxy. Hehan female, referring to Vega, is the main star of Lyra, on the north bank of the Milky Way. Vega and Altair face each other across the river.

3 ":raise the pendulum. Weaver girl shook her slender hand.

(4) Loom: woven piece by piece. Hey, spindle.

⑤ There is no chapter all day: it means that the weaver girl in The Book of Songs Dadong can't knit sweaters all day. The original intention of the Book of Songs is that the weaver girl has a false name and can't weave; What is said here is that the weaver girl has no intention of weaving, because she has hurt acacia. Chapter: refers to the warp and weft texture on the cloth.

Six zero: fall.

⑦ How much: Jude said "geometry". These two sentences mean that Vega and Petunia are separated by only one galaxy, how far apart they are!

8 Yingying: The water is clear and shallow. Between: every other one.

Pet-name ruby: the vulgar writing of "canthus" is full of affection and eye contact. Look at each other without saying a word.

The Artistic Features of Altair This poem describes a couple in the sky, Altair and Weaver Girl, but it focuses on the ground and observes their parting pain from the perspective of a third party. The first two sentences put pen to paper from two places, saying that Niu Jiao is "far" and the weaver girl is called "bright". Titiao and Jiao Jiao have different views on each other, so we can't be persistent. The morning glory is also bright, and the weaver girl is far away. They are all so far away and so bright. However, it is easy to think of a wanderer far away from home with a petunia belonging to a distant relative, and it is also easy to think of the beauty of a woman with a weaver girl belonging to a distant relative. In this case, it seems that they can no longer be interchanged.

If it is intertextual, it will be changed to "Morning Glory, Far River Girl", and the interest will be reduced by half. The subtlety of poetic language can be seen here. The reason why the Weaver Girl is called "Hehan Girl" is to make up three syllables and avoid using "Weaver Girl" in three words. The former sentence uses "Altair" and the latter sentence uses "Vega", which is neither rhyming nor monotonous. Girl in the River is much more vivid.

"Hehan Woman" refers to a woman on the edge of the Milky Way, which is more reminiscent of a real woman and ignores that she is a star. I don't know if the author took such pains when writing poems. Anyway, different writing methods have different artistic effects. In a word, the arrangement of the ten words "Altair, Jiao Jiao Hehan Girl" can be said to be the most ingenious arrangement and the most muddy effect.