Feng Wang Gertrude
The author was anonymous in the pre-Qin period.
Vines twine around the bend of the river. Brother and sister have separated, and the heart of the father is desolate. Call others dad, I don't care!
Everything, at the end of the river. My mother was very sad that my brother and sister were separated. Call someone else's mother, and I didn't either!
Vines twine around the river bank and meander along the river. The brother and sister were separated, and my brother was very sad. Call others Kun, I don't smell it!
This poem is not difficult to understand:
Kudzu has been winding around the bend of the river for a long time. The separation of brothers made my father very sad. This is dad's sorrow. He won't appreciate it.
Kudzu has been winding along the river for a long time. The separation of brothers made mother sad. This is sad for a mother, who won't help anywhere.
Kudzu has been winding for a long time by the river and the beach. The separation of brothers makes people sad. This makes my brother very sad, and he just plays dumb.
It is said that there are 1000 Hamlet for every 1000 readers, and people have different understandings of The Book of Songs. According to legend, it was written by a noble Ji in the early years of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, aiming at mocking and abandoning the clan. There is also a saying that the poet wandered in a foreign land and was injured alone.
However, there is a more interesting interpretation, which is a description of the present situation of the son-in-law who comes to the door.
Ancient times were almost the same as modern times, and they didn't want to be son-in-law unless they had to, because they were disrespected "adopted sons", just like "Ziggy" who had no attachments by the river. If they leave their surname family, it is equivalent to being removed from the family.
According to the adoption regulations, after the man becomes a door-to-door son-in-law, he will change his surname to the woman, and the children born will also take the mother's surname. Is the third generation of the door-to-door son-in-law. If you get fame and become an official, you must also indicate on your household registration that you are a door-to-door son-in-law.
In the woman's big family, the son-in-law who comes to the door has no right to speak, and works silently every day to please his family. Once the woman doesn't like it, she will face the fate of being kicked out of the house. This is why the son-in-law complains that the father-in-law "doesn't care about me", but people don't care whether you are tired or not.
The poems in The Book of Songs are really grounded, and we can analyze them in easy-to-understand and interesting language. This is indeed the profoundness of ancient culture, which embodies the practical significance of ancestors' life.
(The pictures in the article are from the Internet, if there is any intrusion)