Long song of Han Yuefu warned the world to cherish time and forge ahead.

The trees in the garden are lush, and the crystal dew rises in the sun.

Spring fills the earth with hope, and everything presents a scene of prosperity.

I am always afraid that when the cold autumn comes, the trees in Ye Er will turn yellow and the grass will wither.

A hundred rivers go east to the sea, and when will they go west!

A lazy youth, a lousy age.

There are three ancient poems * * * in Long song in Han Dynasty, which were included in Yuefu Poems by Guo Maoqian, a poet in Song Dynasty, and the last two poems were merged into one (in fact, they are completely irrelevant poems, and Yan Yu's Canglang Poetry has pointed out that the latter should be two). What I want to talk about here is the first of three songs, which was first seen in Xiao Tong's Selected Works. The theme of this poem is very clear, that is, two sentences at the end of the article: "Young people are strong and don't work hard, but old people are sad." Because the interpretation of Yuefu ancient poems in Tang Wu Classic says: "It won't be long before you say that you are glorious, you should be happy if you work hard, and you should be sad if you don't reach the top." Later generations turned such a poem with positive significance to persuade people to cherish youth and have fun in time into a work to persuade people to eat, drink and be merry in time. This is obviously a fallacy and distortion. Because the poem only says to "work hard" in time, it does not obviously suppress decadent ideas like "When we eat, drink and be merry in time, how can we stay here" in Nineteen Ancient Poems (the fifteenth). We should completely restore its positive and healthy true colors.

There are also different views on the meaning of the poem "A Long Song". I think Guo Maoqian's statement based on Shan Li's annotation in Selected Works is quite accurate and plain. He said: Cui Bao's Notes on Ancient and Modern Times said: "Long song, short songs, people's life span, each has its own destiny, and we must not be presumptuous." According to "Ancient Poetry", "Long song is fierce." Wei Wudi (such as Wei Wendi) said in Ge Yanxing: "Short songs can't be long." Jin Fuxuan's "Ge Yanxing" says: "Duh, come to Long song to continue short songs." However, songs have length and no life. Long song's continued short songs in Tang Dynasty were based on this. It seems that the so-called "long" and "short" refer to songs and tunes, regardless of the content. "Life length" is even more hypothetical.

There are two words in this poem that need special explanation, namely "Qingqing" in the first sentence and "Huang Qu" in the sixth sentence. Other words are generally easier to understand, so I won't repeat them here.

First of all, the word "green" certainly refers to color. For example, the so-called "woman in green" in The Book of Songs Zheng Feng Amethyst refers to the blue clothes. However, from the Book of Songs to Yuefu folk songs and ancient poems in Han Dynasty, the word "green" often appears, which not only refers to color, but also describes the lush appearance of plants when they were young. This is explained in Zheng Xuan's Annotation of Mao Poetry in the Eastern Han Dynasty, Lu Deming's Interpretation of Classics, Duan Yucai's The Book of Songs Primary School in the Qing Dynasty and Shi Mao's Chen Huan's Biography of Poetry. Duan and Chen further explained that "Jingjing" and "Jingjing" in The Book of Songs are the same word, both of which refer to the lush foliage of plants. Now we often say "youth" and "youth" all come from the earliest meaning of the word "qingqing". This echoes the word "young and strong" at the end of the article, not just the color of "sunflower in the garden"