What does it mean to have a broad life and death relationship with Zicheng?

"The agreement between life and death is broad, said with Zicheng" means: we will never be separated through life and death, we have already made an oath. From: "Drumming" chapter in "Bei Feng" in "The Book of Songs".

"Drumming"

Beat the drums and boring them, and use the troops enthusiastically.

I will travel south alone in the city of Tuguo.

From Sun Zi Zhong, Ping Chen and Song Dynasty.

If you don’t return home without me, you will feel worried.

Love lives in love? Love loses its horse?

Where to find it? Under the forest.

The agreement between life and death is broad, as explained by Zicheng.

Hold your hand and grow old together.

I can’t live without you.

I am disappointed, but I don’t believe it.

Translation:

The war drums are beating loudly, the soldiers are practicing their swords and spears enthusiastically; the capital and Caoyi are building city walls, and I am alone in the army and rushing to the south. Following the general Sun Zi Zhong, he conquered the other countries Chen and Song (Chen and Song). He could not return home for a long time, and his heart was broken with worry. Where to stop the troops and camp? She was so panicked that she lost her horse; where could she find it? Fragrant grass lies under the forest in the wilderness.

We have already made an oath to live and die together and never be separated. I hold your hand when we say goodbye, and I will grow old and rest in this life; I sigh loudly that we are separated now, and I can’t see each other anymore; I sigh loudly that the world is far away, and I can’t keep my oath and return home.

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Creative background

There are several different opinions about the background of this poem. One is that in the fourth year of Duke Yin of Lu (719 BC), Duke Wei's son Zhou Xu (also known as "Wei Zhou Xu" by his predecessors) joined forces with Song, Chen and Cai to attack Zheng. This theory was first advocated by the "Preface to Mao's Poems": ""Beat the Drum" was blamed on Zhouxu." "Weizhouxu used troops to cause riots, causing General Gongsun Wenzhong to level Chen and Song Dynasties. The people of the country complained about his bravery and rudeness."

Zheng Jian cited the fact that the state called for an attack on Zheng in the "Zuo Zhuan·Yin Gong Four Years". In the summer of the fourth year of Lu Yingong (719 BC), Wei joined forces with Chen, Song, and Cai to attack Zheng. Xu Zhengbo believed that in the autumn of the same year, Wei State attacked Zheng State again and robbed Zheng State's crops. During these two wars, there were soldiers garrisoning in the Chen and Song Dynasties ("Shitan").

Yao Jiheng thought that the "Preface to Mao's Poems" said "six things that are inconsistent with the scriptures". This is actually the "Song Shishi attacked Chen, and the Wei people rescued Chen" in the "Spring and Autumn Period. Things that were cut down. Qing Dynasty scholar Fang Yurun's "Original Book of Songs" believes that it is "a poem about garrison soldiers thinking about returning but not returning". Most people today think that Yao's theory is more reasonable. Regardless of the background, what is certain is that this poem reflects the resentment and longing of a soldier who has not returned from garrison for a long time.

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