It is a typical war poem in The Book of Songs, the first collection of poems in ancient China. The author is anonymous. This is a homesick song sung by a soldier who has gone to a foreign country and can't go home for a long time. The Book of Songs is rich in content, reflecting labor and love, war and corvee, oppression and resistance, customs and marriage, ancestor worship and feasting, and even astronomical phenomena, landforms, animals and plants. It is a mirror of the social life of the Zhou Dynasty.

The original text is as follows:

Drums are dull and soldiers actively use them. Cao Tuguocheng, I travel south alone.

From Sun Zizhong, Chen Pinghe and Song Dynasty. No, I'm going home. I'm worried.

Where do you live? Lost his horse? For it? Under the forest.

Life and death are generous, and Zi Cheng says. Hold your hand and grow old with your son.

I am rich, but I am still alive. Sorry, but I believe it.

The translation is as follows:

The drums sounded, and the soldiers will bravely train. (People) stayed at home to build Cao Cao City, and only I went to the south.

Follow Sun Zizhong to pacify Chen and Song. I'm not allowed to go home, which worries me. So where is the person? So the horse ran away.

Where is the loss? Where can I find it? In the mountains and forests.

Life and death come and go, as I once told you. Hold your hand and grow old with your son. Alas, it's been too long. I can't be with you.

Yes Alas, it's too far from the fulfillment of my vows.

Precautions are as follows:

Bored: playing drums. Its boring, that is, "boring." Ming? Chen Jiru's "Notes on the Temple of Yuan Gong (Yuan Keli) on the Day of Sima": "Prompt to test the bell and drum." ?

Enthusiasm: Disyllabic conjunctions are still inspiring. Soldier: Weapons, swords and guns.

Tuguo: Working in Beijing. Cao: Place names.

Extended data:

There are several different opinions about the background of this poem. One is that in the fourth year (7 19 BC), the son of Wei (also known as Xu by his predecessors) joined forces with Song, Chen and Cai to defeat Zheng together. This theory was initiated by Preface to Mao's Poems: "Drumming" resents the country. ""Wei Zhou urged the use of troops to riot, so that Gong Wenzhong was on an equal footing with Chen and Song, and the Chinese people complained that he was brave and rude. "

Jian Zheng took advantage of the fact that Zuo Zhuan had been hiding from the public for four years to urge Jin Wengong to attack Zheng. In the summer of four years (7 19 BC), Wei joined forces with Chen, Song and Cai to attack Zheng. Xu Zhengbo thinks it means that in the autumn of the same year, Wei Guo once again cut Zheng and robbed Zheng's crops. Between the two wars, soldiers were stationed in Chen and Song (Shitan).

The other is that in the Book of Songs of Qing Dynasty, Yao Jiheng put forward "In the 12th year of Lu (597 BC), Wei Mugong sent troops to save Chen", saying: "This poem was written out of resentment because Wei Mugong made an alliance with the north and south of Qing Dynasty, demanding that Chen be cut down by Song Dynasty, pacifying the difficulties of Chen and Song Dynasty and prospering the army."

Yao Jiheng thinks that the preface to Mao's Poems says that "it is six if you don't cooperate with others", which is actually cut off by the twelfth golden year of the Spring and Autumn Period. Fang Yurun, a scholar in Qing Dynasty, regarded the original Book of Songs as "a poem that retreats without thinking". Now, many people think that what Yao said is more reasonable. Whatever the background, it is certain that this poem reflects the resentment and yearning of a recruiter who has not returned for a long time.

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