The form of poetry｜Meng Jiao and "Qin Cao" & those suffering children who were hurt

A few days ago, my translator friend Neighbor was translating Meng Jiao's poems. I don't know why, but seeing Meng Jiao, I felt an inexplicable sadness. It reminded me of this sentence in Yan Yu's "Canglang Poetry Talk" I read before - " Gao and Cen's poems are tragic and heroic, and reading them makes people sigh; Meng Jiao's poems are hard, and reading them makes people unhappy. " This is also a general comparison. Of course, compared with Gao and Cen, Meng Jiao is indeed Indifferent. However, I really like the word "hardworking" used by Yan Yu. He is really thoughtful about every word and every word.

When I think of Meng Jiao, I always feel disgusted. When I look into the reason, I find that in the dark corridor of my childhood primary school, in addition to the paintings of major leaders, a picture with words on a coat is the most famous line in Meng Jiao's "Wandering Son's Song" " Whoever speaks of an inch of grass will reap three rays of spring. " The accompanying picture is of course a loving mother, holding thread in her hands to sew the clothes of a wanderer... I didn't understand much when I was a child, but I only had one feeling. I was breathless after reading this poem, and I was so full. The word "return" was in my mind, so much so that my whole body felt like a heavy weight was pressing down on me. I had to pick up my schoolbag and quickly escape from the dark corridor, as if I left the word "repay" when I left the corridor. Thinking about it later, it’s not that children don’t know how to repay. Children’s love is the most natural thing to give. However, if the point of “you must repay your parents in the future” is forcibly instilled in study and life, the child will not be able to express it in words. , but can clearly feel the unexplainable pressure. It is this sentence that binds the hearts of many people. Perhaps when Meng Jiao wrote this poem, he really felt the love of his loving mother. He sewed clothes for the wanderer, so he was determined to repay the favor with three spring lights. However, he may not have known a subconscious feeling. This kind of repayment seems to be similar to love. They cannot completely overlap, and repayment can sometimes be completely separated from love and become a simple action of loading and unloading, but love is too difficult, and love is not repayment. "Hard work" is what many of us have been asked to do since childhood. If you work hard, you can achieve your goals. If you work hard, you can stand out. Hard work, hard work... is like the word "hard work" given to Meng Jiao by Yan Yu, coupled with his "Repaying three rays of spring" seems to be the life of many people.

I left a message to my translator friend, saying that I remembered Yan Yu’s comment that Meng Jiao was too bitter. When translating, would I feel the bitterness from it? He replied with Meng Jiao's poem: "The roots of the tree are locked in the withered coffin, and the solitary bones are hanging. The branches are crying for frost, and the mournful rhyme is lost and fresh." I couldn't read this poem, but I just felt that Yan Yu analyzed Meng Jiao later. Why work hard——

"Meng Jiao's poems are haggard and withered, and their breath is cramped and unstretched. Why should they be allowed to retreat like this? The poetry is originally upright, but Meng Jiao himself found it difficult to stop his ears. "

I have to praise Yan Yu's summary in "Canglang Poetry". As for where the "gaunt and withered" comes from, I'm afraid it's the "three spring lights" that bear the "brightness" and "righteousness" in all Meng Jiao's poems.

Speaking of retreat, Han Yu included many "Qin Cao" songs in "Mr. Changli's Collection", which are lost Qin music in ancient times. One of the songs, "Lu Shuang Cao" is out of place——

The father is cold and the child is cold, the mother is hungry. If a child commits a crime and deserves to be whipped, why should he be chased away? The son is in the middle field, where he can stay. There is no sound around, who is talking to the children? What should I wear if I'm cold? What can I eat if my child is hungry? The child walks in the wild, walking on the frost. A mother gives birth to many sons, and a mother takes pity on them. Without mother's pity, would the son rather be sad?

In addition to chanting "Being in the same robe as the son", this piano song about the poor child is really tragic and like a spring of fresh air in "The father is kind and the son is filial". At that time, there were children whose fathers did not kiss them and whose mothers did not love them. What wrong did the children do to deserve such punishment? Sleeping in the open with no one around, who can talk to the children? The child was hungry and cold, and his feet were on the frost and snow. A mother has given birth to many children, and all of them have mothers who love them. Why is this child alone without the mother's pity? How can he not be miserable?

I don’t know what the song "Lu Shuang Cao" sounded like thousands of years ago, but the sorrow of the lyrics must be accompanied by a very sad melody. I read the book review "Transparent Children" a few days ago. The author of the picture book drew those stateless children. He hoped that someone would see these children. I was very touched. I thought of the song "Lu Shuang Cao" and remembered that as early as the era of retreat. , has included such music. Although the music is sad, it really sees the child who is walking in the frost, and also sees those "not parents".

There are always cases of harming children in the news recently. It seems that it doesn’t matter if you are crazy or not. No matter how crazy you are, you can always tell that children are the easiest to hurt and the least able to fight back. What’s more, you can directly point out the evil in children. , the child has no way to defend himself. In fact, I have always believed that " human beings are inherently good by nature ". Children are also the most easily ignored, such as those stateless children, left-behind children, and children who commit suicide... there are countless of them, so miserable.

I read "Lu Shuang Cao" over and over again. It was cold and the wind was blowing. It was as if I saw the crying child in the snow and ice, but no one answered. It may be that I have been carrying all the faults since my birth. More and more, what’s the explanation?

The word "return" that Meng Jiao was burdened with drained his poetry, to the point of being "haggard and withered." Yan Yu is so sharp. Don't these four words describe walking zombies? But "Lu Shuang Cao" vividly shows the wailing of suffering children in the world with flesh and blood. Meng Jiao's so-called poems are so withered and shriveled that even "Three Spring Lights" are acceptable, but the melancholy "Lu Shuang Cao" does not make people feel "haggard and withered" after reading them. Why? Because, the child's cry was seen, heard, and even sung in the music! How many children and people like this are there who only want to be seen even once in their lives?

The music of the piano was lost and no longer exists, and the words left behind became poetry without the music, and no one knew it had become a poem. Thousands of years later, the slogan became "No matter how hard it is, the child cannot be tortured." Yeah? Children cannot express their inner feelings very well. If adults say you are not suffering, it may be useless no matter how miserable you are——

First couplet: If you are told that you are suffering, you will be suffering regardless of whether you are suffering.

Second line: If you say you are not suffering, you will neither suffer nor suffer.

Hengpi: Is it painful or not? Can I feel it myself?

[May the children who were harmed in the indiscriminate harm incident rest in peace. 】