In the creation of classical poetry, whether a poem is neat or not affects whether it has beauty and power. Moreover, the form and rhythm of the poem can also greatly contribute to the interpretation and expression of the theme of the poem. For example, the Tang Dynasty poet Wang Jian's masterpiece "The New Bride's Words" uses its neatness and just 20 words to outline the image of a vivid new daughter-in-law. Shen Deliang praised it in "Tang Poetry Bejue": "When poetry reaches the truth, a word is not easy", that is to say, "a word is difficult to change".
"The Words of the Bride" is a five-word poem created by Wang Jian, and the third poem in Wang Jian's poem "Three Words of the Bride". The content of this poem is mainly to describe the feelings of a new daughter-in-law who has just married into her husband's family, reflecting the reality of the difficulty of the new daughter-in-law at that time, which has universal social significance. This poem is also the only poem by Wang Jian to be selected for the "Three Hundred Poems of Tang Dynasty". Let's take a closer look at Wang Jian's "New Bride's Words":
Three days into the kitchen, wash your hands to make soup.
Not familiar with the taste of the girl, the first sister-in-law to taste.
The first sentence is "three days into the kitchen", that is, three days after the new marriage, the bride comes to the kitchen. An ancient custom of marriage is mentioned here, that is, the bride must go to the kitchen to cook meals for three days after marriage, which was maintained until the Qing Dynasty. The difficulty of a new daughter-in-law is a common social reality in ancient times, and she must not only be satisfied by her husband, but most importantly, she must be pleasing to her mother-in-law. The new daughter-in-law in this poem does what she does in order to get the favor of her mother-in-law. In fact, in ancient times, because of parents, there were many marriage tragedies.
The second sentence, "Wash your hands to make soup", points out the custom of the bride to go to the kitchen to cook meals three days after marriage. The meaning of this verse is that the bride washed her hands and made the soup herself. The place to pay attention to here is the word "washing", it seems that it is not special, but it reflects the caution of the new daughter-in-law, even if any link is not done well, it will cause the mother-in-law's dissatisfaction. Here also reflects the fact that the ancient new wife is difficult to be.
The third sentence, "I am not familiar with the taste of my mother-in-law", that is, I am not familiar with my mother-in-law's taste. This poem tells the new daughter-in-law's heart. Because I am not familiar with the taste of my mother-in-law, a soup is not good if it is salty or light, because there is no standard. Therefore, Hui Huang turned her eyes to the sister-in-law who knew her mother-in-law's taste. So, naturally, there was the last sentence "the first sister-in-law to taste."
That is to say, the new daughter-in-law first gave the soup to the sister-in-law to taste. As for why you choose "sister-in-law" instead of choosing a husband, this is because the average daughter is more considerate, and the daughter's habits often come from the mother's habits, and the same is true for eating habits. So here she found a sister-in-law, which undoubtedly reflects her wisdom. In addition, the word "dispatch" here is also used extremely cleverly, between sisters-in-law, sister-in-law is a respected chief, in ancient times to the husband to whisper, to the sister-in-law can be directly "dispatched". Therefore, the portrayal of identity and specific life situations here is extremely delicate.
Looking at Wang Jian's poem, the atmosphere of life is very strong and has universal social significance, after all, it reflects a common fact that new wives in feudal society are difficult to be. And the poet from "three days into the kitchen", to "wash hands", and then to "the first sister-in-law to taste", the identity of the characters, the environment, the place, all are tightly linked, neat, so this poem is difficult to change.
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