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Two days ago, I recommended to you the shortest eryan ancient poem in history, "Playing Song", the content of which depicts the scene of the primitive ancestors making weapons and hunting, so this poem has been inferred by many scholars and experts that it may have been written at the end of primitive society, but this inference cannot be corroborated, so the age of the poem is also uncertain.
Therefore, although this "Playing Song" is the shortest, it cannot become the earliest poem in history. However, there is a poem that has been recorded in later historical books like "Playing Song", but it is recognized by the poetry community as the earliest poetry in history.
This poem is "Kik Song", only five short sentences, the first two of which have been sung for more than 4,000 years, almost everyone knows:
"
Kik Song
Made at sunrise,
Day in and day out.
Sink a well and drink,
Plough the fields and eat.
Dili to me!
"
This "Kik Song" has been recorded many times in the historiography and classics of the Han Dynasty and the Jin Dynasty, such as "The Century of Emperors", "On Balance", etc., and according to its description, it was recorded in the historical records as early as the pre-Qin Spring and Autumn Period. This poem has also been regarded by successive generations of poetry as the ancestor of Chinese poetry, and is recognized as the earliest poem in history. The poet Shen Deqian compiled the "Ancient Poetry Source" to list this poem as the first one!
This poem describes the scene of the ancient ancestors' labor and farming life, and the first two sentences are extremely famous, almost everyone knows: "The sun rises and works, and the sun enters and breathes." The whole poem is very simple and simple in poetry: the working people support themselves, cultivate and sink wells, showing the happy life of that period. It also reflects the social peace and tranquility of that time, and people lived and worked in peace and contentment.
And the last sentence "Dili is what I have", some people think that "Dili" refers to the imperial power at that time, and some people think that it refers to God. But whatever interpretation, the poem is a celebration of labor and a contempt for "Dili"! After all, self-sufficiency depends on labor, and what effect can the power of the emperor do to people!
The style of this "Kik Song" is simple and unpretentious throughout, the language is simple and popular, but the image portrayal is vivid and vivid. The carefree living conditions and pleasant looks of the working people are expressed very naturally and sincerely. It is precisely because of this that this phrase "the sun rises and works, the sun enters and breathes" can be sung for more than 4,000 years, and it has endured for a long time!