One early morning after a rain, a woman carried a basket on her shoulder and walked slowly on the hill of Nanshan Mountain. She looked at it from time to time as she walked, and heard the chirping of insects, some grasshoppers sometimes falling on the blades of grass, sometimes jumping up and shaking the grasses around, but this woman did not care, she came to Nanshan to pick the young leaves of bracken to take home to cook, but her heart was uneasy, always worried about her husband who was on the field, she was worried about nothing else. If you can see him and meet him, you can be happy.
The next day, she went to Nanshan to collect wild peas, but she still did not see her husband return, so she was sad. If she could see him and meet him, she would be able to be quiet inside.
Alas, what an amorous woman! Although the "grass worm" in the poem is named after the grass worm that jumps happily, the poem is an uncompromising foil, but the protagonist is a sad and uneasy woman looking forward to her husband's early return.
• Original text of "Poetry Sutra • Zhao Nan • Grass Worm"
Grass worms, grass worms. I didn't see the gentleman, and I was worried.
It is also stopped, and it is also stopped, and my heart is descended.
It is difficult to collect its ferns. I have not seen a gentleman, and my heart is troubled.
It is also the cessation of sight and the cessation of contemplation, and my heart is pleased.
Zhi Pi Nanshan, Words and Qiwei. I have not seen a gentleman, and my heart is sad.
It is also the cessation of sight and the cessation of the gaze, and my heart is destroyed.
• Explanation
1. Chirping: the cry of insects;
2. Grass worms: insects with wings that can call;
3. 趯趯阜螽: 趯趯, the appearance of jumping; 螽螽, a small grasshopper that has not yet grown wings, also known as a cockroach;
4. Also: if;
5. Qi: Meet.
