Text/Gu Wu
【Introduction to ramblings】
Readers and friends do not know whether there is a family in the countryside, raised cattle?
It feels like modern people have less and less contact with creatures like cows. Back in ancient times, farming cattle is almost an essential livestock in every family, ploughing the fields and ploughing the land, and all the hard work is done by it.
It is also because of its important role in agricultural life, the current zodiac sign has one, and I also happen to belong to the cattle. Moreover, in Chinese culture, it also occupies the meaning of a symbol, saying that a person is like an old scalper, that is, the meaning of his hard work, stubbornness, etc., which does not need to be explained.
To a large extent, I think that cultivating cattle is like a shadow of the working people in ancient times, with too many virtues similar to those of working people, hard-working, bowing down, and obscurity.
Until modern times, when mechanization was not fully popularized, farming cattle were still an irreplaceable role in people's lives.
Lu Xun has a poem "Horizontal eyebrows are cold to a thousand fingers, bowing down to be a widow cow", which also illustrates the deep-rooted image of cattle in the minds of Chinese. When it comes to serving the people, no amount of official rhetoric is better than a cow.
【Immersive Poetry】
Because the ancient cow is a species that people do not look up and look down at in their lives, so in literary works, its image often appears, other than that, the image of a cowherd baby alone is already classic enough, appearing again and again in a variety of literary works, and the figure of the shepherd boy in "Qingming" refers to the apricot blossom village, which is deeply imprinted in everyone's heart.
There are even people who are willing to compare themselves to cattle and set themselves off with the nature of animals.
This person is Li Gang, a famous minister of the late Northern Song Dynasty and the early Southern Song Dynasty, a representative of the main war faction, and one of the national heroes of the Southern Song Dynasty. Li Gang wrote poems, mainly patriotic history, with a distinct image, a heavy style, and a bold momentum.
He was the prime minister of the early Southern Song Dynasty, and because the opinions of the main war were not in line with the imperial court, coupled with the obstruction of villains, he was deposed and exiled to Wuchang, which is now the city of Ezhou in Hubei Province. Four years later, Chen Dong, a student of the Tai Dynasty, and others jointly petitioned the imperial court for orders, requesting that Li Gangguan be reinstated.
This request ended in failure, and the initiator Chen Dong was killed because of it. After this incident, Li Gang understood that his situation was already very dangerous, so he wrote this poem "Sick Cow", which is not only a true portrayal of his who's life, but also with emotional catharsis, behind the helpless masturbation is a criticism of the traitorous villain, but also has the intention of expressing his heart and avoiding disasters. These intentions are not much to say in a poem, but the image of the sick cow perfectly fits these emotions, and while expressing sustenance, it does not affect the literature and artistry of the original text at all, which also shows the level of Li Gang's handwritten heart.
【Classic original text】
Sick cattle Song Dynasty: Li Gang Plough a thousand acres of solid thousands of boxes, exhausted who is injured? But all sentient beings are full, and they do not hesitate to lie down in the sun.
【Article Analysis】
This is a typical poem of poetry, which pins the author's own feelings in the sick cow.
Throughout the poem, the poet speaks from the perspective of a cultivated cow. The first sentence writes that he worked a lot and contributed a lot, but he was exhausted, and no one remembered his merits, and no one comforted himself with his old age and illness.
The two "thousand" characters give people the feeling of intuitive and strong, against the southern sun in the paddy fields to do their duty, a busy season down, ploughed thousands of acres of land, and finally harvested grain for the world, filled with thousands of boxes. It is because of my help that people can enjoy a happy and happy harvest, but I am exhausted and no one takes care of me.
In the second half of the sentence, there is a little bit of reproach and complaining tone, but it is not implemented, just a faint stroke.
The second sentence is the response of the sick cow himself to this complaint.
I only hope that all the people in the world can have no worries about food and clothing, and do not have to worry about food all year round. As long as I can fulfill such a wish, even if I myself am weak, sick, and powerless to lie down in the sunset, it does not matter!
The cow itself has no personality, and the poet gives it the character of sacrificing for the people, which is actually a self-metaphor. Supporting the weak imperial court, his heart and mind are thinking of resisting jin to save the country, and he has the world in his heart, although he is physically and mentally exhausted, no one cares about it.
It is precisely because the personalities of the two are interconnected that this poem has the power to move and resonate with the reader.