Text/Xu Zhihai

plantain

Pre-Qin Dynasty: Anonymous

Pick slugs, pick them with fine words.

Pick slugs, fine print.

Select slugs and make a short comment.

Pick slugs and smooth them with fine print.

Pick slugs and talk about them.

Pick and choose, say short words.

translate

Pick, pick, pick, pick, pick, pick, pick.

Pick, pick, pick, pick, pick, pick, pick.

Pick, pick, pick slugs. Take it off piece by piece.

Pick, pick, pick slugs and crush them one by one.

Pick, pick, pick, pick, pick, pick, pick, pick, pick, pick, pick.

Pick, pick, pick slugs and roll up your skirt.

To annotate ...

Mining: mining and mining. Fúyǐ: The name of the plantain. Its leaves and seeds can be used as medicine, which has obvious diuretic effect. There are many seeds on its ears, which may be related to the beliefs of many children at that time.

Thin words: words are meaningless. Here mainly plays the role of supplementing syllables.

Yes: I see.

Dus: Pick it up and reach for it.

Slide down the stem and pick it up one by one.

Jie: A skirt in one hand.

Xié: Tie the skirt on the belt and wrap the things inside.

This is a comment in Baidu. Because it is an ancient poem with too many traditional Chinese characters, it is difficult to understand poetically, so I said it all.

This poem has six lines, which is a modern poem according to modern parlance. There are three chapters and twelve sentences in the whole poem, and six verbs are used, namely, pick, have (twist, which means twist), push, stroke, creep and crease-these are constantly changing, and the rest are overlapping. This is indeed a very special, vivid and picturesque picture of rural women's work.

I didn't know what it meant at first. After carefully reading Baidu's poems, I realized that it is actually praising the image of women who are virtuous, hardworking, fearless, passionate and selfless. This is my view of this poem from the perspective of modern people. This scene has the feeling that consultants answer each other.

What does it feel like for counselors to answer each other?

Look at the late spring and early summer in the field. Aunt Zhang said like an old consultant, "Look at this sweet potato leaf, Mrs. Liu, and only pinched its leading bud. In this way, if you hold it in your hand, your index finger and thumb will form a sharp arc. When you hold the faucet and lift the bud, it will break, so you don't have to pull out the sweet potato seedlings. The seedling has roots, it will grow, and when the tap is pinched, it will grow and have more vitality. So you don't have to be afraid, rest assured. "

At this moment, I only heard the voices of "Peng Ya" and "Peng Ya". Compared with Liu Jia's new wife, she learned to pinch sweet potato leaves.

While intoxicated, someone shouted behind him, "Aunt Zhang, there are more tender sweet potato leaves. Come here to collect! "

"As soon as I heard this voice, I knew it was Wang Ersao." Aunt Zhang lifted her sleeves and smiled at Liu's new wife. She turned around and said, "Hey, his second sister-in-law, here we are." He rolled up his sleeves and smoothed the sweet potato leaves in his woven bag. Say, "Come on, let's go."

Aunt Zhang, Sister-in-law and Liu's new daughter-in-law are picking sweet potato leaves in the sweet potato field.

This hard-working and brave "female soldier" image, in the traditional concept of "passing, helping and bringing", explains the ancient inheritance of China with images. I think that's how hieroglyphics developed.

This reminds me of Hubei writer Duan. His article "Sweet Potato Leaves" should also explain the kindness and simplicity of China ancestors and their views on the harmonious existence of nature.

A story records a category, and a poem records a similar paragraph. Every year when sesame grows fast and sesame leaves grow vigorously, there will be a kind behavior of rural women's image in rural forests and rural areas: picking sesame leaves.

Skillful and coherent action of picking sesame leaves is like the appearance of "picking slugs" and going deep into sesame fields.

Although this poem is about picking slugs, it is about female images. However, as a medicinal material, slug does have a good effect on female diseases. According to Compendium of Materia Medica, grubs are also recognized as plantain by pharmacologists. Plantain has the effects of clearing away heat and toxic materials, diuresis, treating small intestine fever and even burning urethra.

I think the ancients thought that plantain can cure gynecological diseases, so it has a good effect on cervix, dysmenorrhea and urinary tract infection.

Now people's research shows that plantain has antibacterial, diuretic, antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, repair damaged cells, lose weight, protect liver, lower blood sugar and blood lipid, and resist peptic ulcer.

It can be seen from this poem that plantain is a magic weapon for the protection and restoration of women in the ancient Western Zhou Dynasty. Generally speaking, women who loved beauty in the Western Zhou Dynasty liked to pick coriander, that is, plantain.

Since women like slugs so much, they should also give them to their beloved men as gifts. Grupo is plantain, which can be used to make tea in ancient times, and the favorite sweet potato leaves of modern people can also be fried and eaten.

Plantago likes to grow near the water or in wet places. If the plantain is compared to "American grass", then women who love beauty should use it, love it and pick it.

Smelling this poem, there is a fragrant and charming scene. Look at the beautiful mountains and rivers. Between the plain and fertile fields, there are a group of kind and virtuous young women who are choosy. They sing folk songs together, draw water together, pick bananas today and dry them tomorrow to make tea.

This is a beautiful world, and the unity of man and nature will always be beautiful, moving and fresh.

On that day, that person, that mountain, that river and that beautiful basket of grass in front of the car were singing: hard work, courage, better tomorrow!

Reflected from the side of the poem, picking people's skilled skills, at the same time, set off the feeling of the sun, so the open-minded humanity came out. I like to grow up by the water, which is a gift from women, so I call it "the beautiful grass in front of the car."

Someone once tried to explain poetry in vernacular, namely:

I went to pick bananas again, but I'm not worried about not picking them.

Picked the banana again, picked it and began to laugh.

You can't reach the banana without reaching out.

Pick banana again, and it is better to pick it with a slippery stem.

Pick banana again, and the skirt won't fall off.

I took off my banana again, stuffed it into my pocket and went home.

Repeated overlapping singing in this way is more in line with the rhythm of poetry and can deepen the expression of feelings.

The biggest feeling of reading poetry tonight is to deeply understand the meaning of banana and its inherent essence of Chinese studies.

Good night and sweet dreams! Have a good dream and follow the grass.

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