As a representative of pre-Qin literature, the Book of Poetry contains extremely rich spiritual food. Many of the places in the poem that describe love are more romantic than they are now.
Like what: a day is not seen, such as every three years old, love does not see, scratching the head, this night and night, such a good person and so on.
At that time, the working people's concept of love was simple and unrestrained. There are those who live and die, those who are in the corners of the city, and even those who are comfortable and free.
They pursue free and innocent love. Such as Qingyang wanxi, encounter encounter, telling a pair of handsome men and beautiful women unexpectedly, call each other's love. Another example is to vote for me with a papaya and repay it with Qiongju, saying that a pair of men and women are not ashamed and shamelessly sprinkle dog food.
In the pre-Qin era, feudal etiquette was not deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, and the Zhou metric system was not yet popular in the world, and most of the working people were immersed in free love.
But free love has a drawback, that is, it is easy to produce leftover men and women. Everyone is picking and choosing, but there is nothing left.
So were there any remaining men and women in the pre-Qin era? Let's start with a poem from the Book of Verses. Summoning South".
There are plums, in fact, seven xi. Pray to me, my fellow, and my good fortune.
There are plums, in fact, three xi. Pray to me, sir, and let it be now.
There are plums, and there are baskets. Pray to me, sir, and say so.
Everyone knows that the poetry uses the Fu Bixing technique to pour out feelings. And this poem is written very characteristically, using plums to start with a metaphor for a hot big girl, and then progressing on the upper layers of laying out to tell the psychological changes of girls.
The general meaning of the poem is that the plums are ripe and have landed on the ground, and there are still 70% left on the branches, and there is a handsome guy looking for a good day to confess to me! Oops, the plums have only three left, the boys don't hesitate, hurry up and confess! Oops, the plum is finished, little handsome man, as long as you open your mouth, I will follow you.
The meaning is probably this meaning, but because of the long time, the author who wrote this poem, what kind of mentality at that time, certainly can not be fully reproduced. And different readers, the taste will be different, but the general meaning will not be deviated.
The poem depicts very deeply the changes in the girl's state of mind. With the increase of age, the little sisters around them have a good family, leaving themselves alone, so it is inevitable that they are a little anxious, and they can't help but shout out what they think.
This scene is so similar to today's older men and women, but now people prefer to add a sentence, bet on loneliness!
However, love is not easy to decompose, and everything is still the best solution.
In fact, there were almost no elderly leftover women in ancient times, and they had to be married when they reached the age. As for the older leftover men, there are not many in the history books, but what does the real situation look like? The situation is certainly not optimistic, there must be countless bare stick armies, roaring wildly, floating in the long river of history, doing silent shouts.
Then we will reluctantly find two elderly typical examples and appreciate them.
The first is Jiang Ziya, whose story is from the "Fengshen Yanyi", which belongs to myths and legends.
It is said that Jiang Ziya did not succeed in learning immortals, and was sent down the mountain by his master and defected to his good brother. The eldest brother could not bear to end up alone, so he told him that a 68-year-old yellow flower girl, Ma Shi, would marry home and live a small life.
Who knows that Jiang Ziya is more than seventy years old, or a straight man of steel, he does not know that he is distressed by his daughter-in-law, he is beaten and does not know lizheng, a good love, and finally broke up.
Jiang Ziya and Ma Shi in "Fengshen Yanyi" can be described as the ultimate leftover man and woman, but people have also tasted the bitterness of love, and in their old age, they have blossomed, which is where we need to learn from.
The second is Zhong Wuyan, from Liu Xiang's "Biography of the Daughters of Lie". Zhong Wuyan's real name was Zhong Lichun, born in the country of Qi, and because of his ugly looks, he was later called Zhong Wuyan.
As for how ugly Zhong Wuyan's appearance is, the book records that she is tall and not straight, has a throat knot in her big belly, has no hair on her nose facing the sky, her eyes are like a big hole, her skin is black as carbon, and her top brain shell is like a watermelon.
Therefore, such an ugly girl could not find a good family until she was forty-eight years old. However, it is not impossible to marry, although the girl looks ugly, but she hides wisdom in her heart, and has a show of inner beauty, ordinary men still can't look at it.
Later, Zhong Wuyan volunteered to sell himself to King Xuan of Qi. In today's terms, King Xuan was an unpopular man, who was touched by Zhong Wuyan's intellect and left him behind to be his queen.
You see, although Zhong Wuyan is left, he still found true love at the age of forty-eight. Just as the so-called lonely yang is not long, and the single yin is not born, since the Creator divides yin and yang, then there is its reason.
Holding the hand of the son, and the son with the old, must be very fragrant; favoring and good me, hand in hand, it must be very beautiful; Qinse is in the royal palace, Mo Bujing is good, and it is also very enviable.
However, love is desirable, reality is cruel. But there is still a little bit of anticipation, or there is no hope for the suffering of birth and death.
In a word, a lover can definitely become a family member, and finally use "there is a beautiful person, clean and graceful." Encounters and encounters are suitable for me. "Bless everyone!