In fact, there is no shortage of poems about sports in ancient Chinese poetry, which are also fascinating to read, and can even make people ready to try, urging people to "move"! Today, let's share a set of sports poems to cheer for the Olympic athletes!
First of all, let's talk about the world's number one sport, the predecessor of football, Keju, which has left a mark on the history of Chinese literature far more than Gao Yu in "Water Margin". On the contrary, there are not a few "fans" among the ancient literati, otherwise how can this little ball be written vividly in the most concise language?
▲ Qian Xuan, "Linsu Hanchen Song Taizu Juju Picture" (collection of Shanghai Museum)
The young man rode into Xianyang, and the falcon seemed to be light and crazy.
Tens of thousands of people watched on the sidelines of Keju, and the swing was busy in spring.
After reading this poem, a sense of déjà vu arises as if sitting on the rostrum of the stadium and watching the Champions League final. Of course, this is not a "live broadcast", but a sentimental poem "Feelings of Late Spring" by the patriotic poet Lu You in his later years. Those years of fresh clothes and angry horses will eventually pass, leaving only a moment of excitement ignited by sports.
The poet Wang Weineng chanted the famous sentence of "the bright moon shines among the pines, and the clear spring stone flows upstream", which combines movement and stillness and even shows the Zen sense to the fullest, and must be well versed in the way of civil and military affairs. In the sentence "Keju repeatedly passes over the birds, and the swing competes in the weeping poplars", the "Poetry Buddha" uses the same technique to bring out two sports with a poem between movement and stillness, which also illustrates the achievements of "national fitness" in the Tang Dynasty: the prevalence of Keju and swing made the poet leave a quatrain at a glance when he wandered on the street during the Cold Food Festival.
Why are kemari and swings always on the same footing? This is an unsolved mystery. If you open the "brain hole" and think about the female classmates who watched and cheered on the basketball court in high school, do you have to stand higher if you want the boys who are handsome on the court to cast their eyes?
However, if we talk about the degree of worship of the ancients for healthy and beautiful athletes, Keju is far inferior to archery. As one of the "six arts of gentlemen" in ancient times, archery has gradually changed from a survival skill and war use to a hobby of Yashi, and then into a competitive sport similar to today. In the "Book of Songs", the "ancestor of a hundred poems", there is a praise for an "arrowman".
▲ Wang Zhicheng, "Qianlong Archery" (Collection of the Palace Museum, Beijing)
"Graceful, clear and graceful. Dance is chosen, and shooting is through. The four arrows are reversed to prevent chaos. In "The Book of Songs· Qi Feng · Yiyi", the author vividly and meticulously depicts the image of a young shooter with the admiration of a "little fan".
In the Tang Dynasty, "Biansai poems" or Song Ci "bold school" mouths, archery is full of martial spirit and rough temperament. "Hold the bow as strong, and use the arrow as the long. Shoot the man first and shoot the horse, and capture the thief first and capture the king. "Du Fu's "Nine Songs · and Sixth" has gone beyond archery technology and entered the category of the art of war, which is also a portrayal of the army drinking horses and deserts in the Tang Dynasty.
In the Song Dynasty, which suffered repeated setbacks in the military, Su Shi's "Jiangchengzi · Mizhou Hunting" in the sentence "will hold the bow like a full moon, look northwest, and shoot the wolf", although the pride and ambition are undiminished, it can only be an expectation.
"The pursuit of speed in ancient poetry has a different experience on horses. Xin Qiji's "Lu Fei Fei on a horse, the bow is like a thunderbolt and frightened" in "Breaking the Array· Giving Strong Words to Chen Tongfu to Send It", vividly portrays the sense of speed of the soldiers rushing to the battlefield with their horses and whips.
The same sense of speed has a completely different feeling in Meng Jiao's "After Dengke". "The spring breeze is proud, and you can see all the Chang'an flowers in one day", with a day of galloping horses in Chang'an City, people are in good spirits at happy events, and the joy and pride of the once won are written with this running horse.
After talking about the running horses, let's look at the dragon boats that are also racing. In the Tang Dynasty poet Liu Yuxi's "Racing Song", "Yang Huan struck the thunder of Khotan, and the turbulent current roared in unison." The dragon has to move in the rain, and the dragon drinks the river and the shadow is connected", the majestic dragon boat racing scene is exciting. And at the end, "At the end of the song, people are scattered and sorrowful, and the water in front of the Qu Pavilion is reminded" reminds people that the original origin of this movement was the patriotic poet Qu Yuan.
The thrill of galloping on the battlefield and capturing the flag was out of reach for most ancient literati, but the square inch on the plate could satisfy their sense of accomplishment in strategizing and winning a thousand miles. "Sweeping away a hundred games without a chess opponent, pouring a thousand Zhong is a wine fairy", and it is also a poem by hardcore sports fan Lu You's "Encountering the Road on the Lake, Weng Nai Gorge in the Old Knowledge". Being able to win both the chess world and the wine field must also be the realm pursued by some ancients.
"If you don't come for the night and a half, you will knock on the chess pieces and drop the lanterns." Compared with the intensity of Lu Fangweng's poems, Zhao Shixiu's poem "The Guest", which was also in the Southern Song Dynasty, chanted the elegance of Go. In the Huangmei season, the rain continues, the pond is rising, the frogs are constantly singing, and the tranquility of the rural night echoes the poet's anxious mood of waiting for his friends until late at night. The reader does not know whether the master is holding a chess piece and striking the table, waiting for the guest to come and immediately "talking" a game, or recalling the last time he played chess with his friends, the reader does not know, but the popularity and popularity of Go among the ancient literati is enough to explain in a few words.
"Qingquan thousands of pheasants fly towards each other, and they take advantage of their short clothes with their boots. Forget the jade bow and smile tired, and never return to the flowers. Shuttlecock kicking, a sport with a long history and suitable for all ages, became "saving flowers" in a song of Beijing bamboo branches in the Qing Dynasty, and the girls only wore short clothes in order to play conveniently, laughing and making trouble, and did not go home at sunset.
Nowadays, shuttlecock kicking is not only a national fitness equipment, but also has evolved into a shuttlecock with a standard playing field and competition rules, which glows with new vitality.
Source: WeChat public account "Reading Commune"
Editors: Pan Qian, Yang Min (intern)
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