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The years are too late: The Eastern Han Dynasty in the Nineteen Ancient Poems Author: Hu Dalei Publisher: Guangxi Normal University Press Publication date: November 2023.
There is no more unforgettable miss than "Sijun makes people old", there is no more romantic gesture than "Shijiang Picking Hibiscus", and there is no more inspiring incentive ...... than "hard work".More than 2,000 years ago, a group of poets of the Han Dynasty left us 19 ancient poems known as the "five-word crown". These poems were first recorded in the first existing literary collection in China, "Anthology", with the title of "Nineteen Ancient Poems", and the author is anonymous.
The literati depicted in "Nineteen Ancient Poems" are a group of people who have suffered hardships, encountered setbacks, and fallen into difficulties in lifeThey are attached to their relatives, miss their hometown, pick flowers and send flowers, and pass on books to wild geeseThey have a strong sense of life, chanting "born less than 100 years old, often cherishing a thousand years of worries", and issuing the feeling that "the years are too late", but they are still trying to persist and pursue more than once. In just 19 ancient poems, simple and plain, with only a few words, they express the sorrow, longing, expectation, resentment, and persistence of the literati of the Eastern Han Dynasty, depicting the complex and changeable conditions of the Eastern Han Dynasty.
Confucius said that poetry can be exciting, observing, grouping, and complaining. Since social life is the source of poetry, people can also trace the source along the stream, understand the vivid and rich social life through poetry, and observe the world through reading ancient poems. Therefore, in the new book "The Years Are Too Late: The Eastern Han Dynasty in Nineteen Ancient Poems", the author leads us to taste the charm of the nineteen ancient poems, excavate the life of the Eastern Han literati hidden in the ancient poems, observe the customs and human feelings, and understand the history of the world.
We can also look at reality in the reading of ancient poems. The author presents a rich variety of life with timeless and vivid words: leaving home to study at a young age, missing family because of traveling, knowing and intersecting with bosom friends, and thinking about the way of life and the way back because of various difficulties in life. In the eloquent and plain narrative, the author writes about the depression, confusion, struggle, expectation, longing, and persistence ...... our ordinary livesWhether it is a confused and frustrated person, or a hard-working person, you can find your own shadow in reading ancient poems.
The theme of the work is "The Years Are Too Late" to tell the daily life of the literati of the Eastern Han Dynasty.
"The years are too late" has multiple meanings: the consciousness of life is old and old;The passage of time is helpless for the individual. The sense of urgency and anxiety in life is expressed in each of the "Nineteen Ancient Poems". At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the politics were dark, and the people's lives were often in a desperate situation, not only the exiled people often died without a place to be buried, but even many wandering eunuchs and middle and lower-level officials often died in the journey, so in the "Nineteen Ancient Poems", "it is not the song of the wanderer, or the words of the woman", "the line is re-lined, and the king's life is separated", "between the world of life, suddenly like a distant traveler", the chant of poetry is issued in such a turbulent social background. Everything is at a loss, only "the years are too late" is accurate. The frustration of real life has made the poet have a deeper understanding of life, the so-called "life is sent for a lifetime, dying like dust", "life is like sending suddenly, and life is not solid". These grievances and sorrows are concentrated on "the years are too late", which is the complex of the life consciousness of the literati of the Eastern Han Dynasty.
As Li Zehou said in "The Course of Beauty", "Nineteen Ancient Poems" and Su Li's poems, which are very close in style, have opened a generation of pioneers in terms of form and content. In their arias about daily life, personnel, festivals, fame and fortune, pleasures, etc., they express their hearts and express their deep feelings. In this exclamation, what stands out is the sadness of a short life and the impermanence of life. They constitute a basic tone of the Nineteen Ancient Poems.
Time flies, life is short, there are still many wishes that have not been realized, there are still many goals to work on, and their pursuit is still a few steps away, but at present, it is "too late", everything is just longing and longing. However, no matter whether "the years are too late", there is still hope, still pursuing, still working hard, isn't this the true meaning of life?
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