Crossing the Painted of the Book of Songs

Author: Wang Kailin
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Publish Date: 1999-04-01
Features: Reading the Book of Songs word by word to grasp its pronunciation and meaning may not necessarily lead to success; it might be like picking up sesame seeds while losing the big cucumber. To truly understand the ancient minds, one should first translate the poetic language into one's own, adopting a different perspective to explore it. If one can immerse themselves in the emotions and contexts, everything will become clear. The emotions of early humans were more vibrant and sincere, less prone to tricks or illusions. With the eyes of an insightful observer, one can see the authenticity of "the hungry sing of their food, the weary sing of their labor," and their penetrating and moving power remains unshaken by the winds and rains of millennia. What the author does, many others can also do: traversing the gallery of the Book of Songs, revisiting the old homeland, reaching the end, parting the dark green duckweed on the flowing river, diving into the turbulent currents of ancient life to seek the pearl. One's intentions and sentiments may be acknowledged or not, sometimes surfacing to glimpse the bright or gloomy sky of the present world, where the joys and sorrows of human life across ages settle in one's heart like falling dust.