Dou caifeng
original work
Youlan-[Contemporary] Chen Yi
The orchid is in the valley, and no one knows it. Just for the sake of fragrance and weight, those who seek Tao are all over the mountain.
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Orchid: Orchid. Quiet, deep and quiet.
Xin (xρn) Xiang: The fragrance is very strong.
Mountain angle (yú): Angle.
Modern Translation of Ancient Poetry
Orchids originally grew in remote and deep valleys, and no one knew them. It is precisely because of its rich fragrance that people follow the flowers all over Shan Ye.
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Chen Yi (190 1- 1972), a native of Lezhi, Sichuan, is famous in Shi Jun. He is an outstanding party member in China, a tried and tested loyal communist fighter, a great proletarian revolutionary, politician, strategist and diplomat, one of the founders and leaders of the People's Liberation Army in China, one of the top ten marshals in People's Republic of China (PRC), an outstanding figure of the party and the country, the first mayor of New China and a famous poet at home and abroad. From his youth to taking part in the revolution, he never gave up his love for literature. He was an early member of the literary research society in the 1920s. Later, during his decades of military career, he still insisted on writing and wrote many battle poems. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, he still spent a lot of time on poetry after his busy work. There are more than 350 existing poems, including a series of works in his early years, Red Army period, War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression period, Liberation War period and socialist revolution and construction period, most of which are included in Selected Poems of Chen Yi edited by his wife Jess Zhang before her death.
The elegant charm of orchids is fully revealed from the distance and fascination of orchids, which makes the originally quiet and desolate valley attract people looking for flowers from all directions. This is a poem full of philosophical meaning, and it is a swan song praising the delicate fragrance of orchids!
"Orchids are in the valley, and no one knows." Orchids are one of the top ten most popular flowers in China. She was born in valleys and jungles and did not compete with flowers for beauty. She is elegant, dignified, delicate and fragrant, with an elegant and pleasant oriental charm. Throughout the ages, poets have written poems for it, painters have waved their hands for it, and the works of reciting orchids have emerged endlessly throughout the ages. In the Song Dynasty, Su Zhe once wrote a famous sentence, "No one knows the Youlan Valley". It should be an exaggeration to say that "the orchid is in the valley and no one knows" "Orchid in the valley" refers to the inherent growth habit of orchids, which is the nature that orchids like to grow in deep mountains and empty valleys, and do not compete with the secular, flowers and endless loneliness. It is precisely because of this nature that orchids are not known to everyone. So, the poet went on to say, "Nobody knows this." "I don't know myself" not only shows that no one knows the meaning of orchids, but also lays the groundwork for the following.
"Just for incense, seekers are all over the mountain." "Just for", that is, just because of "heavy fragrance", that is, the fragrance is rich and intoxicating. A "seeker" is a person who looks for orchids with this rich fragrance. In other words, orchids have attracted people's attention and curiosity because of their rich fragrance, attracting people looking for flowers all over the mountain. People love orchids, which should be the case at first, but later people love orchids, not only because of its rich aroma, but also because of its elegant appearance, elegant external beauty and inner charm.
This little poem does not pursue profound and elegant words in writing, but presents a kind of artistic conception and interprets a kind of philosophy in plain. Reading is thought-provoking and gives people some enlightenment in life.