"Prayer" by Wen Yiduo

闻一多名作欣赏：《祈祷》

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Please tell me who is Chinese,
inspiration me how to remember to hold fast;
please tell me this nation great,
gently told me not to so much noise! www.6park.com

Please tell me who is the Chinese people,
who feel a heart of Yao and Shun,
who Nie Zheng Jing Ke blood is the blood of
the Yellow Emperor Shen Nong who is survived by sin. www.6park.com

Told me that wisdom is more miraculous,
to say the feed hippopotamus Xian Li;
also told me that the rhythm of this song,
was originally a nine bud teaching of the Phoenix. www.6park.com

Who told me that the silence of the Gobi,
and the five mountains solemn? Also tell me
Tarzan still drips from the stone slipped patience,
the Yellow river flowing in harmony again? www.6park.com

Tell me, drop Qinglei
Confucius condolences to the sad death of Joseph?
That guffaw have to tell me we go, -
Zhuang, Chunyu Kun, Dongfang Shuo laughter. www.6park.com

Please tell me who is Chinese,
inspiration me how to remember to hold fast;
please tell me this nation great,
gently told me not to so much noise! www.6park.com

Three areas can help to understand the "prayer" meaning: www.6park.com

First, from a basic perspective, this is still heard more than one poem full of deep feelings of patriotism, the central importance of poetry is the great Chinese nation, Ji Shang, Chinese culture has a long and brilliant. China's history, the poet recounts the numerous people with lofty ideals, heroes, with our nation's ancestor Huangdi, the "Bianchang a hundred herbs" in Chinese agricultural civilization and teacher Shen Nong, a highly respected, admired the country well and become Jesus Christ of Yao and Shun, as well as bloody cavalier, Nie Zheng Jing Ke against rape, this is a model for the Chinese people proud, they will always shine as a beacon in the forefront of the national history and encouraged newcomers struggle without rest; in the future development of the long history of civilization, but also have repeatedly emerged in a series of noble and wise sages, such as grandchildren, Zhuang, Chunyu Kun, Dongfang Shuo and so on. The legendary unicorn have always been the Chinese people as "jen beast" virtue and morality of Confucius's life, see the implementation of the dead and wounded Road Kirin poor, and from this must pen. Zhuang Zhou spicy humor articles, sharply, Chunyu Kun number so that princes, funny eloquent, Dongfang Shuo is even based on well-informed, intelligent, superhuman known. The deeds of a few sages is difficult to do, and it makes a few casual Nianchu Simu endless. Then, the poet has to use the historical legend, the strong performance of the Chinese culture, long history and splendid temperament fantasy. Fu Xi's alleged to teach people to fish net fishing, domesticated livestock, Christian wedding, but also look up at astronomy and look down at geography, creating gossip, vertical text, the flourishing of civilization caused by the "out of the Rabbit River", "Song of the Phoenix award." These legends of Chinese culture, coated with a mysterious halo of blurred. Poet imagined the land of China's natural scenery, there is silence of the Gobi desert, majestic mountain peaks of five mountains, vast Yangtze and Yellow Rivers stirred up another, if a first and harmonious symphony, Taishan mountain inside the flowing water, several thousand years, sob Ran under the drip, does not stand still, this is also what tenacity. Thus, in the nature of the body, the poet once again infected with the spirit of the Chinese nation: it is silent and solemn, magnificent and harmonious, tenacity and lingering. www.6park.com

Wen Yi-duo enthusiastically praised the nation's brilliant history and culture, and this is mainly because of a "culture of self-defense" purposes, in the East-West crossroads of two great civilizations, clash among the poets often feel that the "conquest "," assimilated "risk. In his view, the danger of cultural aggression and suffering than it is political, and military aggression and much more. "I love China because he is my motherland, but Ewing could be that he has his kind of beloved cultural country; ... ... Love is the mood to do with the motherland, love the end of culture is the rational thing 。"(""" Goddess of the local color ") through rational thought, the poet finds that only vigorously promote the Chinese culture, in particular, is our effort to evoke the contemporary Chinese people's self-esteem, self-reliance spirit, be possible to resist the Western powers of" cultural invasion ", which the poem so excited counting spoke history, remembers the sages, their fundamental purpose lies. www.6park.com

However, just stop at the idea level, heard more than one character of which it is not enough to clear outstanding. It can be said that from the Opium War dynasties, Chinese society, Chinese culture has always been in a Western society, deterrence of Western culture among the East-West cultural exchange with the overwhelming tendency to boom started, alien infiltration is inevitable, while the culture The weakness also seems to be an inevitable process of history. Faced with such facts, the vast majority of modern Chinese intellectuals is very difficult to accept, from Westernization to the "learning value" gentleman, but also the history of modern culture, several major "dispute over what" and the national culture discussion, we can see the Chinese intellectuals a universal choice, which is a way of carrying forward Chinese traditional culture-phase self-defense, and confrontation with Western culture.www.6park.com

So, in such a large cultural and ideological trends of the background, heard more than one feature of what is it? That is, he warmly praising the Chinese culture while still maintaining a cool head and keen sense of realism. Waves of civilization in the twentieth century, flop, he clearly realized that our ancient culture, after all, old and too stiff, and all the glory have become distant history, is no longer possible resurrection, the future prosperity of the Chinese culture is difficult to say on the or "Hippo Xian to the feed-li" and "9 bud Phoenix" to teach the music rhythm; contemporary Chinese people also seem to have their own way of life, life is fun, not all poets have imagined such as intoxication in a long past . So, carry forward the national culture, to resist foreign aggression, hope so? Poet, he can not hide the resulting confusion and suffering. This is the "prayer" ideological content of the second level. www.6park.com

Secondly, the poem expresses Wen calls for more than one culture in the revival of the painful reality of the occasion feel. Poetry resounded with the case from beginning to end: "Please tell me who is the Chinese people," about face to flutter over, people unprepared, it was clear the emotional color and its sense of the strange hard to understand the formation of a strong contrast effect: Who is Chinese people, it's harder to answer do, yes you, yes I was the "four hundred million compatriots." However, Wen Yi-duo happens to be so stubborn to ask, we can see that what he called "Chinese" is not an ordinary "nationality" concept, but his mind could be regarded as the descendants of the Yellow Emperor Junjie. "Chinese people" is a great joy to love the national culture, to defend the traditional Chinese people, and he observed "compatriots" is too cowardly too humble, they are not able to shoulder the important task of revival of China. In the "Great Wall under the Lamentations," a poem, the poet even said: "From now on death row is only semi-slave, swan dove-shaped surface. / Holding of gold from the mines were to climb to, / to eat people who Xian Shou Shane King." " From now on, blink an eye in the markets, on 10000, / worship Skull Skull, Skull Skull drove away. "As a real" Chinese people "are hard to find, then" how to remember to hold fast "on the course in question. The "great nation" will we need to also re-awake, re-tell. "Gently told me not to so much noise!" Wonderful phrase in the "gentle" words above, it is conceivable profit in the mediocre modern society everywhere is a poet, a noisy din of hate, a messy, maybe we do not lack all kinds of "vast territory and abundant," words, but mainly to the masters of the West, "Xian Shou Shane," I have to master in order to discuss the hearts and minds, we need to strive to exaggerate their achievements, "noise" burst; and "gently" is the hair Zhu hearts sincere and deep feeling. Unfortunately, now, like this kind of "gently" is also a poet in all over the world looking for the. From here, we also found a third layer of meaning of poetry. www.6park.com

Third, the performance of the whole poem in a loss of smell more than one pessimistic about the persistent pursuit, hard to find the spirit of exploration. Poetry almost entirely by the imperative sentence with the interrogative form, vividly convey the poet to get rid of doubts, the process of struggling against despair. "Prayers" was originally a religious term, and ordinary people to pray to God to express wishes. "Prayer" is the pain of life dictates, the "prayer" is the result of human forces of despair; but the "prayer" is after all some hope, especially those eager to supernatural power from somewhere to come, from this there is no hope to re-create the world would wish to.