Sentences about total solar eclipse in the Book of Songs

Xiaoya at the turn of October is one of the first poetry collections in ancient China, and the sentences describing the total solar eclipse are as follows:

At the turn of October, the moon is shining. There is food in the day, and it is also ugly. The moon is tiny, and this day is tiny; Today, the people are also sorrowful.

if the sun and the moon accuse you of evil, you don't have to do it. The four countries have no politics, so they don't have to be good. If you eat every month, you will be normal; Eat this day, why not hide it.

Interpretation:

It was October, and the first day was Xin Mao. A sudden solar eclipse in the sky is a dangerous sign. In the past, the eclipse was dim, but today it is dark. Nowadays, with all the people in the world, it is sad that the disaster is coming.

Eclipses indicate bad omen, and the operation routine is not followed. All because there is no good governance in the world, talents are useless. There have been eclipses at ordinary times, and I am used to it. Now the solar eclipse appears again, sighing that it is a terrible loss.

Extended information:

This is a poem of political resentment written by a small official of the imperial court in Zhou Youwang's time because he was dissatisfied with the behavior of the rulers, emperors and fathers, who did not seek their own government in their place, regardless of the safety of the country, but only pocketed their own money. Connect solar eclipse, lunar eclipse and strong earthquake with the court's poor employment, and express their deep grief and anxiety.

The poet doesn't understand the causes of solar eclipse, lunar eclipse and earthquake, and thinks that they are warnings from heaven to human beings, so he begins by saying that there was a solar eclipse on the first day of October. "The Japanese are like kings." At the end of summer, the common people used Japanese as a metaphor for kings. The absence of light in the sun was thought by the ancients to indicate the great disaster of the monarch. The poet put this matter at the beginning of the article, which shocked people.

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