What does it mean to bathe in a salty pool with women and be happy with women?

It means: wash your hair in the salty pool where you bathe in the sun and blow dry your hair at sunrise.

From Qu Yuan's "Nine Songs and Less Life" in the Warring States Period, excerpts from the original text:

I took a bath in salt water with my daughter, who was basking in the sun.

Looking at the beautiful scenery and looking forward to the future, the breeze blows and the song is magnificent.

Kong Gai was green and graceful, caressing the comet for nine days.

The long sword holds the youth's love, and Sun takes the sole responsibility for the people's righteousness.

Translation:

Wash your hair in a salty pool in the sun and dry it at sunrise.

The beauty of farsightedness has not come yet, and I am singing trance and bitterness in the wind.

Peacock feather car cover kingfisher feather label, you climb to hold a comet for nine days.

Holding a sword in one hand and holding a child in the other, only you are the most suitable person to be the host!

Extended data

Creative background:

In the past, the customs from Yuanjiang to Xiangjiang in southern Chu believed in ghosts and gods and worshipped sacrifices. Its sacrificial process includes singing, dancing and drumming to worship the gods. Qu Yuan wandered in these areas, recording and creating sacrificial ceremonies, songs and dances and words sung by villagers at that time. This is the speech made by the wizard at that time to offer sacrifices to the goddess, which is juxtaposed with the companion piece "Nine Songs Priestess of Death" to express the admiration of men and women.

Appreciate:

Verses 5 and 6 are all sung by wizards in Priestess of Death's accent. He answered Shao Siming's question first: "I'm waiting for you, and I want to accompany you to Xianchi to wash your hair and bask in the sun. Because I've been waiting for you not to come, I suddenly stood in the clouds and sang in the breeze."

The sixth section describes Shao Siming's situation after he ascended to heaven, and depicts a glorious image of protecting children: she holds a sword in one hand and holds the child in the other. She is not only a god to send children, but also a god to protect them. "Only Sun should uphold justice for the people!" In fact, it sang the reverence and love of the broad masses of the people for Shao Siming.

About the author:

Qu Yuan (about 340- 278 BC) was a poet and politician of Chu State during the Warring States Period in China. Born in Zigui, Danyang, Chu (now Yichang, Hubei). Slashed by nobles, he was exiled to Hanbei and Yuanxiang Valley. After Qin Jun invaded the capital of Chu, Qu Yuan drowned in the Miluo River.

Qu Yuan is the first great patriotic poet in the history of China, the founder of China's romantic literature, the founder and representative writer of Songs of the South, and has created the tradition of "vanilla beauty", and is known as "the father of Ci Fu" and "the father of China's poetry".

The appearance of Qu Yuan's works indicates that China's poetry has entered a new era from collective singing to individual originality. His main works include Li Sao, Nine Songs, Nine Chapters and Nine Questions. Chu Ci, with Qu Yuan's works as the main body, is one of the sources of China's romantic literature, and it is also called "coquettish" with the Book of Songs, which has a far-reaching influence on later poetry.

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