《 Shījīng 》 lǐ de 《 Cǎiwēi 》 xiě de shì yí ge cóng zhànchǎng huí jiā de shìbīng.
"Gathering Vetch" in the Book of Songs is about a soldier coming home from war.
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culture
The ode's most quoted lines: 昔我往矣，杨柳依依。今我来思，雨雪霏霏。 'When I left, the willows swayed; now I come back, the snow falls thick.' Here 雨 is the verb yù 'to fall'.
history
The princes 伯夷 and 叔齐 would not eat the grain of Zhou after King Wu overthrew the Shang, and lived on wild vetch on 首阳山 until they starved. 鲁迅 retold their story with irony in 故事新编 (1936).
