Meaning: If you are willing to get someone who is devoted to you, (then even when you are gray-haired) you will not leave him.

From "Baitou Yin", it is a Han Yuefu folk song, belonging to "Xianghe Song Ci", written by Zhuo Wenjun, a talented woman in the Han Dynasty.

Zhuo Wenjun is the daughter of Zhuo Wangsun, a giant iron smelting merchant in Linqiong, Shu County. She is beautiful, proficient in music, good at playing the piano, and has a literary name. The love story between Zhuo Wenjun and Sima Xiangru, a famous scholar in the Han Dynasty, is still talked about. She also has many excellent works, such as "Bald Yin", in which "I wish to have the person of my heart, and we will never be separated until we grow old" is a classic line.

The original text (excerpt) is as follows:

Desolation comes again, there is no need to cry when getting married. I wish to have the person of my heart and stay together forever.

Why are the bamboo poles curling up, and the fish tails are so sticky! A man cares about his spirit, why use money and a knife!

The translation is as follows:

When I left home resolutely to follow you, I didn’t cry miserably like other girls. I hope to find someone who is close to my heart and will never be separated until we grow old.

The love between a man and a woman is as light and long as a fishing rod, and the fish is as lively and cute. Men should value love and justice. No money or treasure can compensate for the loss of true love.

Extended information

This poem creates a female image with a cheerful personality and strong emotions through the heroine's words and deeds, expressing the protagonist's grief and indignation at losing love and her desire for true and pure love. , and affirm the attitude of sincere and dedicated love, and denounce the behavior of liking the new and hating the old, and abandoning the relationship halfway.

Every four sentences in the whole poem constitute a meaning group. The poetry is progressive, steady and regular. It can be roughly divided into two parts. "The ditch water flows from east to west" previously described the scene of a woman and a man's decision, and the following "Mourning and Misery" describes her understanding of the standards for a woman to choose a mate based on the twists and turns of her own love life.

The organic combination of these two parts not only creates a complete image of a woman with a graceful and beautiful appearance, a soft and strong personality, and rich and sincere emotions for readers, but also gives readers who are not deeply involved in the world a woman. Contributed practical, profound and useful life lessons. The combination of narrative and instruction has become an obvious feature of this poem.