What life did the author of "The Market in the Sky" imagine the Cowherd and the Weaving Maiden lived? What kind of life did the Cowherd and the Weaving Maiden lead in the myths and legends?

The author of "The Market in the Sky" imagined that the Cowherd and the Weaving Maiden lived a free and happy life, while in the myths and legends the Cowherd and the Weaving Maiden lived a life where they were separated from each other and it was difficult for them to meet each other.

The Market in the Sky

Modern Guo Moruo

Original text:

The street lamps in the distance were bright,

as if they were flashing with countless stars.

The stars in the sky are present,

as if lit with innumerable street lamps.

I think there must be a beautiful marketplace in the misty sky

.

Some of the items displayed in the marketplace

must be treasures not found in the world.

Look, the shallow river of heaven,

it must not be very wide.

The cowherd and the weaving maiden across the river

must be able to ride their oxen to and fro.

I think that they are now

certainly roaming the streets of heaven.

If you don't believe me, look at that shooting star,

it's them walking with their lanterns.

Expanded Information:

Background for the Composition of Markets in the Sky:

"Markets in the Sky" was written in 1921.

"The Market in the Sky" was written on October 24, 1921, and later included in Guo Moruo's second collection of poems and essays, "Starry Night", which contains works written by the poet between 1921 and 1922 in Japan and Shanghai.

In the early 1920s, when the May 4th Climax had passed and the Revolutionary Era had not yet arrived, the poet was wandering in bitterness. He was dissatisfied with the reality, and longed for a better future; he wrote this song "Market in the Sky", which is full of romantic flavor, to show the blueprint of the heavenly paradise in his mind, induced by the brilliant starlight.

Biography of the author of "The Market in the Sky":

Guo Moruo, formerly known as Guo Kaizhen, a native of Leshan, Sichuan Province, was a modern Chinese literary scholar, playwright, historian, archaeologist, and paleographer, who studied in Japan in 1914, and published his first collection of poems, "The Goddess," in 1921, which, with its brand-new content and form, opened up a new generation of poetic styles, and became a founding father of the new poems in China.

In the same year, he initiated the founding of the Creation Society with Chenggong and others.

In the same year, he initiated the founding of the Creation Society with Cheng Fangwu and others. Later, he published a collection of poems called "Starry Sky" and "Restoration". During the war, he wrote historical dramas and poems such as "Qu Yuan", "Tiger's Talisman" and "Flowers of Tong Di".

After 1949, Guo Moruo served as president of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, director of the Department of Philosophy and Social Sciences of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and director of the first Institute of History. He successively published the poetry collection "Ode to Xinhua", "Tide Collection", "East Wind Collection", etc., the historical drama "Cai Wenji", "Wu Zetian", etc., and the academic monograph "Study of the Stone Drum Texts", etc..

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