The original poem "The Wall of Helin Temple"—
I was drunk all day, and suddenly I heard that I was trying to climb the mountain in spring.
I stole a long time because I was chatting with monks in the bamboo yard.
Notes-
Strong: reluctantly. Reason: Because. F: Sightseeing, sightseeing. Bamboo courtyard: namely temple. Here "stealing" is used as "you" in some poetic versions. Floating life: "Zhuangzi" says "its life is floating". It means that life is floating, such as rootless duckweed, which is not controlled by its own strength, so it is called "floating life"
Origin-Li She, a poet in the Tang Dynasty, wrote about the wall of Helin Temple.
The extended information "The Monk's House in Helin Temple" is a seven-character quatrain written by Roger Lee, a famous poet in Tang Dynasty, on the wall of Helin Temple in Zhenjiang. After listening to the old monk's lesson, the author realized the concept of treating life, and understood that only by diluting the utility of life, calming down the emotional state of mind, turning a deaf ear to the bleak reality and being calm, can we forget the past, laugh at life and look forward to the future.
When ordinary people are bored, frustrated and in a bad mood, they will always be infected and get some comfort when they come to such an elegant and refined environment. When Li She was in office, she was named Prince Sheren, and was later demoted to Shaanxi and Sichuan to join the army. He was called Dr. imperial academy when he was a scholar, and was later exiled to the south.
During his exile, he forced himself to climb Nanshan in Zhenjiang. From chatting with monks, he opened the floodgate of depression, fell into fresh air, and strengthened his feeling and understanding of reality, thus adding a lot of pleasure to his numb mind. If he sits at home all day, how can he be interested in "stealing half a day"?
No wonder Su Dongpo, a poet in the Northern Song Dynasty, also likes Li She's poems. The place where the monks of the Bamboo Academy met became his most nostalgic place in Nanshan. At the same time, the "Su Gong Zhu Yuan" was built to enjoy the fun of Li She chatting with monks. "Travel is a mirror" is a famous Spanish proverb. Mr. Hu Yuzhi specially commented on this famous saying: "People can never see themselves. Only by comparing with others can they see their true colors."
It means to get rid of boredom and frustration and go to an elegant and refined place to cultivate your body and mind.
Walking, reading and taking care of yourself are not only the needs of being a man and writing, but also the very troubled mood will disappear. Of course, this is not just "stealing a half-day leisure"
I have been wandering in a chaotic drunken dream for a long time, wasting the limited time of my life for no reason. One day, I suddenly found that spring was about to pass, so I tried my best to climb Nanshan to enjoy the spring scenery. When I visited the temple, I chatted with a monk for a long time, and suddenly felt that my long-term depression was completely forgotten, and it was rare to get a moment's leisure in this troubled world.
This sentence is a true description of the poet's inner feelings and external modality when he was exiled. The poet begins with "repression" and first expresses his negative internal modality. Using "making mistakes all day" to modify "drunken dreams" shows the poet's extreme depression and depression in the face of exile. From the writing point of view, this is a kind of writing method of restraining first and then promoting, which makes a good preparation and foreshadowing for the later "Yang".
When the poet was bored, he suddenly found that the beautiful spring scenery was about to leave him, so he tried his best to go out and climb the South Mountain, hoping to dispel his long-standing sadness and unhappiness by enjoying the spring scenery.
The "late spring" here should be understood not only as the spring in nature is about to pass, but also as the youth with limited life. The poet is unwilling to be depressed, unwilling to waste his youth like this, and unwilling to do nothing all his life, so after "suddenly smelling the spring scenery", he cheered up and "climbed the mountain". For us modern people, this is also a valuable life enlightenment motto.
"Because of crossing the bamboo yard to meet a monk" and "because" are prepositions with the meaning of "because"; "Bamboo Garden" is a temple where monks practice Zen and realize Taoism. What is the poet doing here? Intentionally or unintentionally, people went in and talked with the monks in the temple for a long time about Zen.
The word "phoenix" in "every monk must talk" tells readers that it is accidental; "Talking" means talking with the old monk about Zen, chatting, revealing the anguish and unhappiness in his heart, discussing the joys and sorrows of life and so on. As a Buddhist, the concept of treating life has always been to downplay the utility of life, calm down the emotional state of mind, turn a deaf ear to the bleak reality and be calm. No matter how much trouble and unhappiness you have, you should learn to hide it in your heart, so that you can forget the past, laugh at life and look forward to the future.
From this poem, we can see that the poet's attitude towards life at that time was optimistic. The poet's positive and optimistic psychology is there, but he is confused by the contradiction between reality and foreign things because of repeated relegation and exile. It was not until a deep talk with the eminent monk of Helin Temple that the poet's long-standing knot was untied and he woke up from "being in a daze all day".
I got rid of the complicated worldly troubles, and with the courage to face the reality again and re-examine my life, I realized that "I stole a half-day leisure" and got a temporary half-day leisure happiness. Some versions of this sentence are "I have to live for half a day". The author thinks it is better to use the word "steal" because it is more subjective and can better express the poet's calm and optimistic attitude towards life.
References:
Helinsi monastery-Baidu encyclopedia