The meaning of the phrase "floating weeds have no roots" is: "floating weeds are born without roots, drifting with the water everywhere, just like we wanderers have no home, wandering in the world, so why do you have to ask?

Expanded Information:

This poem is from Nalan, the first of its kind in China. p>This poem is from Nalan Seide's "Raccoon Creek Sand - Residual Snow Congealing Glow on a Cold Painted Screen".

Originally:

The remaining snow is cold and the painting screen is cold, the falling plum and the flute are already three nights old, and there is no one to see the moon shining brightly.

I am a despondent guest on earth. I know what happened to you, and I remember my life in the sound of my broken heart.

Translation:

The residual snow has made the warmth of the painting screen cold. Plum blossoms drifted down with the cool wind, and the melancholy flute sound came from the lonely dusk. I've been thinking about the past, and the moonlight seems to be hazy in no one's place.

I am a passer-by of the world's sorrows, and my life is bleak. Why am I in tears after knowing your story? Weeping painfully, in the sound of broken hearts, tossing and turning because of what happened to Zhu Yizun.

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