Original poem:
On the sunny day, I find beauty on the shore of Surabaya, and the boundless scenery is new.
Easy to recognize the east wind, colorful colors are always spring.
Translation:
When you visit the shores of Surabaya on a sunny day, the boundless scenery is refreshing.
Everyone can see the face of spring, it is a riot of colors and flowers are blooming everywhere.
Author: Zhu Xi of the Song Dynasty
Poetry Appreciation
Zhu Xi was a famous Neo-Confucianist in the Southern Song Dynasty. His poems are fresh and often shine with the brilliance of philosophy. It is not difficult to detect the underlying meaning of this poem. As the Surabaya River flows through Konglin, the poet will think of Confucius who is sleeping underground, and his thoughts will be drawn along with the flow of the Surabaya River. In order to express his respect for this old master, he compared "east wind" and "spring" to Confucius to express his feelings of valuing virtue.
“It is easy to recognize the east wind, and it is always spring when it is full of purple and red.” Through the literal words of psalm to spring, we can find out the connotation. It can be seen that it is used to explain that when people come into contact with and accept the advice of Confucius on the cultivation of moral character. If you have the courage to work hard, your personality will become noble and your mental outlook will undergo fundamental changes. Just like "a thousand purples and reds" are always the inspiration of "spring", the truth is the same.
Here, it also explains that with the inspiration of "spring", there will inevitably be a beautiful scene of "colorful purples and reds". Use this comparison to get a noble spiritual cultivation, and turn your noble moral character into action, and you will have no worries. Effect. Beautiful sentiments and bad qualities will not change with the passage of time and social changes. This means that beautiful moral conduct will surely go down in history, while ugly things will remain infamy for thousands of years.