Meaning: My heart is not a stone that can be shifted at will. My heart is not a mat that can be opened and rolled up.

Origin: "State Wind - Name Wind - Cypress Boat" is a poem in "The Book of Songs", the first collection of poems in ancient China. The poem has five chapters, each with six lines.

Excerpts from the original text:

The cypress boat is also flooded with its stream. I have no sleep, as if I had hidden worries. I have no wine to drink, so I swim with Ao.

My heart is not a guide, and I can't be in the mood for it. The first thing I want to do is to get the best out of you. I am not a man of the world, but I am a man of the world, and I am a man of the world.

Translation:

The cypress boat is swinging, and the water in the river is flowing. I can't sleep with my eyes wide open, but I am deeply saddened. It is not that I don't want to drink good wine, so I'll just take a break and invite you to a cruise.

My heart is not a bronze mirror, so I can't take a picture of it. I'm not sure if I'm going to be able to get a good look at this, but I think I'm going to be able to get a good look at this. I went there to ask for comfort, but I got angry.

Expanded Information

This poem seems to be a poem of a woman's self-inflicted woe, but she has nothing to say. The lyricism of the poem has a sound of grudges, but not the words of exuberance.

The whole poem*** has five chapters and thirty lines. In the first chapter, the poem starts with the words "I am in a boat of cypress, and I am also in a boat of cypress", and compares the boat with the cypress. It is used here as a metaphor for a woman's uncertain state of mind.

Therefore, it is only when the woman is "sleepless, like a hidden worry" that the figure of a woman who is tossing and turning in the dark at night is revealed. Drinking wine and inviting people to travel can be a relief, but only this "hidden worries" can not be solved by drinking wine, nor can travel to avoid, so it is clear that the sorrow and pain to the depths of the hard to pin.

The second chapter follows the previous one, and it would be nice if someone could share this unresolved sorrow! The first thing that comes to mind is her brother, who is "not allowed to go". When she reluctantly goes to her brother, she is met with his anger, which adds to her old sorrows and new hatred. In the words of Li Qingzhao, a Song dynasty poet, this is really "the first, how a 'sad' word".

The third chapter is a word of introspection. The first four sentences of the metaphorical description of their own although not to pinch the sadness, but the heart of the steadfastness is different from the stone mat, can not be yielded to the people. "The might of the Emperor is not to be chosen," and the firmness of his intention is worthy of sympathy and even admiration.

The fourth chapter of the main character of the mountain like water from the question of where the sadness comes from: the original is subject to the group of small, and unable to deal with them. At night, with a belly full of bitterness and quiet thought, can not help but stroke the heart and beat his chest and sighed, self-pitying life.

The whole poem is tightly linked to the word "worry", the depth of worry, there is no way to tell, there is no way to diarrhea, there is no way to solve, interlocked. The five chapters are all in one, and the language is heavy and euphemistic, and the feelings are strong and sincere. "My heart is not a stone, can not be turned; my heart is not a seat, can not be rolled", a few lines of the most wonderful, often quoted by later poets.