Recite it in the morning to understand what he means

Original text

You can visit the Qingquan Temple of Qí Water, the temple is near Lanxi River, and the stream flows to the west. At the foot of the mountain, the orchid buds dip into the stream, and the sandy road among the pines is clear of mud. Xiao Xiao Mu Yu Zigui cries. Who said there is no less in life? The water flowing in front of the door can still flow to the west! Stop singing yellow chicken with white hair.

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Notes

Dip: Soak in water. Xiaoxiao: describes the sound of rain.

Zigui: Cuckoo. No more: You can’t go back to your boyhood. Gray hair: old age. Singing Yellow Chicken: Feeling the passage of time. Because the yellow rooster can announce the dawn, it represents the passage of time. At the foot of the mountain, the orchid buds dip into the stream, and the sandy road among the pines is clear of mud. Xiaoxiao Mu Yuzigui cries: "Go up to the palace." Who said there is no less in life? The water flowing in front of the door can still flow to the west! Don't sing the yellow chicken with white hair: Xiaqiu

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Translation

The orchid grass on the bank has just sprouted delicate seedlings, soaking in the stream Among them, the sandy road among the pine forests seems to have been washed by a clear spring and is spotless. It was drizzling in the evening, and the cuckoo's call could be heard outside the temple. Who says that life will only make you grow older and never get younger? Look, the stream in front of the door can also flow to the west! Don't lament the passage of time in old age and hurt yourself.

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About the Author

Su Shi (January 8, 1037 - August 24, 1101 ), also named Zizhan and Hezhong, also known as "Dongpo Jushi", and the world calls him "Su Dongpo". Han nationality, a native of Meizhou (now Meishan, Sichuan, Meishan City in the Northern Song Dynasty), and his ancestral home is Luancheng. He was a famous writer, calligrapher, painter, lyricist, poet, and gourmet in the Northern Song Dynasty. He was one of the eight great writers of the Tang and Song Dynasties and a representative of the Bold and Unconstrained poets. His poems, poems, poems, and prose are all of high achievement. He is also good at calligraphy and painting. He is a rare all-rounder in the history of Chinese literature and art. He is also recognized as one of the most outstanding people in the history of China's thousands of years of literature and art. His prose is called Ou Su together with Ouyang Xiu; his poetry is called Su Huang with Huang Tingjian; his poetry is called "Su Xin" with Xin Qiji; his calligraphy is ranked among the four major calligraphers of the Northern Song Dynasty: "Su, Huang, Mi, and Cai"; his paintings are Founded the Huzhou School of Painting.

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Appreciation

Appreciation 1

This is a touching little poem that contains the philosophy of life , embodies the author's love for life, optimism and broad-minded character. The first film describes the elegant scenery seen during a visit to Qingquan Temple in late spring. The stream at the foot of the mountain is gurgling, and the orchid grass beside the stream has sprouted and soaked in the stream. The gravel path lined with pines and cypresses has been washed away by the spring rain and is clean and free of mud. It was dusk, and the cuckoos in the pine forest were singing in the drizzle. What a beautiful and peaceful mountain and forest scenery this is! The first seven characters not only point out the season when visiting Qingquan Temple, but also point out the origin of the name Lanxi. The word "Zip" is the same as the word "Jian" in "Gaolan is walking along the path, Si Lu Jian" ("Chu Ci·Zhaohun"), both have the meaning of "spread". The orchid grass is beginning to sprout "buds" at this time. The buds are still "short", but they are full of vitality and grow quickly. They have spread from the bank to the stream. The sad cry of the cuckoo can easily cause the sorrow of traveling. But the author was walking by the stream and saw nothing but business. He completely forgot about the hustle and bustle of the world and the filth of officialdom, and he felt happy. At the same time, the disease was recovering, and a doctor accompanied him on the tour, so the cuckoo's call could not disturb the author's happiness at this time. In short, the first film only depicts real scenes, and what it evokes in the heart should be the love for nature and the aftertaste of life, which leads to the philosophy of life in the second film. In the second part of the film, I was filled with emotion and discussion about the scene of "stream flowing westward" in front of me. "When hundreds of rivers reach the sea from the east, when will they return to the west?" (Han Dynasty, "Chang Ge Xing"). "Flowers will bloom again, but people will never be young again." The flow of river water never returns, just like a person's youth only comes once. It is an irresistible law of nature, which has made countless people lament it in ancient and modern times.

The upper column describes the elegant scenery and environment of Lanxi River in late spring in March: the creek is gurgling under the mountain, and the orchid grass on the bank has just sprouted delicate buds. The sandy road among the pine forests seems to have been washed by a clear spring, spotless and extremely clean. It was drizzling in the evening, and the cuckoo's call came from outside the temple. The author selects several characteristic scenery and depicts a bright and fresh landscape painting, which makes people immersed in the scene and feels relaxed and happy, showing the poet's love for nature and persistence in life. Exciting discussions broke out in the lower row. This kind of discussion is not abstract or conceptual, but uses metaphors from the scene to express philosophies about life in emotive language. The two sentences "Who knows" are evoked by rhetoric and answered by metaphors. The last two sentences use the specific phenomenon of streams flowing westward, that is, the sense of scenery, to express feelings and self-encouragement, expressing the poet's spirit of getting stronger and self-improvement despite being in trouble. In this poem, the first part uses light and sparse brushwork to describe the scenery. The scenery is naturally bright, elegant and poignant; the second part not only expresses emotions in vivid language, but also incorporates philosophy into the expression of the scene, which is enlightening and inspiring. The poet's heroic feelings of adapting to adversity and his positive and optimistic attitude towards life after political frustration are inspiring and exciting.

Appreciation Three

This poem is written from the scenery of mountains and rivers, but its purpose is to explore the philosophy of life and express the author's love for life and broad-minded and optimistic attitude towards life. The whole poem is like a high-spirited symphony of life, a manifesto of an old man with ambitions for thousands of miles, revealing the call for youthful vitality, yearning and pursuit of the future. Reading it makes people strive for self-improvement.

The upper column describes the elegant scenery and environment of Lanxi River in late spring in March: the creek flows under the mountain, and the orchid grass on the bank has just sprouted delicate buds. The sandy road among the pine forests seems to have been washed by a clear spring, spotless and extremely clean. It was drizzling in the evening, and the cuckoo's call came from outside the temple. The author selects several characteristic scenery and depicts a bright and fresh landscape painting, which makes people immersed in the scene and feels relaxed and happy, showing the poet's love for nature and persistence in life.

Exciting discussions burst out from the lower section. This kind of discussion is not abstract or conceptual, but uses metaphors from the scene to express philosophies about life in emotive language. The two sentences "Who knows" are evoked by rhetorical questions and answered by metaphors. The last two sentences use the specific phenomenon of streams flowing westward, that is, the sense of scenery, to express feelings and encourage oneself, expressing the poet's spirit of getting stronger and constantly improving despite being in trouble.

In the first part of this poem, the scenery is described with light and sparse pen and ink. The scenery is naturally bright, elegant and poignant; in the second part, it not only expresses emotions in figurative language, but also incorporates philosophy into the expression of the scene, inspiring people's minds. Exhilarating. The poet's heroic feelings of adapting to adversity and his positive and optimistic attitude towards life after political frustration are inspiring and exciting.

Appreciation Four

This Xiaoling was written in March, Lanxi is in the southeast of Huangzhou, and it is written about the early spring in the rain in the south.

Over the past five thousand years, some images have always been extremely sad and sad in the eyes of the Chinese people, such as the long and short rain, such as Du Yu, such as dusk, such as the blue sky where partridges fly over.

The first half of the poem describes the scene, and the big background is the drizzle with Zigui singing. Generally speaking, Du Yu was weeping in the boundless dusk rain, so naturally he was too sad to express. But Su Dongpo just wrote it into a pleasant and beautiful song, a vibrant painting: orchids thrive in the mountains, the sandy road among the pine forests is washed clean by the rain, and in the continuous drizzle, there are The cuckoo is singing in the clear.

Posterity’s evaluation of Su Dongpo was heroic, because he rarely felt sad because of the sadness of external objects. In my opinion, it is better to say that he is open-minded and open-minded. It is precisely because he always stays outside of things to appreciate the things themselves that he gets more or different happiness and reflections than ordinary people. Wang Guowei mentioned in "Human Words" that there is a state of self and no-self in poetry. The state of self is to bring one's own emotions into things, that is, looking at the flowers with tears and saying nothing, but in this poem, Su Dongpo transcended Being hurt by the scene or being hurt by the scene reaches the state of selflessness mentioned by Wang Guowei. Therefore, the desolation of the background of this word has become the new desolation, and Du Yu's cry has become clearer.

Xia Qie’s poems express feelings. "Don't sing yellow roosters with gray hair" is an allusion from Bai Juyi's "Drunken Song to Show Prostitute Shang Linglong": The yellow rooster crows to remind the dawn of the day, and disappears before the day of the year to remind you.

What Bai Juyi wanted to express was that beauty grows old easily and good times never return, but Su Dongpo used it in the opposite direction, persuading the world not to be disheartened because their youth is gone and sing the sad tune of a yellow chicken urging the dawn.

Who said it is impossible to stay young in life? The running water in front of the door can still face west for a lifetime, so how can it sing those sad songs of yellow chickens urging the dawn? This is Su Dongpo's philosophy of life, so what if you are old? You can still hold Huang on your left and Qingcang on your right, and work hard to make progress. Who said that if people are not like flowers, they will never be young again? Youth can last forever. As long as the heart is not old, youth will never grow old. What gets old is only the years themselves.

Su Dongpo is good at expressing his thoughts directly without pretending to be exaggerated, so the reading feels straightforward. Most of his words are derived from his life experience and insights. They seem to blurt out casually, but in fact they are truly transcendent thoughts and moods.

Appreciation Five

This poem was written in the spring of the fifth year of Yuanfeng (1082). At that time, Su Shi was demoted to Huangzhou (now Huanggang, Hubei) because of the "Wutai Poetry Case" ) deputy envoy of regiment training. This was a major blow to Su Shi's political career, but this poem showed an optimistic spirit in the face of adversity.

The top column describes the natural scenery. The first two sentences describe the early spring, when orchid grass begins to grow by the stream, and the paths along the stream are clean and mud-free, creating a scene full of vitality. But it ends with the sad cry of cuckoos in the dusk rain. The sound of Zigui reminded pedestrians to "go back", which gave the scenery a somewhat sad color.

Xia Qian changed his writing style. He no longer fell into the melancholy brought about by Zigui's cry, but picked up his strokes. As the saying goes, "Flowers bloom again, and people are no longer young." The passage of time is like water flowing eastward and cannot be saved. However, there are always surprises in the world. "The water flowing in front of the door can still reach the west" is not only a real scene in front of you, but also a hidden Buddhist allusion. Water flowing in the east can also flow back to the west, so why should we mourn in vain for our old age? It seems simple, but it is worth recalling. The first volume of "Ci Jie" said: "Po Gong's rhyme is high, so his simple words are also extraordinary."

The whole poem is filled with an upward attitude towards life, but the sub-guidance at the end of the sentence The cry faintly reflects the poet's situation, and also shows the value of the optimistic attitude in the poem. Therefore, Chen Tingzhuo's "Bai Yuzhai Ci Hua" said: "The more melancholy, the more heroic, the more loyal, the more I am fascinated."