Meaning: Human beings tend to age in their lifetime, but the sky never gets old. The Double Ninth Festival will come every year. Today is the Double Ninth Festival again, and the chrysanthemums on the battlefield are so fragrant.

This poem comes from "Picking Mulberries: Double Ninth Festival" by Mao Zedong, the founding leader of the People's Republic of China.

Full text:

Life is easy but it is difficult to grow old, and it is always a double ninth festival. Today is the Double Ninth Festival, and the yellow flowers on the battlefield are especially fragrant.

The autumn wind is strong once a year, unlike spring. Better than the spring sunshine, the vast river and the sky are covered with frost.

Translation:

Human life is easy to age, but the sky is not old. The Double Ninth Festival will come every year. Today is the Double Ninth Festival again, and the chrysanthemums on the battlefield are so fragrant.

The autumn wind blows vigorously year after year, and the scenery is not as bright as the spring scene. But it is even more magnificent than the spring scene, with the sky over the river as vast as the universe covered with white frost.

Extended information:

Creative background and appreciation:

Mao Zedong’s poem was written in 1929. The first reader should be Marshal Chen Yi, and this poem The calligraphy of the words is a masterpiece written after entering the city. At that time, Mao Zedong was on his way to fight in western Fujian, which coincided with the Double Ninth Festival. He was so emotional about the scene that he coined this word.

Its literal meaning is not difficult to understand, and its ideological depth should be said to be unique in the world of poetry chanting the Double Ninth Festival throughout the ages, unprecedented and unprecedented.

This poem by Mao Zedong created a grand and open artistic realm. He looked at the big picture and wrote from the insights of life. He got rid of personal gains and losses of honor and disgrace and stood on the historical, cosmic and human level. It highly expresses the author's ambition and pride;

His poem is written in cursive calligraphy, which makes the poem even more beautiful. In these years of social prosperity, when yin and yang are declining, and small skills are prevalent, I reread this word on the Double Ninth Festival, and I am filled with emotions.