It's time for people to encourage themselves when they reach middle age. Time goes by and waits for no one.
Once youth is gone, it is impossible to come back and never see the next day. We should encourage ourselves in our prime. Time goes by and waits for no one.
There are twelve miscellaneous poems in Taoyuan, and this is the first one. Mr. Yao Yao thinks that the first eight songs are "consistent in words and deeds" and regarded as the same year. According to the meaning of his six sentences "fifty years later, I suddenly kissed this matter", it was proved that it was written in AD 4 14 (the tenth year of Jin 'an Emperor Yi Xi). At that time, Tao Yuanming was fifty years old and it had been eight years since he resigned and returned to the field.
This group of miscellaneous poems is actually a mixed love poem, which is "not limited to examples, but talking about things" (Shan Li's Notes on Selected Works). As the fourth volume of Tao Shi Jie said: "Twelve poems are all sorrow, the eighth is poverty, and the rest are all regrets for the boss. Sorrow and indignation are equal to Chu Ci. " It can be said that lamenting the impermanence of life and feeling the shortness of life are the keynote of this group of essays.
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Tao Yuanming, with distinct characters, was nicknamed Mr. Wu Liu, and changed his name to Qian in his later years. After his death, relatives and friends celebrated Jingjie privately. Chaisang people in Xunyang (now Jiujiang City) in the Eastern Jin Dynasty. When I was a child, my family declined, my father died at the age of eight, my mother died of illness at the age of twelve, and my mother and sister lived alone. Most orphans and widows live in their grandfather Meng Jia's house.
Grandfather's family has a lot of books, which provides him with the conditions to read ancient books and understand history. In the Jin Dynasty, the literati took Zhuang and Lao as their ancestors and copied the Six Classics. He not only studied Lao Zi and Zhuangzi like ordinary literati, but also studied the Six Classics of Confucianism and "different books" such as literature, history and mythology.
Influenced by the ideological trend of the times and the family environment, he accepted two different thoughts of Confucianism and Taoism, and cultivated two different interests: "aiming high" and "loving the mountains".