If you don't start again in your prime, it's hard to get up in the morning.
encourage in time, and time waits for no man.
once youth is gone, it is impossible to come back, and you will never see the next day in one day. We should encourage ourselves while we are in the prime of life. Time goes by and waits for no one.
Tao Yuan's Za has twelve songs, and this is the first one. Mr. yaoyao thinks that the first eight songs are "consistent in words and gas" and regarded as the same year. According to the meaning of his six sentences, "fifty years later, I suddenly kissed this matter", it is proved that it was written in 414 AD (the tenth year of Emperor Yi Xi of Jin 'an), when Tao Yuanming was fifty years old, and it was eight years since he resigned from his post and returned to the field.
This group of Miscellaneous Poems is actually a poem with mixed feelings, which is "not limited to the flow of examples, but speaks when it comes to things" (Shan Li's note in Selected Works). Just as Ming Huang Wenhuan's Interpretation of Tao Poems says in Volume Four: "Twelve poems are full of sorrow, the eighth one is devoted to poverty, and the rest are full of regrets for the boss. Grief 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 Miscellaneous Poems.
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Tao Yuanming, with bright characters and alias Mr. Wuliu, changed his name to Qian in his later years. After his death, his relatives and friends privately celebrated Jingjie. Chaisang people in Xunyang, Eastern Jin Dynasty (now Jiujiang City). When I was young, my family declined, my father died at the age of eight, my mother died of illness at the age of twelve, and I lived with my mother and sister. Orphans and widows mostly live in their grandfather Meng Jia's house.
Grandfather has a large collection of books at home, which provides him with the conditions to read ancient books and understand history. In the Jin Dynasty, when scholars took Zhuang and Lao as their religion and copied the Six Classics, he not only learned Laozi and Zhuangzi like ordinary literati, but also learned the Confucian Six Classics 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 ideas of Confucianism and Taoism, and cultivated two different interests: "pursuing ambition to escape from the four seas" and "loving hills by nature".