This poem was written by Mao Zedong, the founding leader, in the Double Ninth Festival.
Full text:
Life is easy to get old, but it is hard to get old. Today is Chongyang, and the yellow flowers in the battlefield are particularly fragrant.
The annual autumn wind is not as strong as spring. Better than spring, just like Wan Li frost on the vast river.
Translation:
People are prone to aging all their lives, but the sky is not old, and the Double Ninth Festival comes every year. Today is the Double Ninth Festival, and the chrysanthemums on the battlefield smell good.
Autumn wind blows hard year after year, and the scenery is not as beautiful as spring. However, it is more magnificent than the scene in spring. The river as vast as the universe is covered with frost.
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Creative background and appreciation:
Mao Zedong's poem was written in 1929. The first reader should be Marshal Chen Yi. The calligraphy of this poem is a masterpiece after entering the city. At that time, Mao Zedong was on his way to western Fujian, which coincided with the Double Ninth Festival.
Its literal meaning is not difficult to understand, and its ideological depth should be said to be unique in the field of poetry, unprecedented and unprecedented.
Mao Zedong's first poem created a grand and open artistic realm. He looked at the big picture, got rid of personal gains and losses, and expressed the author's lofty aspirations from the height of history, universe and mankind.
His first poem is cursive, which is the icing on the cake. In recent years, yin flourishes and yang declines, and small skills prevail. I reread this word on the Double Ninth Festival and felt deeply.