From Modern Times: Mao Zedong
Original 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.
Appreciation: This word begins with a philosophical epigram "Life is easy to get old, but not easy to get old", which is abrupt and magnificent. "Life is easy to get old" is to universalize personality and make life short. Only when we are easy to be old and easy to be short, should we strive to make progress and make achievements, so as not to let the years pass. "It's hard to get old" is to personify the universe. Winter goes and summer comes, and works at sunrise and rests at sunset. Spring and autumn are more orderly and the situation is always new. But "difficult to get old" is not "not old" because "metabolism is a universal and irresistible law in the universe".
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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Detailed analysis:
Life is easy to get old "and" heaven is difficult to get old ",one is endless; One is short and the other is long; A rapid change, a slow change. There are similarities and differences, differences and similarities, opposites and unity. This is not a simple attachment to the old adage "Heaven is the key, and a gentleman strives for self-improvement", but a clear and profound understanding of life in the universe, which reveals the true meaning and eternal truth of life, shines with the brilliance of dialectical materialism and has a strong aesthetic enlightenment significance.
"Double Ninth Festival" comes from the first sentence, which is not only a further extension of "it is difficult to get old", but also a timely statement, which leads to: "Double Ninth Festival today, the yellow flowers in the battlefield are particularly fragrant." Today's Double Ninth Festival is a progressive repetition of the annual Double Ninth Festival. It seems the same, but it's actually changing and different: it's a festive season, and this place has a unique scenery.