From Su Shi's Song Dynasty Yu Qian monk Lu Yunxuan, the original text is:
It is better to eat without meat than to live without bamboo.
No meat makes people thin, no bamboo makes people vulgar.
People are thin and fat, but most people are incurable.
Others scoff at this, so high that they are stupid.
If you still munch on this gentleman, how can there be Yangzhou cranes in the world? ?
Translation:
I would rather have no meat to eat than live without bamboo.
Without meat, people will be thin, without bamboo, people will be vulgar.
The reason is that people are thin and fat, and it is difficult to cure them.
Others don't understand this, so they ask this statement with a smile: "Do you like being tall or stupid?"
Then I want to ask, if you are still munching on this gentleman (bamboo), if you want to have a lofty name and a sweet taste, how can there be such a beautiful thing as "Yangzhou Crane" in the world?
Extended data
Creative background:
In the spring of the sixth year of Xining in the Northern Song Dynasty (1073), when Su Shi was the general of Hangzhou, he went from Fuyang and Deng Xin to Yunyunling and entered the latent county to "see politics". Hui Jue, a monk in Ganxian County, became a monk in Jingzhao Temple in Guo Feng Township, South Erli. There is a green corridor in the temple, decorated with bamboo, which is very elegant. Su Shi and monk Hui Jue wrote this song "Yu Qian and monk Lu" when they visited Lu.
Ideological theme:
This poem, titled "Yu Qian and the monk Lu", eulogizes elegance and criticizes materialism and vulgarity, which not only praises the monk's elegant demeanour, but also warns the lacking people.
About the author:
Su Shi (1037-11year) was born in Meishan, Meizhou (now Meishan City, Sichuan Province). His ancestral home is Luancheng, Hebei Province in the Northern Song Dynasty.
Su Shi was a literary leader in the mid-Northern Song Dynasty. His poems have a wide range of themes, exaggerated metaphors and unique styles. He and Huang Tingjian are also called "Su Huang". His words are bold and unconstrained, and they are both bold and unconstrained representatives with Xin Qiji, and they are called "Su Xin"; His prose creation is rich and unrestrained, and he is also called "Ou Su" with Ouyang Xiu, and he is one of the "Eight Masters in Tang and Song Dynasties". There are seven episodes handed down from Dongpo.
Baidu Encyclopedia-Yu Qian monk Lu Junxuan