Meaning: You won't be surprised if you can treat others with courtesy and bear the burden of humiliation like flowers bloom and fall. See if you want to keep the position, it can be unintentional.
It's from Small Window. Author: Chen Jiru in Ming Dynasty.
Chen Jiru (1558 ~ 1639) was a writer and painter in Ming dynasty. The word secondary alcohol, eyebrow male, elk male. Huating (now Songjiang, Shanghai) was born. Zhu Sheng, 29, lived in seclusion in Xiao Kunshan, and later lived in Dongsheshan and Dumen. He writes, writes poems and is good at calligraphy. He can also draw things and has been requisitioned by imperial edicts many times. He is good at ink painting plums, landscapes and painting plums. The pages of the album are small, natural and casual, and the posture is sparse. "On Painting" advocates literati painting, holds the theory of southern and northern sects, attaches importance to the cultivation of painters, and recognizes the homology of painting and calligraphy. There is the Plum Blossom Book and Yunshan Volume handed down from generation to generation. He is the author of Complete Works of Chen Meigong, Secret History of Small Window, Tombstone of General Angkor, Record of Nicholas, etc.
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The most famous sentence in Story of the Deep Window is "Don't insult, just look at the flowers in front of the court. I have no intention of staying, and I am covered in clouds. " This is a couplet written by Hong Yingming in the Ming Dynasty, which is included in Chen Meigong's anthology "You Chuang Xiao Ji".
Couplets profoundly express the attitude of life towards things, things, fame and benefits: what you get is not happy, what you lose is not worrying, not humiliating, and you have no intention to stay. Only in this way can you feel peaceful and indifferent to nature. The word "looking at the front of the court" means hiding in a small building to take care of spring, summer, autumn and winter, while the word "looking at the sky" shows a broad feeling of being far-sighted and not agreeing with others; The phrase "clouds roll and clouds are comfortable" has the lofty realm that a gentleman can bend and stretch. There were broad-minded romantic figures in Wei and Jin Dynasties.