From Jin Bingwen's Mo Mei.
Original text:
Painters don't make powder and fat noodles, but they are afraid that others will think I am straight.
We didn't know each other when we met. Xia Fu never cut a jade man.
Translation:
The painter deliberately painted plum blossom with ink because it blooms in winter. If you meet, don't say you don't know, because you have noble qualities, just like beautiful jade doesn't need a craftsman to make it.
Extended data
This poem is the author's metaphor of his nobility with Mo Mei.
Brief introduction of the author
Zhao Bingwen (1 159- 1232) was a writer and philosopher in A Jin period. Zhou Ju, alias "Idle Old Man", was born in Fuyang, Cizhou (now Cixian County, Hebei Province).
Jin Shizong was a scholar in the twenty-fifth year of Dading (1 185). In the first year of Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty (12 17), he paid homage to the minister of rites and served as a bachelor, studying national history and understanding the affairs of Jixian Academy.
Jin Aizong acceded to the throne and changed to a bachelor of Hanlin. Zhao Bingwen is studious by nature and is famous for his poems, paintings and calligraphy. The philosophical thoughts expressed in his prose are mainly based on Zhu Cheng's Neo-Confucianism, which advocates the theory of benevolence and moral life. Poetry writes more about natural scenery and is good at cursive writing. His works include "Collection of Works of Idle Old People Drifting in Water" and so on.
Zhao Bingwen is as famous as Party, Party and Zhao Wei in calligraphy, but Zhao Bingwen learned his early calligraphy from someone who was only eight years older than him. Wang Tingjun is the nephew of Mi Fei, who has the advantage of getting the moon first. He learned Mi Fei's calligraphy, which is very vivid. At that time, people even praised Wang Tingjun's calligraphy as "not under Mi Yuanzhang".
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