It means: If you still munch on this gentleman (bamboo), how can there be such a beautiful thing as "Yangzhou Crane" that you can have both fish and bear's paw?
It's from Su Shi's "Yu Qian Monk Lu Yun Xuan" in the Song Dynasty, the original text is:
It's better to eat without meat than to live without bamboo.
no meat makes people thin, and no bamboo makes people vulgar.
people are thin and fat, but common people are incurable.
others laughed at this remark, as if it were tall but as if it were stupid.
if you still munch on this gentleman, where is the Yangzhou crane in the world? ?
Translation:
I would rather have no meat to eat than live without bamboo.
people will lose weight without meat, but people will become vulgar without bamboo.
The reason is that people are thin and fat, so it is difficult to cure people's customs.
If others don't understand this, they will ask with a smile, "Is it like being tall or stupid?"
Then, if you are still munching on this gentleman (bamboo), how can you have your cake and eat it at the same time, such as Yangzhou Crane?
Extended information
Creation background:
In the spring of the sixth year of Xining in the Northern Song Dynasty (173), when Su Shi became the general judge of Hangzhou, he went from Fuyang and Xindeng, took the road of Yunyunling, and entered the latent county to "see politics". Hui Jue, a monk in Qianxian County, became a monk at Silent Photo Temple in Fengguo Township, South Erli. There is a green porch in the temple, decorated with bamboo, which is very elegant. Su Shi and monk Huijue wrote this song "Yu Qian monk Lu Yunxuan" when they visited Lv Yunxuan.
Ideological theme:
This poem eulogizes elegance and elegance, criticizes materialism and vulgarity with the title "Yu Qian Monk Lu Yunxuan", which not only praises the monk's style, but also warns people who lack it.
About the author:
Su Shi (137 -111), with the word Zi Zhan and the word He Zhong, was a Taoist Tieguan and a Buddhist Dongpo, known as Su Dongpo and Su Xian in the world, Han nationality, a native of Meishan, Meizhou (now Meishan City, Sichuan Province), and a native of Luancheng, Hebei Province. He was a famous writer, calligrapher and painter in the Northern Song Dynasty.
Su Shi is a literary leader in the mid-Northern Song Dynasty. His poems have a wide range of themes, make good use of exaggerated metaphors and have a unique style. He is also called "Su Huang" with Huang Tingjian. His words are bold and unconstrained, and he is the representative of bold and unconstrained with Xin Qiji, and he is also called "Su Xin"; His prose writing is rich and unrestrained, and he is also called "Ousu" with Ouyang Xiu, and is one of the "eight masters in Tang and Song Dynasties". There are seven episodes of Dongpo handed down from generation to generation.
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