Tomorrow's yellow flowers will fade, and time is gone. Have fun and don't rush back.
Su Shi, a poet in Song Dynasty, wrote a seven-character rhythmic poem "The Nine Days Rhyme of the Princes".
The whole poem is as follows:
I was so drunk that I wanted to sleep. I taught in Qingzhou.
Give me three thousands of feet with cream temples, and I'll pay one hundred yuan for poems.
I heard that Mr. Lang closed the East Pavilion and let Lao Zi go to the South Tower.
You don't have to go home when you meet, and Huang Die will be sad tomorrow.
The translation is as follows:
Double Ninth Festival, friends' gathering, climbing to admire chrysanthemums and writing poems with wine are rare gatherings. Today's yellow flowers bloom, tomorrow's yellow flowers wither, and time is gone. Have fun and don't rush back.
Extended data:
Poems about appreciating chrysanthemums and giving wine are rare. Look at chrysanthemums for a while when you are drunk, and don't plan to rush home. Because today's yellow bloom, tomorrow's yellow flowers fade, time is no longer, there is nothing to see. The poet gives butterflies human feelings. In autumn, chrysanthemums are solitary, which is the only support for butterflies. Seeing that chrysanthemums will wither and have no flowers to rely on after the Double Ninth Festival, I can't help worrying.
The sorrow of butterflies is actually the sorrow of human beings, and butterflies all know that worrying people is more worrying. Frankly speaking, people's worries are too explicit and disappointing. From butterfly mourning to human mourning, it is implicit and euphemistic and more poetic. Butterflies and chrysanthemums are closely related in autumn, which makes it most reasonable for butterflies to be sad.
"Wen Dao" means that if you go to see chrysanthemums after the Double Ninth Festival on September 9, the golden chrysanthemums will have withered by then, and it will be boring to look at them. Su Shi lamented that "butterflies will be sad tomorrow", in fact, he wanted to express his lack of talents and implied that he was like that outdated chrysanthemum.