Author Lu Lun
The forest was black and the wind attacked the grass, but the general tried to shoot arrows at night.
The next morning, he found his white arrow deeply stuck in the hard rock.
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This poem about hunting at night contains intriguing philosophy. When the general saw the slightest sign of trouble, he suspected that there was a tiger. He shot it with an arrow. As a result, he was confused by the illusion and the arrow hit the stone. This shows that he is not good at seeing the essence through phenomena, so he can't see the truth. If he acts blindly, he will inevitably make some mistakes.
Note (1) Song of the Plug: The poem title of Yuefu in Tang Dynasty is based on two poems, Out of the Plug and Into the Plug, which belong to Song of the Cross Blowing. This is the second of six original works, "He Zhangfu shoots a plug".
(2) The grass scares the wind: the legend of "the wind follows the tiger". When the wind blows, it means there is a tiger. Bowing at night means hunting at night. To pull (a bowstring). The general saw the wind blowing at night and thought that a tiger was coming, so he drew his bow and shot an arrow.
(3) This sentence uses the story of Li Guang to describe the general's military courage. "Historical records. "Biography of General Li": (Li) hunts widely, sees the stone in the grass, shoots it as a tiger, a medium stone, loses it, looks at it, and a stone. " Pingming: Good morning. White: White feather on the shaft of an arrow, used as the representative name of an arrow. No: fall into.