Said by: Tang Luoyin, Bee.
Original poem:
bee
Tang Dynasty: Luo Yin
No matter underground or on the mountain, where there are flowers in full bloom, there are bees busy.
After picking flowers into honey, who will work hard for whom and who will be sweet?
The first two sentences of this poem say that bees fly to the top of the mountain, experience infinite beauty, take pains and take risks. The last two sentences say that bees pick flowers and make honey for people to enjoy, which is hard and sweet. By describing the natural phenomenon that bees gather flowers to make honey for people to enjoy, this poem contrasts the reality that the fruits of labor of the broad masses of working people are brutally exploited by the feudal ruling class, and shows the poet's sympathy for the working people.
Extended data
No matter in the plain or in Shan Ye, you can see bees busy collecting honey everywhere. The more beautiful the spring is, the more attractive it is to bees where flowers are in full bloom. These two sentences are very positive, praising the beautiful spring scenery of bees, which shows the poet's admiration and praise for bees.
It is the bounden duty of bees to collect flowers and make honey. Its hard-earned honey is mainly used to feed the queen bee, or it is used by people, but it is rarely enjoyed by itself. This is entirely out of instinct, and it does not realize what is unfair at all. But the poet found the problem from here and sent an unfair voice to the bees, "whoever works hard is sweet."
This poem uses narrative and discussion techniques, but the discussion is not explicitly issued, but is said in a rhetorical tone. The first two sentences are mainly narrative, while the last two sentences are mainly discussion. The last two sentences, three main narratives and four main discussions. "Picking a hundred flowers" means "hard work" and "becoming honey" means "sweetness". However, due to the difference between the main narrative and the main exposition, the last two sentences have the meaning of repetition and have no sense of repetition.
It turns out that the rhetorical question only means: who are you sweet for and who are you willing to work for? But it is divided into two questions: "Who are you working for?" "Sweet for whom"? Also repeated and not repeated. Obviously, hard work belongs to oneself, and sweetness belongs to others.
Luo Yin wrote many works in his life, such as Acts, Fables of Huaihai, Application Collection of Southern Hunan, Collection of A and B in the South of the Yangtze River, Lingbizi and so on. Luo Yin's poems are profound and have a deep understanding of life. There is also the famous "Self-Dispatch", which describes the helplessness that he and some talented people could not serve the country at that time. Some sentences are still quoted by some people, but they are taken out of context.