"Ou Shu" is a seven-character quatrain composed by Liu Cha, a poet in the Tang Dynasty.
Ou Shu
The hibiscus is ten feet high when the sun rises, and everything in the world is as fine as a hair.
The wild man is angry at the injustice and wears out the eternal knife in his chest.
"Ou Shu" is a seven-character quatrain composed by Liu Cha, a poet in the Tang Dynasty. This poem uses a "worn knife" as a metaphor for the suppressed sense of justice in the chest, expressing the poet's complex emotions and chivalrous and strong personality. The whole poem has a novel concept, a metaphor for vigilance, a grand spirit, and loud syllables. It is a generous and tragic song in a high tone, singing the heartfelt wishes of the "wild man" who "will cry out when there is injustice".
Original text: When the sun rises, the hibiscus is ten feet high, and everything in the world is as fine as a hair. The wild man is angry at the injustice and wears out the eternal knife in his chest. Translation: Every day when the sun rises in the east, countless complicated things in the world begin to happen one by one.
Many injustices happened around me, and my heart was full of anger, so I kept attacking them, but there were so many injustices that I lost all the "knives" in my chest to fight against them. Gradually it wore away.
This poem uses the most ordinary and common thing, "a worn knife", as a metaphor for the suppressed sense of justice in the heart, and vividly expresses the complex emotions and chivalrous and strong personality in the poet's heart. , the artistic technique is very superb.
In the works of poets of the Tang Dynasty, we have never seen the use of "knife" to describe people's thoughts and feelings. This novel conception and police metaphor show the unique style of Liu Cha's poetry.