On Su Shi's Poem Looking at the South of the Yangtze River from afar
"Spring is not old, the wind is fine and the willows are oblique. Try to see it on the detached stage, half the city is full of flowers. Fog and rain darken thousands of people.
After a cold meal, I woke up but felt uncomfortable. Don't miss the old country for the old friend, try new tea with new fire. Poetry and wine use time. "
In the autumn of the seventh year of Xining (1074), Su Shi moved from Hangzhou to Mizhou (now Zhucheng, Shandong). In August of the following year, he ordered someone to repair the old platform in the north of the city. His brother Su Zhe titled it "Transcendence", which was taken from Laozi's meaning of "Although I have a glorious view, I am detached".
In the late spring of the ninth year of Xining (1076), Su Shi boarded the detachment platform, looked at the misty rain in spring and touched the feeling of homesickness, so he wrote this word. This poem, which is both heroic and graceful, expresses Su Shi's open-minded and detached mind and life attitude of "doing what he uses and hiding what he abandons" through the complex changes of spring scenery and the author's feelings and demeanor.
Throughout Su Shi's life, he was repeatedly relegated and displaced. The bitter life experience made him understand the profound philosophy of life.
The last sentence of this sentence, "Poetry and wine take advantage of time", contains at least two meanings:
First, when adversity comes, you might as well get rid of things, forget everything in the world, seize the opportunity, and amuse yourself by borrowing poetry and wine. Only in this way can we not be humiliated, face life with a smile and live in the present.
Second, when fate is unfair to you, be kind to yourself, and you can't be miserable because of injustice, and finally you are exhausted and get nothing; Don't give up on yourself just because you are hit, it will only turn you into dust and lose yourself.