Life is like a dream. Floating life: an empty and illusory life; If: like it. Imagine life as a short and illusory dream.
A pale dog refers to a dog with blue-gray fur, which was considered an ominous thing in ancient times. It also means that things are changeable and difficult to guess.
The poem "Steal a Half-Day in Busy Time" should be a poem "Steal a Half-Day in Floating Life" written by the poet Li Jie. The poem "Looking at the pale dog in the dream" should be added by netizens later.
Tihelin Monastery
I was drunk all day, and suddenly I heard that I was trying to climb the mountain in spring. I stole a long time because I was chatting with monks in the bamboo yard.
The most classic sentence in the full text should be the last sentence. "Steal for half a day", the whole ancient poem is not very famous, but the last sentence is still familiar to us. In this eventful autumn, it is rare to have a moment of leisure.
Let's share the translation of this poem.
I have been wandering in a chaotic drunken dream for a long time, wasting the limited time of my life for no reason. One day, I suddenly found that spring was about to pass, so I tried my best to climb Nanshan to enjoy the spring scenery. I talked with a monk for a long time when I visited the temple, and it is rare to get a moment's leisure in this eventful autumn.
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"Being in a daze all day" is a true description of the poet's inner feelings and external modality when he was exiled. The poet begins with "repression" and first expresses his negative internal modality. Using "being in a daze all day" to modify "drunken dream" shows the poet's extreme depression and collapse in the face of exile. From the writing point of view, this is a kind of writing method of restraining first and then promoting, which makes a good preparation and foreshadowing for the later "Yang".
When the poet was bored, he suddenly found that the beautiful spring scenery was about to leave him, so he tried his best to go out and climb the South Mountain, hoping to dispel his long-standing sadness and unhappiness by enjoying the spring scenery. The "late spring" here should be understood not only as the spring in nature is about to pass, but also as the youth with limited life. The poet is unwilling to be depressed, unwilling to waste his youth like this, and unwilling to do nothing all his life, so after "suddenly smelling the spring scenery", he cheered up and "climbed the mountain".
"Because of crossing the bamboo yard to meet a monk" and "because" are prepositions with the meaning of "because"; "Bamboo Garden" is a temple where monks practice Zen and realize Taoism. What is the poet doing here? Intentionally or unintentionally, people went in and talked with the monks in the temple for a long time about Zen. The word "phoenix" in "every monk must talk" tells readers that it is accidental; "Talking" means talking to the old monk about Zen, chatting, revealing his anguish and unhappiness, and discussing the joys and sorrows of life. As a Buddhist, the concept of treating life has always been to downplay the utility of life, calm down the emotional state of mind, turn a deaf ear to the bleak reality and be calm. No matter how much trouble and unhappiness you have, you should learn to hide it in your heart, so that you can forget the past, laugh at life and look forward to the future.
"Stealing half a day" is the crowning touch. Half a day's leisure is because of a word from a monk in Zhuyuan. This sentence is Zen-like, telling the boring and blindness of life, and the leisure for half a day is the most rare. The author realized life and found his own answer. This poem is a portrayal of his mood. Some people think it is "stealing a long time" and explain it. In fact, it is not "stealing" or "getting back", nor is it a negative response to life, but a natural way.