Life is like a journey, and I am also a traveler: living in this world is like staying in a hotel, and I am also one of the travelers.
"Life is like an adverse journey, and I am also a traveler." It comes from "Linjiang Immortal: Send Money to Mu Fu" by Su Shi of the Song Dynasty. The full poem is as follows:
One farewell to the capital and three changes to the fire , The end of the world is the end of the world. Still smiling as a spring warmth. There is no wave in the ancient well, but there is Qiu Yun in it.
Melancholy, I sailed all night long, seeing off the light clouds in the pale moon. There is no need for green eyebrows in front of you. Life is like a journey against the odds, and I am also a traveler.
This poem was written by Su Shi in the spring of 1091 AD (the sixth year of Yuanyou, Zhe Zong of the Song Dynasty) when he learned about Hangzhou. He wrote this poem to say goodbye to his old friend Qian Mufu (named Xie) who was migrating north from Yuezhou (now Shaoxing, Zhejiang) and passed through Hangzhou. ). The whole poem changes the style of the previous farewell poems that were sentimental, sad, or generous. It contains innovative meanings in the law, and expresses wonderful ideas in addition to boldness. It is full of discussion, expresses one's temperament directly, and is written in a way that is both emotional and rational. , fully reflects the author's broad-minded and free-spirited personality. The poet's feelings of attachment and farewell to his old friend are written deeply and delicately, with tactful responses and twists and turns, which is touching.
The first part of the poem is about reuniting with a friend after a long absence. In the early years of Yuanyou, Su Shi was in charge of living in the house, and Qian Mu's father was in charge of the book house. They had good temperaments and a deep friendship. In the third year of Yuanyou, Mu's father went to Yuezhou and had a drink in the capital tent. Su Shi wrote a farewell poem. Time flies by, and this reunion in Hangzhou is already the third year after we said goodbye. In the past three years, Mu's father traveled between Beijing and Wuyue, and this time he went to Yingzhou. It can be said that he has traveled all the way to the end of the world. Although we have been separated for a long time, our friendship has become stronger, and we laugh when we see each other, just like the warmth of spring. What's even more gratifying is that both friends and themselves can keep themselves in the right way and maintain integrity. To borrow a poem from Bai Juyi's "Gift to Yuan Zhen", that is, "water from an ancient well has no waves, but bamboo poles have knots in autumn." The author believes that Mu's father went to guard Yuezhou, just like himself, because he discussed political affairs with the court and was attacked by the officials.
The above sentences are written in time, recalling the previous parting, and then ink in space, summarizing the official career. Next, the author expresses the author's optimistic attitude towards official frustration and long-term adversity, and uses parallel metaphors. The sentence structure of "" expresses his indifferent mood and steadfast integrity by praising his friends' purity of heart and keeping their reputation. The first part of the poem is not only a comfort and support for a friend to assist the king in governing the country and uphold integrity, but also a self-portrait of the poet's half-life experience and integrity. It is the poet's self-encouragement and contains a strong sense of life experience. The host is written clearly, and the guest is implicitly included; the host is used to comfort the guest, and the guest and the host are the same, showing that the author and his friends are sincere and like-minded.
The second part of the poem cuts to the point and writes about farewell to friends on a moonlit night. The sentence "Melancholy and solitary sail sails all night long to bid farewell to the faint moonlight clouds" depicts a desolate and cold atmosphere, exaggerating the author's depressed and joyless mood when parting with his friends.
The sentence "There is no need to have green eyebrows in front of the bottle" changes from sadness to broad-minded and heroic, saying that the singing and dancing girls in the farewell banquet do not need to lament about separation. The purpose of this sentence is first not to increase the sadness of the separation between the traveler and the sender, and secondly because separation is common in the world, so there is no need to be sad. The two seem to be contradictory, but in fact they can be unified in suppressing sadness and being optimistic. This is in line with Su Shi's ideological character that was tempered after his many career journeys. The last two sentences of the poem state why there is no need to be sad for a temporary separation. In fact, life is like a gift. Li Bai's "Spring Night Banquet from My Brother's Peach Garden Preface" says: "Heaven and earth are the reverse journey of all things, and time is the passer-by of hundreds of generations." Since people Everyone is a passer-by between heaven and earth, so why care about gatherings and separations in front of us and the south and north of the Yangtze River? At the end of the poem, the whole poem is summed up with words of comfort and relief to friends, which not only touches the heart but also reveals the attitude towards life of forgetting both gains and losses and integrating all things.
Although Su Shi was actively involved in the world throughout his life and had distinct political ideals and opinions, on the other hand, he was deeply influenced by the thoughts of Lao, Zhuang, and Buddhism. Whenever he was frustrated in the officialdom and was in a difficult situation, he could always "Wandering outside things", "going nowhere without being happy", dealing with the disturbances of the outside world with a calm, elegant and comfortable attitude, showing a broad-minded, free and easy mood of being detached from things and being at peace with the situation. The lines in this farewell poem, such as "A smile brings warmth of spring" and "There is no need to frown in front of the bottle. Life is like a journey against the odds, and I am also a traveler" are concentrated expressions of Su Shi's bold character and optimistic attitude. However, behind these broad-minded words, one can still feel the poet's faint melancholy about the ups and downs of officialdom, as well as his deep lamentation about his lost life.