Source: Song Dynasty writer Su Shi's Farewell to Dong Chuan.
Interpretation of vernacular Chinese: in life, the body is wrapped in coarse cloth and rotten cloth, and the temperament learned in the chest naturally shines. I don't like chatting with the old Confucian about the bitter days of "cooking leaves", so I decided to take the imperial examination with the scholars.
If you don't have money in your pocket, you won't buy a "painted face" horse, but you will look at the dazzling "choosing a husband's car". I can also boast to secular people in the exam that my name is written as black as a crow.
About the author:
Su Shi (103765438+1October 8th-1August 24th, 2008) was called Su Dongpo and Su Xian, also known as Tieguanyin and Dongpo lay man. Han nationality, a native of Meishan, Meizhou (now Meishan, Sichuan) and Luancheng, Hebei, was a famous writer, calligrapher and painter in the Northern Song Dynasty.
In the second year of Jiayou (1057), Su Shi was a scholar. Song Shenzong worked in Fengxiang, Hangzhou, Mizhou, Xuzhou and Huzhou. In the third year of Yuanfeng (1080), he was demoted to be the permanent assistant ambassador of Huangzhou because of Wutai poetry case.
Extended message: "You are full of life, you are full of poems and books." These two sentences say that Dong Chuan wears thick silk to tie his hair and thick cloth to cover his body. The word "wrapped in life" is novel and ingenious. It should be "life is wrapped in a big cloth", but once the word order is reversed to "life is wrapped in a big cloth", there is a sense of picture, which means that this life is normal. These two poems praise Dong Chuan for being poor, but diligent in reading, so his spiritual temperament is extraordinary.
"I'm tired of cooking leaves with old Confucianism, but I'm better than stepping on Sophora japonica." The meaning of these two sentences is that Dong Chuan's ambition is not to be poor, and he hopes to get ahead through the imperial examination. Old Confucianism refers to old scholars.
Boiled Leaves is a classic. In The Book of Songs Xiaoya Michelle Ye, the second sentence of the first chapter is "Zanye, which was successfully adopted". Leaves taste bitter, and leaves are used in poems to express the roughness and simplicity of dishes at banquets. However, the owner did not give up the gift because of his meager, but sincerely "adopted Heng" ("Heng" and "cooking" are homonyms).
"I'm not looking for a spring horse, but looking at the car." The Spring Horse is an allusion to Meng Jiao's After Graduation. What Su Shi means here is that Dong Chuan has no money to buy a horse even after graduation. Like Meng Jiao, he "sees all the Chang 'an flowers in one day." Choosing a husband's car is an allusion to "cars full of beads and saddles, lined up" contained in "Choosing a husband on the day when Tang Jinshi came out of the list" and "Ji Zi Ti" by Wang.
Su Shi means that Dong Chuan can't see flowers on horseback like Meng Jiao, but he has the opportunity to be surrounded by a "husband-choosing car" to show off himself. These two poems are Su Shi's words of encouragement to Dong Chuan. Being rich is not a problem, but passing the exam is the last word. At that time, everything will be there.
"Pride is like boasting the world, and Sun Wong's wet words are like crows." These two poems continue to encourage Dong Chuan, hoping that one day Dong Chuan can hold his head high when he is the number one scholar, so as to show off the world. When Su Shi wrote here, it seems that he has completely forgotten the beginning of this poem, "I am full of poems and books", and the rest is just a little blessing to a dissatisfied scholar.
This poem is characterized by clever allusions and profound implications. Among them, "humility with poetry and books" is a famous sentence that has been passed down to this day. "Poetry" refers to books here; "Qi" refers to temperament and demeanor; "Hua" means glorious and different.
From the context of praising Dong Chuan in poetry, separately, that is to say, people who are diligent in reading always have a refined atmosphere, which makes them look different.
It is precisely because it sums up a common phenomenon among scholars that it has become a famous sentence about reading and learning and is widely quoted.
References:
Baidu encyclopedia-farewell to Dong Chuan