This sentence comes from the poem "Jade Box Yuan Xi" written by Xin Qiji, a poet in the Tang Dynasty. Xin Qiji is a talented poet, calligrapher and writer, whose works are famous for his bold poems. Jade Garden is one of Xin Qiji's representative works, which tells the story of his pursuit of his dream lover on the night of Lantern Festival.
In this poem, Xin Qiji expressed his deep nostalgia for his beloved in delicate and implicit language. He kept searching in the crowd, but he never found his sweetheart. It was not until the fireworks cleared that he found her in the dim light.
This poem is not only a love poem, but also a poem describing the Lantern Festival. Through specific scene description and emotional expression, it shows Xin Qiji's sensibility and rationality, and also expresses people's yearning and pursuit for love, as well as their love and praise for festivals.
The profound meaning of this sentence is: in the process of finding our goal, sometimes we may take detours and even feel desperate, but as long as we keep our faith and look back suddenly, maybe we can find the goal around us, but we can't find it. This sentence tells us to keep confidence and patience and not to give up pursuing our dreams and goals easily.