This sentence comes from "Send Cai to the Western Ocean".
Original text: Song Sushi's "Sending a Scholar to the West without Understanding"
I never get tired of reading old books, but I don't know myself until I read them carefully. He was afraid of being an official in his later years, but now he is late.
I used to live in a shabby house and stopped reading "Garden Sunflowers" when I wrote a book. I'm here to admire people in the East Palace and abandon my old studies to play.
The crazy plan was wrong, but Frost Temple arrived as scheduled. So pines and cypresses are all planted by hand. When will they return to the archway?
If I knew everything, I would have a life, but ten years later, I lost my mind in Ningfei. You can't compete with your gains and losses, you can only do business for a long time.
Translation:
Read the classics again and again, and you will naturally understand the meaning after reading them.
You will definitely become a prestigious official in the future. I don't mind wandering and frustrated today.
I once cut off all social activities at home and wrote a book, so that I didn't even have time to look at the flowers and plants in the yard.
After leaving home, I traveled east to seek an official position, abandoned my old studies and fooling around with my children.
There are many calculations, but everything is empty. Up to now, only the white hair on my head has arrived as scheduled.
When I think of the pine and cypress planted in my hometown, I'm afraid I'll have to put my hands together when I return home.
If everything has long been known to be destiny takes a hand, then my wandering behavior in the past ten years is not extremely ignorant.
Now I tell you never to care about temporary gains and losses, and I feel deeply sorry to tell you this at this parting moment.
Extended data:
Creation background
Zong Shenxi Ning for three years (1070), 28-year-old An Biao took the rural examination as a scholar, and as a result, he lost his solution and went west. Although this poem was presented to Andun by Su Dongpo in Song Dynasty, its content is beneficial to everyone.
The original poem aims to comfort and encourage Morton people to pursue the value of knowledge itself. The infinite knowledge contained in the ancient books of sages can be understood as long as they are carefully read and pondered. Confusion: I failed the public examination. Su Shi's two poems are euphemistic in tone, encouraging readers to go home and study with peace of mind. Don't rush for success. As long as you "study hard and think deeply", you will naturally understand the mystery of the classics, and one day you will be proud of it.
Later, the idiom "never tire of reading" evolved from this. Su Shi's poems emphasize reading methods, while idioms emphasize the value of books or works themselves.
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.
After Song Zhezong acceded to the throne, he was known in Hangzhou, Yingzhou, Yangzhou, Dingzhou and other places. In his later years, he was exiled to Huizhou and Danzhou because of the ruling of the New Party. Song Huizong was granted amnesty and returned to the north, where he died. Song Gaozong posthumously awarded a surname, posthumous title "article".
References:
Baidu Encyclopedia-/Send a scholar to the West.