When the world comes out of our generation and enters the rivers and lakes,
When you are talking and laughing, you can't live a drunken life.
Carrying a sword, riding a ghost rain, bones like mountains, birds flying.
A tidal wave of people with dust is just sighing for a few people in the Jianghu.
The first sentence expresses the author's scholar mentality from ambition to heroism.
In the second sentence, the author stepped into the society, and his mind experienced the general baptism of the world, lamenting that life is short.
The third and fourth sentences express the author's thoughts on universal values. Now, I can only chat about my ideals and ambitions. If I had told you earlier, I might as well have been eating, drinking, and having fun from the beginning, and never suffer from disillusionment.
The fifth and sixth sentences may be because the feelings in the third and fourth sentences are too negative. In the fifth and sixth sentences, the author uses symbols and metaphors to express the cruelty and hardship of society. Perhaps for an idealist like the author, the complexity of society is too dark and cold.
The seventh and eighth sentences point out the topic, express the core idea of this work, and also take care of the previous sentence, lamenting how small and arrogant people are relative to the world as a drop of water in the sea. Now think about how naive it is. Countless people have entered the society with lofty ideals, but how many people can finally realize their ideals and finally get rid of the world's troubles? In the end, most of them were not submerged by the tide of society and disappeared from the public.
In fact, Tsui Hark is more famous for quoting this poem in his film the legendary swordsman II Dong Fangbubai.