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This sentence comes from the Song Dynasty writer Su Shi's Red Cliff Fu.
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"Besides, my son and I are firewood on the Zhu Jiang. We are friends of fish, shrimp and elk. We sail a boat with a leaf and set up a statue for each other.
It's a drop in the ocean to send a mayfly into the earth. Mourn a moment in my life and admire the infinity of the Yangtze River. "
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I used to fish and catch shrimp by the river with my friends and make friends with elk. We drove the boat and drank with glasses in our hands.
It seems that we are just ephemera between heaven and earth, or like a small grain of sand in the sea. We lament the shortness of life and yearn for the infinity of the Yangtze River. "
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In this article, Su Shi expressed his feelings about his short life and his endless yearning for the Yangtze River by describing his happy life scene with his friends by the river. Sending ephemera to heaven and earth is a drop in the ocean, expressing the short helplessness of life. Life is like a flying insect living between heaven and earth, or a tiny grain of sand in the sea. Compared with the whole universe, life is insignificant, and time is as short as the wings of flying insects, which makes people feel helpless. The infinity of the Yangtze River expresses Su Shi's infinite yearning for life. Although life is short, the Yangtze River is endless, with infinite time and space, which brings infinite reverie to people.
Creation background
Fu on the Red Wall was written by Su Shi when he visited Chibi, a famous battlefield in the Three Kingdoms period. When Su Shi visited Chibi, he lamented the vicissitudes of history and the beauty of nature and wrote this well-known article.
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Mayflies refer to cicadas and pupae.
To send ephemera to heaven and earth is to compare ephemera to human beings, which means that human life is short;
Powerful, tiny;
The sea, the sea;
A millet, a millet.
A drop in the ocean means that a person's life is small and short, which is not worth mentioning.
Enlightenment of life
The phrase "flies are like a drop in the ocean" expresses the philosophy that life is short and things are impermanent. From the perspective of time, a person's life is only a very short moment between heaven and earth, as small as a ephemera. From the perspective of space, man is just a trivial grain of sand in the vast world. This sentence tells us to cherish time and not to waste precious life on meaningless things. At the same time, we should also have a modest heart, not too arrogant, thinking that we are the masters between heaven and earth. In life, we should learn to cherish every moment, seize the opportunity, create more beauty for ourselves and others, and at the same time keep a humble heart, don't forget our own smallness and shortcomings, and always remind ourselves to continue to make progress.