The whole sentence means: there is no disaster, and you can be an official to a public official.
From Su Shi's Children's Play in the Northern Song Dynasty, the original text is:
Everyone wants to be smart when adopting a son, and I have been delayed by being smart all my life.
I only hope that this child is honest and honest, and there is no disaster and no difficulty in reaching the public.
Translation:
Everyone wants children to be born smart. But what are the benefits of being smart? It is because I am smart that I am envied by others, and I have missed my life because I am smart.
I only hope that my son is stupid, dull, harmless and can be an official to public office.
Extended data
Creative background:
In the third year of Yuanfeng in Song Shenzong (1080), Su Shi was banished to Huangzhou because of Wutai poetry case, and served as the deputy envoy of Yong Lian. When Su Shi was in Huangzhou, his concubine Chaoyun gave birth to a son in the sixth year of Yuanfeng (1083), which made Su Shi very happy because he wrote a poem "Children's Play".
Ideological theme:
The whole poem uses the word "hope" to express people's expectations for children. With a word "mistake", the story of the author's life is told. The last two sentences are angry words, which are the inverted feelings of life. On the surface, this poem is about children's education, but in fact it is a satire on officialdom, showing the author's cynicism and cynicism.
About the author:
Su Shi (1037-11year), with the word Zizhan and the word Hezhong, is known as Tieguan Taoist and Dongpo Buddhist, and is also known as a famous writer, calligrapher and painter in the Northern Song Dynasty with Su Dongpo and Su Xian.
Su Shi was a literary leader in the mid-Northern Song Dynasty, and made great achievements in poetry, ci, writing, calligraphy and painting. His poems have a wide range of themes, are fresh and healthy, and have a unique style. He is also called "Su Huang" with Huang Tingjian. His words are bold and unconstrained, and they are both bold and unconstrained representatives with Xin Qiji, and they are called "Su Xin"; His prose creation is rich and unrestrained, and he is also called "Ou Su" with Ouyang Xiu, and he is one of the "Eight Masters in Tang and Song Dynasties".
Su Shi is also good at books and is one of the "Song Sijia"; He is good at literati painting, especially ink bamboo, strange stones and dead wood. There are seven episodes of Dongpo, Dongpo Yi Zhuan, Dongpo Yuefu, Xiaoxiang Bamboo Stone Atlas, and ancient and strange stone atlas handed down from ancient times.
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