It is difficult to keep a wolf, but it is difficult to be a dog.
Soon after the cormorant is dyed black by ink, it is not firm to paint the crow white.
Honey soaked in Huang Lian will eventually be bitter, but picking melons and fruits can't be sweet.
Good deeds must be done by good people, and mortals can't be immortals.
Translation:
In ancient times, if a straight stick could not be found on the handle of a wooden farm tool, the bent wood was pressed into shape by soaking or slightly baking. Such a stick is straight in the short term, but in the long run, it will eventually return to its original curved state. Like dogs, wolves don't play the role of housekeeping, but they don't bite their owners.
White cormorants will not be black for a long time with ink, and black crows will be white with white powder. Huang Lian soaked in honey tastes bitter. Melons and fruits are ripe, and really ripe fruits are easy to pick.
What needs to be twisted hard must be immature. Good people always do good deeds, and vice versa: it is a law that those who do good deeds are those who do good deeds. Mortals are more or less evil and cannot become immortals.
It means that in ancient times, if the handle of wooden farm tools could not find a straight stick, the bent wood would be pressed into shape by soaking or slightly baking. Such a stick will be straight in the short term, but in the long run, it will eventually return to a curved state and then be used. Like dogs, wolves don't play the role of housekeeping, but they don't bite their owners.
It is difficult to keep a wolf, but it is difficult to be a dog. This poem is from Degang Guo's Poem of Setting a Field.
Extended data:
Performers of fixed field poems, folk art words, cross talk, storytelling and other folk arts often have to recite four or eight lines of poems before performing the program. Poetry is often humorous, short and pithy, concise and touching, which quickly attracts the audience's ears and makes the actors enter the performance immediately. Therefore, the actor decides the scenery first, so it is called the poem of deciding the scenery.
There are fewer and fewer artists who are good at performing cross talk now. Due to the decrease of cross talk works, stand-up cross talk poems are used less and less. Among the famous crosstalk performers, only crosstalk kings Liu Baorui and Degang Guo use it much.
Early stand-up comedians Zhang Shouchen and Guo Quanbao. In addition, the famous storyteller Mountain is also widely used in his works, which has a far-reaching impact on the spread of Dingtian's poems.