Meaning: The mountain is difficult to cross.
The source of the poem: From "Preface to Prince Teng's Pavilion", the original text of this sentence is excerpted as follows: The mountain is difficult to cross, whoever feels sad for those who have lost their way; meeting by chance is like a guest from a foreign land. When Emperor Huai disappeared, how old was the Xuan Dynasty?
The translation is as follows:
The mountains are so difficult to overcome, who can sympathize with those who are frustrated? We meet by chance, and we are all guests in a foreign land.
These two sentences use parallelism and are combined with long prose sentences to make them read catchy. The use of images such as mountains and rivers exaggerates the desolate atmosphere and expresses the author's loneliness in a foreign country and his deep longing for his hometown.
Extended information:
Appreciation of works
Although the author was passionate and talented, he was not tolerated by the society at that time because of his talent, arrogance and bohemianism. Ambition is hard to achieve, so here the author thinks of the finiteness and shortness of life from the infinity of the universe, expressing his emotion about the passage of time but the elusiveness of achievements; he laments that there are only so many shortcomings, revealing the helplessness of being unable to reverse his fate, and feels that he can only live in exile. On the coast of the South China Sea, he felt sad that he was unable to enter the imperial capital of Chang'an to serve his country.
In the fifth paragraph, the author uses allusions to compare himself to Jia Yi, Liang Hong, Feng Tang, and Li Guang to describe his current predicament, but the author does not stay in sadness for too long and turns to And he used his own optimism to give a better annotation to this aria. The author said that he is still a wise man who knows his destiny, "When you are old and strong, you would rather have a gray-headed heart; when you are poor and strong, you will not fall into the clouds." Even in the face of adversity, he is still cheerful and determined to serve the country.