"I am originally from the back mountain, and occasionally I am a guest in the front hall. I danced drunkenly in the Sutra Pavilion for half a volume, and sat in the well to talk about the vast sky." The source is "Businessman·Self-mockery".
Bu Suanzi·Self-mockery
Anonymous? [Unknown]
I was originally from the back mountain, and occasionally I was a guest in the front hall. Drunkly dancing in the Sutra Pavilion with half a volume of books, sitting in a well and talking about how vast the sky is.
Great ambitions play for fame, and sea battles measure blessings and misfortunes. When talking about being short of money, he angrily points out that everything is wrong.
Translation: This is a person who has never seen the world. By chance, he ascends to the elegant hall; he narcissistically shows off his superficial knowledge, one of the thousands of volumes in the Tibetan Scripture Pavilion, and has a glimpse of the sky from a well.
Even if you have great ambitions, you don’t care about fame and fortune. You should use your mind as broad as the ocean to deal with the blessings and misfortunes in life. But when it comes to having less money in his pocket than others, he angrily points to the sky and curses that the world is not good.
Notes:
Houshan people: people who have never seen the world and have no knowledge.
Qiankun: heaven and earth.