There are people in Zheng who escape from the summer heat under the lonely forest ①. The shadows move with the passing sun, and they move to the mountains to escape the shade ②. At dusk, I sit down under a tree ③, and the shadow of the moon moves, and I move back to my knees to get out of the shade, and suffer from the dew on my body ④. The yin is gone, and
the body becomes more and more wet. It is skillful in using day and clumsy in using evening. ——"Fuzi"
[Note]
①Escape from the summer heat: escape the heat and enjoy the cool air.
①Lone forest-lone tree. A tree on its own.
② Move the mat (xǐrén) - move the mat. Migrate, migrate. 衽, mat.
③Anti - same as "return".
④桡(rú)——get wet.
There was a man from Zheng who was afraid of the heat. He ran to the shade of a tree to enjoy the shade. The sun moved in the sky, and the shadows of the trees moved on the ground. He also moved his sleeping mat to follow the shade of the tree. At dusk, he put his sleeping mat under the big tree again. The moon moved in the sky, and the shadows of the trees also moved on the ground. He moved his couch to follow the shadows of the trees, so he was hurt by the dew on his body. The shadows of the trees moved further and further away, and his body became increasingly wet. This person's method of enjoying the cool during the day is very clever, but using the same method to enjoy the cool at night is quite clumsy. . . .