Once I tasted the vast sea, I felt that the water in other places was pale; Once you have experienced the clouds in Wushan, you feel that the clouds elsewhere are eclipsed. Hurried through the flowers, lazy to look back; This reason is partly because of the ascetic monk, and partly because of who you used to be. This poem is from Yuan Zhen's Five Thoughts (4). Recently, I often hear the controversy about the application of this poem from netizens, so I copied one to discuss. The whole poem means: I have experienced the vastness of the sea and will not be attracted by other waters. I have experienced the lingering of sex and rain in Wushan, and the scenery elsewhere is not called sex and rain ... I have no intention to see the flowers bloom, partly because I am a monk and partly because I can't forget you ... It is said that this poem was written in memory of my late wife Wei Cong. The poet praised the love of husband and wife and expressed his loyalty and nostalgia for his dead wife Wei Cong with the metaphor of "expressing affection through material things", and he used words carefully and had sincere feelings. This quatrain by Yuan Zhen is not only highly figurative and lyrical, but also excellent in writing. The first two sentences are written in extreme metaphors to remember and mourn. The words "the sea" and "five clouds" are magnificent, and there is a great trend of lamenting the rivers. The last two sentences of "lazy comment" and "half-assed gentleman" suddenly eased the language situation and turned into profound lyricism. The whole article is easy and changeable, forming a ups and downs melody. As far as the artistic conception of the whole poem is concerned, it is romantic but not vulgar, magnificent but not flashy, tragic and not deep, which creates the realm of absolute victory in the quatrains of mourning in the Tang Dynasty. In particular, "once the sea was difficult for water, it was amber forever." There are two sentences, which have been talked about by people all the time. They are not only excellent sentences in Yuan Zhen's poems, but also rarely mentioned in love poems in Tang and Song Dynasties:
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