Source: Tang Dynasty Yuan Zhen's "Five Poems on Li Si·Four". Full poem: "Once upon a time, it was difficult to find water in the sea, except for Wushan Mountain, it was not clouds. I looked back lazily from the flowers, half destined to practice Taoism and half destined to be a king."
"Once upon a time, it was difficult to find water in the sea, except for Wushan Mountain, it was not clouds." The meaning of this sentence: For those who have experienced the incomparably deep and vast sea, water elsewhere can no longer attract them; except for the steaming clouds of Wushan Mountain, the clouds elsewhere are eclipsed.
Once: experienced it before. Once, adverb. Sutra, experience.
Canghai: The ancients commonly called the Bohai Sea Canghai.
Except: except.
The original poem uses the water of the sea and the clouds of Wushan as a metaphor for the depth, breadth and depth of love. After seeing the sea and Wushan, it is difficult to look at the water and clouds elsewhere, except for the woman whom the poet misses and loves. , there is no woman who can make me passionate anymore. The poet's "sweetheart" is said to be Shuangwen, the Yingying in the legend "Yingying Biography" written by the poet. After the poet abandoned Shuangwen because of her poor family background, he "did not look back to Hua" for eight or nine years ("Yingying Biography"). "Sleepwalking in Spring Seventy Rhymes"). Some people say that the purple poem was written in memory of his late wife Wei Cong. Wei Cong was from a high family, beautiful and virtuous. After Wei Cong died young at the age of 27, the poet once said that he would never marry again ("Removal of Sorrows·Part 3"). The two lines of poetry use allusions, which are extremely descriptive. The first sentence is quoted from "Mencius: Devoting the Heart" "Those who look at the sea can hardly be water"; the second sentence is quoted from Song Yu's "Preface to Gaotang Ode" "Ginger is in the sun of Wushan, blocked by high hills, it is morning clouds, and it is rain at dusk. Later." People quote these two lines of poems, which often refer to loyalty to love, indicating that love belongs to no other than you. These two lines of poems are also shortened to the idiom "Once upon a time, the sea", and can also be used as a metaphor for having experienced great scenes and vision. Open-minded, well-informed, and indifferent to relatively ordinary things.
"It was once difficult to change the situation," for me. It is: I have read this poem and it is difficult to write it. It describes the unforgettable love of life and death.
After the sea, what should I do if there is no more water? People can't live without water. Just sit and wait for death on the shore of the water.
There may be two possibilities.
Or continue to immerse yourself in the sea of ??memory, salvage pearls and sunken stars and moonlight from the past, until The vast sea of ??the past will gradually submerge itself.
Either dig deep wells on the shore of survival and irrigate the desert of survival with new water sources. Perhaps, when the well water reflects the reflection of the person who draws the water, Will it remind him of those days and nights collected by the sea?
The waters of life continue in this way
And in the memory, the waves overlap with the waves, and the reflections overlap with the reflections. Life has complex levels and densities.
If the experience of love is like this, is it the same for other experiences in life?
After reading a very touching book, you really I don’t want to read those soulless and frivolous books anymore.
Climb the Five Mountains and enjoy the beauty of the mountains and rivers. Your heart is full of strange peaks and deep valleys. You also want to read those things that have been trampled into shape by everyone’s shoes. Is there a business mountain without wildness and aura?...
Love, reading, traveling, dating... will all have similar experiences.
The vast sea is too vast, too deep, and too profound. "It's too bitter; the vast sea is almost infinite", which is the ultimate state of life and emotion.
So, most people have never been to the sea, let alone the depths of the sea.
At most, I have just imagined the sea from a distance: maybe it is very big and deep?
Or I stood on the beach and took a look at the sea: it is indeed very big and deep.
Or pick up a few shells on the beach at low tide.
I have never really experienced the sea, so I am not picky about water: salt water is water, fresh water is water, deep water is water, shallow water is water, clear water is water, and turbid water is water.
It is the bitter love of a saint to once be in the sea and never see water again.
Unexpectedly, there is water everywhere, which is a blessing for mortals.
"It was once difficult to find water in a vast ocean." I also think that people who have been to the depths of the ocean and whose memories are filled with sea water, when they go ashore and when they look back, will they see that puddle of water? Conspicuous, clear and light spring water? Perhaps the light and clear spring water can also allow him to experience another kind of kindness, another kind of blessing? Save his life from despair?
What's more, " Except that Wushan is not a cloud, this can be discussed again. The clouds on Wushan are the purest and most beautiful, and have a mythical color. If all mountains are regarded as sacred mountains, then the clouds rising on every mountain are mythical. Clouds, beautiful clouds, they surround the lonely mountain peaks, fill and decorate the huge emptiness of the sky, and, with the help of the wind and air currents, they will rain and snow--
Rain and snow It will turn into good water for the world.
Exactly:
There was still water in the sea,
Except Wushan, it was also clouds.