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Du Xunhe [Tang Dynasty] "Master of Genius"
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You were born in the clouds and didn't carry a bottle or bowl with you.
Everyone who does not talk about human affairs is nothing on earth.
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Quality people sometimes meditate, as quiet as dead wood; Sometimes when traveling, if it is a cloud, it has nothing to do with the heart, and it goes with the nature and is detached and refined. Other monks travel with a bottle of water and a bowl to eat, but he doesn't even bring them when he goes out, except for a body, and he comes and goes naked without care.
When you meet a person, you don't talk about trivial things in the world, as if he were a person who was outside the world.
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Quality: monk title.
Master: Used as a title of respect for monks.
Sit down: Sit down. Li, the stump left after these trees are cut down.
Bottles and bowls: utensils that monks carry when they travel.
Creation background
Du Xunhe lived in the eventful autumn of the late Tang Dynasty, when wars continued and people's livelihood was depressed. As a poet with conscience and a sense of justice, it is impossible to remain silent in the face of such reality. The poet expressed sincere praise to the most carefree and carefree people, but there was an implication in the praise, which included feeling the interest of life, so the poet wrote "To the People with Quality" to express his views.
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Because it is a poem for monks, the poem begins with a Buddhist story: "You can swim in the clouds and turn to dust." This is the image of a quality person. The poet grasped his characteristics and described his different customs.
The second sentence further describes the image of a quality person. Bottles and bowls are indispensable utensils for monks to drink water and eat. But the pledgee doesn't even have a bottle and bowl that he should carry with him. This highlights the transcendental character of the quality person and becomes a carefree and carefree person.
The third and fourth sentences, "If everyone doesn't talk about the world, there will be nothing in the world." This is to describe the image of a quality person from his spiritual realm. Without saying a word to the world, he wrote an enlightened image of spiritual liberation. What people say is what they think, let alone human things, but he doesn't think about these things at all, because he sees people's fame and fortune as illusory, short-lived and meaningless. "The so-called' the world is shallow and the Tao is deep' (Su Dongpo's language) is very thorough in this quality, and he is completely detached from the world.
Although he once praised the life of "nothing is worse than a monk, and water will lead a lifetime" (Daolin Temple), in any case, he can't say a word about the world like a quality master. Therefore, "if people don't talk about human affairs, there is nothing in the world", which not only praises and envies the quality of the people, but also reveals the poet's own complex feelings. Although the literal meaning is very shallow, the poet's feelings are still quite deep.
Du Xunhe's poetic language is concise and fluent, which popularizes modern poetry with strict meter. Because of this, many of his poems, including Master Genius, have become oral idioms in the long-term circulation.
Brief introduction of the author
Du Xunhe (846 ~ 904) was a poet in the Tang Dynasty. The word Yan Zhi,No. Jiuhuashan. Han nationality, Chizhou Shidai (now Shitai, Anhui) people. Dashun Jinshi, in the name of poetry, formed his own family, especially in palace ci. In the second year of Dashun, the first person fell to the first place and returned to Laoshan. Xuanzhou Tianqi was sent to Biantong for good communication, but was received by Zhu Quanzhong, who awarded him a bachelor's degree in Hanlin, foreign minister of the guest of honor and imperial edict. Rely on the situation to bully the gentry, and the people are angry and want to kill them. I was the first to die. Ten volumes of Tang Fengji are the preface, and three volumes are the current series. For his deeds, see Sun Guangxian's Notes on Northern Dreams, He Guangyuan's Notes on Lessons, Liang Shu's History of the Old Five Dynasties, Chronicle of Tang Poems and Talented Persons of Tang Dynasty.