This article takes the horse as a metaphor, talking about the talent problem, revealing the author's cynicism and his feelings and resentment. It expresses the author's strong indignation at the feudal rulers' failure to identify, reuse and bury talents.
The whole poem (excerpt) is as follows:
Where there is Bole, there is a swift horse. A thousand miles away, there are not many boles. Therefore, although there is a famous horse, it is only humiliated by the hands of slaves, and it is not called a thousand miles to die in a trough. (Insulting only one work: insulting only)
The translation is as follows:
Bole comes first, then swift horse. There are often swift horses, but Bole is not often. So even if there are precious horses, they are only humiliated by servants and die in the trough with ordinary horses. They are not called swift horses.
Extended data:
Ma Shuo is an argumentative essay, which is like an allegory rather than an allegory. Using metaphor to debate can't clearly express opinions, nor can it impose personal opinions on readers. The author describes the experience of Maxima with image thinking, presents facts, saves pen and ink to tell the truth, and uses function words (auxiliary words, exclamations and conjunctions) in ancient Chinese, which embodies the interest and artistic conception of singing and sighing.
Bole's allusions have been quoted by Han Yu many times (see Preface to Letter of Recommendation, Sending Wen He Yang), which shows that Han Yu's fate is bumpy.
"There is Bole in the world, and then there is a swift horse" is the previous question. "There is a swift horse, but there is no Bole", which is discussed from the opposite side. It shows that the trust relationship between Maxima and Bole is so close. In Han Yu's view, what the world lacks is not talents, but people who find talents. Therefore, what is revealed in the lecture is the author's feelings of not meeting talents, and his resentment and control over the rulers' burying talents.
"There is Bole in the world, and then there is a swift horse." At the beginning, the strange peak rises, but it doesn't, pointing out the main idea of the full text. There is also a duality in this sentence, that is, "without Bole, there is no maxima", which shows that the fate of maxima depends on Bole. In other words, no one can identify a maxima except Bole.
Baidu Encyclopedia-Ma Shuo