Rowing peacefully
? Yang Wanli
On a fishing boat, there are two children. They put away their bamboo poles, stopped their oars and sat on the boat.
No wonder it didn't rain. They opened the umbrella. They didn't want to protect the rain, but wanted to use the umbrella as a sail to let the boat go forward.
Translation:
On a fishing boat, there are two children. They put away their bamboo poles, stopped their oars and sat on the boat.
No wonder they open umbrellas when it doesn't rain. It turned out that they didn't want to shelter from the rain, but wanted to use the umbrella as a sail to let the boat go forward.
Remarks: pole: bamboo pole or wooden pole used for punting. Ba: Paddle. Stranger student: No wonder. Wind-making: In the poem, two children use umbrellas as sails and let the wind help push the fishing boat forward.
Allusion: Yang Wanli, a poet in Song Dynasty, saw another boat moving, and two children were sitting leisurely on it. Instead of rowing, they sat there carefree and smiled, only to see that they took out an umbrella. The poet saw it, and it was very strange: it doesn't rain in the sky, why do you want to open an umbrella? He looked, oh! No wonder they open umbrellas when it doesn't rain. It turns out that they don't want to shelter from the rain, but want to use the umbrella as a sail to let the boat go forward!