Do you have any favorite sentences or poems to share?

Poetry is one of the most popular Chinese genres in China. Many predecessors' poems always feel so kind and natural when we recite and taste them. I think my favorite poems will also be liked by many people. Here I will mention some well-known poems, as well as some beautiful but very small poems, and enjoy them with you.

It's three buses to the countryside. Take the stairs to Wan Li Spring. The guests on the River of Sorrow are not locals. This is a homesick work by Lu Yi. The first two sentences describe the scene of climbing stairs, while the last two sentences are similar to RoyceWong's "Ode to Climbing the Stairs", "Although I believe in beauty, I don't believe in my homeland".

People say that the place where the sun sets is the horizon. I try to look at the horizon, but I can't see my home. The two poems profoundly show the pain of homesickness: first, the setting sun sets the horizon as a backdrop, which makes the disappointment of not seeing my hometown worse and deeper, but it is not expressed directly, but through repeated chanting and contrast between the two "horizons", which makes people understand.

Return your double beads, my eyes are full of tears, and I regret not meeting you before I got married.

The two poems euphemistically express the author's own attitude. On the surface, it seems to be a love poem, but in fact it is an ambitious poem, which shows the integrity of law and harmony.

You bury your bones under the mud spring, and I send snow all over the world. People all know Yuan Zhen's mourning poems, but few people know that Bai Juyi also wrote mourning poems for him after Yuan Zhen's death. These two sentences are the most classic in the poem.

The clothes are wet and the apricot blossoms are raining, and the face is not cold. Without his poem, the name of Zhi Nan, a poet in the Southern Song Dynasty, might have been buried in the long river of history. The descriptions of early spring and February in the two poems are exquisite and true, and they are worthy of being famous sentences throughout the ages.

Socrates said: An unexamined life is not worth living.

Plato said: the most regrettable thing in life is to give up what should not be given up easily and stubbornly adhere to what should not be adhered to.

Aristotle said: the ultimate value of life lies in the ability to awaken and think, not just in survival.

Confucius said: In a threesome, we must learn from each other's strengths, choose the good and follow it, and change the evil and follow it.

Mencius said: If people have no ambition, they are no different from animals.

Sima Qian said: people are inherently mortal, and death is heavier than Mount Tai or lighter than a feather.