From a distance, the wind is swaying in the lotus leaf, and from a close look, the horse rests its hoof.

This is not a sentence in the poem, but a line of the Ming Dynasty.

At that time, Huang Gonggong continued to work in Jiajing after being injured by Chen Hong. Jiajing saw him struggling and came to talk about him. Far away, he saw the wind blowing the lotus leaf and stopped to see the doctor. It means that from a distance, it looks like a lotus leaf swaying in the wind, but in fact, it is just a sick horse at close range. That's ironic