Interpretation of poetry
Things in the world are often like this: if you are fully prepared and do it carefully, the result of things will be a complete failure, and even there is no chance to turn over a new leaf; On the contrary, sometimes inadvertently or inadvertently, things will get better than expected.
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"If you have a heart, you can't plant flowers, but if you don't have a heart, you will get a shade", from Zengguang Xianwen, Qing/Zhou.
"Intentionally planting flowers can't bloom, but unintentionally planting willows into shade" comes from the second fold of Guan Hanqing's "Waiting for Wisdom to Cut Lu Zhailang", which later evolved into intentionally planting flowers and unintentionally planting willows into shade.
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It took a lot of effort to plant flowers, fertilize and irrigate, but the flowers never bloomed and finally withered; And a willow tree that was broken at will was inserted in the ground at will, and no one has ever taken care of it. A few years later, it grew into a lush willow tree.
Creation background
The full text is the inheritance of Taoist philosophy, which means that everything goes with the flow and cannot be forced.
Correlation extension
1, a synonym: life must do something sometimes, and there is no need to force it; Iron shoes are nowhere to be found, and it is effortless to take them; Two blooming flowers, inadvertently painted.
2. Full text:
The hardest thing in life is to know yourself. How much do you weigh Don't pull the scale hook-claim to be self-respecting. If you don't have Jin Gangzuan, don't make porcelain. My hands can only grow crops and ferries. Now that I am old, there are many bridges and private cars on the river. No one can cross the river by boat, and I can't grow crops. But I suddenly want to plant some flowers to beautify the environment and add icing on the cake. The result can be imagined: deliberately planting flowers and not sending them! It won't bloom! Why? Is it insincere? Not skilled? Or both? Who can and will point out my crux? Ziri: "Old people abstain from greed." What do you mean?
3, "Augmented and virtuous". It was called Xianwen in ancient times and Xianwen in ancient and modern times, and it was written in the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty. The title of the book was first seen in the Peony Pavilion, a children's enlightenment bibliography written in the Ming Dynasty. After the continuous supplement of the Ming and Qing literati, it came to this. The author is unknown, except that the Confucian scholar Zhou Zeng revised it during the Tongzhi period of the Qing Dynasty.