Disappointment is often nine times out of ten, but where does it come from to talk to people?

Yang hu Biography of the Book of Jin (first edition), other sources: Xin Qiji's Ci "He Xin Lang Re-assigns the Same Rhyme" in the Southern Song Dynasty: sighing for life, unhappy things, nine times out of ten. After Xin Qiji, there is a poem by Fang Yue, a poet in the Song Dynasty: Disappointment is often eight or nine times, but you can talk to others. (Commander of Other Talents). Since the Yuan and Ming Dynasties, Fang Yue's poems have been mostly used in the association of "unsatisfactory things often happen eight or nine times, but they are no different from the speaker".

The popular explanation is that a person's life can't be smooth sailing and everything goes well. There are always some bumps. Suffering, so that people can live better. There are many things in life that are not satisfactory. Encourage us to work hard.

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Xin Qiji (A.D.1140-1207), a poet in the Southern Song Dynasty, wrote the poem "He Xinlang Re-endowed the Forerhyme": Sighing about life is not satisfactory, nine times out of ten.

Fang Yue's poem in Song Dynasty: Disappointment often happens in eight or nine situations, but you can talk to others in the same way. Knowing Jingmen Zicaifu, I dream of galloping south of the city.

Jushan Fang Yue (1999 ~ 1262), whose name is Qiu Ya, is from Qimen, and has a "small manuscript by Mr. Qiu Ya". In the late Southern Song Dynasty, his poems were very famous, almost comparable to Liu Kezhuang's. It seems that Jiangxi School started out, and was greatly influenced by Yang Wanli and Fan Chengda. He has the habit of organizing allusions and idioms into novel and ingenious antitheses. For example, since the Yuan and Ming Dynasties, the common association of "unsatisfactory things are often eight or nine times, but they are no different from the speaker" is his poem. -Qian Zhongshu:

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Nine times out of ten, life is unsatisfactory-Baidu Encyclopedia