What do you mean, an old friend is rare when a cock crows?

"When a chicken crows, an old friend is scarce" is a famous sentence in After Graduation by Meng Jiao, a poet in the Tang Dynasty, which means that an old friend is scarce when a chicken crows. It expresses Meng Jiao's disappointment at human indifference and unreliable friendship, as well as his feelings about the impermanence and ill-fated life. This poem profoundly expresses a person's doubts and sighs about friendship and life in worldly hypocrisy and vulgarity.

Nowadays, interpersonal relationships in society are getting thinner and more ruthless. Many people can't really get along and communicate. They are always talking about money, sex and interests. Friendship between people can hardly stand the wear and tear of time. Treat friends also began to have reservations, self-protection psychology gradually took root in people's hearts. In modern society, because of the wind and rain, it is more and more obvious that people are scarce. We need more attention and care to reverse this unhealthy trend.

In today's world where human feelings are indifferent and interests are paramount, we should aspire to the qualities of sincerity, kindness and justice and become friends with these like-minded people. We should help and support those friends who are in trouble more, so that friendship can really be sublimated. At the same time, we need to keep our original heart forever, constantly improve our humanistic quality, and better understand and pay attention to the meaning and value of life. Only in this way, when the rooster crows, we will not be lonely and helpless, but will have many friends to accompany us.