Wang Fanzhi
Mother Huang turned into a tortoise, just for the tortoise.
Cow sorrow turns into a tiger, which is also a tiger.
If you don't remember your present job, you'd rather know your past career.
Life and death change, if one is a teacher?
This poem was first seen in the third volume of Wang Fanzhi's poems in 3833. The same volume also contains poems such as "People are still there when they are gone", "Looking at the shadow with a shadow" and "Non-phase, Non-phase, Non-phase", which are called "Ten Metaphors" Theory of Singing Buddha. "On Great Wisdom", volume six quotes from Mohe Prajna Paramita Sutra, which says: "The nature of light, such as illusion, flame, moon in water, air, sound, city, dream, shadow, phase and transformation in the mirror." The so-called "yellow mother turned into a turtle" and "cow sorrow turned into a tiger" in this poem are all metaphors of "flower-like". "Great Wisdom" has six clouds: "There is no fixed thing in metaplasia, but people are born with their hearts doing something and nothing is false. The same is true of the human body, which has no reason, but it is unrealistic to live this life with past thoughts. Therefore, the transformation of various laws such as change will disappear. All laws are like this. When karma dies, the fruit dies. The story of Huang Mu and Niu's love for "metaplasia" in the poem contains profound Buddhist philosophy.
The yellow mother turned into a turtle. See "Search Ji Shen" Volume 14: "When Emperor Ling of Han Dynasty was the mother of Jiangxia Huang Zhi, she took a bath in the water for a long time, but she couldn't bear it and became a giant. The servant girl was frightened to leave, and she came to the abyss more than her family. Later, it appeared from time to time, and the first bathing hairpin was a silver hairpin, or it was in the first place. So Huang doesn't eat meat all his life. " This is called "melting catfish". The same volume also contains: "Wei Huang junior high school, the mother of Song Shizong, took a bath in the bathroom in summer, sent his family to check the size, and stayed alone in the room for a long time. The family didn't understand what it meant. They peeked through the wall, but they didn't see the human body. They saw a chinemys reevesii in the basin. I opened an account and learned my size. I didn't inherit anyone else. I tasted the silver hairpin first and it's still on my head. " Also known as "turtle changing". However, it makes sense to "turn catfish" and "turn turtle". "Cows mourn for tigers", which happened in Huainanzi Zhenguan: "In the past, cows mourned for illness and turned into tigers in seven days. When their brothers entered the house, they killed them in a desperate battle. So the article has become a beast, a slave has changed, the will and mind have changed, and spiritual metaphysics has changed. It is a tiger, but I don't know how it tastes. He is a man, but he is a tiger. The metabolism of the two is rampant, and each enjoys its success. " "Gao Yunyun notes:" Between the Yangtze River and Huaihe River, the ox family is easy to become a tiger ". If so, the cow is named after it, and the funeral is named after it. Those who cite this matter in later generations are often called "Niu Ai". For example, "Nine Dialectics of Hong Guangming Ji Fa Lin" (volume 13) notes: "The cow mourns its illness and becomes a tiger, but eats its brother. "There is also a cloud on the volume of" Unique Episode ","In March, the cow mourned the disease and turned into a tiger ". Brahma's poem says that "the cow mourns the tiger" is exactly what attracts the cow to mourn. In four short poems, the theory of materialization in the secular world is skillfully combined with the metaphor of flower in stone poems to promote the theory of karma reincarnation. Although the interests are quite different, the truth of "impermanence of things" and "impermanence of people" is still the same. As "Biography of Northern History Li Shiqian" said: "If the gun is a yellow bear, the empty space is a thrush, the king is a dragon, the cow is a beast, the gentleman is a stork, the villain is an ape, an elephant, a wishful dog, the yellow mother is an owl, and Wu Xuan. It can also be used as a reference for understanding this poem.
The last four sentences of the poem: "If you don't remember your present job, you'd better know your past career." ? If life and death change, if a person is a teacher? "This is the argument that the poet draws from the examples of" Huang Mu "and" Niu Ai ",which can be put forward in interrogative sentences, which can better serve as a reference. According to Buddhism, this life is the retribution of good and evil in the previous life. I advise good men to believe in women. If you don't seriously think about what you have done in this life, how can you know the karma you created in your last life? Since life and death are transformed in this way, how can people tell which is the master? This reveals the theme of the metaphor of "flower-like", that is, the changes caused by karma are different, which is uncertain and cannot be rigidly adhered to.
Although the whole poem is intended to illustrate Buddhist philosophy, the image is vivid and appropriate, the language is concise and easy to understand, making it concise and clear, without any difficulty and obscurity.