"Poetry of Lime" is a poem expressing ambition by Yu Qian, a poet in the Ming Dynasty. Yu Qian is a national hero and an honest and upright official.
The author uses lime as a metaphor to express his strong and unyielding qualities, leading an honest and clean life, and his dissimilarity. After hammering into the deep mountains for thousands of times, the blazing fire is as usual. Even if it is smashed to pieces, why are you afraid? Just to keep a piece of blue and white (as clear as the color of a stone, now it is often used as "innocence") in the world.
Lime songs
[ Ming] Yu Qian
The original text
Thousands of hammers have been hewn out of the mountains, and the fire is burning if it is idle.
I'm not afraid of broken bones. I want to leave my innocence in the world.
translation
(Limestone) can only be mined from the deep mountains after being hammered for thousands of times, and it regards burning with raging fire as a very common thing.
I am not afraid even if I am shattered, and I am willing to leave my innocence in the world.