Author: Yu Qian
From "Guanshu" written by Yu Qian in the Ming Dynasty
The book is as sentimental as an old friend, with joy and sorrow in the morning and dusk.
There are three thousand words in front of my eyes, and there is not a speck of dust in my chest.
The source of living water is everywhere, and the east wind brings new flowers and willows every time.
The golden saddle and jade are looking for a beautiful guest. If you don’t believe that there will be no spring in our house.
Appreciation
This poem praises the benefits of books and describes the joy of reading. The author Yu Qian is a famous national hero and poet in the Ming Dynasty. He is upright by nature and knowledgeable. His spirit of diligent study and hard training is as famous as his high integrity. This poem describes the poet's personal experience and expresses his love for reading. It has an elegant taste, a straightforward style, and a reasoning image, which is quite contagious.
The first couplet of the poem uses personification to compare the scroll to a sentimental old friend, who stays with him from morning to night every day, showing sorrow and excitement, vividly showing that the poet is tireless in reading and Have fun doing it. The chin couplet uses exaggeration and metaphor to describe the poet's reading mood. Three thousand words were scanned at a glance, which is not an exact number, but it is an expression of how quickly he read, and it also shows the poet's eagerness to read. There is no dust in the chest, which means that there is no distracting thoughts in the chest. These two lines of poems make the poet concentrate on his studies, and his mood of being fascinated by reading comes to life on the page. They also reveal a method of reading. The neck couplet uses allusions and natural scenes to illustrate the benefits of diligent reading and express the poet's perseverance. The living water sentence is adapted from the sentence "Ask the canal how clear it is, it means there is living water coming from the source" in Zhu Xi's "Looking at the Book", which means that if you insist on reading regularly, you will be like a pond constantly filled with living water, constantly getting new nutrients, and always clear. . The sentence "East Wind" means diligent study and continuous growth of new knowledge, just like the east wind urges flowers to bloom and dyes willow branches green, coming one after another, and its fun is refreshing
. The last couplet is contrasted with the noble son, showing the beautiful scenery of the scholar's study like spring all year round.
Reading can help you understand things, appreciate the scenery, observe history, and appreciate people. It can be said that you can think for thousands of years and see thousands of miles. How can this beautiful state of emotion be appreciated by idle people who are bored with things?