"Nothing is a scholar" comes from Huang Jingren's seven-character poem "Miscellaneous Feeling" in Qing Dynasty. The whole poem is as follows:
The immortal Buddha didn't make it, only knowing that the night was uneven. The wind shed is full of sad songs, and the mud is stained with poverty and happiness.
Nine out of ten people are contemptible, but none of them is a scholar. Don't worry about poetry. Spring birds and autumn insects make their own voices.
Vernacular translation:
The road to immortality is slim, and they can't succeed. They can only write poems alone at night to express their grievances. The wandering and lonely life killed the impassioned spirit in the poet's poems. People who have no frivolous thoughts about women have gained the reputation of being heartbroken.
Nine out of ten people can look at each other with dirty eyes, and the most useless one is the scholar. Don't worry that your sad poems will be a good or bad prediction. Birds in spring and insects in autumn all make their own sounds.
Extended data
First, the creative background
Miscellaneous feelings was written by the poet around the thirty-third year of Qianlong (AD 1768). At that time, the poet was twenty years old and liked to write sad words in his poems. His friends advised him that "lamenting poetry is not a good prophecy", and the poet Shao couldn't bear to watch his disciples lament, making him ill and exhorting him again and again. The poet is deeply grateful to his teacher, but he can't give up injustice.
Two. Brief introduction of the author
Huang Jingren (1February 20th, 749-1May 25th, 783), a descendant of Huang Tingjian, a poet in the Song Dynasty, was a poet in the Qing Dynasty.
Huang Jingren is four years old and lonely. His family is poor. When he was a teenager, he had a famous poem. In the thirty-first year of Qianlong (1766), he began to travel around for a living and was poor all his life. Forty-six years (178 1), Gan Long Ren Xiancheng, died in forty-eight years (1783).
The name of the poem is widely spread, and it is called "the second master" with Wang Tan and "the second master" with Hong. As one of the seven sons of Piling, Li Bai, a poet, expressed his feelings of poverty and loneliness, but also had a cynical chapter. Seven-character poems are very distinctive and can also be written. He is the author of two parties, Xuan Ji and Li Xiyin.
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