This sentence comes from Li Yong written by Li Bai, a poet in the Tang Dynasty. The whole poem is as follows:
Dapeng rises with the wind one day and soars into Wan Li. If the wind weakens, it can still lift away the turbulent current. When the world saw my unchanging tone, it sneered at all my big words. Fu Xuan can still fear the afterlife, but her husband can't be young.
Translation:
One day, the Dapeng bird will fly with the wind and go straight out of the clouds for nine days. When the wind stopped, Da Pengfei came down and raised the water in the river and sea. People in the world will always sneer at me when they see my high-profile singing. Confucius once said, "It's terrible to be born late. I don't know if I'm here now." A gentleman, you can't despise young people.
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Appreciate:
Dapeng bird is a symbol of freedom and an ideal totem in Zhuangzi's philosophy. Li Bai was ambitious and arrogant when he was young, and was deeply influenced by Taoist philosophy. He is full of romantic fantasies and grand ambitions. Dapeng is an image often used in Li Bai's poems.
In the first four lines, the poet outlined the image of Dapeng sweeping the sea-the young poet himself.
The last four lines of the poem are a response to Li Yong's neglect: "The world" refers to the ordinary people at that time, obviously including Li Yong. Because this poem is written directly to Li Yong, its wording is euphemistic and it only criticizes the "world" on the surface.
Obviously, Li Bai didn't think that a celebrity like Li Yong would have the same understanding as ordinary people, so he postponed the story that saints knew young people.