Mingqianfu
Tomorrow after tomorrow, there are so many tomorrows.
Tomorrow will never come.
Worried that tomorrow, the world will go to Qiu Lai as a veteran in spring.
Watch the water flow eastward and the sunset at dusk.
What will tomorrow be like in a hundred years? Please listen to my song tomorrow.
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Always waiting for tomorrow, tomorrow tomorrow, how many tomorrows!
Waiting for tomorrow every day, but doing nothing, wasting time.
If the world suffers from "tomorrow" like me, it will soon find itself old as the days go by.
Only by living in the present can we appreciate the joy of watching the river flow eastward in the morning and the sunset in the evening.
A hundred years tomorrow, how much can there be? Please listen to my song tomorrow, don't waste today's time.
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Writing background
Qian Fu, the author of Song of Tomorrow, is a freak. He especially likes drinking, and he also likes to be "drunk crazy". He often scolds others by drinking too much wine, so that many people don't like him. But he is brave. Not only is his character good, but Qian Fu's poems are also famous. He was a child prodigy and could write articles at the age of seven. Later, the champion and the official went to the Hanlin Academy to write, and the poetry was contemporary. But only three years later, Qian Fu was tired of official life. Stop being an official under the guise of being seriously ill. Although he was notoriously talented and enjoyed his job, Qian Fu never relaxed his demands on himself, but studied harder. Song of Tomorrow is his spur and request to himself.
This poem was included in the Riverbank Draft (an engraving by Shen Simeiju in the thirty-sixth year of Wanli in the Ming Dynasty), and was once mistaken for Qian Fu's imitation of Wen Jia's "Today's Song".