The original text is as follows
Flowers can't bloom, and independent fences are not poor.
It is better to hold incense in the branches and wait for death than to blow it into the north wind.
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Zheng Sixiao's poem painting chrysanthemums is different from other poems praising chrysanthemums. It expresses the poet's life experience and ideal pursuit, and is a chrysanthemum poem with specific life connotation.
Zheng Sixiao, a student in imperial academy at the end of the Southern Song Dynasty, once took an examination of erudition and macro-speech. Yuan army south, Zheng Sixiao care about the country and the people. He went directly to protest and criticize the enemy's plan, but he was rejected. Zheng Sixiao was saddened, living alone in Suzhou, and never married. After the death of the Song Dynasty, the word Weng was changed, and the name South was used to show that he did not forget his motherland. He also named his living room "Dongtian World", combined the characters by spelling, and put the "ten" of the word "Ben" in "Dongtian", meaning the word "Da Song". He was good at drawing orchids, but he didn't even draw soil when he painted orchids after the death of Song Dynasty. People asked him why, and he replied, "You don't know yet?" Zheng Sixiao's self-excited moral integrity makes people cry! He praised chrysanthemums as a metaphor, and this painting of chrysanthemums poured his blood, tears and life!
Brief introduction of the author
Zheng Sixiao (1241~1318), a poet and painter, was born in Lianjiang (now Fujian). Originally unknown, it was renamed after the death of Song Dynasty, because it was a part of Zhao in Song Dynasty. Recalling the word Weng means not forgetting the old country; No.3 is in the south, sitting and lying down every day, facing south and north. He also claimed to be a descendant of the giant mountain, a poet in Ding Jing, a savage in Sanwai and an old lady in Sanwai. I once tried to give up my life in business school to become knowledgeable. When the Yuan army invaded the south, it offered a defense strategy to the court, which was not adopted. The guest lived in Wuxia and sent the food to Guobao Temple.