Original poem:
Limestone hymn
Author: Yu Qian (Ming Dynasty)
Thousands of hammers cut deep mountains, and the fire burns like a long time;
Don't be afraid of being smashed to pieces, leaving innocence in the world.
Translation and annotation:
(1)) translation
(Limestone) can only be mined from the deep mountains after thousands of hammering. It regards the burning of blazing fire as a very common thing.
Even if it is shattered, it is not afraid. It is willing to leave a clean body in the world.
(2) Precautions
1. Lime hymn: Praise the lime. Chant: chant. It refers to a name of ancient song genre (a form of ancient poetry).
2. Hammer Digging: Numerous hammer digs describe that it is very difficult to mine lime. One thousand, ten thousand: function words, describing a lot. Hammer: Hammer. Chisel: to cut.
3. If you are free: This seems very common. If: as if, as if; Leisure: normal and relaxed.
4. Xiongnu: All of them.
5. Innocence: refers to the pure white color of lime, and also refers to noble moral integrity. Humans: Humans.
Brief analysis:
Lyrics of Lyme is a poem that expresses feelings with objects. The writer is Yu Qian, a poet in Ming Dynasty. Yu Qian is a national hero and an honest official who enjoys equal fame with Yue Fei.
The author uses lime as a metaphor to express his strong and unyielding quality, lead an honest and clean life and his inadaptability. After hammering into the mountains for thousands of times, the fire is still there. Even if it's smashed to pieces, why be afraid? Just to keep a piece of blue and white in the world (as clear as the color of a stone, now often used as "innocence").