What is the original text of "Teardrops and Pearls"?
The English textbook I took when I was a freshman in high school was Alcod's "Little Women". I read two sentences from Mrs. March to her daughters: "The eyes are healed by the more tears they shed." During the Qingming Festival, the heart becomes warmer due to suffering." The whole class read it again and again, and felt that it was infinitely enlightening. In fact, our girlish feelings at that time did not realize any worries. We just loved the beauty of literary sentences themselves.
Another time, when I read Xie Bingxin’s prose, I admired “the green hills after the rain, like a conscience washed by tears.” I think her metaphor is really fresh and lively. I remember the Chinese language teacher specifically explained: "The green hills after the rain have colors and images, but conscience is intangible and invisible. The clever author uses the abstract conscience to compare the concrete green hills. It's really It's wonderful." After the teacher woke up, we tried to find examples of concrete and abstract contrasts in the poems. We found it very interesting and felt that we had gained an extra level of understanding in the description of the composition.
A girl who knows no sorrow always writes poems about tears and sorrow. I saw the poem in Bai Juyi's New Yuefu: "Don't dye plain silk with red, just to praise the color. I have a pair of teardrops, and I know you can't wear them. Don't get close to the fire, the heat will overwhelm you." Everyone liked it and turned around. back. The teacher said: "Although Bai Juyi's metaphor is clever, it is not as good as Du Fu's four-line poem. It is realistic, but more profound and painful, and the state is particularly high. That is, 'Don't let your tears dry up, and accept your tears. When your eyes are dry, you will see your bones.'" , the world is always ruthless. '"
He asked us again: "The tears are rolling down, how can they flow horizontally?" I answered first: "Because the old man's face is full of wrinkles, so the tears are flowing. It just flowed along the wrinkles..." Everyone laughed after hearing this, and the teacher nodded and said with a smile: "As long as you understand, how many people can understand the sadness of old tears?"
Life is inevitable. Only after experiencing the sorrow and sorrow can we understand the sorrow of Mr. Du's "eyes are dry and his bones are visible". Nowadays, the policies on both sides of the Taiwan Strait are opening up. In the rush of returning home to visit relatives, it is a great blessing to be able to reunite with family members, hug each other, let the tears flow, and express the frustration of decades of separation. Perhaps what is even more sad is that the homes are deserted, the tombs are hard to find, and the neighbors are all covered in dust and their temples are like frost. Then we have to sigh, "Don't return to your hometown before you are old. Returning to your hometown requires breaking your heart." This is why there are so many tears in the literature about visiting relatives!
Speaking of "dry eyes", half of them are also a physiological phenomenon of the elderly. The man who has always claimed that "a man will not shed tears easily" now has to seek help from an ophthalmologist for the help of "artificial tears". Moisturizes dry eyeballs. It's really sad that I can't get it but shed tears when I want it.
I remember that when my son was young, I often shed tears because of his stubbornness and lack of energy. My son also asked strangely: "Mom, why are you crying?" His father said: "Mom is not crying; If a grain of sand falls into her eyes, she must wash it out with tears. "The child foolishly touched my tear-stained face. How did he know that he was the grain of sand?
Thinking about the naughty and mischievous things I did when I was a child, how could they not be the tear-jerking sand in my mother’s eyes?
When sand enters the eyes, it must be washed out with tears. No wonder Alcord said that "eyes become clearer because of more tears."
Remember there are two poems that say: "Are the trembling dewdrops on the rose petals the tears of angels?" It's so beautiful to imagine. However, I still remember the story made by the Arab poet: "The tears of the angel fell into the body of the oyster that was opening its shell to admire the moon, and turned into a pearl." In fact, in order to expel the sand in the body, the oyster secretes liquid and surrounds the sand. When it rises, it forms a round pearl. This shows how hard life is in the process of struggle! Is this pearl not the teardrop of an oyster?
I recently heard from a painter about a famous painting of the Lingnan School, which shows a weeping Guanyin sitting on a rock in the mountains. He explained that because of the compassionate Guanyin, she was willing to bear all the pain and sins for the world, so she kept crying.
Tears are shed not for one’s own sorrow but for all living beings. The compassion of the Buddha cannot but make people shed tears of gratitude.
When Christians pray devoutly, they think of the scene when Jesus was nailed to the cross and shed blood and died to bear the sins of the world. Believers often shed tears of gratitude and communicated with each other. At that time, their grateful hearts were the purest and most sincere.
This is the state that Orcod said, "The more tears you shed, the clearer you become"!