“It’s ridiculous for an ant to shake a big tree, but it’s ridiculous for it to overestimate its own capabilities.”
The poet wrote about those frivolous young people who tried to slander Li and Du: "It's ridiculous to think that a small worm can shake a big tree!" The metaphor is appropriate and the image is new. Later generations refined it into an idiom, which has long been known to every household . In the poem, magnificent flames, giant swords grinding the sky, loud noises in the universe, Mount Tai, long whales and other magnificent things are all used as metaphors to fully realize the majestic momentum and strange realm of the poem. Performance.
It comes from "Tiao Zhang Ji" written by Han Yu, a litterateur in the Tang Dynasty.
Excerpt from the original text:
"Tiao Zhang Ji" by Han Yu of the Tang Dynasty.
Li Du’s article is as bright as ever.
I don’t know how stupid the crowd is, so I will slander them.
It is ridiculous to think that an earthworm shakes a big tree.
When Yiwo gave birth to him, he raised his neck and looked at each other from a distance.
Dreams are common at night, and thoughts during the day are vague.
Translation:
The coexistence of Li Bai's and Du Fu's articles is like a ray of light illuminating the poetry world.
But I don’t know how the frivolous literati are ignorant and can use old slanderous words to slander them.
Just like the ants trying to shake the tree, it's ridiculous that they don't estimate themselves.
Although I live after Li Du, I often remember and admire them.
I often dream about them at night, but when I wake up I think about them vaguely.
Appreciation of "Tiao Zhang Ji"
This poem enthusiastically praises the poetry of Li Bai and Du Fu, the poets of the Tang Dynasty, showing the author's high admiration for them. The whole poem is magnificent and unbridled, full of fantasy and fantasy about exploring into the secluded world. The poems and prose are like the mighty Yangtze River, flowing straight down, twisting and twisting, splashing and pouring, and changing in all kinds of ways, producing a shocking and dizzying effect.
The poetic achievements of Li Bai and Du Fu were often not taken seriously in the mid-Tang Dynasty when Wang, Meng, Yuan and Bai poetry styles were prevalent, and were even derogated by some people. In this poem, Han Yu enthusiastically praised the poems of Li Bai and Du Fu, showing his high admiration. In terms of evaluation of Li and Du's poems, Han Yu was much better than his contemporaries.
The above content refers to Baidu Encyclopedia-Tiao Zhang Ji