To understand a poem, we should first understand the writing background. Yuan Shikai doesn't need to introduce himself. There is a popular saying on the Internet that this poem was written by Yuan Shikai after tianjin railway station 1895. Because he was afraid of Yuan Shikai's rebellion, he was sent home for illness at Li Hongzhang's suggestion and was monitored. Yuan Shikai can only hide his strength and bide his time to write these two poems. In fact, this statement is not worth refuting. Yuan Shikai's training of the new army in tianjin railway station was a turning point in his career and another peak in his life after he became the governor of North Korea. During this period, Yuan Shikai lived in front of the world as a "hardcore loyal minister and mainstay" of the Qing court. Moreover, after the small station training, it soared and the official position climbed all the way. The real setback in writing this poem was after 1908. Guangxu and Cixi died one after another, and Xuan Tong succeeded to the throne. His father, Zai Feng, became the Regent, and Zai Feng supported the reformists. He didn't like Yuan Shikai's previous actions and suspected that the failure of the reformists was due to Yuan Shikai's informer, so he hated Yuan Shikai's guts. As soon as he came to power, he let Yuan Shikai go home to play. Yuan Shikai was very depressed. At this time, he wrote these two poems, and even took photos of himself fishing by boat in the country, and then published them in the then Oriental Magazine. Let the students who care about him know that Lao Yuan is honest and comfortable at home and likes fishing very much, so he won't think about it any more. However, it was actually shattered glass that wrote poems and took pictures, and everyone saw it. Knowing the background, it is easy to understand these two poems of Lao Yuan.
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Life experience is bleak and worry-free.
It doesn't matter if you have no money. Anyway, you have nothing, so you don't have to worry about anything, and you don't have to be stolen and recorded.
It's just that in rainy weather, hemp fibers and hats are neatly dressed and rowed with small fishing boats to go fishing.
Fishing line holds Polygonum multiflorum Thunb all day, and the best friend alliance is only Bai Ou.
Anyway, the fishing day is very happy, close to nature, the fishing line is tied to Polygonum multiflorum, and there is no bird person next to it;
As for me, I don't have any friends. If there is, it may be Bai Ou flying around on the water.
There are gains and losses in feeding bait, and there are grievances in swallowing fishing.
Of course, fishing needs bait, but I don't care if I can catch fish. Anyway, I just pretend to have fun while fishing.
But some stupid fish have to bite the hook. Although I didn't mean to, of course I hurt them.
Recalling how many things happened in the Central Plains, Lao Tzu must laugh.
Looking back on those messy things in the past, most of them are like this. I didn't do many bad things, and I was forced to do my job honestly, but because it was annoying, what could I do, just like those stupid fish who took the bait themselves; Laugh at my beard.
Secondly,
Worrying about the general manager for a hundred years is hard to pay for.
Anyway, I have a lot on my mind for so many years, and my ambition is hard to pay! Ambition is hard to show! There is no way to serve the country!
The wild old man has a soldier's armor on his chest and a little prince in his eyes.
How many military strategies do I have in my old man's mind? Under the nose of this old fisherman, even if you are a prince, I despise you, despise you, nothing like me.
Thought there was no rock in the world, and lamented the lack of China.
Looking at the present situation, I feel that there is really nothing as hard as a stone in this world. Now great rivers and mountains, lack of gold Europe, broken here and there, stormy.
After the end of the world, a cigarette, a rain hat and a fishing boat.
But what can I do? The world is so chaotic, but I am such a powerful person that I can only load fish here. If I go out, I can save the day (unfortunately, no one understands me and listens to me), so I can only travel around the world with long hair, with a small fishing boat and a hat beside me. Hey, let's fish honestly! What the world looks like is none of my business.
PS: 19 1 1 After the Wuchang Uprising, Yuan Shikai was re-employed, first as the Prime Minister of the Cabinet, then as the interim president, and finally as the emperor, and was "scolded to death". Poetically speaking, it's good. Full of artistic conception, if it really became an ancestor, then this poem would not be so cold and cheerless, and it must be much more famous than it is now.
Two portraits of fishing boats named after themselves
Life experience is bleak and worry-free.
Fishing line holds Polygonum multiflorum Thunb all day, and the best friend alliance is only Bai Ou.
There are gains and losses in feeding bait, and there are grievances in swallowing fishing.
Recalling how many things happened in the Central Plains, Lao Tzu must laugh.
Worrying about the general manager for a hundred years is hard to pay for.
The wild old man has a soldier's armor on his chest and a little prince in his eyes.
Thought there was no rock in the world, and lamented the lack of China.
After the end of the world, a cigarette, a rain hat and a fishing boat.