Original poem:
Poems in Wei and Jin Dynasties: Tao Yuanming
Life without a base is like the dust of the road.
Life blowing in the wind, the body has gone through hardships, and it is not what it used to be.
When the world is brothers, why do brothers of their own brothers want to date each other?
When you meet a pleasure, you should be happy, and you should invite your neighbors to drink.
Once the youth is gone, it will never come again, and you will never see the arrival of the next day.
It's time for people to encourage themselves when they reach middle age. Time goes by and waits for no one.
Explanation:
Life has no roots in the world and drifts like dust on the road.
Life blowing in the wind, this body has gone through hardships and is no longer what it used to be.
The whole world wants to be brothers, why do biological brothers want to date each other?
When you are happy, you should be happy. If you have wine, you should invite your neighbors to drink it.
Once youth is gone, it is impossible to come back and never see the next day.
We should encourage ourselves in our prime. Time goes by and waits for no one.
Precautions:
1, pedicel (d √): Guadang, fruit nose, flowers and branches are all called pedicels. Mo: The Tao of things refers to Tao in general here.
2, this: refers to this body. Extraordinary body: it is not a permanent body, that is, it is no longer a mature body.
3, landing: just born.
4, barrel: wine. Neighbor: Close neighbor.
5. prime: prime.
6. Timely: In the prime of life.
About the author:
Tao Yuanming (352 or 365-427), also known as "Jingjie", was born in Xunyang Chaisang (now Jiujiang City, Jiangxi Province). A great poet and poet at the end of Eastern Jin Dynasty and the beginning of Southern Song Dynasty.
Extended data:
Tao Yuanming has twelve Miscellaneous Poems, and this is the first one. Mr. Yao Yao thinks that the first eight songs are "consistent in words and deeds" and regarded as the same year. According to the meaning of his six sentences "fifty years later, I suddenly kissed this matter", it was proved that it was written in AD 4 14 (the tenth year of Jin 'an Emperor Yi Xi). At that time, Tao Yuanming was fifty years old and it had been eight years since he resigned and returned to the field.
Although Tao Yuanming's ambition is "to be ambitious and escape all over the world", he was born around the Jin, Song and Yi Dynasties when politics was dark, wars were frequent, the country was restless, and people were in poverty. Forced by his livelihood, he retired several times and lived in contradiction and pain. Finally, at the age of forty-one, he resigned and returned to the field, no longer being an official.
Such a world and such an experience made him feel uncertain and uncertain about life. Although in his reclusive poems, readers can feel his broad-minded and detached ambition and his peaceful and diluted feelings, in his heart, there is an disillusioned loss and an illusory despair of life.
But after all, he didn't completely give up his beautiful life ideal. He turned to nature outside the officialdom to seek beauty, and turned to rural life outside his official career to seek spiritual pleasure, which was plain, harmonious, clear and simple. "Fighting for wine and gathering neighbors" is a portrayal of this happiness in Tao Yuanming's poems, and this scene is also described from time to time in Tao Yuanming's poems.
"absolute beauty will never look back" is often quoted to encourage young people to seize opportunities, cherish time, study hard and make continuous progress. Today, it is not unreasonable for ordinary readers to understand these four poems. But Tao Yuanming's original intention is quite different from this, which is to encourage people to eat, drink and be merry in time.
Since life is so short, life is so unpredictable, society is so dark, and happiness is so hard to find, don't miss the little happiness that you can occasionally find in life, seize it in time and enjoy it.
This idea of "eating, drinking and having fun" must be examined under the specific historical conditions at that time. "In essence, it marks an awakening of mankind, that is, under the condition of doubting and denying the old traditional standards and belief values, people rediscover, think, grasp and pursue their own lives, meanings and destiny. Tao Yuanming found pure beauty in nature, simple interpersonal relationship in rural life and self-worth in rural labor.
When this poem was written, it lamented that fate could not be grasped, which made people feel confused and sad to read. Then, it aroused a little bit, and the poet persistently sought friendship, joy and a glimmer of hope in life. The last one is impassioned and makes people excited. The language of the whole poem is unpretentious, the metaphor is ordinary, and the quality is rough as jade, but the connotation is extremely rich, undulating and thought-provoking.
Baidu Encyclopedia-Miscellaneous Poems (Poems by Tao Yuanming)
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