Appreciation of the ancient prose "Tracing Back to Xi Ci"

When Tao Yuanming bid farewell to Peng's home in the first year of Emperor Yi of Jin 'an (AD 405), it was divided into preface and ci, which was a stylistic name similar to Fu. The preface explains the reasons why I left my job and resigned myself. The word expresses the determination to return to the field, the happy mood and fun after returning to the field. Next, let's read the ancient prose appreciation of Gui Xi Ci. Welcome to read!

original text

Go back and say goodbye.

Author: Tao Yuanming

Foreword:

Everyone else in the family is poor, and farming is not enough to support themselves (1). Naive and full of room, no millet in the bottle (2), raw materials, no skills (3). My closest relatives and friends advised me to be an officer (4), but I was pregnant (5), and I urgently asked for it (6). There will be four things (7), princes (8) take love as virtue, and uncles (9) are poor, so I see that (10) is used in filial piety. The storm (1 1) is still going, so I'm afraid to go far (12). Peng Ze (13) went home for a hundred miles, full of wine and food. So I asked for it. And after a few days, I have a feeling of returning to China as soon as possible (14). He Ze (15)? Nature is nature, and it cannot be obtained by correction (16). Although you are hungry and cold, it is not good for your health (17). Try to follow the personnel (18), they are all self-employed (19). So disappointed (20) generous, deeply ashamed of the ambition of life. Still hope for one yard (2 1), take clothes and die overnight (22). Sung Hoon's sister died in Wuchang (23) and fell in love with Junben (24), so she was dismissed. Mid-Autumn Festival (25th) lasts for more than 80 days in winter. Because things are going well (26), the life chapter is called "Back to Xi". B four years old (27) 1 1 month.

Text:

Come back! Will the countryside destroy Hu Bugui? Since the heart is the form of service, isn't it sad? People who can catch up without admonishing the past; Not far from being lost, I feel that today is not yesterday. The ship is far away and the wind is blowing. Asking for directions, ex-husband, hate dawn.

It looks forward to Yu Heng and runs with joy. Servants are welcome and children are waiting for the door. The three paths are barren, and the pine chrysanthemum still exists. Bring children into the room, there will be wine bottles. Lead the pot to think for yourself and make the court happy. Leaning against the south window to send lofty sentiments, judge your knees to be comfortable. Garden Day includes fun, although the door is fixed and often closed. Help the old man to rest, and correct his head if he goes far. Clouds come out of holes unintentionally, and birds don't know when to fly. The scenery is coming, lonely and lingering.

Come back! Please rest assured that you will never travel. The world is against me, what can I ask for? Please love words from relatives, play music and read books to eliminate worries. The farmer told Yu Yichun that he wanted to do something with Xichou. Or a towel cart, or a boat This is not only a gentle and elegant road to find ravines, but also a rugged road through hills. Wood is thriving and spring is blooming. When everything is fine, I feel that my journey of life is over. ? I don't hold grudges anymore! How long will you live in the apartment? What does Hu Wei want? Wealth is not my wish, and the emperor's hometown cannot be expected. When you are pregnant, you can go alone or plant a stick. Deng and He Lin wrote poems together. Chatting until the end, Loew's fate is ridiculous!

-Selected from the printed edition of Tao Yuanming Collection by Zhonghua Book Company.

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Foreword notes:

(1) Farming is not enough for self-sufficiency. Planting: Planting mulberry trees. To: Come. Give: supply.

(2) Innocence is full of room, and there is no millet in the bottle: innocence: refers to children. English: I'm full. Bottle: refers to ceramic containers for rice, such as [bèng] and urn.

(3) Life is what you have, but you haven't seen it: life is what you say to make a living. The word "raw" in front is

Verb followed by the word "sheng" as a noun. Endowment: by virtue. Skills: This refers to the ability to make a living.

(4) Chief: a county official with a higher position. Refers to a small official.

(5) detachment: a brisk look. Pregnancy: I have some ideas (referring to the idea of being an official).

(6) Road: There is no road.

(7) There will be four things: things that happen to be sent to other places. Yes: it coincides with mine. Sifang: It means going anywhere.

(8) vassal: refers to the county chief.

(9) Jia Shu: refers to Tao Kui, that is, Tai Changqing at that time. I: because.

(10) See: Bei.

(1 1) storm: refers to the melee between warlords. Jing: Ping.

(12) fear: fear. Service: service.

(13) Pengze: County name. In today's east of Hukou County, Jiangxi Province.

(14) As soon as possible: the appearance of attachment. The feeling of going home: the feeling of going back.

(15) Ho: What? Then: the truth.

(16) Qualitative: nature. Correction: People are forced.

(17) cut: urgent. Against yourself: against your heart. Disease: refers to mental pain.

(18) Taste: Once. From personnel: engaged in personnel exchanges in the official career. Refers to an official.

(19) self-help: drive your own car to meet your needs.

(20) disappointment: frustration.

(2 1) Jude: Still. Hope: expectation. One barnyard [rūn]: the field gains once. The grain is ripe.

(22) folding clothes: tidy up. Night: starry night. Death: Leave.

(23) Search: Soon. Sister Cheng: Marry the sister of the Cheng family. Wuchang: Sun Yicheng County, Hubei Province.

(24) feelings: the mood of mourning. Now: I like it. Junben: I'm in a hurry to attend the funeral.

(25) Mid-Autumn Festival: August of the lunar calendar.

(26) Matters: Resignation. Shun: smooth. Heart: Wish.

(27) Yisi years old: the first year of Yi Xi, Emperor of Jin 'an.

Text note:

(1) Back to Xi: It means "go back". Please, auxiliary words, nonsense. Hey, modal particles.

(2) The countryside in Hu Bugui will be destroyed: the countryside will be deserted, so why not go back? Hu, with "he".

(3) Serving the mind in the form: Let the mind serve the form. I didn't want to be an official, but in order to avoid hunger and cold, I became an official against my original intention. Heart, will. Shape, shape, refers to the body. Slavery, slavery.

(4) Xi's loneliness and sadness: Why sadness and depression. A melancholy and depressed look.

(5) Realizing the past without remonstrating: Realizing that what you did wrong in the past (pointing out the official position) can't be corrected. Protest, protest, dissuade.

(6) those who know can trace back: knowing the future (referring to seclusion) can still be saved. Chase, save and remedy.

(7) Reality: Indeed. Get lost: be an official. Qi: Probably.

(8) Yes: Correct. True or false: wrong.

(9) The ship is far away [yáng]: The ship floats gently on the water. Far away, swaying. Yes, and ... Embarrassed and flying, it describes the way the ship sails briskly.

(10) conscripts: pedestrians, not conscripts. So the same is true of the following article: "Farmers sue Yichun and". Front: front.

(1 1) hate dawn: it's a pity that it just lit up. Hate: regret. Dawn, dusk, the sky is not bright.

(12) I fought against the constant and ran with joy: I saw my house and ran with joy. Look ahead, see far away. Yu Heng, a humble house.

Baby: baby.

(14) The third path is deserted, but Songju is still there: the path in the yard is almost deserted, and Songju is still growing there. Mitsui, Nakahiro II. After Jiang () lived in seclusion in the Han Dynasty, he opened three paths under the bamboo in the yard and had few friends. Later generations used "three paths" to refer to the residence of hermits. Just, close.

(15) Young Zun: Full glass.

(16) Quote: Bring it. Hey [shāng]. Looking at the trees in the yard, I feel very happy. Look sideways. It means "look around" here. Ke, zhi. To: For the sake of. Yi Yan makes this face look happy.

(17) Entrust pride: Entrust pride and complacency. Pride means pride in the world.

I feel comfortable living in a humble hut. Check, feel. A hut that can only accommodate knees is extremely narrow.

(19) It's fun to attend the garden party: it's a pleasure to walk in the garden every day. Get involved, get involved, move towards.

(20) Help the elderly to rest [Qi]: Go out for a walk with crutches and rest anytime and anywhere. Policy, tilt. Help the old and take care of the young. Rest, rest. Rest, swimming, that is, there is no fixed place, walking around to have a rest.

(2 1) Keep your head straight and look far: always raise your head and look far. Correct. Lift it up. Far away, far away

(22) Clouds come out of the hole unintentionally [show]: Clouds come out of the mountain naturally. Unintentionally. A cave, a mountain with caves, here refers to a mountain peak.

(23) the scenery is getting dark [y]: the sun is dim and the sun is about to set. Scenery, sunshine. Mimi has a gloomy face.

(24) Wandering with solitude: Wandering with solitude. Wander: Wander, wander, wander, wander.

Please stop making friends, stop making friends. Means no longer have anything to do with officialdom.

(26) The world is at odds with me, and I have nothing to ask: the world is at odds with what I think, so what can I try to explore? Driving, driving, here refers to driving out to pursue what you want. Words and auxiliaries.

(27) Love words: words of confidence.

(28) Spring and: Spring has arrived.

(29) something will happen in the western region: farming will begin in the fields in the west. Something, refers to farming. Things, here refers to farming. Domain, field.

(30) or life towel car: sometimes called curtain car. A towel cart, a car with curtains. Or, sometimes.

(3 1) or [zhào] single boat: sometimes boating. The original meaning of paddle. Here nouns are used as verbs, meaning to paddle.

(32) Valley search: Go through a deep and tortuous valley. Gentle and graceful, deep and tortuous. Gully gully.

(33) It is also rugged and hilly: cross the rugged mountain road.

(34) Muwang: lush vegetation. Prosperity, prosperity, refers to the lush growth of vegetation.

(35) trickle: the subtle phenomenon of water flow.

When everything is fine, I feel that my life journey is over: I envy everything in nature and grow luxuriantly in spring, lamenting that life is coming to an end. Kindness, joy, envy. Take a rest and it will be over soon.

It's over: forget it! The auxiliary words "one" and "Hu" are used together to strengthen the tone.

How long will you stay in space? How long can you live in this world? Why not obey your own wishes and care about life and death? Morphology and parasitism. Within space, between heaven and earth. Dee, he. Do whatever you want. Whether to stay or not is a matter of life and death.

(39) What does Hu Weiwei want? Why are you distracted? Where do you want to go? Wandering, uneasy. Go ahead, go ahead.

(40) The imperial realm cannot be expected: the fairyland cannot be reached. Dixiang, Xianxiang, the place where immortals live. Stop, hope, achieve.

(4 1) Cherish the good times and go out alone. Be pregnant, miss, cherish. Its beautiful moment refers to spring, when everything is in the season mentioned above. Lonely, go out alone.

(42) Or planting sugarcane to weed: sometimes holding sugarcane to weed and raise seedlings. Plant, stand and keep. Weeding, weeding. Weeding, weeding. Sow seeds and cultivate seedlings.

(43) Climb to [gāo] Relax: climb to the eastern highlands and scream loudly, high, high. A long, clear sound made by smacking. Shu, put it on.

(44) Talk about riding to the end: Just let nature take its course and finish the journey of life. Chat: Let me put it this way. Multiplication changes with the operation of nature. The end: Don't rest until you die. To do means to die.

(45) Loew's fate: What is there to doubt? F: There are many more. Doubt: Doubt.

Vernacular translation

Order:

My family is poor, so I can't farm by myself. There are many children, there is no food in the rice jar, and everything needed to maintain life has not been solved. Most of my relatives and friends advised me to be an official, and I had the same idea in my heart, but I lacked access to officials. Just in time to catch up with the officials who sent envoys, the local officials took love as their virtue, and my uncle was appointed as the official of the small county because his family was poor (trying to help me). At that time, the society was in turmoil, and I dared not go to a distant place to be an official. Pengze county was a hundred miles away from home, and the grain harvested by the farm was enough to make wine, so he asked to go there. After a few days, I began to feel homesick. Why is this? Nature is allowed to be natural, which is reluctant; Although hunger and cold are urgent, it is against the original intention to be an official, and it hurts both physically and mentally. In the past, when I was an official, I always treated myself to dinner. So I am disappointed and deeply ashamed of my life wishes. Wait another year, then pack up and leave overnight. Soon, the younger sister who married the Cheng family died in Wuchang, and she was so anxious that she ran away and demanded dismissal. I have worked for more than 80 days from the second month of autumn to winter. I resigned and got my wish, so I wrote an article entitled "Looking Back". At this time, it was November of the third year of B (the first year of Jin 'an Emperor Yi Xi).

Text:

Go home! The countryside is going to be deserted, why not go back? Since my mind is enslaved by my body, why am I so depressed and sad alone? I regret that my past mistakes are irreparable, but I firmly believe that I can make up for them in the years to come. In fact, I am not far from this road, and I have realized that what I am doing now is right and what I am doing is wrong. The boat floated gently on the water, and the breeze blew the clothes. Asked the pedestrians the way ahead, they only felt that the morning was dim and the sky was not bright.

As soon as I saw my humble home, I galloped forward happily. The servants greeted them happily, and the children waited at the door. The path in the courtyard is overgrown with weeds, and the pines, cypresses and chrysanthemums are still there; As the children entered the room, the wine bottle was full. I picked up the hip flask and poured it myself, looking at the court tree and showing a happy look; Leaning against the south window, I am proud of the world and feel that this small place is easy to make me feel at ease. It is interesting to walk alone in the garden every day. The door of the small garden is often closed. Walking on crutches, always looking up into the distance. White clouds naturally float out of the hole, and tired birds know to fly back to their nests; The sun is dim, and the sun is about to set. I can't bear to leave, and my hands are lonely and loose.

Go home! I want to break up with secular people. Everything about them doesn't suit my interest. What do you want from driving out again? Chatting with old friends in the village makes me happy, and playing the piano and reading can make me sad; The farmer told me that spring was coming, and he was going to farm in the west. Sometimes driving a towel cart, sometimes rowing a boat, we not only have to explore deep valleys, but also walk through rugged hills. Trees are lush and springs are flowing slowly. (1) Envy all living things in nature to grow and prosper in time and lament that their lives are coming to an end.

Forget it! How much time is left in the world? Why not go or stay according to your own mind? Why are you unhappy? Where else do you want to go? Wealth is not what I want, and there is no hope of ascending to heaven. Cherish the beautiful scenery and I will enjoy it alone, or I will help the seedlings grow with crutches. Climbing up the eastern hillside, I screamed at the edge of Qingxi and recited poems; Let's end our life with nature and take pleasure in fate. Hesitate about what?