The tortuous and treacherous Yellow River is a difficult and bumpy political road for Liu Yuxi. The river is wrapped in wild sand, and it is a group of little people who are making waves in the morning. However, although Liu Yuxi has been demoted repeatedly, he is not discouraged or depressed. Instead, he compared himself to real gold washed away by the Yellow River.
Even in a difficult situation, I can still glow with the wonderful feeling of "going straight to the Milky Way now". This resolute and open-minded attitude is the character of ancient literati in China, which makes people feel very impressed!
How to stick to our beliefs, not to go with the flow and not to indulge ourselves, this is also a problem that each of us has to face today. This song "Langtaosha" not only infects us with its magnificent beauty, but also has far-reaching and meaningful enlightenment.
Original poem:
The Eighth Poem of Langtaosha (Nine Poems of * * *)-Don Liu Yuxi
Don't talk like a wave,
Mo Yan's Moving Guest is like sand.
As hard as it is,
Blowing away wild sand begins with gold.
Precautions:
Langtaosha: The name of Jiao Fang in Tang Dynasty, also called epigraph.
Transfer: refers to an official who has been demoted to another post.
Although it takes a lot of efforts, it also takes a lot of efforts to blow away the wild sand to become gold: for example, although an innocent and upright person has been framed by a villain for a while, his value will still be discovered after all the efforts.
Washing and filtering: filtering.
Explanation:
Don't say that gossip is as frightening as bad waves, and don't say that people who are relegated are always as decadent and addicted as mud. Gold panning has to go through thousands of times of filtration and all kinds of hardships, and finally all the sediment can be washed away and shiny gold can be obtained.
Liu Yuxi (772 ~ 842) was a writer and philosopher in the Tang Dynasty. The word Meng De is from Luoyang (now Henan) and Zhongshan (now Dingxian, Hebei). Zhenyuan (785-805 AD in Tang Dezong) was a scholar, and he studied "Learn from the Past and Learn from the Present". Give supervision and advice. He once participated in the Wang clique and opposed the separatist forces of eunuchs and buffer regions, and was demoted to Sima Langzhou, and later moved to Lianzhou as a secretariat.
Later, he was recommended by Pei Du as a guest of honor for the Prince and was added to the history of the school department. The world is called Liu Binke. His poems are popular and fresh, and he makes good use of metaphors to entrust political content. Poems such as Zhuzhi Ci, Liuzhi Ci, and Flower Arrangement Tian Ge are rich in folk songs and unique in Tang poetry. There is Selected Works of Liu Mengde.
Extended data:
Nine Poems on Langtaosha is a set of poems by Liu Yuxi, a writer in the Tang Dynasty. The first part interprets myths and legends, the second part expresses the suffering of love by symbolic means, the third part writes about the changes of the world, and the fourth part writes about the feelings of wanderers.
The fifth part depicts the style of Jinjiang, the sixth part reveals the injustice of work and enjoyment, the seventh part depicts the tide of Qiantang River, the eighth part describes the feelings of touching guests, and the ninth part describes the changes of the world. This is a folk poem, which is both easy to understand and pure, without flashy words.
Since the Anshi Rebellion in the Tang Dynasty, the momentum has declined. Governors are independent, eunuchs are authoritarian. When talented people are released and angered, resentful works are produced. After Liu Yuxi was transferred from Beijing official to local official, he also wrote famous works, such as Nine Poems of Langtaosha. This group of poems should be Liu Yuxi's later works, not created at one time and one place.
According to the Yellow River, Luoshui, Bianshui, Qinghuai, Nautilus Island, Zhuo Jinjiang, etc. Poems, or works for activities in Kuizhou, Hezhou and Luoyang, were later compiled into a group. Some scholars believe that this group of poems was written in the late Kuizhou period, that is, in the spring of the second year of Changqing (AD 822).
Confucius once said, "If pottery can't do it, you can float on the sea with a fork." If his ambition can't come true, he will go to sea on a raft and become a hermit. However, Confucius joined the WTO after all. Looking back on his life, although his political ideal could not be realized, he always carried out his own beliefs and theories and always worked hard on his own road. "I like to forget my worries, but I don't know that my old age is coming."
When Liu Yuxi's innovation ideal failed to come true, he also showed this kind of courage to face difficulties, which is a portrayal of his persistent optimism. In the long history, everyone is just a drop in the ocean, a grain of dust.
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