original text
If you are less than a hundred years old, you will always be worried about being a thousand years old.
The days are short and the nights are long. Why not travel by candlelight?
If you are happy to arrive in time, why can't you stay here?
Fools cherish expenses, but they are despised by future generations.
Fairy Wang Ziqiao, it's hard to wait.
This sentence comes from 19 ancient poems. The main idea is that life is short, eat, drink and be merry in time.
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Life is only a few decades, but we often have infinite troubles and sorrows.
Always complaining that the days are too short and the nights are too long, so why not play with candlelight at night?
Life should be carpe diem! How can we wait until next year?
Stupid people will be stingy with their own money, and will be laughed at by future generations when they return empty-handed.
I'm afraid it's hard to wait until the immortal Wang Ziqiao becomes immortal!
To annotate ...
Chitose worry: refers to deep worry. Chitose, many years, a long time.
Candlelight journey: a long night's journey. Soldiers, whose original meaning is straw and straw, are extended to verbs, meaning to hold and hold in their hands.
Liz: It means "the coming year". Because the grass grows once a year, the word "zi" is called "year", which is an extension.
Fee: Fee refers to money.
Sniff, laugh, here refers to a contemptuous smile.
Wang Ziqiao: A Fairy in Ancient Legends.
Period: the original meaning is agreement and consent, and here it is extended to wait.
Creation background
Selected Works of Zhaoming contains one of the nineteen ancient poems. There is a saying that the author is Mei Cheng, but Shan Li is noncommittal. When Liang Daizhao, ming prince and Xiao Tong compiled The Selected Works, because the author's name was unknown, it ranked before Li Ling's poems in the Eastern Han Dynasty. It is generally believed that this 19 five-character poem was written in the Eastern Han Dynasty.
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Judging from the whole poem, this poem satirizes two kinds of suitors in the world with loose and broad-minded words.
First of all, those who are stingy with money and "cherish expenses" were born under 1000, but they are stupid enough to worry that they are1000. The absurd connection between "a hundred years" and "a thousand years" reveals the ridiculous modality of those who live miserly and "cherish expenses".
The days are short and the nights are long. Why not travel by candlelight? Those who "swim", the "swim" in the article and the "joy in time" mentioned later, are different from what most people understand. It is not the kind of wine pool and meat forest, but the indulgence of singing and dancing, which is an active and healthy life enjoyment for literati. This kind of happiness is also based on the love of life, showing the pain of life without a way out with broad-minded and wild thinking.
As long as we look at the Jian 'an era when the literati had a way out, this sigh of eating, drinking and having fun was quickly replaced by the generous voice that hurt people's livelihood and made contributions in time, and we can understand this. In fact, it is a mockery of those who advocate immortality. However, this expectation of meeting immortals was finally found to be an empty dream in the depressed late Han Dynasty.
Such a fantastic work, expressing "eat, drink and be merry" in dissolute language, seems to really awaken many people's dreams of life; Therefore, some researchers regard this kind of poetry as a sign of "awakening of human nature" in Han Dynasty. But when you think about it, those who "always worry about Chitose" are stupid; But it may not be a sober attitude to say that the value of life lies in satisfying one's indulgence in time. In fact, this attitude is likely to be a powerless protest against the depressed life in the late Han Dynasty. For the underclass who have no way out, this life is turbulent and dying, and it is just another dream after waking up from many dreams (such as "career" and "fame and fortune")-they can't really live a happy life of "clean clothes" and "why not walk by candlelight". As long as we look at the Jian 'an era when the literati had a way out, this sigh of eating, drinking and having fun was quickly replaced by the generous voice that hurt people's livelihood and made contributions in time, and we can understand this.
Introduction to the original work
Nineteen Ancient Poems and its title are remarkable signs of the humanization of Yuefu ancient poems. Nineteen anonymous ancient poems handed down from generation to generation by Xiao Tong in the Southern Dynasties were selected and compiled into Selected Works of Zhaoming. Nineteen Ancient Poems profoundly reproduces the disillusionment and sinking, inner awakening and pain of literati during the great transformation of social thought at the end of Han Dynasty. The language is simple and natural, and the description is vivid and vivid, with a natural artistic style. At the same time, Nineteen Ancient Poems expresses the most basic and universal feelings and thoughts in life, allowing readers to read and innovate from time to time.