Mengchang Jun has a noble heart, but his enthusiasm for serving the country is in vain; Ruan Ji is unruly and unruly, how can we imitate his crying at the end of the road!
Source: Wang Bo, author of "Preface to Prince Teng's Pavilion", Tang Dynasty
Sigh! The fortunes are bad and the fate is misfortune. Feng Tang Yi Lao, Li Guang difficult to seal. Qu Jiayi in Changsha is not without a holy master; when Liang Hong travels to Haiqu, is there no lack of bright time? I rely on a gentleman to see an opportunity and an expert to know his fate. When you are old and strong, you would rather have a gray-headed heart? Be poor and strong, and never fall into the clouds. Drinking from the greedy spring makes you feel refreshed, and you still feel happy when you are in a dry road. Although Beihai is on credit, it can be picked up if it is soaring; the east corner is gone, but it is not too late to mulberry trees. Meng Chang was noble and noble, and he spared no time to serve his country; Ruan Ji was rampant, how could he cry at the end of the road!
Vernacular interpretation:
Ha! Everyone's timing is different, and life's destiny is often unfavorable. Feng Tang was prone to aging, and Li Guang was rarely granted the title of marquis. The reason why Jia Yi was wronged and demoted to Changsha was not because of an ungrateful monarch, and when Liang Hong fled to the seaside of Qilu, wasn't it an era of political prosperity? It's just that a gentleman can understand the timing and a wise person knows his destiny.
Although you are getting older, your ambition should be stronger. How can you change your mood when you are old? Although the situation is difficult, one's integrity should be firmer and one should never abandon one's ambition. Even after drinking the water from Tanquan, I still feel refreshed, and even if I am in the dry main path, I am extremely happy.
Although the North Sea is very far away, Yahao's palace can be connected; although the morning has passed, it is not too late to cherish the dusk. Lord Mengchang had a noble heart, but his enthusiasm for serving the country was in vain; Ruan Ji was unruly and unruly, how can we learn from his crying at the end of the road!
What is the background of "Preface to the Pavilion of Prince Teng"?
Although the author was full of passion and talent, he was not tolerated by the society at that time because of his talent, arrogance and bohemianism. Ambition is hard to achieve, so here the author thinks about the finiteness and shortness of life from the infinity of the universe, expressing his emotion about the passage of time but the difficulty of achieving achievements.
He lamented that he had lost his fortune, revealing his helplessness of being unable to reverse his fate. He felt sad that he could only live on the shores of the South China Sea and was unable to enter the imperial capital of Chang'an to serve the country.
In the fifth paragraph, the author uses allusions to compare himself to Jia Yi, Liang Hong, Feng Tang, and Li Guang to describe his current predicament, but the author does not stay in sadness for too long and turns to And he used his own optimism to give a better annotation to this aria. The author said that he is still an expert in understanding fate, "When you are old and strong, you would rather move your heart with a white head; when you are poor and strong, you will not fall into the clouds."
Despite adversity, he remains cheerful and determined to serve his country. There are many allusions used in this paragraph, but they are reasonable and appropriate without any sense of overlay. Wang Bo writes about his ambivalence about being unappreciated and in deep trouble, but he resolves it with an optimistic spirit of life. This noble sentiment has been preserved for thousands of years. Later, it aroused the excitement of many literati.