Source: Lu Wen-Song Tanggeng
Original text:
Monks don't know the number of children, and a leaf knows the autumn of the world.
Translation:
Monks in the deep mountains don't know how to calculate the calendar. They can know that autumn is coming by the falling leaves.
Explanation:
Knowing the arrival of autumn from the falling of a leaf. Metaphor through individual subtle signs, we can see the development trend and results of the whole situation. Sometimes it is also a metaphor of a leaf falling, but it is considered as the arrival of the whole autumn. Express false meaning.
Extended data
Tang Geng (1070—1 120) was called Mr. Lu Guo. Tanghe Township, Dan Ling City, Meizhou City (now Dan Ling County, Meishan City, Sichuan Province). Poets in Northern Song Dynasty. Song Zhe Zong Shaosheng (1094) is a scholar (Guangxu's Dan Ling County Records, Volume 6), and Song Huizong Daguanzhong is Dr. Zong Zi.
On the recommendation of Prime Minister Zhang Shangying, he was awarded two official positions, namely, Jingshi and Changping. After Zhang Shangying resigned, Tang Geng was exiled to Huizhou. Later, he was pardoned and returned to the north. He was reinstated to negotiate with Lang and was promoted to Taiping Palace. Later, he died on his way back to Shu Dao.
Although Tang Geng is not a disciple of Su School, his literary thoughts are deeply influenced by Su Shi, and he also intends to learn from Su Shi in poetry creation. His master of poetry inherited Su Shi and formed his own family, deliberately exercising without losing his dignity and forming a unique meticulous style. In prose creation, he thought his prose was concise and meticulous, and became a model of articles admired by Taiji students, which had a wide influence at that time. Tang Geng was not only one of the most important writers in Shu in the late Northern Song Dynasty, but also a famous writer in Song Dynasty.
There is also a volume of Tangzi's Records of Western Languages. For details, please refer to Lu Zuoxu's preface in Volume I of Collected Works of Mr. Tang in Meishan. Tang Zi's Records of Western Literature is his reference to poetry. At the same time, people forced his father to record it, and the poems of past dynasties and the series of Yingxuexuan were collected.
References:
Baidu Encyclopedia-A leaf falls to know the autumn on earth.