The meaning of Abai's ancient poem "The world is like an ocean" in the sketch

"The world is like an ocean, the times are like a strong wind, the former waves are like brothers, and the latter waves are like brothers. The wind holds the waves behind and pushes the waves ahead, both in history and today "—— Abai Kunanbaev, a famous Kazakh poet (from article 40 of Abai proverb 17).

Abai Kunanbaev (1845.8.10-1904.7.6) is a great Kazakh thinker, writer, composer, philosopher and educator. He is known as a Kazakh poet and a representative of Kazakh literature. He created a large number of poems, essays, long poems and philosophical works with pure and refined language and realistic techniques.

He opened up a new road for the development of Kazakh poetry, dissected kazakh steppe's real life deeply and meticulously with ingenious ideas and refined language, and made a sharp and convincing judgment, which was listed as a world cultural celebrity by UNESCO.

Abai wrote nearly 200 poems in his life, and also translated and rewritten more than 50 poems by Pushkin, lermontov and others. Many of Abai's poems have been included in primary and secondary school textbooks, and Abai Proverbs is a famous ideological masterpiece of Kazak people.

all one's life

Abai's original name is Ibrahim Kunanbaev, and Abai was taken by his grandmother, which means "cautious and alert" in Kazakh. Abai 1845 was born in a prominent family in the grassland of eastern Kazakhstan and received a good education. Later, he taught himself Persian, Arabic and Russian, studied a large number of books of various nationalities and countries, and absorbed eastern and western ideas. When I was a teenager, I learned to manage family and tribal affairs with my father. According to the established life, Abai should follow in his father's footsteps and become a tribal leader, but he finally chose the road of "saving the country through culture".