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Put down the long pole and cut the jade,
You see, the mother bamboo shoots are dragon materials.
I'd rather smoke thousands of feet overnight,
Don't pour a few inches of mud into the pond garden.
Appreciation of Li Heshi
This is also a poem that borrows things to chant ambition.
Judging from the fourth poem of this group of poems, "Maoling returns to sleep and sighs for poverty", it goes without saying that the illness of the Han Dynasty returned to Maoling, and it was written when Li Lang resigned from Changgu. When Sima Xiangru was in Emperor Han Jingdi, he used to serve as a regular rider and was exempted from returning due to illness; During the reign of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, he was ordered by Wendi Garden to stay in Maoling due to illness. Li He resigned from his post and returned to Changgu due to illness, so he compared himself with others. Knowing this creative background, we can easily understand this poem.
The poet here described the new bamboo shoots very beautifully. The bamboo shell is peeled off one by one, and the bamboo shoots grow on the nodes. Crystal clear, like a jasper just carved with a meat cleaver. The image of bamboo shoots here is an idealized and poetic image of the poet. It is clean as jade, full of vitality, strong and straight; It must break free from the shackles of the shell and grow upward. Because this bamboo shoot has such a beautiful posture, the praise of "mother bamboo shoot is a dragon material" did not make people feel abrupt, but naturally came.
If the first two sentences mainly talk about the external beauty of bamboo shoots, then the last two sentences are to inherit the growth desire of bamboo shoots and further describe the internal beauty of bamboo shoots. The word "more tolerant" has a profound meaning. If allowed, it is a hypothetical word. The meaning of these two sentences is that if it is allowed to grow fully, the jointing stage will be quite long overnight, and it will naturally take off dust and mud and go straight into the clouds. Here, it expresses Hsinchu's great ambition to soar into the sky, and it is not willing to be buried in the garden mud. This is the inner beauty of new bamboo shoots. In addition, the negative meaning of the word "more tolerant" is that it is now "not allowed" and new bamboo shoots cannot be allowed to smoke outside thousands of feet overnight, so it is impossible for them to rise from the ground to the top. The bread here contains deep bitterness. Complaining naturally comes from his inability to grow up to be satisfied. This meaning describes the rich "inner world" of Hsinchu from another angle.
The poet portrayed Hsinchu with such a beautiful image and beautiful heart, which is a tribute to ambition. This new bamboo shoot is the poet Li He. The poet Li He had many troubles, but he didn't lose his ambition.
He has always hoped to reach the top of the world, and this quatrain of chanting bamboo shoots is a true portrayal of his mood.