"Zengguang Xianwen" written by Lu Mengzheng, Prime Minister of the Northern Song Dynasty
You can only fight yourself in life,
Don't tell others what you can do.
The rich can borrow a hundred taels of silver, but the poor can hardly borrow half a hen of rice.
There are few gentlemen who provide help in times of need, but there are many villains who are the icing on the cake.
Don’t rely solely on your relatives and friends,
The world is thinner than clouds.
Note:
Lü Mengzheng, Prime Minister of the Song Dynasty, was abandoned by his father when he was young. He suffered from poverty and coldness in the world. He once lived in a cold kiln with his mother and made a living by begging. Later, he studied hard and eventually reached the highest official position. From being despised to being looked down upon by others, he deeply felt the impermanence of nature and the warmth and coldness of human relationships, and wrote the famous "Ode to the Broken Kiln".
When Lu Mengzheng assumed an important position, many relatives and friends came over with smiles on their faces to give him generous gifts and wear high hats. Lu Mengzheng was feeling the harshness of the world, so he took up a pen and wrote a couplet on the door: "I think back then, when the family was extremely poor, with no firewood or rice, who would be willing to provide help in times of need; look at now, Aotou has the monopoly, and has wine and meat, all of which are the icing on the cake. ".
Song Dynasty Fan Chengda's "Heavy Snow Sends Charcoal and Mustard Hidden"
For no reason, we both plowed the ashes on the stove, thinking that the firewood and thorn bushes had not bloomed late.
It is not the beard in the snow. Sending charcoal and pretending to be beautiful requires poetry.
This means that if charcoal is not given in difficult moments, the artistic conception and poetry created will be forced and artificial.
Allusion
Fan Chengda was a famous poet in the Southern Song Dynasty. He wrote many poems in his life. In his later years, he retired to his hometown of Shihu and called himself a Shihu layman. He left behind a book "Shihu layman's poetry collection", There is a poem in it, titled "Sending Charcoal and Mustard Hidden in the Heavy Snow". There are two sentences in this poem: It is not necessary to send charcoal in the snow, but to talk about the scenery requires poetry.
According to "History of the Song Dynasty" "Taizong Ji" records that one year it snowed heavily and the weather was very cold. Song Taizong suddenly remembered the pity of the poor in the palace, so he sent officials to bring grain and charcoal to the poor and lonely old people, so that they could have some food. Rice is cooked for cooking, and charcoal is used to make a fire for warmth.
Sending charcoal in the snow
Source: Song Dynasty Fan Chengda's poem "Sending charcoal in heavy snow and mustard hiding": "It is not necessary to send charcoal in the snow, Talking about pretending to be beautiful requires poetry."
Giving charcoal to someone to keep warm on a snowy day is a metaphor for giving material or spiritual help to others when they are in urgent need.