It comes from a five-character poem "Born Less than 1 Years" which was born in the Han Dynasty, and it is one of the Nineteen Ancient Poems.
If you are born less than a hundred years old, you will always be worried about being a thousand years old. "It means that life is only a few decades old, but you often have worries for thousands of years. Chitose worry: refers to deep worry. Chitose, many years, a long time.
The whole poem is full of nostalgia for the joy of the world, and even denounces the vanity of admiring the immortal (Wang Ziqiao). The whole poem is as follows:
If you are born less than 1 years old, you are always worried about being a thousand years old. The days are short and the nights are long, so why not travel by candlelight!
to be happy in time, why not stay here? Fools cherish expenses, but they despise them for future generations.
Wang Ziqiao, a fairy, can't wait.
The translation is as follows:
A person who lives in the world is usually under 1 years old, but his heart is always worried about the sorrow after thousands of years. Why bother? Since you always complain that the day is so short and the night is so long, why not take a candle and have fun day and night?
Life should be carpe diem! Why wait until next year? People who are unhappy all day long, who just want to accumulate wealth for their children and grandchildren, are particularly stupid, and unscrupulous children will only laugh at their ancestors and will not enjoy happiness! I'm afraid it's hard to wait for an immortal like Wang Ziqiao!
The appreciation is as follows:
First of all, it is a mockery of those who are stingy with money, which accounts for almost the main length of the whole poem. This kind of people, as ridiculed in the poem "tang style in the Book of Songs", "The mountain has a pivot": "The child has clothes, and the flower is dragged (wrapped); You have a car and a horse, and you can't ride without it. If you die, others will be happy. "-You don't know how to enjoy it in time if you are struggling to collect goods.
what they are worried about is nothing more than the livelihood of future generations. In the poet's view, this is simply stupid and ridiculous: "If you are born less than 1 years old, you will always worry about being a thousand years old"-even if you can live for a hundred years, you can only worry about your children for a hundred years, which is common sense that even children understand; Besides, I may not live for a hundred years, but it is foolish to worry about "Chitose".
at the beginning, I put pen to paper, and with the absurdity of "a hundred years" and "a thousand years", I revealed the ridiculous modality of those who live miserly.
Extended information:
This poem is one of Nineteen Ancient Poems. Nineteen Ancient Poems is a work in the late Eastern Han Dynasty. The author is lost, and most of them are literary imitations of Yuefu. Based on the comprehensive investigation of the emotional tendency, the social life reflected by the 19 poems and their skillful artistic skills, it is generally believed that the age of their production should be decades before the Emperor Jian 'an was offered in the Eastern Han Dynasty.
Nineteen Ancient Poems were not written by one author, but they were all rooted in the historical soil of the great turmoil in the late Eastern Han Dynasty, and they had the same sense of hardship.
At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the contradictions within the ruling class were most acute, and it was also the most chaotic and dark period in politics. A group of bureaucrats and great intellectuals who dare to talk about state affairs on weekdays have been killed and imprisoned one after another. Selling officials and titles, bribing the public. On the eve of the collapse of the Eastern Han Dynasty, political corruption and depravity had reached its peak.
In this case, ordinary scholars have no way out. The broken home, the disturbance of the times, the impossibility of realizing a stable life and the impossibility of obtaining a proper career have left these intellectuals out of production in a situation of having no home to return to. They fell into the deep valley of decadence and sentimentality because of the disillusionment of life ideals. In order to relieve their depression, they reflected on the values of life and the final destination of life.
This song "Born Less than 1 Years" is a reflection of this frustrated and sinking scholar's thought.
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