Ten years of grinding a sword, the blade is sharp, and I have never tried it.
I'll show you today and tell you who is wronged.
Original text:
After ten years' hard work, I have grinded out a sword. The edge of the sword flashes in cold light, but I haven't tried its sharpness.
Now take it out and show it to you. Whoever is wronged may as well tell me the truth.
The legendary swordsman is a five-character quatrain written by Jia Dao, a poet in the Tang Dynasty. The first two sentences of this poem describe the extraordinary sword, while the last two sentences hope to have a chance to show their talents. The whole poem is full of emotion and magnificent.
According to legend, Jia Dao, a poet, took part in the imperial examination under the persuasion of Han Yu. He naively thought that he would succeed in the exam with his talent. Therefore, he didn't take the "eight hundred lifts" seriously. He wrote with a brush as soon as he entered the examination room. In the poem "Sick Cicada", he denounced: "All yellowbird crows want to harm cicadas." As a result, it was considered as "all talents are not promoted", and together with Zeng Equality, it fell into the notoriety of "Ten evils in the examination room". Jia Dao knew that "singing sick cicada's words" offended powerful people, but he was helpless. I wrote this poem of self-metaphor.