Thousands of hammers and ten thousand chisels Pinyin:
[qiān chuí wàn záo]?
Thousands of hammers and ten thousand chisels?
Definition: Hundreds of refinements Thousand Hammers bǎiliàn-qiānchuí is a metaphor for many struggles and tests. It is a metaphor for many detailed revisions of poems and prose. Also known as "Thousands of Times"
Source: "Song of Lime".
Song of Lime
Author Yu Qian, Ming Dynasty
Thousands of hammers carved out the deep mountains, and the fire burned them as if nothing happened.
Don’t be afraid of your bones being shattered into pieces, you must remain innocent in this world.
Translation Notes
(Limestone) can only be mined from the mountains after thousands of hammerings, and it treats the burning of raging fire as a very common thing.
Even if your body is broken into pieces, you are not afraid, and you are willing to leave your innocence in the world.
1. Lime chant: Praise for lime. Yin: chant. Refers to a name for the ancient song genre (a form of ancient poetry).
2. Thousands of hammers and thousands of chisels: Countless hammers and excavations, describing the difficulty of mining lime. Thousands, ten thousand: function words to describe many things. Hammer: to hammer. Chisel: to dig.
3. If it is easy: it seems to be a common thing. If: as if, as if; leisurely: ordinary, relaxed.
4. Innocence: refers to the pure white nature of lime, and also metaphors noble moral integrity.
5. The human world: the human world.
Introduction to the author
Yu Qian (May 13, 1398 - February 16, 1457) was a native of Qiantang (now Hangzhou, Zhejiang) in the Ming Dynasty. His courtesy name was Tingyi and his name was Jie'an [ ān]. Yongle Jinshi, Xuandechu was appointed censor, and he followed Xuanzong to suppress the rebellion of Han King Zhu Gaoxu[xù]. After the rebellion was suppressed, Yu Qian, who was a royal censor, was promoted by Xuanzong to the post of governor of Jiangxi for his meritorious service in criticizing Zhu Gaoxu. He was praised by many.
In the fifth year (1430), he patrolled Henan and Shanxi as the right minister of the Ministry of War. In the eleventh year of Zhengtong (1446), he went to Beijing for an audience because he did not give gifts to Wang Zhenxianmei, which caused Wang Zhen's dissatisfaction. He secretly instigated his accomplice Li Xi to accuse him of being dissatisfied with the emperor and sentenced him to death. Later, the people, officials and even the vassal kings of the two provinces strongly requested his reinstatement.
In the 14th year of the Tumubao Incident, Ming Yingzong was captured by Wala. He strongly rejected the idea of ??moving south, insisted on sticking to it, and entered the Ministry of War.