The poem "Leave Innocence on Earth" comes from Yu Qian's Poem "Ode to Lime" in Ming Dynasty. The poems are as follows:
Lime songs
Ming? Yu Qian
hewed out the mountains with a thousand hammers, and the fire burned like a fool.
I'm not afraid of broken bones and muddy bodies. I want to leave my innocence in the world.
Poetic:
Limestone is mined from the deep mountains after a lot of work, and it takes burning with blazing fire as a very common thing.
I'm not afraid even if I'm shattered, as long as I leave my noble integrity in the world.
it's a poem to express one's ambition. The author uses lime as a metaphor to express his willingness to be loyal to his country, not afraid of sacrifice and his determination to stick to noble sentiments. This poem, through the exercise of reciting lime, shows the author's valuable spirit of not avoiding difficulties and dangers and being brave in self-sacrifice to maintain loyalty and innocence.
The first sentence "A thousand hammers cut a deep mountain" describes that it is not easy to mine limestone. The second sentence is "if the fire burns, it will be idle." "Fire burning", of course, refers to burning limestone. Adding the word "if you are idle" makes people feel that you are not only burning limestone, but it also seems to symbolize that people with lofty ideals will take their time and treat it as idle no matter how severe the test is. The third sentence is "broken bones and muddy bodies are not afraid." "Broken bones" vividly writes that limestone is burned into lime powder, and the word "muddy and not afraid" reminds us that there may be a spirit of not being afraid of sacrifice. As for the last sentence, "Keep innocence in the world", it is the author's direct expression and determination to be a pure and innocent person.
Throughout this poem, things are compared with people, and the characters of things and people are fused into one. Words are in things, but in people, not in people, but in them, as if they were coming out at once. The style is heroic, the momentum is magnanimous and forceful.