What is the meaning of the two poems "external things are indispensable, and the chest must be empty"?

External things don't need to be too persistent, and the heart needs to be empty. Don't let those unhappy things and psychology linger, leading to illness.

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This poem was written in Yuanhe seven years. The first four sighs of "bad luck" prove that other words of "adaptation" are all false, and they are all cheering themselves up. Once you leave your post as an official, once you mourn, you will send out this sad language. Lotte is really unhappy, and it is really not easy to live. Zhuangzi's allusions are used one after another below, and "Chunks" are used in "On Everything" and "The Master"; "clay figurine painting", reverse use of "autumn water" and "dragging tail painting"; "foreign things are not necessary", clearly stated by "foreign things"; "There must be space in my heart", which implicitly uses the words "empty room is white" in "Human World" and "show star" to mean "if you come" and "go occasionally". Obviously, Bai Juyi, who was trapped in Xiabang, felt depressed. He wanted to comfort himself with the words in Zhuangzi.

Brief introduction of the author

Bai Juyi (772-846) was born in Xinzheng, Henan, and his ancestral home was Taiyuan, Shanxi. He was a great realistic poet in the Tang Dynasty and one of the three great poets in the Tang Dynasty. He was called "Bai Yuan" with Yuan Zhen and "Bai Liu" with Liu Yuxi. Known as the "poet demon" and "poet king".

Advocating the new Yuefu movement with Yuan Zhen * * *, the official is Zuo Zanshan, a bachelor and doctor of Hanlin.

His poems have a wide range of themes, diverse forms and popular language. Up to now, there are Bai's "Changqing Collection", and the representative works include Song of Eternal Sorrow, Charcoal Man, Pipa Travel and so on.