Origin: "Building a House by Drinking in the Human Environment" is the fifth of the group poems "Twenty Drinking Poems" by Tao Yuanming, a great poet in Jin Dynasty.
Original text:
Building a house is human, and there are no horses and chariots.
What can you do? The heart is far from being self-centered.
Picking chrysanthemums under the east fence, you can see Nanshan leisurely.
The mountains are getting better and better, and the birds are back.
That makes sense. I forgot what I wanted to say.
Living in the world, there is no noise of horses and chariots. Ask me why. As long as I aim high, I will naturally feel that my place is secluded. Picking chrysanthemums under the east fence, leisurely, Nanshan in the distance comes into view. The smell in the mountains and the scenery in the evening are very good, and birds come back with their companions. It contains the true meaning of life. I want to identify it, but I don't know how to express it
Extended data
Tao Yuanming's Drinking has 20 poems. This group of poems was not written after drinking, but the poet's dissatisfaction with reality and love for rural life on the topic of drinking, in order to escape persecution through drunkenness in a very sinister environment at that time. In the twentieth "Drinking", he wrote that "it is more fallacious to hate, so be lenient", which shows his good intentions.
This is the fifth one. This poem is based on emotion and melts into the scenery, writing the carefree mood of the poet after retiring to the countryside.
The artistic conception of this poem can be divided into two layers, and the first four sentences are one layer. The poet's mood after getting rid of secular troubles shows his thoughts and feelings of despising officialdom and not colluding with the rulers. The last six sentences are on the first floor, which describes the beautiful night scene of Nanshan and the infinite fun that poets get from it. It shows the poet's true feelings and noble personality of loving rural life.
"Building a house is on earth, but there are no horses and chariots." Although poets live in a dirty world, they are not troubled by the secular world. The noise of horses and chariots is a portrayal of all kinds of ugliness in officialdom, such as fighting with each other and trying to get an official position. However, Tao Yuanming's "building a house in a human environment" is not a very remote place, so how can he not hear the noise of horses and chariots?
The poet seems to understand the reader's psychology very well, so he used a rhetorical question "Ask what you can do" and then replied "I am far from my heart". As long as you stay away from the noise of those dignitaries, other aspects will naturally not entangle with them.
These four sentences contain incisive philosophy of life, telling us that people's spiritual world can be self-purified. Under certain conditions, as long as we give full play to our subjective initiative, we can change the influence of the objective environment on ourselves and find the joy of life everywhere. The word "far" reflects the poet's spiritual world, extraordinary and free from vulgarity, and has no thoughts of fame and fortune.