Sick Cow": If there is no suffering in the world, why not put medicine on the shelf to make dust
Plowing thousands of acres will yield thousands of boxes. If you are exhausted and exhausted, who will be injured again?
But all sentient beings will be full, and they will not hesitate to suffer from illness or death.
If there is no suffering in the world, why not put medicine on the shelf to make dust
The sick cow plows thousands of acres to produce countless grains, and when it is exhausted, who will pity it for its hard work? What about the labor?
But in order for all sentient beings to have enough to eat, it would not hesitate even if it fell ill and lay under the setting sun.
The sick cow in the poem is the poet's self-parody. But in this day and age, how can we not compare it to the doctors working on our bodies in the hospital?
I majored in traditional Chinese medicine. I loved seeing old doctors for treatment since I was a child. When I grew up, I naturally chose my favorite major.
The hanging pot saves the world and the wonderful hand brings youth back to life. These beautiful words describe to me the good relationship between doctors and patients. Before I left for my internship, my grandfather, who was over eighty years old, stopped me. He was silent for a long time, and finally said something I will never forget - "Doctors must have medical ethics."
Past There must be a couplet hanging in front of the medical center: "I hope there will be no suffering in the world, so why not put medicine on the shelf to create dust".
This is the wish of doctors for all the suffering in the world. But now it seems that this wish has not been realized.
With the improvement of economicization, hospitals that work wholeheartedly for the people have begun to come under criticism. It is said that doctors take dirty money and prescribe cheap and inferior medicines to the people.
All doctors have been given the fictitious title of "angels in white", and they have to be as noble as gods when doing human work.
But in fact we are all the same, we are all living people. The only difference is that for the sake of people's health, we have been willing to study in college for nearly eight years, read countless books, and know all the professional terms by heart, but what we get is your denial and hurt.
I don’t deny that there are bad doctors in this world, but I don’t want everyone to be general, because one person negates all our efforts.
Many of my friends were very ambitious when they first entered the hospital. They would stay up all night studying cases for a patient, and then go to work the next day still exhausted. They will cry because they did their best during the operation but still could not save a child's life.
Families of patients cannot enter the corridor of the operating room. Many doctors will fall asleep in the corridor due to exhaustion from several consecutive operations. It is filled with the sweat of our efforts for the patients, our unwilling cries and the joy of successfully saving lives.
I will never forget this sentence "Doctors must have medical ethics" in my life. Before each of us medical students officially become doctors, we will take an oath, swear by our own moral character and life, and dedicate everything we have to all the patients in the world.
So, I am very embarrassed to say such words in this embarrassing place, but please believe us and give us a little more trust and respect. None of us will turn a blind eye to your illness. Since we have chosen this profession, we are willing to dedicate everything we have to you.
Appreciation
The first sentence of the poem talks about the cow's hard work all his life and the fruitful results. It does not say that the cow is "sick", but every word has the meaning of "sickness". Year after year, he works hard for thousands of years. If an acre is harvested and a thousand boxes are harvested, one's strength will inevitably be exhausted, and diseases will arise from this. The second sentence says that although the cow has made great achievements, no one sympathizes with it. The tone is reproachful and has strong emotional overtones. Three or four sentences are answered in the tone of an ox, personifying the ox and revealing the ox's valuable character of being willing to sacrifice itself for the people.
The cow in this poem is also a metaphor for the poet himself. Li Gang became prime minister. He was an upright official, opposed peace talks, advocated resistance to the Jin Dynasty, and personally led troops to regain the lost territory. However, he was squeezed out by traitors who sent troops to surrender. After serving as prime minister for seventy days, he was "relegated to Wuchang" and "moved to Lipu" the following year. , feeling extremely angry and unfair. Therefore, the poem "Sick Cow" was written to comfort and confess.
This poem uses metaphors and personification techniques, with vivid images and lofty intentions. It is not only a successful poem about objects, but also an outstanding poem about aspirations, which will be passed down to future generations.
In the history of Chinese poetry, since the poems about owl in the first collection of poems, "The Book of Songs", there have been endless poems about the sun, moon, stars, mountains, rivers, vegetation, flowers, birds, fish and insects. Among the vast number of poems about things, there are many masterpieces with high style, exquisite art and endless charm. Li Gang's song "Sick Cow" is one of them. Here, we will not talk about the high generalization power of this poem, nor the simple and unpretentious language beauty of this poem. We just want to appreciate its art of "resembling from the shape" and "expressing the ambition with the object in mind". Sikong Tu's "Poetry·Description" believes that poets who can "describe" (referring to describing objective things) can seek spiritual resemblance rather than physical resemblance, are those who are good at "describing": "Getting resemblance from form is a common person." Li Gang was good at "describing", and his poem "Sick Cow" achieved the "similarity from form", that is, not limited to the physical similarity of the described object, but the state of describing the spiritual similarity of the object. The author sings about the sick cow, and the focus of his pen and ink is not to depict its shape, but to convey its spirit.
The first two lines of the poem, "Plowing a thousand acres will yield a thousand boxes, but who will be injured if exhausted and exhausted?" It writes about a sick cow plowing a thousand acres, in exchange for the fruits of labor filling a thousand granaries. But it itself is extremely exhausted mentally and all its strength is exhausted. However, who will pity it for its hard work and heavy load? Here, the author starts by revealing the causal relationship between the sick cow's "ploughing thousands of acres" and "thousands of boxes", contrasting the sick cow's "exhaustion" and "who gets injured again", and focuses on describing the sick cow's Hard work, exhaustion, and unsympathetic conditions. The two "thousand characters" in the first sentence modify "mu" and "box" respectively (the same as "xiang", referring to the granary). They are not actual references, but are talking about the large number of sick cattle "ploughing" and the harvest of labor. At the same time, it also implies the cow's journey from young to old, from strong to weak. The rhetorical tone of the second sentence is strong, adding to the solemn feeling of the poem.
The last two sentences of the poem suddenly changed to describe his ambition: "But all living beings will be full, and they will not hesitate to suffer from illness." The sick cow worked hard and was exhausted, but no one showed mercy. But it does not complain about others, nor does it become passive and sinking. Because it has the ambition to be willing to "sick and sick" for the food and clothing of all living beings. These two lines of poems connect the sick cow with "all living beings" and use the antithetical words "dande" and "no resignation" to strongly express the sick cow's ambition to care for all living beings without hesitation. The "setting sun" in the concluding sentence is a pun, which not only refers to the setting sun, but also symbolizes the old age of the sick cow. It is combined with words such as "lying" to help express the spirit of the old cow who is sick and weak but works hard to carry out heavy loads and dies. .
This poem vividly depicts the image of a sick cow. It not only depicts its physical weakness, but also conveys its spirit of caring for all living beings regardless of illness. This kind of chanting about the cow is quite in line with the character of the cow who is hard-working and uncomplaining, only dedicated and has no other aspirations. However, this poem is not about chanting cows for the sake of chanting cows, but "expressing ambitions based on things", and using the chanting of cows to express the author's emotions and aspirations. As long as we can "know people and judge the world" as the predecessors said, it will not be difficult to see this.
It praises Niu’s character traits of never giving up on illness, working hard without complaining, caring for all living beings, and seeking nothing but dedication. ——"To express one's aspirations through things", the author uses chanting cows to express his emotions and aspirations.
The poet is exhausted, but he never forgets to fight against gold and serve the country, thinking about the country and all living beings. Therefore, he writes about the old cow who is exhausted, has no one to pity him, and is sick, and who aims at all living beings. The embodiment of the poet's image.
It is in this way that the author sings about the sick cow with strong patriotic enthusiasm and expresses his aspirations through the object. Therefore, the sick cow in this poem, that is, the author's own image, comes alive and moves, which can arouse cries of excitement in the readers' hearts and create a sense of beauty.