Reading Two Thoughts is a set of poems written by Zhu, a scholar in Song Dynasty. These two poems describe his feelings of "reading" and reveal profound philosophy with vivid images.
Original text:
one
Half an acre of square pond opened, and the sky was overcast.
Why is the water in the pond so clear? Because there is inexhaustible living water for it.
Secondly,
Last night on the Ross River, the huge warship was as light as a feather.
It used to take a lot of effort to push it, but today it can move in the middle of water.
Translation:
one
Half an acre of square pond is displayed like a mirror, in which the brilliance of the sky and the shadow of floating clouds move together.
Why is the water in that square pond so clear? It is because there is an inexhaustible source to continuously transport living water for it.
Secondly,
The spring tide rose by the river last night, and the ship was as light as a feather.
Pushing and pulling has always been in vain, but today I can drift freely in the middle of the river.
Extended data
The truth contained in Two Thoughts on Reading belongs to the category of aesthetic principles, one is to appreciate beauty, and the other is to create beauty. This aesthetic principle is universal to some extent. For example, readers abandon the description object of poetry itself, which can be extended completely.
For example, if "book" is understood as "book", the contents of books generally do not include medical books, philosophy books, history books, science books and so on. And only in poetry, music, prose and other literary content to reflect the beauty of literature and art, then we can also think that "flowing water from the source" expresses "inexhaustible literary thoughts" and "one-night spring tide" expresses "generate's literary thoughts"