That is the joy of life.
Source: "Drinking and Building a House in a Human Environment" is the fifth poem in the group of poems "Drinking and Twenty Poems" written by Tao Yuanming, a great poet of the Jin Dynasty.
Original text:
The house is in a human environment, without the noise of cars and horses.
How can you do this? The mind is far away from itself.
Picking chrysanthemums under the eastern fence, you can leisurely see Nanshan Mountain.
The mountain air is getting better day by day, and the birds are flying back and forth.
There is a true meaning in this, but I have forgotten to explain it.
Translation:
Living in the human world without the hustle and bustle of cars and horses. Ask me why? As long as your mind is high, you will naturally feel that the place you are in is secluded. Picking chrysanthemums under the east fence, leisurely, the Nanshan Mountain in the distance comes into view. The atmosphere in the mountains and the scenery in the evening are very good. There are birds flying back with their companions. This contains the true meaning of life. I want to identify it, but I don’t know how to express it.
Extended information
This poem mainly expresses the taste of seclusion life. It describes the poet's time after work, drinking until he was drunk, under the glow of the sunset, and shrouded in the mist of the mountains. In the middle, I am picking chrysanthemums on the east fence and looking at the Nanshan Mountain in the distance. The whole poem is full of profound emotions, and the feelings and emotions are integrated and inseparable. It is one of the most popular works in traditional poetry.
It expresses the author's leisurely and contented mood, his love for the quiet and free pastoral life, his contempt and disgust for the dark officialdom, and expresses the author's peaceful and tranquil mentality, leisurely and contented taste, and his ideal of life to return to nature. , and also writes about the author's appreciation and praise for the emotions that nature brings to people.