It means: Don’t let your youth pass by in vain. Reading is the most beautiful thing in life. It means that you should study harder when you are young.
From: "The Joy of Reading in Four Seasons" by Weng Sen of the Song Dynasty
Full poem: The mountain light shines on the threshold and the water circles the corridor, and the dancing urchin returns to the fragrance of Wing Chun. Good birds are also friends on the branches, and fallen flowers and water are articles. Don't waste your time, the only good thing in life is reading. What a joy it is to read, the green grass in front of the window is not weeded.
Vernacular translation:
The sun shines on the railings outside the hall, and the running water flows around the corridor. People returning from enjoying the cool breeze are bathed in the spring breeze bringing the fragrance of flowers as they walk. Singing poetry.
The birds perched on the branches are my friends who accompany me to study; the fallen flowers floating on the water can inspire me to write wonderful articles.
Don’t waste time. Reading is the best thing in life. What is the joy of reading? It's like green grass growing up to the window without cutting it off. Looking around, it's a prosperous scene.
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Appreciation:
This is a famous group of poems about the joy of reading in the four seasons of spring, summer, autumn and winter that have been handed down for a long time in cultural China and are widely spread. The author is Weng Sen in the late Song Dynasty and early Yuan Dynasty. Weng Sen was a native of Xianju, Zhejiang Province. His courtesy name was Xiuqing and his nickname was Yidian. He lived in seclusion and took up teaching as his profession. He took Zhu Xi's Bailudong academic rules as his training, so many people studied with him, and he once left a "Yi Lao Manuscript". If you live in seclusion and are not an official, reading will be less stressful and more interesting. Reading in the four seasons of spring, summer, autumn and winter will be fully enjoyable. "The Joy of Reading in Four Seasons" summarizes the interest in reading in Chinese classical society with vivid artistic forms and beautiful literary images.
"The Joy of Reading in Four Seasons" There are paintings within the poems, and poems within the paintings, or it can be said that there are both poems and paintings, and beautiful scenery. With its infinite scholarly elegance and interest, it embellishes the humanistic style of the alleys of the ancient city. , especially its rational theme of "Everyone can read in time and be happy all the time." Once upon a time, it has built the spiritual home of many scholars in the long history and rough life journey, and educated many scholars in the world. Do you want to study in books and seek knowledge, and be willing to be the heirs of Chinese culture? ?
With its vividness and beauty, this poem has been widely praised in the history of Chinese reading for more than a thousand years and has been popular among hundreds of generations. In Suzhou, a famous historical and cultural city in China, it became the subject of ink by Wen Zhengming, one of the "Four Talents of Wuzhong" in the Ming Dynasty and a master of calligraphy and painting. It was painted into the "Four Seasons of Reading and Music" with "set and color, elegant and pure", which became Jiangnan collectors treasured it secretly and passed it down from generation to generation; it has also been adapted into the art form of brick carving and was inlaid on the gate towers of houses in the ancient city, accompanying its owner day and night, going out and going on blind dates.
Baidu Encyclopedia-Four Seasons of Reading