From the Tang Dynasty poet Bai Juyi's work "Gan Shaohua Key to the Son of Heaven". Bai Juyi (772-846), whose real name was Lotte, became a Buddhist in Xiangshan in his later years. Zhenyuan sixteen years, Jinshi, Yuanhe, as Zuo Zanshan doctor. Later, he was demoted to Jiangzhou Sima, because the above-mentioned demand for the arrest of the murderer of Prime Minister Wu offended powerful people. ?
The whole poem is as follows:
Today, the red peony in front of the stage, a few flowers want to be old and a few flowers are new.
When you are open, you can't understand color, but when you are backward, you will know it like an illusion.
How many places are you going? I want to ask the master about residual flowers.
The translation is as follows:
Today, the red peony on the steps, how many flowers are getting old and how many flowers have just bloomed?
When flowers bloom, I don't know who I want to compare with other flowers. I didn't know this body was just an illusion until I withered.
How far is it from enlightenment? I want to consult a monk with broken flowers.
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In literature, Bai Juyi advocated that "articles should be written in time, songs and poems should be written for things", and he was an advocate of the New Yuefu Movement. His poems are easy to understand. It is said that his poems should be understood by old women. Also known as "Bai Yuan" with Yuan Zhen, Liu Yuxi created the style of relying on sound to write lyrics in the middle Tang Dynasty. There is Bai Changqing Collection.
This poem was written with feelings for peony flowers and was given to a monk. The understanding is this: people often argue with each other, envy and hate, haggle over every ounce, and it is meaningless to try to surpass others, because in the end, everyone is the same and everything will go up in smoke. It is better to relax, don't be persistent, let your mind be indifferent and peaceful, and spend your life safely and worry-free.
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