Dynasty: Ming Dynasty Author: Yu Qian
It can only be extracted from the deep mountains after being struck by thousands of hammers. It regards the burning of the burning fire as a very common thing.
Not afraid of broken bones, leaving innocence in the world.
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(Stone) can only be mined from the mountain after many impacts. It regards the burning of fire as an ordinary thing, even if it is smashed into pieces, it is not afraid, and it is willing to leave its innocence in the world.
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(1) ode to lime: praise the lime. Chant: chant. Refers to a name of the genre of ancient poetry (a form of ancient poetry).
(2) hammering: numerous hammering, which describes that it is very difficult to mine lime. Thousand, ten thousand: refers to the number of impacts, but actually does not refer to 1 1 ten thousand. Hammer. Hammer. Chisel, dig.
(3) If you are free: This seems to be a very common thing. If: as if, as if; Leisure: normal and relaxed.
(4) Innocence: refers to the pure white color of lime, and also refers to noble moral integrity. Humans: Humans.
Creation background
According to legend, one day, Yu Qian went to a lime kiln to watch the master sing the song of calcining lime. I saw piles of blue-black rocks, which turned into white lime after being burned by fire. Yu Qian was deeply moved, so he sang a well-known poem Ode to Lyme. It is said that Yu Qian was only twelve years old at this time. He wrote this poem not only as a portrayal of lime image, but also as his future life pursuit.
Yu Qian (1398- 1457), born in Qiantang (now Hangzhou, Zhejiang) in the Ming Dynasty, was named Ting Yi, followed by An [ān]. Yongle Jinshi, Xuande first gave advice, and once suppressed the rebellion of Hanwang Zhu with Xuanzong. After the rebellion, Yu Qian was promoted to the governor of Jiangxi by Xuanzong for criticizing Zhu, and received rave reviews. Five years (1430), assistant minister of the right Ministry of War, governor of Shanxi, Henan. In the eleventh year of orthodoxy (1446), he went to Beijing to see Wang Zhen, because he didn't flatter him and gave him gifts, which caused Wang Zhen's dissatisfaction. He secretly instructed his confidant Li Xi to put him in prison and put him to death because he was dissatisfied with the emperor.