Make Way for Tomorrow
Qian Fu [Ming Dynasty]
Tomorrow after tomorrow, there are so many tomorrows.
Tomorrow will never come.
If the world is tired tomorrow, it will go to Qiu Lai as a veteran in spring.
Watch the water flow eastward and the sunset at dusk.
What will tomorrow be like in a hundred years? Please listen to my song tomorrow.
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Tomorrow is another tomorrow, how many tomorrows there are.
If you just wait for tomorrow every day, you will only waste your time and accomplish nothing.
The world is as tired of tomorrow as I am, and it will grow old after a year.
Watch the river flow eastward in the morning and the sun set in the evening.
How many tomorrows can a person have in his life? Please listen to my song tomorrow.
This poem mentions "tomorrow" seven times, advising the dead to cherish every day, live in the present, and don't waste time waiting for tomorrow forever. Poetry has simple meaning, clear language, easy-to-understand reasoning and great educational significance.
Song of Tomorrow has two obvious advantages: First, its ideological content is innovative. It is not an empty instruction to cherish time, but a reasoning about people's procrastination around the word "tomorrow". Second, the language is vivid. In the form of miscellaneous ballads, colloquial and visual words are used, which are catchy to read and easy to remember. Among them, "watching the water flow eastward and watching the sunset at dusk" is interspersed in the discussion, which makes the whole poem vivid and vivid.
Song of Tomorrow has been widely praised by the world for hundreds of years. In his works, the poet warns and exhorts people to firmly grasp the fleeting today, do well what they can do today, and don't pin any plans and hopes on the unknown tomorrow. Today is the most precious. Only by grasping today, can we have a full tomorrow, do something and achieve something. Otherwise, "the day after tomorrow" will only end up as "all in vain" and accomplish nothing. So, whatever you do, remember that everything starts today and everything starts now.