Original text:
Birth year is less than 100. Anonymous.
If you are less than a hundred years old, you will always be worried about being a thousand years old.
The days are short and the nights are long. Why not travel by candlelight?
If you are happy to arrive in time, why can't you stay here?
Fools cherish expenses, but they are despised by future generations.
Fairy Wang Ziqiao, it's hard to wait.
Translation:
A person living in the world is generally less than 100 years old, but his heart is always worried about the sorrow after the Millennium. Why bother?
Since you always complain that the days are so short and the nights are so long, why not take a candle and play around the clock?
Life should be carpe diem! Why wait until next year?
People who are unhappy all day, people who just want to accumulate wealth for their children and grandchildren, are particularly stupid. Unscrupulous children will only laugh at their ancestors and will not enjoy happiness!
I'm afraid it's hard to wait for an immortal Rainbow Ziqiao!
Judging from the whole poem, this poem satirizes two kinds of suitors in the world with loose and broad-minded words. First of all, those who are stingy with money and "cherish expenses" were born under 1000, but they are stupid enough to worry that they are1000. The absurd connection between "a hundred years" and "a thousand years" reveals the ridiculous modality of those who live miserly and "cherish expenses". This sigh of eating, drinking and having fun in time was soon replaced by a generous voice that sympathized with people's livelihood and made contributions in time, so we can understand this. In fact, it is a mockery of those who advocate immortality. However, this expectation of meeting immortals was finally found to be an empty dream in the depressed late Han Dynasty.