The Yangtze River flows eastward, and the waves wash away heroes. Success or failure has turned empty, the green hills are still there, and the sunset is a few degrees red.
The white-haired hermit by the river has long been used to the changes of time. A pot of turbid wine is happy to meet, and many things in ancient and modern times are paid in a joke.
It means: the Yangtze River is rolling and the east is surging. You can't refuse, and you can't stay. The waves splash, and the heroes of the ages are lost in the water. Right or wrong; Success or failure, fame and career, in the blink of an eye, disappear with the passage of the river. Only the green hills still stand in front of us, watching the sunset again and again.
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It is a common feature of Yang Shen's "Linjiang Xian" and other similar poems to reflect on history and cherish the past by combining the deep sadness of history with the indifference and broadmindedness of personality. Mao Zonggang, a literary critic in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, transplanted this word and put it in Romance of the Three Kingdoms? The beginning of righteousness.
This song Linjiang Xian was originally just a by-product of another work by Yang Shen. Yang Shen used ten pieces of gold to create a well-known Tanci reader, A Brief History of Past Dynasties. This book has ten paragraphs, which divide the historical development from ancient times to Yuan Dynasty into ten stages, and the beginning of each paragraph is a word. This poem "Linjiang Xian" is the opening word of the paragraph "Talking about Qin and Han Dynasties" in this tanci work.