Original text:
Building a house is human, and there are no horses and chariots.
What can you do? The heart is far from being self-centered.
Picking chrysanthemums under the east fence, you can see Nanshan leisurely.
The mountains are getting better and better, and the birds are back.
That makes sense. I forgot what I wanted to say.
Explanation:
My home is built on the road where people come and go, and everyone lives together without disturbing the noise of God's entertainment.
Ask me how I can be so extraordinary, free and easy, and my mind is naturally quiet and far away from the world.
Picking chrysanthemums under the east fence made me linger, and I accidentally saw the wonders of Nanshan.
In the twilight, colorful fog fills the air, and flocks of birds return to the embrace of distant mountains.
Nanshan Yangzhi, there is the true meaning of life here, needless to say.
Creative background:
This poem was written by Tao Yuanming when he saw through the darkness of the Eastern Jin Dynasty and resigned and retired. In a remote mountain village, Tao Yuanming was not disturbed by the secular world. He is often drunk, but his mind is full of poems. He pulls out a piece of paper at random and writes down his feelings, and then changes it until he wakes up the next day. The poems written are getting thicker and thicker, so let my old friends help me sort out the transcription. A * * * got 20 poems, and Tao Yuanming named this group of poems "Twenty Drinking Poems". This poem shows Tao Yuanming's noble and proud moral sentiment and life interest.
About the author:
Tao Yuanming (about 365-427), with a distinctive personality, is known as Mr. Wu Liu, a poet, writer, lyricist and essayist at the end of the Eastern Jin Dynasty and the beginning of the Southern Song Dynasty. Han nationality, a native of Chaisang, Xunyang, Eastern Jin Dynasty (now Jiujiang, Jiangxi). I worked as a junior official for several years, then resigned and went home, and lived in seclusion from then on. Rural life is the theme of Tao Yuanming's poems, and his related works include Drinking, Returning to the Garden, The Story of Peach Blossom Garden, Biography of Mr. Wuliu, and Returning to Xi Ci.