Today, this sentence still has a strong educational significance. "Everyone is responsible for the rise and fall of the country." We should share our worries for the country and think for the people, so that our motherland will be stronger and people's lives will be happier.
Translation:
In the spring of the fourth year of Li Qing (1044), Teng was the magistrate of Yuezhou. In the second year, political affairs went smoothly, folk music was combined, and many long-neglected undertakings were re-established. And rebuild Yueyang Tower and expand the old scale. At the same time, it is also engraved with poems of wise men and contemporary people in the Tang Dynasty. And wrote an article to describe it.
I looked at the beautiful scenery of Baling County, focusing on Dongting Lake. Dongting Lake connects the distant mountains, engulfs the Yangtze River, and has boundless water waves. It turns cloudy and sunny in the morning and evening (one day), and the scenery is ever-changing.
This is the magnificent scenery of Yueyang architecture, which has been described in detail by predecessors. However, because it leads to Wuxia in the north and Lishui and Xiangshui in the south, most of the demoted officials and poets from south to north gather here. The feeling of seeing natural scenery may be different.
If it rains continuously and intensively, sometimes there is no sunny day for a month. The cold wind howls, the turbid waves rise, the sun, the moon and the stars cover its brilliance, and the mountains cover its shape; Businessmen and passengers couldn't get through, the mast fell off and the paddle broke; At night, it was dark, tigers were howling and apes were crying.
Climbing Yueyang Tower (at this time) will give you a feeling of leaving Beijing, missing your hometown, worrying about speaking ill of others and being afraid of criticizing him. His eyes were full of depression and extreme sadness.
As for the warm spring breeze and sunny days, the lake is calm and the sky is connected with the lake. It's green and vast. Sha Ou sometimes flies and sometimes stops. Beautiful fish swim in the lake; The grass on the shore of the lake and the orchid on the sandbar are rich in fragrance and lush in vegetation.
Sometimes the smoke and dust are all scattered, the bright moonlight pours thousands of miles, and the water waves shine with golden light; There is no wind in the quiet moonlight, just like jade immersed in water. The fisherman sang and sang. This kind of fun is endless! On Yueyang Tower, there will be an open-minded heart, a joyful spirit, forgetting the gains and losses of honor and disgrace, and holding the glass high in the wind, a feeling of high spirits!
Hey! I have studied the thoughts of ancient nobles, which may be different from the above two emotions. Why is this? They are not happy or sad because of the quality of foreign objects and personal gains and losses;
People who are officials in the imperial court are worried about the people; People who are not court officials are worried about the king. In this way, the DPRK is also worried about officials, and the opposition is also worried about the people. In that case, when will you be happy?
That must be the meaning of "worrying about the world first, and enjoying the world later"? Without such a person, who can I be with?