Golden Threaded Clothes
I advise you not to cherish your gold-threaded clothes, but to cherish your youth.
Flowers are ready to be folded when they bloom, but don’t wait until there are no flowers to break branches.
Notes
⑴Gold threaded clothes: Clothes decorated with gold threads are a metaphor for glory and wealth. ⑵Treasure: Cherish. ⑶Kan: Yes, I can. ⑷Zhisu: Although. Straight: direct and straightforward. ⑸Don’t wait: Don’t wait.
Yun translation
I advise you not to cherish the luxurious gold-threaded clothes.
I advise you to cherish your youth.
When the flowers are blooming and it’s time to break them, hurry up and break them.
Don’t wait until the flowers fade and only break an empty branch.
Translation
Don’t cherish the gorgeous clothes woven with money, but cherish your youth. Just like the blooming flowers, they must be picked in time. If you fail to pick them in time, you will have to break off the flower branches when the remaining flowers fall in spring.
Appreciation of Works
The meaning of this poem is very simple and can be summed up in one sentence: "Don't let the good times pass you by". This is originally a kind of thought and emotion that everyone has. However, it makes readers feel that although its emotions are simple but strong, they can linger in people's hearts for a long time and have an incredible charm. Each of its verses seems to be repeating the single meaning of "Don't miss the good times!" And each verse contains subtle changes, repetition but not monotony, looping but slow, forming a beautiful melody.
The first and second sentences have the same pattern, both starting with "persuading you", and the word "xi" also appears twice. This is a factor of repetition in the two sentences. But the first sentence says "to advise you not to cherish", and the second sentence says "to advise you to cherish". "Mo" and "Xu" have opposite meanings, and they form repeated changes. These two lines of poetry are coherent. The "gold-threaded garment" is a gorgeous and precious thing, but "I advise you not to cherish it". It can be seen that there is something far more precious than it. This is the "youth" of "I advise you not to cherish it". As for the reason, the poem does not say it directly, but it is self-evident: "An inch of time is worth an inch of gold, and an inch of gold cannot buy an inch of time." As precious as gold, it can be obtained again, and "a thousand pieces of gold will come back again after it is gone"; However, youth only comes once to anyone, and once it passes, it will never come back. However, many people in the world are confused about this. There are many people who love money as much as their lives and waste their time. He repeatedly "persuades you", using a dialogue tone, paying sincere greetings, with a strong sense of song, and a charming and moving charm. Two sentences, one negating and the other affirming, negating the former in order to affirm the latter, seeming to combine with reality, constitute the first repetition and chant in the poem, and its melody and rhythm are slow and slow. The third and fourth sentences constitute the second repetition and chant. In terms of poetic meaning, they are almost the same as the first and second sentences, and they still mean "Don't let the good times pass you by". In this way, in addition to the repetition between sentences, there is also a larger roundabout repetition between the first couplet and the second couplet. However, the expression techniques of the two couplets are different. The first couplet directly expresses the feelings, which is a metaphor; the second couplet uses a metaphor, which is a metaphor. So there is still variation in the repetition. Three and four do not have the neat sentence structure of one and two, but they are symmetrical to each other in meaning. The upper sentence says what it should be like if there are flowers, and the next sentence says what it will be like if there are no flowers. The upper sentence says what it should be like if it is "must", and the next sentence says what it should be like if it is "mo". There are also positive and negative oppositions. The meanings of the two sentences are closely related: "If there are flowers, you must break them straight away" means "please wait until spring" from the positive side, "Don't wait until there are no flowers to break branches" means "please wait until spring" from the negative side, which is like It is a continuation of "persuading you" to express the same feelings repeatedly, but the tone and rhythm change from slow and slow to urgent and passionate. The phrase "Ken Zhe - Zhi Xu Zhe" has a short rhythm and extremely strong intensity. The "Zhi Xu" is more emphasized than the previous "Xu". This is a bold song of youth and love. The enthusiasm and unrestrainedness here are not only straightforward and bold, but also vivid and beautiful. The word "花" appears twice, and the word "Zhe" appears three times; "Xu——Mo" and so on, and "Mo——Xu" in the first couplet, naturally form a palindromic overlapping beauty. This series of natural and wonderful repetitions of words, sentences, and couplets make the poems catchy and the language sung. In addition to the beauty of the form, its emotions change from a slow loop to a passionate turbulence, which also constitutes the internal rhythm of the poem, making people feel even more soul-stirring when read.
There is a kind of lyrics that is as simple as one or two sentences. When a skilled composer sets it to a beautiful melody and sings it repeatedly, it can still acquire a moving charm; and "Golden Thread Clothes" has a simple but not monotonous poetic meaning. , there are back and forth, there are changes, there are many in one, one in many, as an independent poem, it is swaying and colorful, not to mention that it was sung with a soundtrack in the Tang Dynasty. No wonder it is so intoxicating and has been widely sung.