Humble Room Inscription is an inscription written by Liu Yuxi, a poet in the Tang Dynasty. The article has distinct levels, starting from the mountains and rivers, pointing out the theme of "I am a humble room, but I am virtuous and fragrant", and then starting from the outdoor scenery, indoor people and things in the room, rendering the elegant realm of the humble room and introducing the residence of ancient Junyan. The ancient sage's words strengthened the meaning and ended with questions, with a long aftertaste.
The full text (excerpt) is as follows:
The mountain is not high, and the fairy is famous.
The water is not deep, and the dragon is the spirit.
I am a humble room, but I am virtuous.
The translation is as follows:
The mountain is not high, but the immortal will be famous.
If the water is not deep, the dragon will have aura.
This is a humble house, but I don't feel humble because of my good character.
Extended data:
The first few words from Shi Shuo Xin Yu Pai Diao dig out new ideas, "The mountain is not high, it is ineffective, and the depth is not deep, it is unclear", which leads to the humble room with the common metaphor in poetry. "The mountain is not high" and "the water is not deep" are better than the humble room, and "the fairy is named" and "the dragon is the spirit" are better than the humble room. "These four sentences are well-known sayings, which are quite cautionary in philosophical poems.
From far to near, the author wrote for the second time, creating a downward momentum with parallel sentence patterns. Later, he revealed that "I am a humble room, but I am virtuous and fragrant". I feel that the punch line is like a pearl, and the victory is in hand.
These two sentences are associated with "millet is not fragrant, but virtue is fragrant" in Shangshu Zhou Shu Jun Chen, and it is emphasized that self-motivation with virtue is indeed the theme and warning strategy of an article. The meanness of writing a humble room is to set off the sage of the master in the room, and the sage of the master in the room just shows that the humble room is not mean, which is a complementary relationship.
The following is a description of the scenery inside and outside the room, the people in the room and the things in the room. Every sentence is marked with the word "ugly" without the word "virtue". "The moss on the upper stage is green, and the grass in the curtain is green" is the beauty of writing indoor and outdoor scenery. The beauty lies in the exquisite spreading of the humble room and expressing the artistic conception of the poem in poetic language. The words "scar" and "color" turn the conceptualized "moss" and "grass" into tangible and visible concrete images.
"Going up the stairs" and "entering the curtain" turn static into dynamic, write expressions of "moss" and "grass", and introduce the outside into the room, which adds vitality to the simple room and is full of spring breath. And a piece of "green" and a piece of "green", bright colors, but also set off the elegance, tranquility and chic of the room. These two sentences create an environment suitable for describing people and things in the humble room.
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