Combined with the context, it can be understood as: the road is narrow and the road is long. I want to seek the sun in my heart up and down. Combined with the context, it expresses Qu Yuan's positive and enterprising mentality of "exploring the road before it is completely dark". Now it is generally extended to: lose no time to find the right way to solve the problems faced.
Source:
Qu Yuan's "Lisao" 97 sentence: "The road is long, but it is Xiu Yuan, and it is Xiu Yuan. I will go up and down to find it."
Annotation translation
The road in Xiu Yuan is very long, and I will go up and down: it's a long way. It means "road". Xiu Yuan: Long-term.
The road ahead is long, and I will (spare no effort) explore up and down.
Introduction to this paragraph
Although the road to the destination is vague, I will seize the opportunity to explore.
Understanding and interpretation of this paragraph
There is a long way to go in Xiu Yuan, and I will go up and down. Li Sao is a magnificent lyric poem, which enjoys a lofty position in the history of China literature. This masterpiece was written when Qu Yuan was exiled to the south of the Yangtze River. It was a poet's work full of patriotic passion and expressing his worries. Qu yuan felt that his way of governing the country could not be accepted by the king of Chu, so he had to walk away in grief and indignation to seek an ideal way of life. He used romanticism in this poem and made a lyrical description: starting from Cangwu in the morning and arriving at the hanging garden in the evening. How tired it is to run around all day! I want to have a rest outside the palace gate, but I can't! Time is pressing and it's getting dark. I asked xi to stop driving. The cave is in front of us. Don't go near it! The distance in front of us is so long and so far, and I have made up my mind to persistently find the ideal lifestyle. [3]
Xiu Yuan has a long way to go, and I will go up and down to search for this poem in Qu Yuan's Lisao, which has become a famous inspirational sentence for many people since ancient times. There is a popular explanation: "There is still a long way to go in the pursuit of truth, but I will persevere and spare no effort to pursue and explore." In fact, this is not the original meaning of this sentence in the original poem. It is a kind of self-understanding of this sentence when I don't understand the whole poem. Although heroic and inspiring, it lost its original artistic charm and looked pale, monotonous and dogmatic. Moreover, it sounds like a feeling of "pursuing the goal by hook or by crook". If we put this sentence back into the original poem, understand it together with the context, do not take it out of context, and freely play the quotation, we can get in touch with the perfect artistic connotation that Qu Yuan wants to express to later generations, and see a plump, vivid and reasonable artistic image. Its benefits will be far greater than just shouting it as a slogan, and it can also get rid of the violent and stubborn spirit in the previous explanation.
Brief introduction of the author
Qu Yuan (340 BC-278 BC), named Ping, was born in the State of Chu and had the same surname as the King of Chu. In his early years, he won the trust of the king, and he was an official disciple and doctor. Due to the opposition of the aristocratic conservative group, he was finally defeated, alienated by Wang Huai, and exiled to Hanbei. When Ying, the capital of Chu, was attacked by Qin Jun, he threw himself into the Miluo River in a state of hesitation, frustration, indignation and melancholy. His works include Li Sao, Tian Wen, Nine Songs, Nine Chapters, Evocation and so on, which artistically express his deep feelings of loving the motherland from different aspects.