The meaning of this sentence is:
The rhythm of life cannot be trapped by the immediate environment. Not only must we see the pressure line, the waves are rough, and the boring, but we must also pursue the true inner life. Find something meaningful, find the direction of your dreams, and strive to pursue the excitement of life instead of being a frog in the well.
This sentence comes from "Gao Xiaosong's 184 Days in Prison: Life Still Has Poetry and Distance".
Original summary:
Poetry and distance, life is more than just the present, there is also poetry and distance
I stubbornly blocked the drunken sunlight, almost crazy
I looked back several times in my dream and sang softly
Who wants to cross that long river of forgetfulness and forget the past life
It still looks like the old days, with pear blossoms, white powder and daisy soft intestines
The girl holding a bamboo umbrella is sneaking in the misty alleys
Those broken images are like old stories
The title page is yellowed. In this life, fate is Turned into a flower funeral
Looking for a piece of bluestone to be safe, walking on a piece of pure land to be peaceful
This is what it looks like
Vernacular interpretation:
My mother took my sister and me in the corridors of the Summer Palace, talking about the meaning of each painting, using couplets to read the melodious words in front of each ancient house, and asking us to guess the dismantled paintings in the corridors. The play of stones and wooden piles tells a vivid history from these still objects. These decadent and profound histories told my sister and me the vastness of the world, the negligence of life, and the eternity of beauty.
Of the many things my mother told us, the truest one is: The world is not only about the present, but also about poetry and distance - in fact, poetry is the farthest part of your heart. During the years my sister and I were growing up, we traveled the world, but we never bought a house that was one foot tall because we always believed that poetry and distance were our home.
Extended information:
"Poetry and distance" refers to ideal life, derived from Gao Xiaosong's famous saying "This world is not only about the present, but also poetry and distance.". This sentence touched many people born in the 1970s and 1980s and became a famous Internet chicken soup.
In 2016, Gao Xiaosong released a new song "Life is more than just what you have in front of you", which became a hot topic on the Internet.
What ordinary people call "living on" is actually themselves. "Poetry and distance" is an ideal life. In fact, real life is inevitably repetitive, monotonous or stressful. Although imagination is wonderful and attractive, if you want to land, you still have to go back to daily life, firewood, rice, oil and salt.
Gao Xiaosong said, "Life is not just about the present, but also about poetry and distance." The main thing that stands out is the "more than". He did not deny anyone's meticulousness, but he also emphasized that we must not forget poetry and distance.
Poetry and distance doesn’t mean you have to write great poetry and drive to a place you’ve never been. It also represents a kind of beautiful yearning for your own existence, a kind of true "love, joy, peace" pursuing survival in your heart.
Poetry represents life, poetry represents life, is an indispensable interest in life and the thinking and interpretation of life; and distance is the pure land and yearning that has never been touched in your heart, it can be in your heart Your dream can be a person or even a delicious food you have never tasted.