It means: spring flowers bloom and fall, and you don't care. Don't tell others what you are unhappy with; Water-heating and water-cooling fish know best in their own hearts that it is better to be unhappy than to be alone when they meet something that makes them satisfied and happy.

From: Caigen Tan by Hong Yingming in Ming Dynasty.

Caigen Tan is a wonderful book about practice, life, socialization and fertility compiled by Taoist Hong Yingming in the early Ming Dynasty. In an increasingly impetuous society, this book can nourish the mind from the inside, cultivate morality and handle things calmly from the outside. Words are elegant and vulgar, such as drizzle flowers, refreshing; Another example is the deafening spring thunder.

The content of Caigen Tan is a popular reading of Confucianism, which adopts the essence of Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism, takes Zen as the core, and takes self-cultivation, keeping the family in order, governing the country and leveling the world as the main road. At the same time, because it combines the characteristics of philosophy, art of life and aesthetic taste, it is also a China literary work that people strive for.

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Creative background:

Hong Yingming, life story is unknown. It is speculated that he is probably a native of Jintan County and a hermit who has lived in the mountains for a long time. The book may be published in the middle and late Wanli period.

At this time, Zongshen could not govern the country, the eunuch was authoritarian, the government was lax, and the party was in trouble. The Jiajing dynasty began to show signs of internal and external troubles, and people of insight were extremely dull and unable to extricate themselves from the fierce social contradictions at that time, so some people would express the voice of the times in various forms.

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