Compound sentence is used to describe the time when swallows return, willows turn green and peach blossoms bloom again. In the spring scenery depicted, it shows that the rise and fall of nature is the trace of time flying. "Why are our days gone forever?" Seemingly inquiring, it actually expresses the author's helplessness over the passage of time and his deep memory of the past days.
(2) Like a drop of water on the tip of a needle in the sea, my days are dripping in the stream of time, without sound or shadow.
The author compares his past 8,000 days to a drop of water on the tip of a needle, and compares the flow of time to the vast sea. How short the days seem, they disappear so quickly and without a trace. It shows the author's very helpless sadness.
(3) When washing hands, the days pass from the basin; When eating, the days pass from the rice bowl; Silence, and then from the eyes of condensation.
The author uses a series of parallelism sentences to describe the details of people's daily life-washing hands, eating, meditating, Life from a Pot, Life from a Rice Bowl, and Past in front of us, and shows that days come and go inadvertently in life with delicate and unique brushstrokes.
(4) The past is like a light smoke, which is blown away by the breeze and evaporated by Chu Yang, such as mist; What traces did I leave?
The author has made a high summary of the passage of more than 8,000 days, which makes the image of time passing in a hurry become "smoke" and "fog", with unique metaphor and novel association. The faint smoke and fog are "blown away" and "evaporated" in an instant, and the days are so fleeting. The author feels the passage of time wholeheartedly.