Excerpts from the original text:
I would rather die of old age than bow before horses and chariots; Cars and horses are rich and interesting, and hops are poor.
If wealth is better than poverty, one is in the ground and the other is in the sky; If you compare poverty to horses and chariots, he will have to drive away my leisure.
Others laugh that I am too crazy, and I laugh that others can't see through it; There are no graves of Hao Jie in Wuling, no flowers, no wine, and no hoes to plow the fields.
Explanation of the selected paragraph:
I don't want to bow down in front of luxurious chariots and horses. I just want to spend my whole life enjoying flowers and drinking. Running around by horse is the pleasure of the rich, while those who have no money are looking for wine and flowers.
If you compare wealth with poverty, it's a world of difference. If the life of the poor is compared to the life of horses and chariots, what they get is the pain of running around, and what I get is leisurely happiness.
Everyone laughs at me for being crazy, and I laugh at them for being superficial. I still remember that there were no flowers and no wine in front of the tomb of the heroes of the Five Tombs, and now they have all been hoed into fields.
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works appreciation
This poem mainly expresses the poet's attitude towards life that he is willing to retire, indifferent to fame and fortune, and unwilling to give it to the secular in pursuit of leisure. Peach blossom has the meaning of seclusion because of its homophonic "escape", and it also embodies the precious spirit of pursuing freedom and cherishing the value of individual life.
The first four sentences of the poem are narratives, saying that he is a peach fairy who lives in seclusion in Taohuawu, Suzhou, and planting peach trees to sell peach blossoms and wine is a portrayal of his life. These four sentences deliberately highlight the image of "Peach Blossom" and use peach blossom as a metaphor for a hermit, vividly depicting the image of a hermit who is roaming in the forest, free and easy, loves life and is as happy as a fairy.
The last four sentences describe the poet's life with flowers as neighbors and wine as friends. No matter he was drunk, he never left the peach blossom, day after day, year after year, letting time flow, letting flowers bloom and fall, and not changing his original intention. This obsession with flowers and wine shows that he cherishes life extremely.
The following four sentences directly point out my desire for life: I don't want to follow the door of wealth, but I would rather die of old age. Although the rich enjoy traveling, the poor can become attached to drinking snuff. By comparison, I wrote two different kinds of life fun, the poor and the rich.
The next four sentences are comments, which deeply reveal the dialectical relationship between the rich and the poor through the comparison of advantages and disadvantages: on the surface, there is a contrast between the rich and the poor, one in the sky and the other on the ground, but in fact, the rich are not as leisurely as the poor, if they exchange their wealth for the leisure of the poor.
I think it is not desirable. This kind of values that despise fame and fortune is tantamount to breaking ground in the era when everyone pursues wealth. It embodies the author's profound insight into life and detached and open-minded life realm. It is a wise choice in life. The connection with wealth must be fatigue. Money can buy enjoyment, but it can't buy a leisurely poetic life. Although poor, they did not lose the joy of life and the richness of spirit, which is a portrayal of the life of frustrated literati in ancient times.