Original: Ji Hai's miscellaneous poems
Qing Dynasty: Gong Zizhen
The vast sadness of parting extends to the setting sun, away from Beijing, riding a whip to the east, feeling that people are on earth.
I quit my job and go home, just like a flower falling from a branch, but this is not a heartless thing. It can be turned into the soil of spring and can also play a role in nurturing the next generation.
The sadness of parting extends to the distant place where the sun goes down. When you leave Beijing, you will feel that you are at the end of the world, and a whip is drawn to the east. I quit my job and went home, just like a flower falling from a branch, but it was not a heartless thing. It has become the soil of spring and can also play a role in cultivating the next generation.
Extended data:
The poet empathizes with things and creates new ideas with falling flowers, showing us a magnificent realm: "Falling red is not heartless, but turning into spring mud will protect flowers"! In the poet's view, as an individual, the life of a fallen flower is terminated; But once it turns into spring mud, it can protect and nourish new flower branches, and its life will continue to the next generation, reflecting the real life value.
The poet expressed a positive attitude towards life by turning flowers into spring mud. These two poems also contain the philosophy that "falling red" seems useless.
But from another point of view, it can turn mud into flowers and still has value and function. It contains that everything in the world has two sides. "Useful" and "useless" are not absolute, but relative. The key lies in the observer's perspective and his own value and function.