Original text:
"If not in vain, why is your life limited? Times have changed, habits have not changed, and first frost's remaining manuscripts have been destroyed. Who knows who it is? "
Translation:
How can I spend this limited life without doing something that seems meaningless? Time has changed, old habits die hard. Who knows about first frost residual flowers and Niannujiao?
This is what Xiang Hongzuo said in the preface of Yi Yun Ci Draft. It is a kind of modesty to say that one's poems are useless. It is also a sigh of life! However, life is limited, and these seemingly useless things are often the most meaningful combination of limited circumstances.
Extended data:
Xiang Hongzuo (1798 ~ 1835) was a poet in Qing dynasty. Formerly known as Zhang Ji, later renamed Tingji, the word is continuous. Qiantang (now Hangzhou, Zhejiang) people. In the 12th year of Daoguang (1832), he failed in the senior high school entrance examination. He died of poverty at the age of 38.
Family business salt? Very rich, until you gradually degenerate. Hirosuke's life is as big as Nalan's virtue. He and Gong Zizhen are both "West Lake Shuang Jie". Most of his ci works are mainly about expressing worries and sentimentality, including four volumes of Yi Yun Ci A, B and D Draft, addendum 1 volume, Guangxu Guisi Qiantang Yuyuan Garden engraving, etc.
Xiang Hongzuo's Ci:
Qingpingle enjoys the cool in the pool.
Clear water and clear words, quiet people in the courtyard sell summer. Candle can't shake the curtain, and the bamboo shadow is half picturesque.
When you are drunk, you can help Sheng Tao. The cooked fan is cold and light. When it rains in the lotus pond, it is autumn.
Translation:
The water is quiet and cool, and the quiet people in the courtyard are enjoying the cool summer. The curtains are high, the light breeze shakes the candles in the room, and the bamboo shadow is reflected on the wall, like a beautiful bamboo painting.
After getting drunk, I lay on a bamboo pole made of peach and bamboo, and fanned my hair gently with ten thousand fans. The shower in the lotus pond has passed in one go, and it will definitely be autumn wind tomorrow.
Baidu Encyclopedia-Xiang Hongzuo