"Young people don't work hard, but old people are sad" means: if you don't know how to be strong when you are young, you will be white-haired when you are old, and it will be useless to be sad.
The sunflower in the green garden is waiting for the sun. Spring fills the earth with hope, and everything presents a scene of prosperity. I am always afraid that when the cold autumn comes, the trees in Ye Er will turn yellow and the grass will wither. A hundred rivers go east to the sea, when will they return to the west? A lazy youth, a lousy age.
This is a song about life. Singing life begins with the sunflower in the garden, which is called "supporting things to get excited" in writing. In the spring morning, the sunflower in the garden is slim and elegant, with dew rolling on the green leaves and shining in the morning sun, like a teenager full of youthful vitality. The poet extended from the vigorous growth of sunflowers in the garden and wrote about the whole nature. Because of the sunshine and rain in spring, everything shines with the brilliance of life, and everywhere is full of vitality and prosperity. These four sentences, literally, are praises to spring, but in fact, they are comparisons between things and people, and they are praises to the most precious thing in life-youth. Life is full of youthful vitality, just like spring is beautiful all year round.
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Long song (Poems of Han Yuefu)
Yuefu Poetry is a collection of Yuefu poems compiled by Guo Maoqian in Song Dynasty, with a total volume of 100 12. From the Han and Wei Dynasties to the Five Dynasties, there were more than ten kinds of pre-Qin ballads. In addition to the music of the feudal court, there are also a large number of folk music lyrics and new Yuefu poems (including Mulan Poetry and Peacock Flying Southeast) created by literati. All kinds of books have a general sequence, each song has a solution, and there are textual researches on the origins of various lyrics.
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Yuefu poetry
Author Guo Maoqian (104 1 year-1099) was born in Yunzhou (now Dongping, Shandong Province) in the Northern Song Dynasty (History of Song Dynasty, volume 297, Biography of Guo Quan).
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Guo Maoqian