The whole poem is as follows:
Yiran Guan Hai
(Yuan) Gaofangshan
Looking at Tsuen Wan on the hillside every day, Maoshan remains green.
I asked the sea when it was old, and the breeze asked me when it was idle.
Not that idle people can't be idle. If they can be idle, they must wait for idle people.
The vernacular translation of this poem is roughly like this. The poet looks at Tsuen Wan on the hillside every day. Maoshan has always been lush and the color has never changed. I asked when the sea would get old, and the breeze asked me when I could have leisure time. If you don't have the ability to be free from vulgarity, you can't get leisure, so people who can get leisure must not be mediocre.
In these two short sentences, the word "leisure" is used. What do they mean? What's the difference? Let me analyze:
1, Qingfeng asked me when I was free. Leisure here refers to leisure, a kind of ideological leisure.
2. It's not that idle people can't be idle. There are two "leisure" in this sentence. The leisure of the first idle person refers to a person who is extraordinary and has superb ideas;
The second "leisure" that can't be idle refers to the state of leisure, which has the same meaning as "leisure" in the article "Ask me when the breeze is idle".
3. If you can be free, you have to wait for idle people. There are two "leisure" in this sentence. The first "leisure" is still a state of leisure, which means the same as "leisure" in the article "When will the breeze ask me?"
The second idle person's "leisure" refers to mediocrity, and idle people also refer to mediocrity and vulgarity.
So, on the whole, there are so many leisure in this poem, which means three things.
The first kind of leisure is the ability, the ability to be refined in thought, and the so-called letting go can make you feel comfortable. Only by letting go of those tedious distractions in your mind can you be carefree. For example, a master like Tao Yuanming, regardless of other people's high-ranking officials, just picks chrysanthemums by himself and sees Nanshan leisurely. This is a superb realm beyond the secular.
Another kind of leisure is a state of life, a carefree state of life, and everyone knows it very well. Everyone wants a carefree life, but under the hedge of picking chrysanthemums, can everyone afford this life? Even if they can afford it, can everyone get by?
The third kind of idleness is mediocrity, that is, laity. Here, we use leisure to show that we are people with superb ideas.
"Not idle people can't idle. If you can be idle, you have to wait for idle people. " What the poet wants to express in these two poems should be that he also yearns for that carefree life, but he is not a master with extraordinary thoughts and can't get rid of the secular world, so he can't live a leisurely life.
Not that idle people can't be idle. This sentence applies to modern times. Those of us who are busy with our lives can't be idle. Even if a person is detached from other people's thoughts and can live in seclusion in the mountains, he will be regarded as a wonderful work by everyone, such as the man who lives in a cave in the news two years ago. Like most of us, even if you are given a cave, you can live without food and clothing. It is estimated that no one can live without the internet. This is that idle people can't be idle.
You have to wait for idle people if you can be idle. This sentence can also be understood according to our present meaning. That's not only ideological transcendence, but also the ability to be free economically, and then you can be free ideologically, so you have to idle your ability and capital.