I am always afraid that the cold autumn will come, the leaves will turn yellow and the grass will wither.
This poem is from "Long Songs of Han Yuefu", the original text:
The trees in the garden are lush, and the crystal dew rises in 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.
The river runs to the sea, and when will it return to the west?
If young people don't work in time, they will only regret for life when they are old.
Yuefu is a royal musical organ established since the Qin Dynasty. Collected a large number of poems from the folk, rich in content and wide in subject matter. This poem is one of Han Yuefu's poems. Long-line songs refer to freestyle singing with "long singing" as the tune.
This is a song about life. Life begins with sunflowers in the garden, and the time sequence of nature is constantly changing. In a blink of an eye, spring arrived in Qiu Lai. Sunflowers and everything in the garden experienced spring growth and summer growth. In autumn, they mature, and the once radiant leaves become brown and withered, losing their vitality. The same is true of life, from youth to old age. This is an immutable law of nature. At the end of the poem, he turned from exploring the universe to thinking about the value of life, and finally came to the conclusion that "young people don't work hard, but old disciples are sad", ending the whole poem.
Everything in nature has a spring and autumn process; Life is also a process in which teenagers work hard and old people achieve something. Everything in nature, as long as there is sunshine and rain, can bear fruit in autumn, but people are different; You can't succeed without your own efforts. Everything withers in autumn, but it realizes the value of life, so it is not sad; People, on the other hand, are unsuccessful because they are "young and don't work hard", which is equivalent to walking around in vain.
The whole poem tells the philosophy of life from the shallow to the deep, which makes this poem avoid the life sermon that is easy to be boring, and makes the final epigram look vigorous and powerful, deep and implicit, and deeply touches the readers' hearts like Hong Zhong.
reference data
Wu Xiaoru and others edited the Dictionary of Poetry Appreciation in Han, Wei and Six Dynasties. Shanghai: Shanghai Dictionary Publishing House, 1992.