The next sentence is "Don't take medicine for your birthday". The complete couplet is the first couplet: if you are happy, you will not be an official. As long as you have money in your bag, millet in your warehouse and poetry in your stomach, you will be the prime minister in the mountains; Bottom line: You don't need to take medicine to pray for a long life. I hope you are a fairy on the earth who is disease-free, carefree and without creditors.
This couplet tells us that people can't pursue, but the goal of struggle can't be divorced from reality, and even more, they can't pursue illusory goals by hook or by crook. Enough is enough, contentment is always happy, contentment is always happy!
The characteristics of this couplet are:
Li Hongzhang spent most of his life as an official in the Qing court, earning both fame and fortune. However, in his later years, he seemed to have seen through life and his conscience had an epiphany. This couplet shows that his concept of happiness has changed: as long as there is money in his pocket, food in the barn, cultural water in his stomach, no need to take medicine when he is sick, no worries, and no one to collect debts, he is the "king of the mountains" and the "immortal on earth". This is a typical change of consciousness.