Impressions after reading the book

Zhu Xi of the Song Dynasty

Half an acre of square pond opens up,

The skylight and cloud shadows linger *** .

Ask where the canal can be so clear?

Because there is a source of living water.

The second poem of reading the book

Zhu Xi of the Song Dynasty

Last night the spring water grew by the river,

The giant ship was as light as a dime .

I have always wasted my efforts,

This day I am free to flow.

Commentary

This poem is inspiring and lasting. Always new. The half-acre pond is like a mirror, reflecting the flashing skylight and cloud shadows. I wonder why this pond is so clear? It turns out that there is living water constantly flowing from the source! The meaning of the poem is very profound. It uses the source of living water as a metaphor for learning. Only by constantly absorbing new knowledge can we make rapid progress.

Jian: Mirror.

Wandering: This refers to flashing back and forth.

Qu: This refers to Fangtang.

Source: Chinese Poetry-Southern Song Dynasty-Zhu Xi

Appreciation

This is a philosophical poem. After reading, people often feel a sudden enlightenment. The poem uses symbolic techniques to turn this inner feeling into tangible and tangible actions to describe it, allowing readers to appreciate the mystery on their own. The so-called "living water from the source" should refer to the continuous acquisition of new knowledge from books.

"Looking at the Book and Feelings" is a famous poem written by Zhu Xi, a scholar at the University of the Southern Song Dynasty. I will copy it and analyze and appreciate it with everyone. I hope it can inspire and encourage young friends who have no interest in learning, do not read books and newspapers, and only know how to have fun.

Four lines of the original poem: "As soon as the half-acre square pond is opened, the skylight and cloud shadows linger endlessly; I ask the canal how clear it is? It has a source of living water."

What it actually depicts is a bright and fresh pastoral scene. If you read it several times, you will find yourself loving it more and more! You see, a small pond of half an acre is an unfolding mirror in Zhu Xi's painting (once opened). It is so peaceful and elegant that people immediately spread the wings of their imagination. The second sentence arouses readers' imagination. This "mirror" reflects the shadows of clouds lingering in the sky. How quiet and lovely the clear water is! The author raises a question in the third sentence, why is the water so clear? He happily asked himself, because the source is always replenished with living water, and it keeps flowing down.

This beautiful picture of natural scenery has already made people feel fresh and bright after reading it. What makes people even more amazed is that when they look at the title, it is the feeling of reading the book. Suddenly the beautiful artistic conception is sublimated and used. The method of expressing one's ambitions through objects combines living water with reading.

It turns out that the great scholar Zhu Xi was praising reading for understanding, and the joy, clarity, and liveliness felt in the soul were narrated by the reflection of ponds and cloud shadows. Why is his mind so clear? Because there is always new knowledge in books like living water, constantly replenishing it for him!

A little poem by the great genius Zhu Xi gives us a lot of inspiration. Reading more good books will make your mind always lively, full of ideas, and elegant!

Introduction: Zhu Xi 1130-1200, with the courtesy name Yuanhui and the first character Zhonghui, a native of Wuyuan (now part of Jiangxi). In the 18th year of Shaoxing (1148), he became a Jinshi and was appointed as the chief clerk of Tongzi. During the Chunxi period, he once knew the Nankang Army and was promoted to the official position of tea supervisor in eastern Zhejiang. During the Guangzong period, he knew Zhangzhou and joined the Secret Pavilion to compile and compile. At the beginning of Ning Zong's reign, Guan Huanzhang Pavilion was waiting to be established. Later, he was attacked as a pseudo-scholar and was dismissed from his post. The 100 volumes of "Collected Works of Mr. Hui'an" are still in existence today. Notes ①Fangtang: Also known as Banmu Pond, it is located in Zheng Yizhai Hall (later Nanxi Academy) in the south of Youxi City, Fujian Province. Zhu Xi's father Song had a good relationship with Zheng, so there is a poem in "Die Lian Hua· Drunken Stay in Zheng's Villa" that goes: "At dawn, the square pond opens up. The catkins are falling like flying, and they are willing to stand in the spring breeze." Mirror: Mirror. The ancients used copper as a frame, wrapped it with a mirror bag, and opened it when in use. ②This sentence means that the light of the sky and the shadow of the clouds are reflected in the pond water, constantly changing, just like people wandering.

③Qu: He refers to Fangtang. No way, how could it be? Such as: like this. ④ Meng Chong: Warship. A feather is as light as a feather. Comment: Some people think that poetry is the product of image thinking, so it is only suitable for describing scenes and expressing emotions, but not for reasoning. This makes some sense, but it cannot be made absolute. Because reason can be expressed through visual means, it is as attractive as scenery and emotion. At the same time, the speculative nature of reason itself is often very fascinating. (Meicheng's "Qifa" proves this point.) Therefore, there is no shortage of successful philosophical poems in ancient and modern poetry. Zhu Xi was a student of Liu Zihui, and his father Zhu Song was also very talented. Perhaps due to the influence of his father and master, his evaluation of literature in Taoism was relatively fair, and he also wrote some good poems full of life. For example, these two poems are of course works of reasoning. The former poem uses the idea that a pond must be constantly filled with living water to be clear, which is a metaphor for thinking that must continue to develop and improve in order to be active and avoid stagnation and rigidity. In the latter poem, people's self-cultivation often goes through a stage from quantitative change to qualitative change. Once the water is ready, it will naturally be clear on the outside and inside, without any restraints, and free. These two poems use vivid images to express the truths that he has realized in his studies. They are both inspiring and not lacking in poetic flavor, so Chen Yan rated them as "combining things and reasoning without being corrupt."