"Asking what love is in the world can tell you whether life and death are together."

The first time I heard this touching saying was in a song. Later, when I read Daxia Jin's masterpiece "The Legend of the Condor Heroes", I came across this famous saying, but one word was missing. Daxia Jin wrote, "Ask what love is in this world, and you will learn how to make love between life and death." I have read several of Jin Daxia's masterpieces, but this sentence is the only one that is unforgettable, so I suspect that Jin Daxia is not original, but I can't find the source. It’s not that I look down on Daxia Jin. Daxia Jin is a master at writing stories. There is no doubt about this.

Recently, in order to kill my free time, I dug out a set of "Selected Poems of All Dynasties" that I bought more than 30 years ago. Here I finally found the source of this famous saying, which originally came from the poet Yuan Wenhao of the Jin Dynasty. The poem "Touching Fish". The original words are as follows:

If you ask what love is in the world, how can you tell whether it means life and death?

Flying together from all over the world, Lao Chi has experienced the cold and heat several times!

Happiness is fun, parting is painful, and there are even more idiotic children.

You should say: Thousands of miles of clouds, thousands of mountains at dusk, only shadows for whom!

On Hengfen Road, the flute and drum were played in loneliness, and the desolate smoke is still plain.

How come the soul-calling Chu is here, the mountain ghost cries in the wind and rain.

The sky is jealous, and if you don’t believe it, the orioles and swallows are all in loess.

For thousands of years, in order to entertain the scholar, he sang and drank wildly and visited Yanqiu.

There are two differences between the original text and the quote by Jin Daxia. My book is a university textbook, has a certain degree of authority, and must be accurate.

The original text also has a preface, explaining the reason for writing this poem, "Yichou went to Bingzhou at the age of 10, and met a goose hunter on the way. He said: 'Now that I catch a goose, I will kill it. It is out of the net. He screamed and couldn't go, so he threw himself to the ground and died. "I bought it and buried it on the Fen River. Most of the people who traveled with me at that time wrote poems, and I also wrote some poems about Yanqiu." Gong Shang, now change the order." The general idea is: The author met a goose catcher on the way to Bingzhou. The man said that he caught a goose in the morning and killed it, but one of them escaped from the net. However, the wild geese screamed in the sky and refused to leave, and finally hit the ground and died. Therefore, the author bought the wild goose, buried it beside the Fen River, and built a grave with stones as a mark. Most of the people who traveled with the author wrote poems for the wild geese who died in love, and the author also wrote a "Ci of Wild Goose". Because the original work was not in harmony with the rhythm, it has now been revised and finalized.

The wild goose who died for love moved the author, who left behind the eternal famous saying "Ask what love is in the world, and you will learn how to make love between life and death." Now it has evolved into "Ask what love is in the world, and teach you how to make love between life and death", which is even more catchy. However, "life and death commitments" are rare among human beings. In today's society where money worship is rampant and materialism is rampant, there are even fewer examples of "life and death commitments". Those who hold hands and enter the marriage hall are not all lovers. The reasons that bring them together may be interests, public opinion, hormones or other things. Most of them cannot be committed to each other for life and death. of. Therefore, animals like geese and swans that are committed to each other and agree on life and death are more likely to move people.

Of course, people are not all greedy and ruthless. Many people also want to find someone who can commit life and death to you, but in the vast sea of ??people, the person who can commit life and death to you is not there. It’s easy to find, and sometimes you don’t even know it passes you by.

I have seen various statues of gods, but I have never seen the statue of Old Man Yuexia. I wonder what he looks like. In my imagination, he was a strange old man carrying a wine gourd. He was drunk more often than he was sober every day. When he is sober, he will tie lovers together with a red thread, but when he is drunk, he will make random arrangements, resulting in many indifferent and resentful couples in the world.

May the lovers of all the crazy men and resentful women in the world finally get married and live and die together!