The great songs shock the world, and the wild words are innocent.
"Drunk Book" by Lu Jing of Song Dynasty. Hao Ge: Sing loudly. Innocence: This refers to the unpretentious nature. The general meaning of these two sentences is: speaking loudly and shocking the world, speaking arrogantly and speaking truthfully goes as far as one's nature. Lu You often used "haoge" and "crazy words" to point out current problems, fight against the secular world, reveal his temperament, and vent his frustrations. There are many "Drunken Songs" and "Drunken Books" in his collection of poems. In fact, it is a very sober work, and you must read it if you want to understand its sentiments.
Lu You, a patriotic poet of the Southern Song Dynasty, "Drunk Book"
Look at the Qianxun Pine, it is straight and has no softness. Secular Quotes
"Potted Flowers" by Sheng Feng of the Qing Dynasty. Fathom: An ancient unit of length, eight feet is one fathom. The general meaning of these two sentences is: Please look at the pine tree thousands of feet high. The trunk is straight and has no softness at all. The potted flowers and plants in the greenhouse are beautiful and pleasing to the eye, but they cannot withstand a little wind and rain, and they fade away in time, without any news. The pines in the mountains are as tall as a thousand feet, upright and unyielding, without any softness or charm, in the wind and snow, proud of the severe cold, and evergreen all year round. This is an image worthy of people's admiration. It can be used to chant pine trees, or it can also be used to praise people who have noble character and refuse to flatter the world.
Qing Dynasty scholar Sheng Feng's "Potted Flowers"
Discussing worldly affairs based on thoughts from the heart. Wang Chong, a philosopher of the Eastern Han Dynasty
Picked up all the cold branches and refused to live on them, and the lonely sandbank was cold.
"Bu Shuzi" by Su Shi of the Song Dynasty [The missing moon hangs on the sparse tung trees]. Cold branches: branches in cold weather. The general meaning of these two sentences is: Gu Hong picked up all the cold branches but refused to live on them, preferring to endure the cold among the lonely sandbank reeds. This is a poem written by Su Shi when he first came to Huangzhou to live in Dinghui Yuan. In the bottom line, he wrote that Gu Hong "started but looked back, and there was no one to forgive him for his hatred." At that time, the author had just come out of jail and was still in shock. Loneliness of mind. He used the self-contemplation of a lonely man under the waning moon on an autumn night to express his unwillingness to follow others and his attitude towards life, reflecting the poet's aloof character and extraordinary interest. This is the writing method of "supporting things to express aspirations". In this poem, the Hong is like a person, and the person is like a Hong. The Hong and the person have become one. Although there is sustenance, there is no trace of it. The words are unique and meaningful, which can be said to be a masterpiece.
Northern Song Dynasty writer Su Shi's "Bu Shuzi"
Those who follow the crowd should not be involved in trouble. English poet Byron
All worldly power makes people scoundrels. Quotes about the worldly Irish playwright Bernard Shaw
Be shrewd in your dealings with the world, but not in a worldly shrewdness. F. Quarles
Human faces never look so worldly as they do at funerals.