The flowers are similar every year, but the people are different every year. This means that the flowers are the same every year, but the people who see the flowers are different every year.

Source: Tang Dynasty Liu Xiyi's "The Sad White-headed Man": "The ancients never returned to the east of Luocheng, but today's people still love the wind of falling flowers. The flowers are similar every year, but the people are different every year. Messages flourish. The beauty should pity the half-dead white-headed old man. The white-headed old man is really pitiful. I used to be a beautiful young man.”

Translation: The old man no longer laments the withered peach and plum flowers in the east of Luoyang City, but today people still do. Feeling sad about the fallen flowers drifting in the wind. The flowers are still there year after year, but the people who see the flowers are different year after year.

I would like to tell those beautiful young people who are in their prime of life to pity this half-dead old man. Now he is gray-haired and pitiful, but he used to be a handsome and beautiful young man.

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Appreciation of "The White-headed Man of Daibei":

In "The White-headed Man of Daibei", "The ancients never recovered the east of Luo City, but today people still admire the fallen flowers." "Wind" reveals the objective law of the perishability of life and the eternity of the universe. The two sentences "Flowers are similar every year, but people are different every year" use beautiful, smooth and neat couplets to express the lament that youth is easy to grow old and the world is impermanent. It is full of poetic artistic conception and philosophical.

By describing the life of the white-headed man from beauty to old age and illness, from recreation to loneliness, "The Sadness of the Pulsatilla" not only expresses the poet's attachment and yearning for youthful beauty, singing and dancing, but also expresses the poet's pity for the old white-headed man. , sympathy, and at the same time further expresses feelings about the shortness of beauty and the limitation of life, thereby enhancing the artistic appeal and philosophical nature of the poem.