But unlike people who have been poor together, this sentence makes people sad when they think about it. It means that couples who are financially embarrassed and lack material foundation will generally not have a happy life and their lives will not be satisfactory.
And "this is a kind of sorrow that all mankind must know, but it is not as people who used to be poor together know" was originally two sentences in a poem by Yuan Zhen, a famous poet in the Tang Dynasty. If you are not familiar with him, you must know his other two poems, which are often quoted by people, are called "Once the sea is difficult for water, it will always be amber".
After his wife died, the poet Yuan Zhen missed her so much that he wrote three sad poems, one of which was "This is a sadness that all mankind must know, but it is not like those who are poor together". The original intention of this sentence is that although I know that ordinary people will have the same sadness as us, I remember every past event when we were poor couples, which made me miss and feel sad. In other words, the author's original intention is to miss his dead wife.
Yuan Zhen's wife is Wei Cong. As a good girl, she married Yuan Zhen, a scholar who had nothing at that time, at a young age.
The married life of the poet and his wife is naturally poor and shabby. However, their relationship is not bad. A * * gave birth to six children, and his wife died young at the age of 27. It's really embarrassing.