The days of youth are easy to pass away, and learning is difficult to succeed, so cherish every inch of time and don't let it go easily. Before the sweet spring grass grows in the pond, the plane leaves in front of the steps have rustled in the autumn wind.

The days of youth are easy to pass, but learning is difficult to succeed, so cherish every inch of time and don't let it go easily. The dream of growing spring grass in the pond is still awake, and the leaves of plane trees rustle in the autumn wind in front of the steps.

When you are young, you learn well and time is easy to pass. If you don't cherish your youth, you will grow old slowly. It will be much more difficult if you want to study when you are old. Don't underestimate even a little time. Spring has just arrived, and I haven't noticed that the spring grass is green. In a blink of an eye, the buttonwood leaves in front of the steps have turned yellow.

Extended data:

This is a fugitive poem, and the specific writing date is unknown, which is about the last year of Shaoxing (1 162). This poem is widely circulated in Japan and now, thinking that it was written by Zhu, so it is reserved for reference.

Its main purpose is to persuade young people to cherish time and study hard, which is both persuasion and self-warning. The language of the poem is easy to understand, and the image is vivid and vivid. Compared with the dream of spring grass in the pond and the sudden autumn sound of phoenix trees in front of the steps, the poem is very appropriate and doubles the power of exhortation.