What do you mean, falling red is not a heartless thing, but turning into spring mud can protect flowers more?

I will! Flowers and branches are not heartless things, even if they turn into spring mud, they are willing to cultivate beautiful spring flowers to grow.

Where does this sentence come from? -Gong Zizhen, Qing "Ji Hai Miscellaneous Poems Fifth"

The complete original text is like this:

The vast sadness of parting extends to the setting sun, away from Beijing, riding a whip to the east, feeling that people are on earth.

I quit my job and go home, just like a flower falling from a branch, but this is not a heartless thing. It can be turned into the soil of spring and can also play a role in nurturing the next generation.

Translated into vernacular Chinese, it is like this:

The sadness of leaving Kyoto is like a wave of water extending to the distance of sunset. With a wave of whip heading east, people feel at the end of the world.

Flowers and branches are not heartless things, even if they turn into spring mud, they are willing to cultivate beautiful spring flowers to grow.

Here are some words that I think are more important. Let me explain them to you separately:

Distinctive sadness: the sadness of leaving Kyoto, like waves, also means the author's inner injustice. Powerful: infinite.

Whip: The poet's whip.

The East refers to the hometown of the East.

Namely: to.

Tianya: refers to the distance from Beijing.

Falling red: falling flowers. Flowers are distinguished by the red ones, so falling flowers are also called falling red.

Flower: a metaphor of a country.

If you only read the article, it may be difficult to understand the meaning, so you have to interpret it in combination with the creative background of the article at that time:

In the 19th year of Daoguang (1839), that is, one year before the Opium War, Gong Zizhen was 48 years old. Disappointed with the rulers of the Qing Dynasty, he resolutely resigned and returned to his hometown. Later, he went to the north to meet his family. On the way back and forth between north and south, he wrote what he thought and felt on account paper with chicken feathers and put it in a bamboo basket. Later, * * * "got 3 15 pieces of paper, covered 3 15 poems (The Book with Wu Hongsheng) and wrote a large group of poems. This is the famous "Jihai Miscellaneous Poems"-that year was Jihai. This article is selected from the fifth article of Ji Hai Zashi. At that time, the author resigned angrily and left his relatives and friends, full of worries.

Having said that, let's appreciate and comment on this article together:

This poem, the fifth in Ji Hai's Miscellaneous Poems, describes the poet's mood when he left Beijing. Although with "mighty sorrow", it means that we still have to make final efforts for the country and the people.

The first two lyric narratives of this poem show the spirit of being bold and free and easy in infinite emotion. On the one hand, parting is sad. After all, after living in Beijing for many years, old friends are like clouds and the past is like smoke. On the other hand, parting is easy and pleasant. After all, I have escaped the shackles and can go back to the outside world to do other things. In this way, the sadness of parting and the joy of returning are intertwined, both "mighty parting" and "whipping the East"; There is daylight, the west and the vast horizon. These two paintings complement each other and make each other interesting, which is a true portrayal of the poet's mood that day. The last two sentences of the poem use falling flowers as metaphors to express their own thoughts, which naturally blend into the discussion in the image metaphor. "Turning into spring mud protects flowers more", the poet said and did the same. After the Opium War broke out, he wrote to Liang Zhangju, the governor of Jiangxi in Shanghai, many times to discuss state affairs, and hoped to join the shogunate to offer suggestions. Unfortunately, the poet died in Danyang Academy soon (only 50 years old), unable to realize his social ideal. What a pity.

"Falling red is not heartless, but turning into spring mud will protect flowers more." The poet turned from expressing his feelings of parting to expressing his ambition to serve the country. On the other hand, in Lu You's words: "Scattered into mud, crushed into dust, only the fragrance remains." Falling in love originally refers to the flowers blooming on the branches, but it is not something without feelings. Even if it turns into spring mud, it is willing to cultivate beautiful spring flowers to grow. Not for the unique fragrance, but to protect the flowers. It shows that although the poet is divorced from officialdom, he still cares about the fate of the country and never forgets his ambition to serve the country, so as to express his enthusiasm for caring for the country until his death. Fully express the poet's strong feelings and become a famous sentence handed down from generation to generation.

This little poem combines political ambition with personal ambition, organically combines lyricism with discussion, and vividly expresses the poet's complex feelings. On poetry, Gong Zizhen once said that "poetry and people are one, there is no poetry outside people, and there is no one outside poetry" (Shu Tang Hai Qiu Poetry). His own creation is the best proof.

Objective: To express the complex feelings when he resigned from his post and left Beijing for a lawsuit, and to show the poet's strong character of not being afraid of setbacks and unwilling to sink, and his dedication to serving the country. The whole poem empathizes with things, with appropriate image, ingenious conception and profound meaning.

Finally, I would like to briefly introduce Gong Zizhen here:

Gong Zizhen (1August 22, 792-184 1 September 26,) was born in (Zuo Ding 'an). Han nationality, Zhejiang Renhe (now Hangzhou) people. In his later years, he lived in Yushan Pavilion in Kunshan, also known as Yushan people. Thinker, poet, writer and reformist pioneer in Qing Dynasty. Gong Zizhen used to be cabinet secretary, director of Zongrenyuan and director of etiquette department. He advocated abolishing graft and resisting foreign aggression, and once fully supported Lin Zexu to ban opium. He resigned at the age of 48 and returned to the south. The following year, he died in Yunyang College, Danyang, Jiangsu. His poems advocated "changing the law" and "changing the painting", exposed the corruption of the Qing rulers, and were full of patriotic enthusiasm. They were praised by Liu Yazi as "the first class in three hundred years". He is the author of Shi Dingji, with more than 300 articles and nearly 800 poems. Today's collection is the complete works of Gong Zizhen. Ji Hai's Miscellaneous Poems ***3 15. Many works of praise and allegory.