"Nominal interest doesn't matter. Cut the ice and snow and laugh at Wu Gou. " What does this sentence mean?

It is nominally disdainful of small profits on earth, treating ancient and modern wars as jokes, and writing poems and strange opinions there. The original text is from Water Margin written by Shi Naian in Yuan Dynasty.

Original text:

Reading a book in a secluded place, how many are elegant and Confucian. Small profits in name only do not worry, cutting ice and snow, laughing and watching Wu Gou. Comment on the first queen emperor, divided into true and false, accounting for Zhongzhou, seven males around the Spring and Autumn Period. Ups and downs are like crisp willows, and life experiences are like virtual boats. I have seen countless fame, countless pictures and countless escapes. In an instant, under the new moon, Changchuan and Jianghu mulberry fields became ancient roads. Scared that the fish is close to the wood, the poor ape chooses the wood, lest it hurt the crooked wood in the bow. Why not clap the cup in your hand and listen to the new sound curvature?

Vernacular translation:

Look at how many Confucian scholars live in seclusion in the depths of the book forest. They don't deserve the fame and fortune in the world, and they also treat the wars of ancient and modern times as a joke, where they sing poems and write extraordinary poems. In their eyes, it is difficult to tell the true and false of the former empress and emperor, and the Central Plains is fighting for deer, which is different from the hegemony of the princes in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period!

The country is as fragile as a fragile willow, and the people who live in it are no different from those who wander on empty boats! In the natural world, there are many famous people, many figures and many escapes. Things have changed, and I don't know which side of the long river the new moon fell on in an instant. Don't be surprised to see those who look for fish from the edge of the wood, don't laugh at the poor apes who choose wood, and don't avoid crooked trees like injured birds. Put it all down-including the glass in your hand, and listen to my "new sound curvature"!

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Creative background:

In the Southern Song Dynasty, the story of Liangshan heroes was widely circulated. At that time, Gong Kai, a painter and writer, wrote a preface to the praise of thirty-six people in Song Jiang, saying: The stories of thirty-six people including Song Jiang have spread all over the streets; Painters also write pictures and shadows for them.

The earliest blueprint of Water Margin is the legacy of Xuanhe in Song Dynasty, which focuses on the main characters such as Yang Zhi selling knives, Chao Gai ganging up to grab the birth outline, Song Jiang killing and Lin Chong, jy, and He Lu. During the Song and Yuan Dynasties, there were many stories adapted from Water Margin. In Yuan Zaju, the number of Liangshan heroes increased from 36 to 108.

Shi Naian sorted out and processed the stories and characters in Water Margin, and faithfully accepted the views of the people in the process of writing Water Margin, which is the ideological basis for the great achievements of Water Margin.

Appreciate:

By describing the grand story that Shui Bo, a Liangshan hero, resisted oppression, grew up to be accepted by the Song Dynasty, and finally perished after acceptance, the book artistically reflected the whole process of the Sung River Uprising in the history of China, profoundly revealed the social roots of the Uprising, enthusiastically praised the uprising hero's resistance struggle and social ideal, and specifically revealed the internal historical reasons for the failure of the Uprising.