Full text of Fan Zhongyan's "Silver Lamp"

●Taking silver lamps

Separate topics with Mr. Ouyang at the banquet

Fan Zhongyan

Last night I laughed at Cao Cao, Sun Quan and Liu Bei because I read Shu Zhi.

Exhausting all the mechanisms and working hard in vain, we can only get three parts of the world.

Looking carefully for thoughts, like *** or Liu Ling getting drunk?

No one is a hundred years old.

You have dementia when you are young, and you become haggard when you are old.

Only those young people in the middle can bear to be involved in a false reputation?

Yipin and Qianjin asked about gray hair, how to avoid it?

Translation:

I read "The Chronicles of the Three Kingdoms·Shu" last night. I feel ridiculous about Cao Cao, Sun Quan, and Liu Bei. They had exhausted all their efforts and efforts, and only achieved

three points of the world. I bent my fingers and thought about how (they) could compare with Liu Lingzui. There is no one who is a hundred years old in life, less foolish and feeble with age

. Some young people still attach great importance to fame and fortune. Fame and wealth are available, but how can we avoid aging in life?

Appreciation of Fan Zhongyan’s poems

This poem by Fan Zhongyan is an evaluation of history and a view of life, which is why the poems have a unique tone. However, the author has not yet completely gotten rid of the influence of the secular view that the words are "little ways" and "final skills", which determines that the style of this article must be joking.

The main idea of ??the previous film is that when I read "Three Chronicles" last night, I couldn't help but laugh at Cao Cao, Sun Quan, and Liu Bei. They tried all their tactics and tricks, but it was all in vain, and they only created a situation where the world was divided into three parts. Instead of messing around like this, it's better not to do anything and just get drunk with Liu Ling. The next film uses the poetry of Bai Juyi's "Crazy Lyrics", which states that no one will ever live to be a hundred years old. He was ignorant when he was young, and he is weak when he is old. Only the little bit of youth in the middle is the most precious, how can you bear to use it to pursue fame and fortune! Even if you become a high-ranking official or a millionaire, you will inevitably end up with gray hair and old age! The whole article is written purely in spoken language, and the style is very humorous. It seems to be a naked promotion of a passive and inactive view of history, a timely and gratifying view of life, and a decadent mood. In fact, it is a record of the poet's extreme depression due to the futility of political reform. The lump in the chest is difficult to remove, so it must be poured with wine. When he is angry and drunk, he complains and talks drunkenly to his old friends, which is quite like Xueqin's unspeakable situation of "a paper full of absurd words and a handful of bitter tears".