Dong Fangbubai's domineering talk.

This is a modern seven-character poem written by David Henry Hwang in the movie Dong Fangbubai.

Dong Fangbubai's original text

The world out of my generation, into the rivers and lakes, someone reminded;

Talking and laughing, you can't live a drunken life.

Riding a ghost rain with a sword on his back, bones are like mountains, and birds are flying;

A tidal wave of people with dust is just sighing for a few people in the Jianghu.

Interpretation of Dong Fangbubai

The most important person today comes from us, and time passes quickly in the rivers and lakes, which makes people feel sad. Fame and career are only short-lived, not comparable to real and happy life. Struggle is cruel and realistic, and it needs to pay a lot of price. A thing of the past is just a drop of water. As for the sea, how small it is. At the beginning, countless people had great ambitions, and several people realized them.

Extended data:

Dong Fangbubai's creative background and feelings.

The first sentence expresses the author's scholar mentality from ambition to heroism.

In the second sentence, the author stepped into the society, and his mind experienced the general baptism of the world, lamenting that life is short.

The third and fourth sentences express the author's thoughts on universal values. Now, I can only chat about my ideals and ambitions. If I had told you earlier, I might as well have been eating, drinking, and having fun from the beginning, and never suffer from disillusionment.

The fifth and sixth sentences may be because the feelings in the third and fourth sentences are too negative. In the fifth and sixth sentences, the author uses symbols and metaphors to express the cruelty and hardship of society. Perhaps for an idealist like the author, the complexity of society is too dark and cold.

The seventh and eighth sentences express the core idea of this book, lamenting how small people are relative to the world as a drop of water in the sea. Lingyun's ambition was arrogant. Now think about how naive it is. Countless people have entered the society with lofty ideals, but how many people can finally realize their ideals and finally get rid of the troubles in the world? Finally, most of them are not submerged by the tide of society, just smiling.