What is the pronunciation and meaning of the word "Zeng" in Then Heaven and Earth Can't Flash?

The pronunciation of "Zeng" here is: zēng, which means yes, unexpectedly. Then everything between heaven and earth is changing all the time, even in the blink of an eye.

From: Su Shi's "Qian Chi Bi Fu"

Excerpts from the original text:

Do you know my husband's water and the moon? The deceased is like this, but he has never been there; If you are full of emptiness, the dead will not ebb and flow. Gai must view it from its changers, then heaven and earth can't be in an instant; If you look at it from its unchangeable point of view, then things are infinite to me, so why envy them!

Explanation:

Do you know the water and the moon? The passage of time is like this water, but it has not really passed away; When the circle disappears, just like this month, there is no increase or decrease after all. It can be seen that from the changeable side of things, everything between heaven and earth is constantly changing, even stopping in the blink of an eye; From the unchangeable side of things, everything is eternal to us, so what is there to envy?

Extended data

This poem describes what the author and his friends saw and felt when they went boating in Chibi on a moonlit night. Taking the author's subjective feelings as a clue, through the form of subject-object question and answer, it reflects the author's liberation from boating on a moonlit night to drawing lessons from a painful experience and then to philosophy.

In this passage, Su Shi thinks that the existence of heaven and earth is only a blink of an eye from the perspective of things changing; From the same point of view, things and human beings are endless, so we don't have to envy rivers, bright moons and heaven and earth. Naturally, there is no need to "mourn for my life for a moment."

This shows Su Shi's open-minded world outlook and outlook on life. He is in favor of looking at the problem from multiple angles instead of absolutizing it. Therefore, he can maintain an open-minded, detached, optimistic and adaptive mental state in adversity, get rid of the impermanence of life and treat life rationally.

Then, the author further explains that everything in the world has its own owner, and individuals can't force it. The breeze on the river can be heard, the bright moon in the mountains is colorful, the mountains are endless, the moon is eternal, the world is selfless, and music entertains people. The author can wander around and enjoy himself.

Su Shi's prose presents rich and colorful artistic features. He absorbed artistic nutrition extensively from his previous works, the most important source of which was the heroic momentum of Mencius and strategists in the Warring States period, Zhuangzi's rich association and natural and unrestrained writing style. Su Shi is really expressive, and there is almost nothing objective or inner feelings that his works can't express.