A poem describing a young monk

"There are many things in the cassock" comes from the poem "Send the car dealer to Germany" by Yang Wanli, a poet in the Southern Song Dynasty.

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Send a unicycle to Germany-Yang Wanli

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How should I study classics after ten years?

There are more things in the cassock than in the cassock.

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What's the result of your pious pricking blood and copying scriptures? Ten years, I'm still a monk.

Before becoming a monk, you thought the world was boring and unbearable; Unexpectedly, after becoming a monk, there are more ordinary things than before.

Keyword annotation

Monkeys: monks begging for food, called monks in Sanskrit.

Bleeding: pricking blood. Buddhists regard pricking blood and copying scriptures as merit.

How: How, how.

Buddhist monks: from Sanskrit, the original meaning is the penance of Buddhist monks. Later generations also used to refer to monks begging for food.

Cassock: The cassock worn by monks.

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Things in the world often go against the original wishes. Monks become monks, the original intention is to stay away from the world and get rid of the world of mortals. However, after entering an empty door, the German wheelwright has worked hard to copy the scriptures for ten years, but he has never been relieved, and his troubles are more than before. Delun's experience deeply touched Yang Wanli. He wrote the phenomenon that Buddhism is empty but not empty with a very humorous style, which has certain irony significance. Without careful reasoning, it also gives people a thorough understanding.

Apart from satire, Yang Wanli's poems also warn people from another angle that it is not the best policy to face the reality bravely and escape. Things in the world are often not up to you, and sometimes you can't escape. I remember a short story: a poet visited a temple and had a very speculative conversation with the monks in the temple. When he was leaving, he sang a Tang Dynasty poem, "Because he met a monk passing by a mountain temple, he stole a half-day break" to express his happiness. Unexpectedly, the monk said, "You stole half a day's leisure, but the old monk added half a day's busy." Monks like this, of course, will not "have more to do with robes."

The interpretation of this poem has been inconsistent. He Lin Yu Lu in Dajing, Luo Song, said: "Confucian scholars in this world have been trying to find an official for half their lives. Fortunately, they are a medium of wealth and comfort. They don't care about their own affairs, and books are broken unless they are specialized. For example, Han Changli said that' the corner of the corner is short and abandoned', and Chen Houshan said that there are many people who' once they are elected by the official department, they will sweep the pen and ink stone', which is unknown. " It is believed that Yang Wanli's poems are to persuade the world to study hard and make new progress after becoming an official. Tian Ming Rucheng thinks that Yang Wanli reveals the ambivalence of life. He wants to be an official before he becomes an official, and then he wants to retire.

Tian Rucheng said: "Yang Tingxiu gave me a monk's poem cloud ... some monks lived in the mountains or tried to incite it. The monk hung a pair of straw sandals in front of the abbot and wrote a poem:' When straw sandals were hung in front of the abbot, the fashion stopped. The old monk's feet are never wide, so he may not be buried here. "Stupidly, the former poem can help scholars get rid of Brown's rules, and the latter poem can help scholars get rid of Brown's rules." These views are helpful to understand the rich meaning of this poem.

Brief introduction of the author

Yang Wanli (1 127~ 1206), with a beautiful name, is an adult. Jishui (now Jiangxi) people. Politically, Yang Wanli advocates anti-gold and honesty. Ning Zongshi resigned and retired because of his treachery, and eventually died of grief and indignation, and gave him a memorial section. It is as famous as Lu You, Fan Chengda and You Mao, and it is also called "the four great masters in the Southern Song Dynasty". His poems studied "Jiangxi Poetry School" in his early years, and later devoted himself to poets in the late Tang Dynasty. After the age of 50, he suddenly realized that he had abandoned various schools, learned from his predecessors and nature, and formed a unique "sincere body". Poetry praises the natural scenery, is good at capturing fleeting details, improvises, is innovative, has a clear language, is humorous and has a fresh style. And Zhai Chengji.