I quit my job and go home, just like a flower falling from a branch, but this is not a heartless thing. It can be turned into the soil of spring and can also play a role in nurturing the next generati

I quit my job and go home, just like a flower falling from a branch, but this is not a heartless thing. It can be turned into the soil of spring and can also play a role in nurturing the next generation. How to translate? The fallen flowers from the branches are not heartless things, but turn into spring soil, which can also play a role in cultivating the next generation.

From Gong Zizhen's Ji Hai Miscellaneous Poems in Qing Dynasty, the original text is:

The vast sadness of parting extends to the setting sun, away from Beijing, riding a whip to the east, feeling that people are on earth.

I quit my job and go home, just like a flower falling from a branch, but this is not a heartless thing. It can be turned into the soil of spring and can also play a role in nurturing the next generation.

Translation:

The sadness of parting extends to the distance of sunset, and his whip swings eastward, feeling that people are at the end of the world.

The fallen flowers on the branches are not heartless things, but turn into spring soil, which can also play a role in cultivating the next generation.

Extended data

Creative background:

In the 19th year of Daoguang (1839), that is, one year before the Opium War, Gong Zizhen was 48 years old. Disappointed with the rulers of the Qing Dynasty, he resolutely resigned and returned to his hometown. Later, he went to the north to meet his family. On the way back and forth between north and south, he wrote what he thought and felt on account paper with chicken feathers and put it in a bamboo basket. Later, it was written into the famous Ji Hai Miscellaneous Poems.

This article is selected from the fifth article of Ji Hai Zashi. At that time, the author resigned angrily and left his relatives and friends, full of worries.

Appreciate:

The whole poem is divided into two parts, the first two sentences are the first part, and the last two sentences are the second part.

In the first part, the poet wrote the majestic sadness of parting with the horizon, sunset and fallen flowers, giving himself a sense of life experience of falling flowers; The second part, taking the fallen flower as the transition, starts with the fallen flower and the spring mud, feels the fallen flower, and then makes a statement on behalf of the fallen flower, swears to the spring, and confides the will to sing deeply.

The image of the whole poem is simple, but the scene is muddy, the contrast is unprovoked, and the mind is clear. In just 28 words, it shows the poet's broad mind, reveals a valuable life value, and has the ideological and emotional capacity of heaven and earth, which can be called the masterpiece of Ding 'an poetry.

About the author:

Gong Zizhen (1August 22, 792-184 1 September 26,) was born in Ding 'an. Han nationality, Renhe (now Hangzhou, Zhejiang). In his later years, he lived in Yushan Pavilion in Kunshan, also known as Yushan people. Thinker, poet, writer and reformist pioneer in Qing Dynasty.

Gong Zizhen used to be cabinet secretary, director of Zongrenyuan and director of etiquette department. He advocated abolishing graft and resisting foreign aggression, and once fully supported Lin Zexu to ban opium. He resigned at the age of 48 and returned to the south. The following year, he died in Yunyang College, Danyang, Jiangsu.

His poems exposed the corruption of the rulers of the Qing Dynasty and were full of patriotic enthusiasm. They were praised by Liu Yazi as "the first class in three hundred years". He is the author of Ding 'an Anthology, with more than 300 articles and nearly 800 poems. Today's collection is the complete works of Gong Zizhen. There are 350 famous articles and Ji Hai's miscellaneous poems. Many works of praise and allegory.

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