Years are long, clothes are thin, and the source of Song Ci is thin.

"Years are long, but clothes are thin" comes from the first sentence of the third poem of Wei Zhuang's Bodhisattva Man. "Now I think of Jiangnan music. At that time, I was young and thin in spring." Among them, "young and thin in spring" originally means that people are young and have unlimited time. That's what it means here.

"If you can forget your desires, the years are long and the clothes are thin."

It is generally believed that the so-called cold penetrates the bone marrow and hits the heart directly. This understanding is not only superficial, but also does not conform to the context of the whole song.

According to my understanding of Lin, what he is best at is to express the most heartbreaking feelings with the most beautiful and touching words, thus writing happiness and sadness. You think that "the years are long and the clothes are thin" is such a simple, direct and rude expression of your inner coolness, and it is such a distortion of the meaning of the lyrics. Don't you feel Grandpa Xi biting his lower lip and staring at you painfully?

The lyrics of Goodbye Two Dingmu do not describe negative emotions such as sadness and cold as mentioned above. "I am the only one who doesn't realize that I am doing well/if I can forget my longing for years and clothes/if I don't assume that you will appear in any corner/I can swim in a foreign country and eat and drink with confidence." Are very positive energy!

Going back to the sentence itself, "If you can forget your desires, the years are long and the clothes are thin." In other words, if I can let you go, I won't be eager to rely on you anymore. I am young and beautiful, in the prime of my life, naked (don't get me wrong, it comes from the Shurangama Sutra, "Naked with a staff", which describes that I will be able to swim in a foreign country without worrying about eating and drinking, and then look for sustenance).