"Youth is more sentimental during the festive season, and when you grow old, you will be full of knowledge and emotion" comes from "Dragon Boat Festival", which is a seven-character poem about the Dragon Boat Festival written by Yin Yaofan, a poet in the Tang Dynasty. The author wrote about the lively scenes of the Dragon Boat Festival. , revealing the author's lament that life is easy to grow old and years are easy to pass.
Source: "Dragon Boat Festival" by Yin Yao Fan of the Tang Dynasty
Original text:
Young people are more sentimental during the festival, but who knows how emotional they will be when they grow old.
Do not follow the custom of moxa talisman, but pray for pu wine and peace.
The silk on the temples is getting whiter every day, and the pomegranate brocade illuminates the eyes every year.
Thousands of years of wisdom and foolishness are fleeting, and a few people are lost and a few are famous.
Translation:
When I was young, I always had a lot of emotions during the festivals. Now that I am old, who has the time to feel a lot of emotions for no reason;
I don't want to follow the custom of hanging mugwort and exorcism charms, I just want to drink a glass of cattail wine and say that the world is peaceful.
The white hair on the temples is growing day by day, and pomegranate flowers are shining like red brocade, blooming for the festival every year;
Be it a sage or a fool in the face of time, they are all fleeting. Passers-by, who knows how many will remain unknown and how many will go down in history.
Notes:
Juvenile: young.
Mugwort: mugwort and exorcism talisman.
Pomegranate: pomegranate flower.
Xianyu: sage, stupid.
Fame: A name that will go down in history.
Appreciation:
The author was already old at the time, and "not following the custom of Ai Fu" was not only out of his power, but also included the helplessness and sadness of seeing through the emptiness behind the excitement. At that time, the Anshi Rebellion had passed, and it was around the time of Yuanhe and Zhongxing. Although the living conditions of the people had improved, the author, because of his old age and frailty, also foresaw the inevitable conflict between eunuchs and feudal towns in the late Tang Dynasty. Therefore, even during the Dragon Boat Festival, he He is also lazy and miserable, hoping that "Pujiu talks will lead to peace".
"Thousands of years of wisdom and foolishness are fleeting, and a few people are forgotten but a few are famous." It is precisely because of the reasons mentioned above that he expressed the emotion that time flies by and a few people are immortal. This poem is relatively pessimistic, but behind the poem, we can get a glimpse of the scene in the late Tang Dynasty from the author's perspective.
About the author:
Yin Yao Fan (780-855) was a native of Jiaxing, Zhejiang. Tang Dynasty poet. He was a Jinshi in the ninth year of Yuanhe of Tang Dynasty (814). He served successively as the magistrate of Yongle County and Fuzhou. He once served as an aide to the Tanzhou shogunate with Li Ao, and later became a censor, with great political achievements. He was poetry friends with Shen Yazhi, Yao He, Yong Tao, Xu Hun, and Ma Dai, and also had contacts with Bai Juyi, Li Shen, Liu Yuxi, etc. I once visited Wei Yingwu, and the two had an irreversible agreement. He has traveled extensively, traveling to Shanxi, Shaanxi, Fujian, Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Jiangxi, Lianghu and other places. He was fond of landscapes. He once said: "If you don't see landscapes for a day, you will feel the dust accumulating in your chest, and you urgently need to pour wine on it." He is the author of a volume of poetry, "New Tang Calligraphy and Literature Chronicles" which has been passed down to the world.