What is the meaning of "mutual"?
The waves are unperturbed: the lake is calm and there are no shocking waves.
Mutual Answer: to sing in unison. The word "mutual" is used in the same way as in the word "mutual" in the same sense.
Journal of Yueyang Tower
In the spring of the fourth year of the Qingli era, Teng Zijing was banished to Baling County. The more next year, the political and human peace, all the waste and prosperity. Is to rebuild the Yueyang Tower, increase its old system, engraved Tang Xian modern poetry on it. The first thing that I want to do is to write an essay on the subject.
I see the Baling victory, a lake in Dongting. Articulate mountains, swallowing the Yangtze River, the vast soup, across the endless; sunrise and sunset, the weather. This is a great view of Yueyang Tower, the previous statement is ready. However, the north through the Witch's Gorge, the south pole of Xiaoxiang, the migrant, more will be in this, the feeling of seeing things, there is no difference?
If the rain falls, even the moon is not open, the wind is angry, turbid waves in the air; the sun and the stars are hidden, the mountains are submerged; business travelers can not, the mast is destroyed; twilight, the tiger whistles and apes cry. Ascending the building also, there is a country of nostalgia, worry about slander and ridicule, full of depression, feeling extreme and sad people carry on.
To if the spring and scenery, waves, up and down the sky light, a blue million hectares; gulls gathered, Kam Scale swimming; Angelica Tinglan, lush green. And or long smoke a sky, the moon thousands of miles, floating light jumping gold, quiet shadow sinking jewellery, fishing songs answering each other, this music how extreme! Deng Si Lou also, there is a relaxed and happy, forgetting the favor and humiliation, wine in the wind, the joy of it is carried out.
Contempt! I tasted the heart of ancient benevolence, or different from the two for. Why? Not to things like, not to their own sadness; living in the high temple is worried about its people; at the far end of the lake is worried about its ruler. It is also worried about entering, and also worried about retreating. But when to be happy? It must be said: "the world's worries first, after the world's happiness and joy". Yelp! I'm not sure if I'm going to be able to do that, but I'm sure I'm going to be able to do it.
Then six years on September 15.
Vernacular Translation
In the spring of the fourth year of the Qingli period, Teng Zijing was demoted to the post of governor of Yuezhou. In the second year, the government was smooth, the people were happy, and all kinds of deserted undertakings were organized. So the Yueyang Tower was rebuilt, expanding its original scale, and the poems and fugitives of famous people of the Tang Dynasty and present-day people were engraved on it. I was instructed to write an article to recount this.
I look at the beauty of that Baling County, all on Dongting Lake. Dongting Lake contains the distant mountains, gulping the Yangtze River's flowing water, vast, wide, early morning the lake is sprinkled with sunshine, evening and a cloudy, endless changes in the scenery. This is the majestic and magnificent scenery of Yueyang Tower.
The former account of these scenes has been very detailed, although so, then the north side of this place leads to the Witch's Gorge, the south side until the Xiaoshui River, Xiangjiang River, was demoted to far away from the personnel and poets, most of the poets in the gathering here, viewing the natural scenery here and triggered by the feelings of the presumably will be different, right?
Like the time when the rain fell continuously and did not clear up for a whole month, the cold wind roared and the turbid waves rushed to the sky; the sun, moon and stars hid their light, and the mountains were hidden; merchants and travelers were unable to pass through, the masts fell down and the oars were broken; the sky was so dark in the evening that only the roar of tigers and the cries of monkeys and apes could be heard.
Then climbed this building, will have been deposed from the capital, nostalgia for home, worried about people say bad things, fear of ridicule of the mood, and then look up at all the desolate and cold scene, will be a thousand feelings and very sad.
As for the spring breeze and warm, sunny, the lake surface waves, the sky and the lake light, a green, vast; sandbar on the white gulls, sometimes flying sometimes stop, beautiful fish or floating or sinking; shore of the grass, orchids on the continent, the aroma is strong, green color. Sometimes a large smoke on the lake completely dissipated, bright moonlight cascade, sometimes the lake surface ripples,
floating moonlight glittering gold; sometimes the lake surface ripples do not work, the quiet moon image sunk in the water of the jade jade jade. The fisherman's song rang out, a song and a song, this pleasure is really endless! At this time to climb this building, will feel open-minded, happy spirit, glory and humiliation and forget, in the wind blowing in the cup of wine and drink, that mood is really happy happy.
Alas! I used to explore the thoughts and feelings of people of high moral character in ancient times, they may be different from the above two moods, what is the reason for this? It is because people of high moral character in ancient times did not feel happy or sad because of the good or bad of external things and their own gains and losses. In the court as an official for the people worry; not in the court as an official and in the middle of the remote rivers and lakes for the king of the country worry.
In this way, they are worried even when they enter the court as officials, and they are worried even when they retreat to the rivers and lakes. But when will they be happy? Then it must be said that "before the world's people worry first worry, after the world's people happy to be happy" right? I'm sorry! If there were no such people, with whom would I be traveling?
Written on the 15th day of the 9th month of the 6th year of the Qingli reign.
Expanded Information
Bolan Bu Shock is a Chinese idiom, pronounced bō lán bù jīnɡ, which means a breeze blowing over the water, the water is calm and the waves are quiet, and it is a metaphor for the situation being calm, the situation being smooth, and there is not much change or twists and turns.
Antonyms: 波澜壮阔
波澜壮阔, pinyin bō lán zhuàng kuò, is a Chinese idiom, the meaning of which was originally to describe the vastness of the water surface, but is now a metaphor for the majesty of a sound or the magnitude of a situation.
Explanation: The original description of the water is vast. Now it is compared to the sound of a strong or grand scale.
An allusion: Southern Dynasty-Song Baozhao's "Climbing the Great Thunder Bank and Writing with My Sister": "The travelers are poor and hard, and the waves and roads are magnificent."
The "Records of the Yueyang Tower" is famous, first of all, because of its sublime state of mind. Ouyang Xiu, another famous literary scholar at the same time as it, said in an inscription written for him that he had been aspiring to the world since he was a child, and often recited to himself, "The scholar should worry about the world first, and be happy after the world's happiness."
See the end of the "Records of the Yueyang Tower," said "the world's worries first, after the world's happiness and joy," is Fan Zhongyan's life behavioral guidelines. Mengzi said: "to be good to the world, poor is good alone". This has become the creed of many scholars in the feudal era. When Fan Zhongyan wrote this article, he was being demoted to the outside world, "far away from the river and lake,"
When he wrote this article, he could have taken the attitude of being alone and been happy. However, he refused to do so, and still took the world as his own, and used the two words "worry about the world first, after the world's happiness and joy" to encourage himself and his friends, which is rare and precious.
It is not easy for a person to have the courage, knowledge, and ambition to be the first to worry, but it is even more valuable for a person to be the first to worry and then to be able to be happy after he has built up his achievements. The spirit embodied in these two sentences, the quality of suffering before enjoyment, in today's undoubtedly still have educational significance.
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