Tang Pak Fu's Peach Blossom Nunnery Song.
Originally:
The Peach Blossom Nunnery is in the Peach Blossom Dock, and the Peach Blossom Fairy is in the Peach Blossom Nunnery; the Peach Blossom Fairy planted the peach trees, and picked the peach blossoms for the money of wine.
Wake up and sit in front of the flowers, drunk and sleep under the flowers; half-awake and half-drunk day after day, flowers fall and bloom year after year.
Wish I could die of old age in the middle of flowers and wine, and would not want to bow in front of the car and horse; the car is dusty, the horse is foot, the interest of the noble, and the wine and flowers are poor.
If you compare the rich and the poor to the poor and the poor, you will find that one of them is in the sky; if you compare the poor to the poor and the poor, you will find that one of them is in the sky; if you compare the poor to the poor, you will find that one of them is in the sky.
Other people laughed at me for being so crazy, but I laughed at others for not being able to see through it; I didn't see the tombs of the great heroes of the Wuling, and I didn't have any flowers or wine to hoe for a field.
Vernacular translation
There is a peach blossom nunnery in the Peach Blossom Dock, and in the Peach Blossom Nunnery there is a Peach Blossom Fairy.
The Peach Blossom Fairy planted a lot of peach trees, and he picked peach blossoms to exchange for wine money.
When he was sober he sat quietly among the flowers, and when he was drunk he slept under them.
Between half-awake and half-drunk, day after day, year after year, the flowers bloomed and fell.
I just want to die of old age between the peach blossoms and the fine wine, and I don't want to bow and curtsy and flattery in front of the carriages and horses of the dignitaries.
Carriages and horses are the aspirations of aristocrats, and wine cups and flowers are the destiny and hobbies of poor people like me.
If you compare the wealth of others with my poverty, one is in the sky and the other in the earth.
If I compare my poverty with the chariots and horses of the dignitaries, they are running around for the powerful and the wealthy, but I get the pleasure of idleness.
Other people laugh at me for being too crazy, but I laugh at others for not being able to see through the world.
If you don't see that those who are rich and powerful were once brilliant, now they can't see their graves, but only the fields that are used as cultivation.
Expanded InformationThe Song of the Peach Blossom Nunnery is a seven-character ancient poem written by Tang Yin, a painter, writer and poet of the Ming Dynasty. In this poem, the poet uses the peach blossom fairy as a metaphor for himself, and uses "dying of old age among flowers and wine" and "bowing in front of cars and horses" to refer to two very different lifestyles, and also uses the loss of each of the rich and poor to form a sharp and strong contrast, which expresses his own ordinary reality with the vulgar and negative side of his true heart, with the indignation of his own life, and the negative side of his life. The negative side of the real heart, with cynicism of the world.
Zhou Daozhen's The Complete Works of Tang Pak Fu notes under the title of this poem: "The top copy has 'Hongzhi yichou March'." Zhou Daozhen, Zhang Yuezun compiled "Tang Pak Fu chronology" cloud: "Hongzhi eighteen years yichou, March, peach blossom garden peach blossom in full bloom, made the peach blossom nun song." That is, this poem was written in Hongzhi eighteen years (1505), this year, only six years from Tang Yin was falsely accused.
This poem mainly expresses the poet's attitude of being happy to go back to his hometown, not caring about fame and not wanting to meet with the world in pursuit of a leisurely life. The peach blossom has the meaning of a recluse because of its homophone with the word "escape", which embodies the precious spirit of pursuing freedom and valuing the individual's life.
The first four lines of the poem are a narrative, saying that he is a peach blossom immortal living in a peach blossom nunnery in the peach blossom dock area of Suzhou, planting peach blossom trees and selling peach blossom wine is a depiction of his life, and these four lines, by means of the technique of the top, intend to emphasize the image of "peach blossom," borrowing peach blossom as a metaphor for the hermit, distinctly portraying a man who travels in the woods and is free and easy-going, loves life and lives like an immortal. The image of a hermit who is free and easy-going, who loves life and is as happy as an immortal is vividly portrayed in the lines.
Reference: Peach Blossom Song (Ancient Poetry) Baidu Encyclopedia