Explanation of Song Xia Yuanding s Quatrain .

Dynasty: Song. Genre: Seven Uniques.

Kongtong visited the road to Xianghu, and thousands of poems and books turned foolish.

There is nowhere to find the iron shoes, and it takes no effort to get them.

Translation: In order to learn the Tao, I searched all the way from Kongtong to Xianghu, and the more I tried to find the answer from the poetry book, the more stupid I became.

Even if you wear through the sturdiest shoes, you still find nothing, and I didn't expect the answer to appear in front of you effortlessly.

Translation: Kongtong: the name of the mountain. In the west of present-day Pingliang City, Gansu Province. According to legend, it was the place where the Yellow Emperor asked Yu Guangchengzi. It is also called empty and empty.

Xianghu Lake: In the vicinity of West Lake.

First of all, the meaning of these two place names is to indicate the way of learning.

Ten thousand volumes of poetry and books turn foolish: I think it means that you don't have to be attached to the original meaning of the writing, otherwise it is easy to go astray.

The last two sentences are to say that persistence may not be rewarded, but when you give up, you have an unexpected effect from Kongtong Mountain to the shore of Xianghu Lake, and the more you want to find the answer from the poetry book, you become stupid. Even if you wear through the sturdiest shoes, but you find nothing, you don't expect the answer to appear in front of you effortlessly.

Original text: quatrain

Xia Yuanding. Kongtong visited the road to Xianghu, and thousands of poems and books turned foolish.

There is nowhere to find the iron shoes, and it takes no effort to get them.

Xia Yuanding [alive around 1201 AD] was a native of Yongjia (now Yongjia, Zhejiang). People from the Southern Song Dynasty.

Quatrain (also titled "two poems on the wall" (one of them)).Song Xia Yuanding.

Kongtong visited the road to Xianghu, and thousands of poems and books turned foolish.

There is nowhere to find the iron shoes, and it takes no effort to get them.

Two inscriptions (the second).Shixue Jindan is chaotic, and he praises his heart and kidneys to others.

There is medicine in front of him, no one knows it, and the lotus grows buds in the fire.

Xia Yuanding's "Quatrain": Kongying Leaky Road Visits to Xianghu Lake, Ten Thousand Volumes of Poetry and Books Turn Foolish. There is nowhere to find the iron shoes, and it takes no effort to get them.

Kongtong: The name of the mountain. In the west of present-day Pingliang City, Gansu Province.

According to legend, it was the place where the Yellow Emperor asked Yu Guangchengzi. It is also called empty and empty. Xianghu:

In the vicinity of West Lake.

Translation: When I went to Kongtong Mountain to visit the Taoist priest and came to Huxiang, I read and lifted 10,000 volumes of poetry and books, and the more I read, the more foolish I felt. The poetic inspiration that can't be found even by stepping on iron shoes is obtained in practice without much effort.

Xia Yuanding (year of birth and death unknown): Southern Song Dynasty poet. The word Zongyu, the number of Yunfeng Sanren, and the number of Xicheng real people.

A native of Yongjia (now Wenzhou City, Zhejiang Province). Bo Ji Qun books and tried many times, Ying Jia and Xu Ershuai curtains, in and out of the army. Supreme Rao, feeling strange dreams at night, is abandoning the official and entering the Tao.

Go to Nanyue Zhu Rongfeng to meet Chicheng Zhou Zhenren's instructions. Then he realized that he made this "quatrain".

"Quatrain" is a seven-character quatrain composed by Xia Yuanding of the Southern Song Dynasty. The last two sentences of Xia's poem, that is, "stepping through the stupid ode to the blue iron shoes have nowhere to be found, and it takes no effort to get it" is extremely famous, and has been cited by many dramas and authors, and has been compiled into "Zengguang Xianwen", and is often quoted orally.

Xia Yuanding's poem Seven Uniques is now commonly used to illustrate: first, often have the heart to do a certain thing, or find a certain person, although he has gone through thousands of difficulties and dangers, he cannot succeed; And when there is no intention, the goal is easily achieved. Second, it is often very difficult to do things or study in a metaphor, but when you get home, you will suddenly be enlightened, and you will succeed.

Quatrains: Books should be easy to read.

Song Dynasty Chen Shidao.

Books should be read quickly, and guests will not come.

The world is contrary to each other, how many times will it be open when you are 100 years old?