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Let's go on a land tour!
Then [the guest] laughed and said, "Indeed, this is like a bird's nest." ”
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Its, pronouns, he.
Before I was born, I heard the Tao before I heard it.
Solid is: of course, the original meaning.
The meaning of this sentence is: He who was born before me understood the truth earlier than me.
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Meaning: He knew knowledge and truth earlier than I did;
Ancient scholars must have teachers. Teacher, so preaching and receiving karma to solve doubts. If people are not born to know, how can they be free from confusion?
If you are confused and do not follow the teacher, it is confused, and you will not be able to solve it. Before I was born, he heard the Tao before me, and I learned from him; After being born to me, he heard the Tao before me, and I learned from him. My teacher is also the way, and the husband knows that he was born in my year?
Therefore, there is no noble or low, no long and no less, the Tao exists, and the teacher exists.
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"Gu" means "originally".
He also preceded me in hearing the truth: he knew knowledge and truth earlier than me.
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So he laughed and said, "It's really like a nest." ”
Source: Lu You's "Book Nest" in the Song Dynasty
Occasionally, I want to get up, and the books are surrounded by random books, such as accumulating branches, or I can't do it, and I laugh and say: 'This is not my so-called nest evil. It is to attract visitors to see it.
Vernacular Interpretation: Occasionally I want to stand up, but the messy books surround me, like piles of dead branches. Sometimes even to the point where I can't walk, I laugh and say, 'Isn't this what I call a nest?' So he led the guests into the house**.
Background: This is a short description of the author's study, written in the ninth year of Chunxi (1182). The vivid and humorous expression of the love of books is like life, reading is like an obsession, and the life state inherent in books. The "nest" metaphor room is a unique and appropriate concept, which not only highlights the characteristics of many and chaotic books in the room, but also expresses the author's comfort and self-satisfaction in the sea of books.
In the sixth year of the main road (1170), he entered Shu and served as the general judge of Kuizhou. In the eighth year (1172), he entered the Sichuan Xuanfu envoy Wang Yan shogunate. The official to the Baozhang Pavilion to be made.
In his later years, he retired to his hometown. Gong poems, words, and essays are good at historiography. Together with You Mao, Yang Wanli, and Fan Chengda, they are known as the four masters of the Southern Song Dynasty.
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So he laughed to himself and said, "Isn't this the bird's nest I said?"
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So, Lu You laughed at himself and said, "Isn't this what I called the Bird's Nest?" ”
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From Ouyang Xiu's "Three Miscellaneous Songs".
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