It is always a waste to carry out the concept of Gregorian calendar.

Why is the water in that square pond so clear? This is because there is an inexhaustible source to continuously transport living water for it. It implies that reading, like watching water, has a continuous source. Comparing books to water tells us that we should constantly replenish new knowledge, learn and enrich ourselves, so as to reach a new realm.

It is a set of poems by Zhu, a scholar in the Song Dynasty. These two poems describe his feelings of "reading" and reveal profound philosophy with vivid images.

The original text is as follows:

one

Half an acre of square pond is opened like a mirror, clear and transparent, and the sky and clouds are floating on the water.

Why is the water in the pond so clear? Because there is a steady stream of living water here.

Secondly,

Last night on the Ross River, this huge warship was as light as a feather.

In the past, it consumed a lot of energy and could not push it, but today it can move in the middle of water.

The translation is as follows:

one

Half an acre of square pond is displayed like a mirror, in which the brilliance of the sky and the shadow of floating clouds move together.

Why is the water in that square pond so clear?

This is because there is an inexhaustible source to continuously transport living water for it.

Secondly,

Last night, the spring tide rose by the river, and the ship was as light as a feather.

Pushing and pulling is always laborious, but today it can drift freely in the middle of the river.

Extended data:

"Ask the canal head clear? Because there is running water here. " The "canal" of "Wenqu" is not the "canal" of "water in one canal", but a synonym, equivalent to "it", and "Wenqu" means Wenqu. In this place, "it" means "square pond". The poet didn't say how deep the square pond was. The third poem highlights the word "Qing", which already contains "Shen".

Because if the water in the pool does not have a certain depth, even if it is "clear", it can't reflect the modality of "the sky and clouds wander together". If the poet grasps the "deep" and "clear" pool water, he can embody the characteristics of "sky light and clouds". But the poet didn't end there. He raised a further question. "Ask" the "square pond" "Is it that clear?" Ask why it is so "clear" that it can reflect "the sky and clouds".

There is no way to answer this question by looking at this square pond in isolation. The poet then opened his eyes and looked from a distance. Finally, he saw the "source" of "Fangtang" and found the answer. It is precisely because "Fangtang" is not passive water, it has an inexhaustible "source" and continuously delivers "living water" to it.

This "square pond" will never be exhausted, stale, dirty, deep and clean because of the continuous input of "flowing water from the source".

"Qing" can not only reflect "sky and clouds", but also reflect such detailed modality as "sky and clouds" and "roaming together". This is the image and ideological significance of this little poem.

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