This sentence comes from Cao Pi's Dian Lun Paper, which reads as follows:
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Author: Cao Pi
Cover the article, the great cause of the country, the immortal event.
Time and life come to an end, and glory ends in the body. Both will reach a normal period.
Not if the article is endless. According to the ancient author, I sent calligraphy.
The meaning of reading the article is not to forge good history, not to rely on the trend of flying,
Fame is autobiographical. Therefore, Xibo people are quiet and easy to perform, while Zhou Dan is obvious and introverted.
Don't worry about things vaguely, don't think about happiness. However, the husband,
The ancients were cheap and heavy, fearing that time was too late. Many people are not strong,
Being poor is not afraid of hunger or cold, and being rich is happy, so do what you are doing now.
Leave a thousand years of work. The sun and the moon died on the top, and the shape declined on the bottom.
Being away from everything suddenly is a great pain for people with lofty ideals!
Explanation:
The article is related to the great achievements of governing the country, and it is a great cause that can be passed down to future generations and will last forever. People's age and life span are limited by time, and honor and joy can only be combined in the end. Both of them end in a certain period of time, which can't be circulated forever like articles, and there is no shortage.
Therefore, ancient authors, who devote themselves to writing and express their thoughts and opinions in articles and books, do not need to borrow the words of historians or rely on the power of senior officials, and their fame can naturally be passed down to future generations. As a result, Zhou Wenwang was jailed and interpreted the Book of Changes, and Zhou Gongdan had an insightful bar mitzvah. King Wen didn't stop his career because of poverty, and Duke Zhou didn't change his ambition because of his great insight.
Therefore, the ancients looked down on a foot of jasper and valued an inch of time because they were afraid of the passage of time. Most people don't want to work hard, the poor are afraid of cold and hunger, and the rich are addicted to ease and happiness, so they only know how to manage what is in front of them and give up achievements that can last for thousands of years. The sun and the moon move in the sky.
And people's physical appearance is aging day by day underground, and suddenly they die of old age like other things. This is a sad thing for people with lofty ideals!
Extended data:
Before Jian 'an, literature was bound by Confucian classics and had almost no independent status. In its heyday, Han Fu was denounced by Yang Xiong as a "teenager carved by insects" (my son). Cao Zhi, Cao Pi's younger brother, also thought: "The way of ci Fu is not enough to promote righteousness and show the afterlife."
(Cao Zhi: "A Book with Yang Dezu") This has begun to link writing articles with thinking about the self-worth of individual life. Based on this, Cao Pi called on writers to follow the example of the ancient sages who "don't care about the world, keep quiet and don't think about recreation", and strive to change the current mental state of "being poor is afraid of cold and hunger, while being rich is greedy for pleasure", and cultivate one's morality with a super-utilitarian aesthetic mentality.
But here, Cao Pi endowed the language symbol "immortality" with brand-new practical and historical significance. Cao Pi also brought poetry and fu into the historical perspective of thinking about the value of literature itself, which fully showed his foresight and was also a profound embodiment of the literary tendency at that time.
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