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Journey to the West to interpret the poems
Chaos is not divided into heaven and earth, and the vastness is invisible.
Since Pangu broke the Hongmeng, opened up from Zi Qing turbid discernment.
Covering the crowd to look up to benevolence, inventing that all things are good.
If you want to know the Yuan Gong of the Creation Society, you must look at the Journey to the West.
exegesis:
Chaos: The legendary state of the yuan qi when the heavens and the earth were not formed.
Vast and vague: far away and not easy to see.
Pangu: A groundbreaking deity in Chinese myths and legends.
Hongmeng: Before the heavens and the earth were opened, a natural vitality was formed.
FROM: From now on.
Clear turbidity: clear qi and turbid qi, heaven and earth yin and yang two qi.
Overburden: covering and bearing, overculcating tolerance.
Hordes: All beings, all living things.
Zhi Ren: The greatest benevolence.
Invention: Use your own spiritual knowledge to create something unprecedented.
Everything: All things in the universe.
Creation: Nature that nurtures all things.
Huiyuan Gong: The ability and merit of cultivating all things
Journey to the West: The name of the early Journey to the West biography. Interpretation refers to the Tang monks, and doom is disaster.
Translation:
Before the heavens and the earth were separated, it was just a chaotic yuan qi, vast and distant, and no one could see clearly. Pangu opened up, dividing the chaotic Yuan Qi into two clear qi, forming heaven and earth respectively. The creation of heaven and earth to nurture all things and to embrace and carry sentient beings is the greatest benevolence. If you want to understand the creation of heaven and earth, you need to look at this "Journey to the West" and "The Tale of Shi'er".
Comment:
This is the opening poem of "Journey to the West", and the interpretation of this poem has always been varied, and many people even regard this poem as the central idea of the entire book "Journey to the West". In fact, from the perspective of the writing idea of the article, we can completely treat this poem as an "advertising word", which uses the world's yearning for the psychology of "creating and creating yuangong" to set up suspense and attract people to read "Journey to the West".
Of course, this opening poem, in addition to attracting readers, does hint to a certain extent the central idea of the whole novel. In fact, this is also a common feature of the opening poems of classical Chinese novels. This opening poem borrows the creation myth theory of Pangu's opening up of the world and the transformation of heaven and earth into all things, but in fact tells us that "Journey to the West" implies the truth of life growth and career development.
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Lin Hanqian: Educator and researcher, psychological counselor, general learning enthusiast, amateur author. Busy educating people, talking and solving puzzles, idle to read and govern, write and cook, I hope to accompany you to discover the unknown beauty of this world.
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