"The good things in the world are not firm, and the clouds are easy to scatter and the glass is brittle"
This is a sentence with a very high rate of appearance in online novels in recent years, and I have seen more and even felt a little vulgar, but this shot in the second season of the recent documentary "China" has really reproduced the "high sense" of this verse!
From the dream of Emperor Huizong zhao of the Song Dynasty, the "azure color" of "rain over the sky and clouds breaking" reproduced by the skillful craftsmen in Ruzhou, Henan, with the cracks that bloom like petals formed in the high temperature, the high-level art combined with the upcoming changes in the home country, perfectly fits the poetic mood, giving people visual enjoyment and giving people a spiritual impact.
Many people read that the sentence "The good things in the world are not firm, and the clouds are easy to scatter and the glass is brittle" is from Yang Chen's prose collection "We Both".
"The Two of Us" tells the story of a family's decades of unremarkable, mutual help, and loss of each other, and the author recalls the happy and difficult days of a family of three in concise and heavy language.
When Mr. Yang Dai wrote that his daughter Ah Yan and her husband Qian Zhongshu died one after another in 1997 and 1998 respectively, "we are the two" who were the only ones left, he issued an exclamation that "the good things in the world are not firm, and the clouds are easy to scatter and the glass is brittle"——
Most of the good things in the world are not strong and reliable, just like the clouds on the edge of the sky are fleeting, and like the beautiful glass is fragile and fragile...
Similar verses first appeared in the Tang Dynasty poet Bai Juyi's "Jian Jian Yin":
Su Jianjian, the little girl of the Su family, is skillful and studious, 11-year-old learns to make up, 12-year-old learns female red, 13-year-old learns musical instruments, "the special posture is not formable, suddenly turning if there is light", beautiful and flexible as if the girl will shine, but died in the middle.
Bai Juyi wrote to comfort Su Jianjian's parents, "I am afraid that I am a heavenly immortal, who is only thirteen years old in the world." Most of the good things are not firm, and the clouds are easy to scatter and the glass is brittle" sentence.
The Northern Song Dynasty poet Liu Yong's "Introduction to Sorrowful RuiXiang" and the Northern Song Dynasty writer Chao's "Qingyu Case: Caiyun Easy to Scatter Glass Crisp" both appear in "Caiyun Easy Scatter Glass Crisp".
In the Yuan Dynasty, the whole poem appeared in the clever miscellaneous drama "Pipa Record": "The good things in the world are not firm, and the clouds are easy to scatter and the glass is brittle."
ps. Yuan miscellaneous drama "Pipa" tells the story of Zhao Wuniang and Cai Bozai, like to listen to friends of Deyun Society, may have heard Guo Degang sang the version of the Xihe big drum.
This sentence also appears many times in other meta-dramas, and in the Ming and Qing dynasties, this sentence became more used, such as in the "Words of the Plum in the Golden Bottle", where the author used this sentence to express his pity for Song Huilian, who was hateful and self-hanging.
Beautiful and light sentences from the Tang and Song, from the Yuan to the Ming, and to the present, still exude a charming atmosphere, good things are fragile, so we must cherish the present more, look back at the past, and do not indulge in loss.
The timeless beauty of Chinese poetry and the vitality of traveling through time can be seen.
The second season of the 8.3-point documentary is coming, and the movie-level picture looks at Li Bai Dufu in "Anshi Chaos"