Is time objectively present? Or is it our subjective feelings? Strictly speaking, we don't feel time, we can only feel movement, and then we name the process of movement time. We believe that the rotation of the sun and the moon is synchronized with the rotation of life, and believe that this is the power of time. Every day the sun rises from the east to the west, which we call a day; in the continuation of day after day, we see spring to autumn.
Almost everyone's effort is to buy more time for themselves, and life is like a game of time. The job of last resort is to sell time to others. Everyone is consciously or unconsciously exchanging time with others. And when you have more resources and can serve more people, your time will be completely your own. You can spend your money on what interests you most. Therefore, when people compete for resources, it is essentially like pursuing immortality.
But when you think you have more time, time will pass quickly. In the colorful life, you will feel that ten minutes have aged, and you will care that the speed of cherry blossoms falling is five centimeters per second. The workers on the factory assembly line every day have a sense of immortality in the first half of the shift.
You can't slow down the speed at which cherry blossoms fall. Therefore, even if you have all the resources in the world and can control your own time, you can't repeat a first love that can only be experienced in adolescence when your sideburns are white, and you can't write a green love letter when your literary skills are in full swing. And poetry can express their emotions, and it is beyond the limits of time, touching every heart that loves life but cannot retain youth.
Poet Zhang Ruoxuan's "Spring River Flower Moon Night" feels like a rotating kaleidoscope in a child's hand when read. The rotation of the kaleidoscope represents the rotation of time. The beginning of the poem begins with the description of the spring river, which is what many people are familiar with: "The tide of the spring river is connected to the sea level, and the bright moon on the sea is born together." The rising tide seems to connect with the sky. The bright moon also rises from the sea, and the river surface of thousands of miles floods with bright moonlight.
Next, after seeing the immaculate sky and white moonlight, a philosophical question was asked: "Who first saw the moon on the riverbank, and when did the river moon shine at the beginning of the year" Who first saw the moon on the riverbank, and when did the moon start to shine on people? Is the moon having a longer history or is it the history of mankind? If it's the former, when did the first person in history see it? If it is the latter, what will it look like when the moon is just born, or when it first appears above a human head?
Seeing that the river has a tide rising and falling, but always flowing, seeing that the moon has a full deficiency, but always rising and falling in the east, why are people different? When the four seasons are reincarnated, another spring is coming, and the scene of spring rivers and flowers and moonlit nights is displayed in front of us, people suddenly realize that only their own lives are a pure linear process, and only we are constantly losing. Therefore, there is a poet's exclamation of this: "Life is infinite from generation to generation, and Jiang Yue looks similar every year."
I will not have a second youth, I will not return to my childhood, I will not enter the next reincarnation. This feeling can easily touch those sensitive hearts. But what good can this pessimism bring? Better to think differently. "I don't know who Jiang Yue treats, but I see the Yangtze River sending flowing water" That bright moon should be waiting for someone, like seeing that the Yangtze River has been transporting flowing water continuously.
After that, the poem revolves around this, from the long wait of the moon to the shortness of life and therefore the emphasis on parting, and the brevity and eternity of time are only our attention.