竹石[1]
[清]郑燮
咬定[2]青山不放松，
立根原在破岩中。
千磨[3]万击还坚劲[4]，
任尔东西南北风！
注释：
[1]竹石：这是一首题画诗。
[2]咬定：比喻根扎得结实，像咬着不松口一样。
[3]磨：折磨。
[4]坚劲：坚定强劲。
Bamboo in the Rock
Zheng Xie
Upright stands the bamboo amid green mountains steep,
Its toothlike root in broken rock is planted deep.
It’s strong and firm though struck and beaten without rest,
Careless of the wind from north or south; east or west.
“Bamboo and Rock” is a seven-character quatrain created by Zheng Xie, a calligrapher and painter in the Qing Dynasty. This is a poem inscribed on a painting. The first two sentences praise the inner spirit of the strong bamboo rooted in the broken rock, fully demonstrating the tenacious vitality and fortitude of the strong bamboo. The last two sentences go a step further to describe the tempering and test of the strong bamboo by the harsh objective environment. Regardless of wind, rain, frost, cold and snow, the verdant green bamboo still stands proudly. This poem uses objects to represent people. By chanting the strong bamboo rooted in the broken rock, the poet implicitly expresses his noble sentiment of never following the crowd. The language of the whole poem is popular and novel, combining the real and the imaginary, and the situation and the situation are interdependent, which is very interesting.
