Zhu Xi: Like A Mirror Opens The Half-Acre Square Pond 朱熹問渠那得清如許為有源頭活水來

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GUAN SHU YOU GAN: No.1 (of 2)
"What I Learn from Reading a Book"
-by Zhu Xi (1130-1200) (Southern Song)
-Translated by Frank Yue

Like a mirror opens the half-acre square pond;
Reflected sunlight, cloud shadows play, stay, and bond.
O, Tell me how can the water be clear like so?
From the source a divine, live fountainhead does flow!

【觀書有感】二首其一南宋 · 朱熹

半畝方塘一鏡開，天光雲影共徘徊。
問渠那得清如許，為有源頭活水來。

Frank Yue

Wednesday, October 21, 2020

Topic(s) of this poem: education,study

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Opening a string-bound paper book, that is rectangular or half-square in shape, is like opening up a covered mirror by removing the cloth. The pond (book) of course does reflect the sky (knowledge) and
its interaction with the mind (intellectual development) .

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