Today is a good banquet, and the joy is hard to express.
The drums and flutes are playing vigorously, and the new sounds are wonderful and fascinating.
Make virtue sing high-minded words, know music and listen to its truth.
We all have the same wish, but the meaning is not stated.
Life is destined to last forever, and dying is like flying into the dust.
Why not use high-level students to seize the important road first?
If you do nothing to keep yourself poor, you will endure hardships.
Beautiful music can always express the feelings of life. The wonderful voice heard by the poet is to persuade people to relieve their worries and not to endure hardship. Born as a human being, who is willing to remain poor and lowly, but unwilling to occupy a high position? But who wants to be tired from running around and not want to have fun? Career and love, struggle and joy, sometimes go hand in hand, sometimes they are in direct opposition, and trade-offs and choices are always inevitable.
The author borrowed "Today's Good Banquet" from "Nineteen Ancient Poems" as the opening poem to express this idea. The second sentence in the poem was originally "Playing the zither with great joy and sound", but the author changed the two words arbitrarily just to fit the character and plot. Many of the banquet scenes and musicians' stories described in the article come from previous works, such as "Taiping Yulan", "Jiaofang Ji", "Romance of the Sui and Tang Dynasties", etc. They are only adapted and connected, and some imagination is added to form a new chapter. The two protagonists in the book, Chai Xiaowei and Shan Legong, have very different personalities and different careers, but they have become each other's lovers and friends by fate. The world is full of changes, gatherings and separations, and several spring breezes. Can they finally come together?