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Chapter 105

Chapter 105

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Chasing time! For those who have received compulsory education, if this topic were brought up, too many poems would come to mind. There is this line from *Changge Xing*: "A young man does not work hard, an old man grieves in vain." There is also this from *Oucheng*: "Youth is easy to lose and learning is hard to achieve; an inch of time must not be taken lightly." ... And this from *Encouraging Learning*: "Lamps burning at the third watch, roosters crowing at the fifth; this is the very time for a man to study." After all, with the theme of "chasing time" and encouraging learning, one naturally had to study hard back in school. Since that was the case, he could just casually write two pieces. *Spring Night* A single moment of a spring night is worth a thousand pieces of gold; flowers have a pure fragrance, the moon casts a hazy shadow. Flutes and songs drift softly from the storied pavilions, while the courtyard with its swings sinks deep into the night. As an eternal famous line, "A single moment of a spring night is worth a thousand pieces of gold" is a classic example that many people know even if they do not know the remaining three lines. Moreover, for many people—even including Ye Tian at the very beginning—they had assumed this line was written about the night "between a man and a woman," meant to be a time to cherish joyful moments. Yet in reality, the "spring night" in Su Shi's poem did not refer to the well-known romantic spring night everyone thinks of, but rathe…

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