This couplet was written by Gu Xiancheng, the leader of Lindong Party in Ming Dynasty. It's a couplet in front of Donglin Academy. Gu Xiancheng founded Donglin Academy in Wuxi. After giving lectures, he often comments on state affairs. Later, people used it to advocate "saving the country and not forgetting to study", which still has positive significance.
The first part combines the sound of reading with the sound of wind and rain, which is both poetic and meaningful, and the second part has the ambition to rule the country and level the world. Wind to rain, home to country, ears to heart. Extremely neat, especially when used with words, such as the sound of books.
Interpretation of vernacular Chinese: Part One refers to studying hard in a secluded place in the mountains, and the sound of wind and rain is constantly introduced to the ears. Emphasize the need for a good reading and learning environment. The second couplet says that family affairs, state affairs and even world affairs should be concerned. This shows that learners should think more about others. Worry about the country and the people and do great things for the people.
Extended data
Creation background: Donglin Academy was founded in the first year of Northern Song Dynasty, namely1111. This is the place where Shi Yang, a famous scholar and brother of Cheng Hao and Cheng Yi, gave lectures for a long time. Waste it in the future. In the thirty-second year of Wanli in the Ming Dynasty, Gu Xiancheng and other scholars restored this academy, which had been established since the Song Dynasty, and gathered here to give lectures. They advocated the spirit of "reading, giving lectures and patriotism", which aroused the general response of scholars all over the country and became famous for a while.
They satirize state affairs, judge people, point out the shortcomings of the past and seek innovation and change; Advocate the ambition of the world, practice, oppose empty talk and be divorced from reality. Therefore, when the ruling and opposition parties were moved by it, some domestic scholars and officials admired He Ying, and after hearing the news, they all made Lin Dong their home. The school was unbearable, and it was unprecedented for a time, and it became the main public opinion center for discussing state affairs at the regional meeting where people gathered in the south of the Yangtze River.
At that time, the people of Lindong were fiercely opposed by eunuchs and their dependent forces. The development and evolution of the political differences between them formed a fierce party struggle situation in the late Ming Dynasty. The opposition generally calls Lindong College "Lindong Party" because it holds lectures, and people in the government and the public who have relations with it or support sympathetic lectures.
Lindong party member publicly criticized the state affairs, touched the autocratic eunuchs Wei Zhongxian and Wei Zhongxian when Xizong was in power, and fabricated the "Lindong Essentials Record" and other documents to report to the court, attacking Lindong Party. 1625 (the fifth year of the apocalypse), Ming Xizong wrote a letter and burned down imperial academy courtyard.
The following year, Donglin Academy was demolished. Lindong party member was also hit, and many famous Lindong party member, such as Yang Lian and Zuo Guangdou, were killed. 1627 (the seventh year of the apocalypse), Emperor Chongzhen ascended the throne, and Wei Zhongxian was exiled to Fengyang House in Nanzhili, which saved the rest of Lindong Party from Wei Zhongxian's attack. 1629 (the second year of Chongzhen), Emperor Chongzhen ordered the restoration of the reputation of Lindong party member and the restoration of Donglin Academy.