What do you mean, "Even for a thousand years, you will need a tile steamed bread"?

These two sentences mean that no matter how long a person lives, he will die.

"Iron threshold" refers to the limit of human life, and "Earth steamed bread" refers to the grave after death.

From the Southern Song Dynasty poet Fan Chengda's Nine-Day Tour, Camping and Living in Tibet.

Whole poem:

Home mountain is feasible everywhere, and the lotus clock is drunk.

Even if there is a thousand-year-old iron threshold, there must be an earthen steamed bread.

Three rounds of the world are still gray, and four skeletons are strong.

As thick as a bug's kite is, the chrysanthemums fall when the breeze blows.

Interpretation of vernacular Chinese:

Catalpa bungeana can be planted anywhere in my hometown. I take a hoe and a pot of aged wine with me all day to make it look like the legendary drunken fairy Liu Ling.

Even if people really can live as long as they have a thousand-year-old iron threshold and a long family history, they will eventually be buried in the grave like steamed bread.

In this secular world, as Buddhists say, the ashes after the fire disaster, the four skeletons of human beings are just skins, and finally they are buried in the same place and returned to their hometown.

Why do insects like ants and big birds like black kites have to be divided into different sizes? As for me, I just need to clap my hands to appreciate the chrysanthemums in the autumn wind and feel the beauty of this autumn.

Extended data:

Appreciation of meaning

"Iron threshold" and "earthen steamed bread" are two things unique in feudal society. In the past, feudal aristocratic families or rich families were called high thresholds. This is not only an adjective, but also reflects the style of the house. Moreover, the richest and most powerful people have iron thresholds, and some economists hope that their iron thresholds can exist for a thousand years.

But Fan Chengda said in this poem, even if your iron threshold can exist for a thousand years, can you live for a thousand years? What exactly do you need? Need a tile steamed bread.

The "iron threshold" and "earthen steamed bread" constitute a sign in this poem, a sign of the end of life, telling people that people only have to die, leaving a grave in vain.

The higher the status in the past, the bigger the grave after death, and the emperor's "earth steamed bread" will even become a hill, but no matter how big the "earth steamed bread" is, you will not have any fun after all.

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