《了解红楼梦》
林黛玉为什么要葬花?葬花背后又有何意?
🌷Why did Lin Daiyu bury the flowers? What is the meaning behind the act of burying flowers?
🌷林黛玉最怜惜花,觉得花落以后埋在土里最干净,说明她对美有独特的见解。她写了葬花词,以花比喻自己,在《红楼梦》中是最美丽的诗歌之一💘
林黛玉的柔弱并非像一般人说的如此柔弱,以她葬花为例,不要闲来没事而哭泣,以林黛玉的高情商,连世间的金银珠宝都看不上,又怎么会在乎花朵的凋谢🥀,她又何尝不知道花开花落是自然现象。
🌺但是-她的情商太高了,高到了可以通过花儿的凋零联想到女人的命运乃至全人类的命运:一年三百六十天,风刀霜剑严相逼,但花开有时,鲜艳明媚能几时?她想起了自己的身世,想到了未来,想到了残花落尽红颜老,花落人亡两不知。🌷🌷
🌸好比人活在世上就像旅客一般,不过是短短几十载而已。林黛玉放置所有人类的命运无非也是和花开花谢一个道理,于是悲伤得不能自已。😭😭
🌺Lin Daiyu pities the fallen flowers as she feels that burying them in the soil is the cleanest method to send them on their last journey. This shows her unique understanding of beauty. Using flowers as a metaphor for herself, she wrote the “Elegy for Fallen Flowers”, one of the most beautiful poems in “The Dream of Red Mansions”. Lin Daiyu’s tenderness is not the typical kind of weakness most people have. She wasn’t crying without good reason when she buried the flowers. Lin Daiyu, who has an unusually high emotional intelligence, doesn’t even care about earthly jewelry and treasures. So why would she care about withering flowers? Of course, she knew that the cycle of flowers blooming and withering is a natural phenomenon.
🌸However, with her extraordinary emotional intelligence, she managed to associate the fate of women and even the fate of all humanity with the flowers. “Each year for three hundred and sixty days, the cutting wind and biting frost contend.” But, how long can beauty flower fresh and fair? She thought of her own life, fate, and future, and wondered “who will care for the fallen blossom or dead maid”.
🥀We humans are like sojourners in the world, our journey lasts for only a few decades. Likening the fate of all human beings to the cycle of flowers blooming and withering, Lin Daiyu couldn’t help but be sad. However, ordinary people could not understand this kind of sentiment, and instead, jeered at her. It is a great prejudice to misunderstand high emotional intelligence as simply weakness, as many have.
kind act meaning 在 Milton Goh Blog and Sermon Notes Facebook 的最佳解答
While imprisoned by Potiphar, Joseph got to know two prisoners who were locked up in there with him: Pharaoh’s chief cupbearer and chief baker who had both been jailed for offending Pharaoh.
The two prisoners dreamed a different dream on the same night which they did not knowing the meaning of.
Using his gift, Joseph interpreted their dreams for them, and it was revealed that the baker’s dream prophesied the baker’s own execution and the cupbearer’s dream prophesied the cupbearer’s pardon from Pharaoh.
Joseph in all friendliness requested for the cupbearer to make mention of him to Pharaoh so that he could be delivered from the dungeon.
It was a fair request—after all he was innocent of the crime which he had been charged, and he had just helped the chief cupbearer to interpret a dream.
However, the cupbearer totally forgot about Joseph after he was restored to his position—again Joseph was forgotten, and his goodness was taken for granted.
The cupbearer was not willing to save Joseph, neither did he have the power to (for he did not have that kind of influence with Pharaoh) and Joseph was completely innocent of the crime.
Many years later, at Golgotha, Jesus was crucified in the middle of two robbers who were also nailed to their own crosses.
One robber continually hurled insults at Jesus whereas the other robber repented, and placed his faith in Jesus:
“And he was saying, “Jesus, [please] remember me when You come into Your kingdom!” Jesus said to him, “I assure you and most solemnly say to you, today you will be with Me in Paradise.”” (LUKE 23:42-43 AMP)
This time, even though the robber is guilty of his crime, Jesus is both willing to save him and He has the power to save him.
The chief cupbearer, a mere man, did not remember Joseph, but Jesus, the God-Man assured the repentant robber that he would be remembered.
On top of giving the robber the gift of salvation, the robber’s confession of faith is forever recorded in God’s word for us all to read—his prayer to be remembered was answered exceedingly and abundantly above all he could think or imagine—we have such a good and generous God!
When Jesus says He will remember you, He doesn’t just think of you when He’s bored—He gives you realms of freedom from captivity and honors your faith in Him!
Dear brother or sister in Christ, don’t worry if people take advantage of you and then take you for granted.
Everything that we do, let us do it as an act of worship to our Lord Jesus.
For when we place all our trust and hope in Him, He always remembers us and we will never be put to shame.
Prayer for the Day:
Dear Abba Father, help us to center our trust in Jesus.
When we put our faith in man, we will inevitably be disappointed.
But when we put our faith in Jesus, our hope will always have a reward—for He is the Rewarder.
Heal our hearts from every hurt we have experienced and restore us, in Jesus’ name we pray, Amen!
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kind act meaning 在 Alison Lau 劉卓昕 Facebook 的精選貼文
My first role in a full production is done! Thank you Opera Hong Kong for giving me the opportunity to perform in Don Giovanni! Learning to sing and act Zerlina turned out to be one of the most difficult and satisfying experience I’ve ever had. I am very grateful to every teacher and coach who has inspired me along the way, and to OHK, I wouldn’t be where I am today without their generous vocal scholarship and the Young Artist Programme’s training. It was an honour to share the stage with the marvellous cast and crew. What you all saw on stage was only a tip of the iceberg of a huge collaborative effort of many, many people. <3
Thanks to my friends and family, and my colleagues at Universal Classics Hong Kong who were superbly understanding and supportive in the last few months, giving me time and space to totally submerge in the worlds of lieder and opera. Thanks to all the OHK Chorus ladies who'd always encouraged me and sent me on to stage with a burst of energy for our first entrance “Giovinette”. Thanks to all of my colleagues who were patient, kind and generous in sharing their experience, and guided my footsteps (many times, literally) in the unfamiliar realm of opera. It was the most wonderful feeling when fear and anxiety suddenly became excitement, and when recitatives began to turn from text to meaning. I know it’s cliche but I have to keep reminding myself: Trust that life is giving you exactly what you need practice in, and also the harder you work, the luckier you get. :)