Su Dongpo(蘇東坡) was a celebrated man of letters and calligrapher of the Northern Song Dynasty. He objected to Wang Anshi's(王安石) reform, and was banished from the court for writing opposing poems. Leater, he resumed office first as Court Academician, and then as Minister of Rites(禮部尚書). However, he was again removed from the court. At the time he was in Changhua in Zhejiang, he walked one day on a country path with a gourd ladle on his back while singing, and came across a grandma in her seventies. The grandma said to him with pity, "Your wealth and position as an academician in the past is only a dream in spring, "Hearing the words, Su Dongpo was depressed and said nothing.
- banish ~ from
～を…から追放する［追い払う］ - academician
【名】
アカデミー会員｛かいいん｝、学士院会員 - gourd (葫蘆瓢)
【名】
《植物》ウリ類、ゴード◆ウリやヘチマ状の実をつけるウリ科(Cucurbitaceae)の植物の総称。 - ladle
【名】
おたま、ひしゃく
(the sources from internet and the book "The Best Chinese Idioms)
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