"Look at the flowers in front of the court, and look at the clouds in the sky." Which literary work is this?

From Chen Jiru's Little Window and Hong Yingming's Caigen Tan.

This is a couplet, the full text is: don't be surprised, just look at the flowers in front of the court; Going or staying is unintentional, and it is easy to follow the clouds.

This sentence means that when people do things, they can be as ordinary as flowers and flowers, and they can be calm; See if you want to keep the position, it can be unintentional.

Extended data

A Small Window is a self-cultivation motto compiled by Chen Jiru. Chen Jiru wrote a lot of books, such as "Flowers in Peace", "An De Chang Yan", "Mo Shiyu" and "Diary of a Madman". Among them, Xiao Chuang You Ji is the most influential one. Originally, The Story of a Small Window is divided into twelve volumes: awakening, emotion, suddenness, spirit, elegance, scenery, rhyme, strangeness, strangeness, luxury, dharma and money. Mainly talking about the way of peaceful coexistence. There are three schools of thought: Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism.

This book is light in brushwork and good at analyzing things. It is also known as "the three wonders of life" with Hong Yingming's Caigen Tan in the Ming Dynasty and Wang Yongbin's Night Talk around the Furnace in the Qing Dynasty. Generally speaking, the popular version combines the general content and divides it into four parts, namely, collecting consciousness, collecting emotion, collecting rigor and collecting spirit, which has lost sight of the original style.

Whether it is twelve or four, it has little effect on the content of the book. This book is a sketch among sketches, a bit like quotations and epigrams. Exquisite language, clear wisdom and spiritual interest are amazing. In particular, the thinking about life and the wisdom of dealing with life are "a cold word in excitement and a hot word in indifference, and everyone is unaware of it."

One said "small window" and the other said "drunken ancient hall sword sweep" Save seven volumes of aphorism prose. (Ming) Lu (living near 1624): His life experience is unknown. During the Apocalypse, I lived in Beijing and edited The Sword Sweep of Drunk Ancient Hall.

The inscription on "General Wu Ge's Tombstone" written by Chen Jiru recounts that during the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty, the imperial court was corrupt, and Sun Long, the supervisor of Suzhou-Hangzhou weaving tax collection, was sent to the south of the Yangtze River to recruit tax collectors privately, colluded with local bureaucrats to help collect taxes, added tax items, and monopolized the profits, which led to Ge Cheng, the leader of textile machinery, holding a banana fan in his hand and leading a period of capitalist production relations in China. There were early workers in China, and now the monument is preserved in Yifeng Garden, Shantang Street, Suzhou.

Reference: Baidu Encyclopedia-Chen Jiru