What does it mean to win the day and find the fragrance of Surabaya?

"Looking for fragrance in Surabaya" means a spring outing. A deeper understanding is that the so-called "seeking incense" refers to the way to seek saints.

Victory day: originally refers to a festival or a day when relatives and friends get together, and refers to a sunny day.

Shore: water.

This poem is from the Song Dynasty thinker Zhu's poem "Spring Day". The full text of this poem is as follows:

Beautiful spring outing in Surabaya, the endless scenery is new.

Everyone can see the face of spring, the spring breeze blows flowers open, thousands of purple, and the scene of spring is everywhere.

Vernacular translation

When the weather is clear, you can visit the coast of Surabaya, and the endless scenery is refreshing.

Anyone can see the face of spring, and there are colorful spring scenes everywhere.

Extended data:

On the surface, Zhu's "Spring Day" is a landscape poem, depicting the beautiful scenery of spring day, but in fact it is a philosophical poem, expressing the poet's good wish to pursue the way of being a saint in troubled times. The whole poem is full of reason and imagery, with interesting ideas.

Literally, this poem seems to describe the impression of a spring outing, but the place to look for fragrance is the shore of Surabaya, which was occupied by Jin people in the Song Dynasty. Zhu has never been to the north, and of course it is impossible to swim to Surabaya in spring.

In fact, the word "Surabaya" in the poem alludes to Confucius, because in the Spring and Autumn Period, Confucius had sung a string of songs between Zhu and Si to teach his disciples. Therefore, the so-called "seeking incense" refers to the way of seeking saints. Boundless Scenery has a vast performance space, which reveals the poet's original intention of seeking the Holy Way through movies. "East wind" is a metaphor for enlightenment, and "colorful" is a metaphor for the richness of Confucianism.

The poet compares the sage's way to the spring breeze that promotes the occurrence and ignites everything, so this is actually a philosophical poem with rational interest in the image. It is Zhu's genius to write philosophical poems without revealing traces.

References:

Baidu Encyclopedia-Spring Day (Song Zhushi)