His inspiration is completely exhausted (江郎才盡)
During the period from 200 AD to 589 AD,
China was very turbulent for more than 300 years.
Many kingdoms quickly rose up, and many
kingdoms quickly died out.
During this time there was a famous writer.
His name is (Jiang Yan). (444 AD-505 AD)
His articles are well written and he is
also very ambitious, and he hopes to realize his ideals.
This ideal is also the common ideal of all
Chinese literati, that is, they can serve as government officials and then use
their knowledge to benefit society.
He has gone through three dynasties. In his
later years, he felt very discouraged, because although he had lofty ideals, he
has been unable to implement them.
At that time, the whole China was in a
turbulent situation, and this situation could not be changed by him alone.
In his last years as a government official,
he told the king at the time.
I am already old, so I hope to retire. The
king also agreed to his request.
He also stopped publishing his articles
since then, and he told a story about himself.
One day, in his sleep, he suddenly saw a
person in his dream. This person claimed to be a famous literati (Guo Pu) more
than 100 years ago. (276 AD-324 AD).
(Guo Pu) said to him. You can write so many
good articles because you took one of my Chinese brushes.
Now please return this Chinese brush to me.
He woke up when he returned the Chinese
brush to (Guo Pu).
He also felt very strange after he had this
bizarre dream, but since that day he could no longer write good articles.
This idiom is used to describe a person who
can no longer write good works.
Dear friend, what inspiration or thoughts
did you have after hearing this story.
Do you think (Jiang Yan) really can't write
good works anymore? If you are discouraged, what will you do to change your
mood?
I hope this story will give you some new
gains.
此圖片來自百度百科
江郎才盡(His inspiration is completely
exhausted)
中國在西元200-西元589年這段期間內，300多年的時間非常動亂。
很多王國快速興起，很多王國又快速消亡。
這段時間內有一位著名的文學家。他的名字叫做(江淹)。(西元444年-西元505年)
他的文章寫得很好他也很有抱負，他很希望可以實現自已的理想。
這個理想也是所有中國文人的共同理想，那就是可以但任政府官員，然後運用自已的知識去造福社會。
他經歷了三個朝代，在他晚年的時候，他感覺到很灰心，因為雖然自己有崇高的理想，但是一直無法落實。
當時整個中國處於動盪不安的情況，這情況並不是他一個人可以改變的。
他在擔任政府官員的最後幾年，他跟當時的國王說。
自已的年紀已經大了，所以希望退休。國王也答應了他的要求。
他也從那時候開始不在發表自已的文章，他對外說了一個自己的故事。
他有一天，他在睡夢中，突然夢中出現了一個人，這個人自稱他是100多年前的著名文人(郭璞)。(西元276年-西元324年)。
(郭璞)對他說。你能夠寫那麼多好的文章，是因為你拿了我的一支中國毛筆。
現在請你把這支中國毛筆還給我。
他把中國毛筆還給(郭璞)後他就驚醒了。
他做了這個奇異的夢後他也覺得很奇怪，但他從那一天開始就再也寫不出好的文章了。
這句成語被用來形容一個人再也寫不出好的作品。
親愛的朋友，你聽完這個故事有怎樣的啟發或有怎樣的想法呢。
你認為(江淹)真的再也寫不出好的作品了嗎。你如果灰心的時候，你會做甚麼事來改變自己的心情呢?
我期待這故事能讓你產生一些新的收穫。
典故出處為南史列傳卷59。