Why climb a ladder when you can turn into wings? What does this poem mean?

It means: if I can cultivate immortal fruit and generate my own wings, why should I rely on the legendary ladder?

Source: Tang's Seeing Immortals in the View?

Original poem:

The jade shelf is hidden, and the old traces of Jintan are lost. ?

Take the flowers to Zixi, and step on Qingxi under the leaves.

The pulp is still like milk, and the stone pulp is still like mud. ?

Why climb a ladder when you can turn into wings?

Translation:

There are traces of immortals on the jade bookshelf, and the remains of Jintan exist mysteriously.

Find a deep purple stream along the vine, and step into the clear stream with thick fallen leaves.

There are ivory nectar (stalactites) and muddy chalcedony (timely).

If I can cultivate immortal fruit and generate my own wings, why should I rely on the legendary ladder?

Extended data

Related instructions:

1, jade bookshelf: there is a jade pavilion, which is famous for its long bookshelf; A perch made of beautiful stones.

2. Trace: the whole school of poetry: "-making roads."

3. Jane: the whole school of poetry: "-make a hole."

4. nectar: jade syrup, the drink of the gods. The pulp made of beautiful jade is also a metaphor for wine or sweet pulp. In China myths and legends, drinking it can make you live forever.

5. Stone marrow: There is a mushy thing in the mountains, which flows out and becomes a river. After flowing out for a few miles, it seeps into the ground. Shaped like delicate cheese. The teeth will regenerate after taking it, and the patient will recover after taking it.

In the third year of Longshuo (663), Wang Bo returned to his hometown and wrote articles such as Shangguan Sima Shu, looking for opportunities and actively becoming an official. In the autumn of the first year of Linde (664), Wang Bo wrote a letter to Liu Xiangdao, expressing his political views and his determination to actively use the world, which won Liu Xiangdao's admiration for "this prodigy". In the second year of Linde, Wang Bo presented Gan Yuan Palace Fu to Tang Gaozong through Huangfu Changbo, indicating his intention to seek official promotion.