Interpretation: The alfalfa on the shore of Madu River exudes fragrance, and we pass Xiaoxiang Lake under the miserable conditions of clouds and rain. The east wind woke up the hero's dream, and then he realized that he was in Luoyang and not Xianyang.
"Leading the Army to Conquer Chen Youliang to Xiaoxiang" is a poem written by Zhu Yuanzhang, the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty. The poem reflects his strong desire to unify the world; but the east wind awakened his sweet dream, and at this time he said to himself that he was in Luoyang. When Zhu Yuanzhang conquered Chen Youliang, he fought at Xiaoxiang Lake and left this poem, which expressed Zhu Yuanzhang's melancholy and helpless mood when he woke up from a dream and found that the beautiful scenery had become empty.
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The meaning of the last two sentences is: The east wind awakened the hero's dream, and then he realized that he was in Luoyang and not in Luoyang. Xianyang. These two poems describe the melancholy and helpless mood after waking up from a big dream, the beautiful scenery has become empty, and they are vividly written on the paper.
To put it bluntly, he became the emperor in his dream and unified China, but when he woke up and found out that it was all fake, he felt very aggrieved, but on the other hand, it also highlighted his desire for hegemony. Ambition.
Xianyang was the imperial capital that unified China during the Qin Dynasty. As the poem suggests, Zhu Yuanzhang longed for Xianyang in his dream, which reflected his strong desire to unify the world; but the east wind awakened his dream, and this At that time he said that he was in Luoyang. Chu and Han were fighting, and Liu Bang fought fiercely with Xiang Yu in Chenggao, Luoyang. The situation was grim and the outcome was unknown. This alluded to the situation of Zhu Yuanzhang, who was fighting fiercely with Chen Youliang at this time.
However, Zhu Yuanzhang's yearning for "Xianyang" was not only limited to its symbolic meaning - "unification", but also his willingness to build a country and establish a capital here. Xianyang is also the name of the ancient capital Chang'an. According to "History of the Ming Dynasty - The Third Biography", "In August of the 24th year, the prince was ordered to inspect Shaanxi... The imperial censor Hu Qi wrote a letter saying: '... I occupied the dangers of hundreds of rivers and mountains. , you can raise the hopes of the princes, and there is nothing in the world like this.
The emperor said to the prince: "The mountains and rivers in the world are only dangerous in Qin. You go and observe the customs." To express condolences to the fathers and sons of Qin, he offered a map of Shaanxi, and while he was ill, he wrote about the construction of the capital. This clearly shows that Zhu Yuanzhang had the idea of ????moving the capital to Guanzhong during the Hongwu period of the early Ming Dynasty. Biao inspected Guan Shaanxi. After the prince returned and presented the map of Shaanxi, he unfortunately fell seriously ill and died soon after. The matter of moving the capital was hastily ended.
In his mind, the most ideal place to establish the capital was not in Kaifeng, but in Guanzhong, which is today in Shaanxi. Guanzhong has developed agriculture and a large population. It is a prosperous place. It is also the most typical capital culture in the Yellow River Basin represented by Xi'an in China. It is also the hometown of the rise of the Chinese nation. The Yan Emperor and Huang Emperor clans lived here. When Liu Bang and Xiang Yu were fighting for the world, Xiang Yu became the king of Guanzhong, and Liu Bang still held a grudge for this. Therefore, Zhu Yuanzhang, who regarded Liu Bang as his idol, was most optimistic about this Feng Shui treasure land.
In the 24th year of Hongwu (1391), he started the research work before moving the capital, and sent Prince Zhu Biao to Shaanxi to inspect the geographical situation. "History of the Ming Dynasty: Xingzong Biography" specifically records this incident. It can be seen from it that Zhu Yuanzhang was sincere and cautious about going to Guanzhong to build. But during this inspection, Zhu Biao fell seriously ill on his way back and died of the disease the next spring.
After Tang Yan, a scholar in the late Qing Dynasty, personally inspected the city of Xi'an, he lamented in "Records of Gengzi's Journey to the West": "The Forbidden City in the Ming Dynasty is still there, intact as new, and its site is slightly wider than Nanjing. The original annals of the Ming Dynasty In the article "In the Capital of Qin", the Prince of Qin's Palace in Xi'an is directly called the "Forbidden City", which shows its majestic scale. Finally, the author confirms that Ming Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang originally wanted to be in the capital of Qin, in order to imitate Liu Bang, the great ancestor of the Han Dynasty who also ruled the world as a commoner.