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2020-03-03
Corrigendum: "Castle Peak is full of loyal bones, so why did they still wear boots when they died?" Not from Gong Zizhen's "Jihai Miscellaneous Work"
Recently, when I was watching the "famous teacher classroom" in primary and secondary schools in Henan Province, I saw this statement:
I was a little suspicious at that time, so I checked it online. Many places on the Internet show that these two poems are from Gong Zizhen's "Jihai Miscellaneous Work" and returned to the original poem:
Seeing this, I am even more skeptical. Was the poem I learned earlier wrong? "Falling red is not heartless, but turning into spring mud is more protective of flowers." Gong Zizhen's two poems are correct, but the first two sentences of the whole poem are not "Castle Peak is full of loyalty, why did it die of wearing boots?" The first two sentences of the original poem are: "Worrying about the horizon, whipping refers to the horizon."
Later, I consulted Gong Zizhen's poems, and Jihai Miscellaneous Poems was a set of poems created by Gong Zizhen in Qing Dynasty (1792- 184 1). Jihai is the 19th year of Qing Daoguang (1839 (the year of Jihai)). This year, the author was 48 years old. He resigned from Beijing and returned to Hangzhou because of his dislike of his official career, and then went back and forth to see his family. Gong Zizhen's poems advocate "reform" and "reform", criticize the decay of the Qing Dynasty, and are full of patriotic enthusiasm. Ji Hai's Miscellaneous Poems ***3 15.
Then, I searched these 3 15 poems and found that there is no such thing as "loyalty is buried everywhere in the castle peak". The sentence "Why did they die in boots" did not appear, let alone two sentences appeared together.
So these two poems are not Gong Zizhen's at all.
However, why are these two poems of Gong Zizhen circulated on the Internet? I guess it's probably because there are countless poems by Mr Gong, which are either about current politics, telling stories or thinking about the past. The theme is very extensive and the content is very complex, and most of them use topics to attack society. Gong Zizhen lived on the eve of the Opium War. He has a strong patriotic spirit and advocates reforming internal affairs and resisting foreign aggression. The criticism, call and expectation in Ji Hai's miscellaneous poems reflect the patriotic passion of the poet who is highly concerned about the fate of the nation and the country, and write the author's grief over the Qing government's neglect of planning. Words are mostly related to the national economy and people's livelihood, expressing a strong desire to change society. This kind of emotion coincides with the emotion expressed in these two poems.