The author had strong political ambitions in his early years, and finally saw through the darkness of the court and retired to the mountains and fields, experiencing the ups and downs of the world. Therefore, the tone of the author's poems is basically sad. It happened to be autumn at that time, and the author's feelings for Shangqiu were mixed with his frustration with the court, so he wrote a masterpiece like "Autumn Thoughts", using the seven music of autumn to express the infinite melancholy in his heart.
1. The author’s life
First of all, we can analyze it from the author’s historical background. Ma Zhiyuan was born in Cangzhou City, Hebei Province. The drama "Autumn in the Han Palace" is his masterpiece. When Ma Zhiyuan was young, his official career was very bumpy. In his middle age, he was admitted to the Jinshi. He was once an official in Zhejiang Province, and later Because he was dissatisfied with the politics of the time, he retired to the mountains and forests. From the author's poetry works, we can see that the author particularly liked to pursue fame and wealth when he was young, and had very great political ambitions. However, later on, his 20-year wandering career , it was he who saw through the political darkness at that time, so he retired to the mountains and forests and no longer paid attention to the struggles in the world.
2. The author's tone of poetry
Ma Zhiyuan has many works in his life, but his poems are basically written by Wei Qi in his later years or middle age. Because of his wandering life, he finally retired to the mountains and forests. Therefore, his poems basically have sadness and melancholy as the main tone. The rulers of the Yuan Dynasty were Mongols, and the Mongols at that time were so repulsive that they were naturally discriminated against by the Han people.
Ma Zhiyuan had to leave the court in order to pursue fame. Guiyin Shanlin and others organized the "Yuanzhen Calligraphy Club" and lived out the era of playing music, chess, calligraphy, painting and poetry. The author's famous work "Autumn Thoughts" happened to be written when the author's official career was not going well, but it happened to be autumn, so he wrote a little song with only 28 words, and every word in the song is full of sadness.