Xiuer is a seven-character quatrain written by Lu You, a poet in the Song Dynasty, and it is a representative work of the poet.
This poem conveys the poet's complex thoughts and feelings at the end of his life and his patriotic feelings of worrying about the country and the people. It expresses the poet's lifelong desire and pours into the poet's grief, which contains endless resentment against the unfinished golden cause and firm belief that the sacred cause will be realized.
The language of the whole poem is true and straightforward. The emotion contained and accumulated in the poem is extremely profound and intense, but it is expressed in extremely simple and plain language, which naturally achieves a real and moving artistic effect.