Analysis of Xin You’s Winter Solstice Ancient Poetry: Today is the winter solstice, and the door of my residence is deserted. The family is too poor to pay attention to the festive diet, and when they are older, they are unwilling to face the fact that they are getting older. After completing the festival's family sacrificial activities, they helped each other return to the room and went to bed early. It’s just that I can only explore the dream of spring, and I have already leapt to the mirror lake.
Xin You’s Winter Solstice poem: Today the sun is approaching in the south, and my door is silent. A poor family neglects celebrating the holidays, and an old person is timid about growing older. After the sacrifice, everyone helped him to worship, and he went to bed early alone. Just to explore the dream of spring, I have already circled the mirror lake.
"Xinyou Winter Solstice" is one of the representative works of Lu You, a famous writer in the Song Dynasty. Lu You (1125-1210), with the title of Wu Guan and the nickname of Fang Weng, was a Han nationality and a native of Shanyin, Yuezhou (now Shaoxing, Zhejiang). He was the grandson of Lu Dian, the minister Youcheng, and a writer, historian and patriotic poet of the Southern Song Dynasty.
Lu You was born when the Northern Song Dynasty was overthrown, and he was deeply influenced by his family's patriotism when he was young. During the reign of Emperor Gaozong of the Song Dynasty, he participated in the examination of the Ministry of Rites, but his official career was not smooth because he was rejected by Qin Hui. After Emperor Xiaozong of the Song Dynasty came to the throne, he was granted a Jinshi background and successively held the posts of chief registrar of Ningde County in Fuzhou, official of the imperial edict, general magistrate of Longxing Prefecture, etc. Because of his persistence in resisting the Jin Dynasty, he was repeatedly rejected by the Zhuhe faction.