Lu you studied tirelessly since he was a child, claiming that "when he was born to learn English, he was addicted to books and his eyes were dying." In his youth, he learned a lot from Jiangxi poets, but he was not bound by them, and he was nourished by the poems of former great poets such as Qu Yuan, Tao Yuanming, Li Bai, Du Fu and Cen Can.
Although the feudal family gave Lu You a good cultural influence, especially patriotic education, it also brought him the misfortune of marriage. At the age of 20, he married down, and the couple were very loving, but his mother didn't like down and forced them to separate. After the divorce, Lu You was very sad. He once wrote the word "Chai Feng" in an accidental meeting after 10 years to show his affection. Since then, he has written many commemorative poems, and even wrote the famous love poem Shen Yuan in his later years.
At the age of 29, Lu You went to Lin 'an (now Hangzhou), the capital of the Southern Song Dynasty, to try to lock the club, ranking first. However, because he lived before the grandson of the capitulator Qin Gui, and because he didn't forget the national humiliation, he was jealous of Qin Gui, so he was removed from the list at the second interview. After Qin Gui's death, Xiaozong acceded to the throne. At first, he was quite anti-gold. The hawk was taken seriously and Lu Youfang was put into use. He actively put forward many military strategies and political measures to resist the enemy and save the country to the court. However, due to Zhang Jun's Northern Expedition, his generals disagreed, the capitulators were restrained, and the Anti-Japanese War was finally frustrated. Song court immediately wavered and embarked on the old road of surrender and peace; Lu You was also accused of "testifying, clamoring for right and wrong, and urging Zhang Jun to fight", and was ousted and returned to his hometown.
Lu You lived in his hometown Yinshan Jinghu Lake for 4 years and applied for jobs many times. Finally, he was sentenced to be a junior official in Kuizhou (now Fengjie, Sichuan) for five years (1 169), at the age of 45. Forced to make a living, he had to go to Sichuan to take office in the second year. Because of my humble position and seclusion in the mountain city, I felt that I had nothing to do, but after the expiration of my term of office, I had to write again and beg for "donating officials to save my life." In the eighth year of Dalu (1 172), Wang Yan, the main battle general of Fu Xuan, Sichuan, hired him as an official and extended him to assist in military affairs. This greatly changed Lu You's life. He put on his military uniform and galloped around Nanzheng (now Hanzhong), the front line of national defense at that time. The autumn wind and heroic military life opened Lu You's arms, and he wrote many passionate patriotic poems. "Flying frost sweeps away the cold, and one inch of Dan Xin only serves the country" can be regarded as a portrayal of his life and mood during this period. Especially when he saw that the terrain in Sichuan and Shaanxi was dangerous and the people were heroic, he felt that he could take Guanzhong as the basis in order to counterattack and recover lost ground. So, he gave Wang an enterprising strategy and put forward some strategies for training troops and accumulating millet in the Central Plains. He is full of confidence in victory, and thinks that "Julian Waghann will enter Qin in January, and it will spread to northern Henan". However, Lu You's heart of serving the country cannot be realized. The corrupt Song court only wanted peace, but had no intention of making progress, which led the soldiers to idle the front line, "serving the country and dying without a battlefield." Soon, the Song court recalled Wang Yan and immediately dismissed him, and Lu You was also appointed as the Senate of the appeasement department of Chengdu government. He had to hold the resentful mood of "not seeing Julian Waghann go through customs" and "sighing like rain", and watched the hope of recovering the Central Plains dashed. Since then, Lu You has acted as an agent in Zhou Shu, History, Yeongju and other places, calling himself a "monk in the forest", and his ambition to resist Japan and save the country has never ceased.
In the second year (1 175), Lu you was invited to be a senator from central Sichuan, Fan Chengda Town. Lu Yu, who is known for his friendship of poetry and prose, is not too rigid in official etiquette and even ridiculed by his colleagues. Because Lu You's ambition to save the country and his personal fame and fortune have not been continued for a long time, he often takes pride in "taking off his towel and drinking, leaning on a pole to see the mountain", and even seeks spiritual recovery and anesthesia in the fog of the pipa waist-inspiring shirt, and is accused by his colleagues of "being informal and relying on wine to get rid of his worries". Therefore, Lu You simply called himself "Weng Fang" and quipped in his poem: "The name is outside the yellow paper, and time is paid in the green bottle. Who is peeling in front of the door, congratulations on my release this year. " Since then, "Weng Fang" has been living with his poem title.
Lu You has been in Sichuan and Shaanxi for 9 years, and the mountains, rivers, customs and customs of the motherland have enriched his life experience. Especially in the front line of Nanzheng, he came into contact with many border guards and "adherents" who "endured death and hoped to recover", which opened his spiritual realm and poured a lot of patriotic passion full of life into his poems. This is the most fruitful period of his creation. Lu You cherishes this creative stage very much, thinking that "the poet is ignorant and suddenly sees the past", so he named all his poems "Jian Nan Poetry Draft".
In the fifth spring of Xichun (1 178), Lu You's poems became more and more famous and were summoned by Xiaozong, but they were not really reused. Xiaozong only sent him to Fuzhou and Jiangxi for two official missions to promote Changping tea and salt. When he was working in Jiangxi, there was a flood there. He "camped on the grass" and went to the disaster area to inspect. He also "sent relief supplies to the grain depot and millet to the people in all counties", but the power was cut off and he went home on charges of "exceeding his authority".
Lu You lived at home for 6 years and was known as Yanzhou (now Jiande, Zhejiang) at the age of 62. He was ordered to go to Beijing and wrote the famous Seven Laws "The Beginning of Spring Rain in Lin 'an", in which the phrase "Small buildings listen to spring rain all night, and deep alleys sell apricot flowers" won the appreciation of Xiao Zong, but Xiao Zong didn't understand Lu You's true ambition, only told him that when he arrived in Yanzhou, "he could recite poems for himself in his leisure time". Although his new job doesn't meet Lu You's ambition, he is still diligent, as the poem says: "Worrying about the people and worrying about his own shame. "When he was in office, he made every effort to" be lenient, simply pursue trifles, abstain from trifles, and save Yan You ",so he won the love of the local people and built a monument for him, and a shrine for Lu Yi, the great grandfather of Yanzhou, in memory of their grandparents and grandchildren.