Tang Yin is clever and won the first place in Tong Zhi's class. 29 years old, first in the provincial examination. When he entered Beijing at the age of 30, he was imprisoned for taking bribes in Xu Jing. From then on, he not only had no hope of fame and fortune, but also had a thin livelihood. He turned against his wife and soon exchanged a meal with his younger brother. It can be said that he is extremely down and out. Tang Yin was thirty-five when he wrote the fallen petal poem. It's only five years since he was expelled from the imperial examination hall, and he has just experienced a low point in his life. "His chest is full of Yu Bo's anger, and he has no reason to vent it, so he has already vented it." Therefore, the poem Falling Flowers seems to hurt spring, but it is full of talent. Understanding them as fickle and elegant romantic works can be said to be a complete failure to understand them.
Many places in the poem express the feeling that time flies and the years are getting older, which is the aftertaste of the "white-haired poem" when it was young. At the age of twenty-five, Tang Yin felt "sad" when he found himself "radiant" and encouraged himself to "gain both fame and fortune". At that time, he was still young and had a bright future; Nowadays, the situation has changed greatly. Although it is both a sigh and a sigh, it adds a bit of heroic despair.
At the same time, the poem is also full of depressed and frustrated emotions, suggesting his painful experiences in many places. "The spring is full of worries and illnesses, and the flowers are rainy and windy" is undoubtedly a portrayal of his experience. And the phrase "how many good flowers have fallen, and I haven't met anyone who appreciates them" borrows the image of "falling flowers". Expressed the sadness of his talent.
With Tang Yin's talent, it is really sad to encounter such misfortune. Only by understanding this background can we understand his feelings of cherishing flowers and sighing flowers, which are by no means the leisurely groans of the literati, nor the strong fear of giving new words, but his own impassioned feelings of grief and indignation. However, it is worth mentioning that the fallen petal poem is not only a work that hurts the body, especially the revised poem, which reveals Tang Yin's brand-new understanding of fame and fortune after suffering disasters many times and begins to feel the impermanence of life, which is a harbinger of his future conversion to Buddhism. It is precisely because of the detached and broad-minded meaning contained in his poems that Tang Yin preferred his own poems even when he felt at ease in his later years.