Lu You was born at the time of the demise of the Northern Song Dynasty, and he was deeply influenced by family patriotism since he was a child. Lu You's "Poetry of Twelve Years", learning sword, and studying the art of war. At the age of 29, I went to Lin 'an Province to try, ranking first. The following year, he took part in the second interview of does, and his career was not smooth because he was rejected by Qin Gui, the traitor. After Song Xiaozong acceded to the throne, he was born as a scholar. He served as the main book of Ningde County, Fuzhou, the official deleted by the decree, and the judge of Longxing House. Because of his insistence on resisting gold, he was repeatedly rejected by the Lord and the faction.
in the eighth year of the main road (1172), Wang Yan, the main battle general, hired Lu You to assist the shogunate in military affairs, which greatly changed Lu You's life. Military life made him embrace one another and wrote many passionate patriotic poems. After many promotions and demotions, Lu You spent more than 2 years after the first year of Shaoxi (119) in Song Guangzong, and stayed in his hometown and countryside in Shanyin for a long time. In the second year of Jiading (121), Lu You died, leaving his last book "Showing the Son".
Later generations regard Lu You as the crown of poets in the Southern Song Dynasty. Lu You described himself as "ten thousand poems in sixty years", and he is the poet with the most self-written poems in China history. Lu You advocated the Northern Expedition all his life. Although he was repeatedly pushed out by the peace faction, his patriotic sentiments remained unchanged until his death. As a patriotic poet, he was full of enthusiasm for saving the country. He, You Mao, Yang Wanli and Fan Chengda were also called "the four great poets of the Southern Song Dynasty".
His works include 85 volumes of Poems by Jiannan, 5 volumes of Collected Works by Weinan, 1 volumes of Notes of Old Xuean and the Book of Southern Tang. His calligraphy is vigorous and unrestrained, and the surviving ink is "Bitter Cold Post".