Wind and rain, reading, hearing. This poem comes from a couplet written by Gu Xiancheng, the leader of Lindong in the Ming Dynasty, in Wuxi Donglin Academy. The original text is "wind and rain, everything cares about family affairs and the country." The first couplet combines the sound of reading with the sound of wind and rain, which is both poetic and meaningful. The bottom line is the ambition to rule the country and level the world. Wind to rain, home to country, ears to heart. Extremely neat, the words are used repeatedly, like the sound of a book.
Gu Xiancheng (1550-16 12), surnamed Jingyang, was honored as "Mr. Lin Dong" because he founded Donglin Academy. Ming Dynasty thinker and leader of Lindong Party. A native of Wuxi, Jiangsu Province, he was a Beijing official in the eighth year of Wanli (1580) and was in charge of the household registration department. He is the author of Notes on Careful Zhai, Gao Jing's Tibetan manuscript and Gu Duanwen's suicide note. In the early days of the Apocalypse, Ming Xizong offered Gu Xiancheng Tai Changqing. Later, a party struggle broke out in Lindong, and the title was cut off by the eunuch in Wei Zhongxian. In the early years of Chongzhen, Gu Xiancheng was rehabilitated and given the right official assistant minister and posthumous title Duan Wen.