When will the singing and dancing in the West Lake stop?
Warm winds make tourists drunk and make Hangzhou a continent.
This poem named Lin 'an House was written by Lin Sheng, a scholar in the Southern Song Dynasty. This was written on the wall of a guest house in Lin 'an, the capital of the Southern Song Dynasty. It is an ancient "wall poem", and the original title is beyond doubt. This title was added by later generations.
In the first year of Jingkang in the Northern Song Dynasty (1 126), the Jin people captured Bianliang, the capital of the Northern Song Dynasty, and captured two emperors, Song Huizong and Song Qinzong. The territory of the Central Plains was completely occupied by the Jin people. Zhao Gou fled to the south of the Yangtze River and ascended the throne in Lin 'an, which is known as the Southern Song Dynasty. Instead of accepting the painful lesson of national subjugation in the Northern Song Dynasty, the small court in the Southern Song Dynasty became angry from embarrassment and tried to strengthen itself. The rulers did not want to recover the lost land in the Central Plains, but begged for peace, surrendered to the outside world, and brutally persecuted Yue Fei and other patriots at home. Politically corrupt and incompetent, dignitaries indulge in debauchery and pleasure. In the second year of Shaoxing in the Southern Song Dynasty (1 132), Song Gaozong and Zhao Gou returned to Hangzhou for the second time. He took a fancy to this "paradise on earth" in the southeast, and he was determined to achieve the ultimate goal. So he changed from an emperor to a literati and businessman, in exchange for humiliation, and wishful thinking overhauled buildings and halls, built Ming halls, built ancestral temples and built palaces. For decades, Hangzhou, which was safe for the time being, was regarded as Bianzhou in the Northern Song Dynasty (now Kaifeng, Henan Province) and became a comfortable nest for these parasites. This poem is written for this dark reality.