The twelve cities in the southwest of Jiedu means: Tang Dynasty once had 10,000 soldiers and dispatched twelve cities in the southwest.
This quote comes from Wang Junshou's "Reminiscence of the Past". As the title of the poem indicates, this is a nostalgic poem. Literally, it is about Zhao Feiyan, the empress of Emperor Cheng of the Han Dynasty. Zhao Feiyan was good at singing and dancing, and because of her light body, she was nicknamed "Feiyan". She was called into the palace, first as Jieyu, and soon as queen. His sister Zhao Hede was also Zhaoyi, and she had been her favorite for more than ten years. Later, Feiyan was gradually alienated due to Emperor Cheng's devotion to virtue.
There are four lines in the poem, and the literal meaning is divided into two levels. The first and second sentences form one layer, describing the accusations against Zhao Feiyan in the Han family palace. The word "number" is the key verb in the two sentences. "Zhao Jiazhuang" and "The defeated rain and lingering clouds mislead the king of Han" are both the "object" of "number", which is the flaw that Zhao is accused of. "Zhao family makeup".
According to records such as "Book of Han" and "Feiyan Farewell", the Zhao family was decorated luxuriously in the palace, which "has never happened since the harem". "No one else can learn from it." Li Bai's "Qing Ping Tiao" said, "I ask who in the Han Palace is like it, but Ling Fei Yan is leaning on the new makeup." It also refers to the novelty of Zhao's attire.
On the other hand, Zhao Hede likes to be "happy and sad about his temples". The sentence cover of "Baiyu" refers to the affair between the Zhao sisters and Qingbu's children. When Zhao was in the palace, some people called her a "disaster". The use of "only number" in the poem shows how many people criticized her.