2. Original text
Jia sheng
The propaganda room invited the sages to meet the ministers, and Jia was even more incoherent.
Poor midnight is unprecedented, and Mo Wen people ask ghosts and gods.
3. Translation
Emperor Wen of the Han Dynasty asked for the sage, and announced that he would call for surrender. Jia Yi's talent is really brilliant and unparalleled. It's just empty talk in the middle of the night, which makes people sigh. Emperor Wen asked all about ghosts and gods, and made no mention of state affairs and people's livelihood.
4. Brief analysis
Jiasheng is an epic poem written by Li Shangyin, a poet in the Tang Dynasty, which satirizes the present through the ancient times. It is intended to express the poet's feelings of lack of talents through Jia Yi's experience. Its focus is not on personal gains and losses, but on pointing out that feudal rulers can't really attach importance to talents and make them play a role in politics. In the poem, Emperor Wendi was called to Jia Yi's propaganda room and talked until midnight. It is written that Wendi can't know sages and benevolence. "Don't ask ordinary people, ask ghosts and gods" reveals the fatuous characteristics of the late Tang emperor who sought immortality with medicine and abandoned politics regardless of people's livelihood. This poem is full of irony, profound and powerful. While sympathizing with Jia Yi's talent, he expressed the sadness that the author himself was politically excluded and his ambition was hard to pay.