It is said that the career of ancient poets was frustrated, and the articles were outstanding. Finally, it seems to be called "the word Gong Fang"

The sentence a friend is looking for may be "poor and backward." This meaning was first said by Ouyang Xiu in the Song Dynasty. In the epitaph "Mei Epitaph" written by him for his good friend Mei (Ouyang Xiu's Collection of Laymen, Volume 33), he described Mei's life and how he was trapped in poverty and resentful, but he was a person, "kind and easy-going, never indulging in things until he was sad and resentful." May Yu Sheng's poem, "His first happiness is beauty and carefree; Time is long, meaning is far-reaching, and time has been carved in various ways. However, when you are exhausted, you will benefit your old age. " Ouyang Xiu finally said: "I will taste his poems: the world says that when there are few poets, they are poor, poetry can help the poor, and those who are almost poor can work in the future." Yu Sheng thinks he knows what to say. "Ouyang Xiu wrote in the inscription of Mei's Epitaph:" Don't be poor, don't be trapped, don't be trapped in difficulties, don't be trapped in tendencies. Improve its peace and snore. The greater the vibration, the more surprised the public will be. "A person will not shut up because of personal circumstances, nor will he fall and sink because of the hardships of life. He cultivated his peaceful spirit and made a grand and shocking sound, which shocked everyone who heard it. This can be said to be a footnote of "poor and backward work".

Later, Ouyang Xiu edited and prefaced Mei's poems, and further elaborated this idea. The full text is recorded as follows:

Preface to Poems of Mei (Ouyang Xiu's Collection of laity, Volume 42)

How can a poet be poor if he is told by the world that he is poor? Most of the poets handed down from the world came from the words of the poor in ancient times. All scholars have their own everything, but they can't give it to the world. They are happy to put it on the top of the mountain and on the water. When they see insects, fish, plants, birds and animals, they often feel very strange, and they are worried and angry inside. Its prosperity is based on resentment, a widow's sigh, but it is difficult to write human feelings. The worse the cover, the greater the workload. However, it is not poetry that can help the poor. The poor will have to work in the future. Yu Yu, a good friend of Mei Sheng, takes Yin Bu as an official and hates being a scholar. I have been trapped in the county for decades. 50 years old, still writing books and helping others. If you are depressed by your livestock, you must not be eager to see your career. His home is in Wanling, and he is used to poetry. As a young man, his words surprised his elders; Since it is a long story, it is to learn from the theory of benevolence and righteousness of the Six Classics, which is an article, simple and pure, and not seeking for the world. The world only knows his poems. At that time, there was no virtuous fool, and the poet must seek the sacred surplus. Yu Sheng is also happy to write poems because of his unsuccessful people. Therefore, his life is full of poems. It is well known to the world, but it has not been recommended to the above. Yesterday, Wang tasted it and sighed, "There has been no such thing for two hundred years!" Although I have a deep understanding, I dare not recommend it. If you are lucky enough to be used by the imperial court, as an ode to elegance, eulogize the merits of Dasong; Isn't it great to recommend Qing Palace and chase the author of Shang and Zhou truffles? Why make it old and frustrated, but it is a poem for the poor, just a sad sigh! I like my job, but I don't know how long I have been poor. I am getting old, so I don't hesitate! Yu Sheng has many poems, so he didn't organize himself. His wife's younger brother and son Xie Jingchu was afraid of losing too much, so he took it from Luoyang to Xing Wu and made it into ten volumes. I am fascinated by Yu Sheng's poems, but I can't get enough of them. I like Xie's ability. I keep it in order. In the following fifteen years, Yu Sheng died of illness in the capital. Because I was crying, I remembered. Because I asked for it at home, I got more than 1000 manuscripts, of which 677 were collected in the old collection, which was 15. Oh! I'm in Yu Sheng's poem, and I've already elaborated on it, so it's no longer a cloud. Preface to Ouyang Xiu of Luling.

The idea of "working after poverty" was later interpreted by many scholars, and there were many different comments on it. For example, written in poetry

Song Su Shi's Notes on Dongpo Ci (Volume 8) is one of the two poems in the middle reaches of the West Lake.

* * * As a bamboo club, I am lonely and light. American English is cold and hungry, but poor poetry is constant.

Another example.

Qing Wu Provincial Party Committee drafted Volume 39 Guo Weihui and Pu 'an;

Nymphs around the road traffic, remembered once met in the rain. When it comes to poverty, you will be blessed and poetry will make you jealous. The guests who boarded the building thought of RoyceWong and praised the house for its sound near Long Hao. Andrew is in a snowy place this year. He is with you.

It should be noted that the so-called "poverty" of the ancients does not mean that there is no money, but that it is impossible to prosper in a situation, that is, "career frustration" mentioned in a friend's question.

One more thing: Ouyang Xiu's lay collection can be found in Ouyang Wenzhong's public collection.

I feel that the previous answers and recommended answers don't seem to be in line with the questioner's meaning, so I took the liberty to do some consulting work here, but I really can't find such a poem as "Ci Gong Fang" in the ancient humanities collection. Sincerely.