During the Northern Song Dynasty, women's social status was not high, so it was very common for the elderly to marry concubines. At that time, Su Shi went to visit his friend Zhang Xian, who was also a famous poet in the Song Dynasty. Many poems have been handed down from generation to generation and are called romantic talents. When Su Shi came to see Zhang Xi 'an, it happened that Zhang Xian soon married a concubine. Zhang Xian was very satisfied with his marriage and wrote a poem. The content of the poem is: I am eighty years old, eighteen years old and white-haired. It's the same as Qing's upside down, except that there is a flower in the middle. When my friend Zhang Xian saw Su Shi's visit, he wanted Su Shi to compare this poem with him, so Su Shi wrote this poem "For Zhang Xian".
Su Dongpo compared an 80-year-old white-haired friend to a pear flower and a girl to a begonia. News? This word tells the truth about the relationship between two people, which is really great. My friend Zhang Xian's marriage to a concubine lasted for eight years, during which he gave birth to a child for Mr. Zhang. Zhang Xian was eighty when he married his concubine, and later he died at the age of eighty-eight. Yu Ji also had deep feelings for Zhang Xian, and she stayed with Zhang Xian a few years after his death.
This poem may be just a joke in the Northern Song Dynasty, because women's status is low, but now this poem has a strong derogatory color, which reflects the contempt for this marriage relationship, so we should combine the background of the times when reading the poem.