This poem was written by the author when he was enjoying the Taigong Fishing Watch. In other words, he reflected on Jiang Taigong's solo fishing in Huangxi and the encounter between Jiang Taigong and Zhou Wenwang, expressing his concern that his talents could not be brought into full play. At the same time, the author uses Jiang Taigong as a metaphor, and regards his "self-screen" life as Jiang Taigong waiting for the appearance of the famous king Zhou Wenwang.
Jiang Taigong, a native of Lv Wang and Donghai (now Jiangzhai Town, Linquan County, Anhui Province), was a talented person in Shang Dynasty. When he was in his 60s, he had white hair, but he was still looking for opportunities to display his talents and ambitions. Finally, while fishing in Huangxi, I happened to meet the wise king Zhou Wenwang and helped Xiu De practice martial arts. As a result, I finally realized my ambition in the cruel Shang Zhouwang Dynasty, which was annihilated by King Wu. However, before Liu Jiyuan defected to Zhu Yuanzhang for twenty years, he also had the lofty ambition of "failing to succeed", but he ended up with the scene of "fishing in Huangxi" in Jiang Taigong.
The first sentence, "a group of bedrooms", seems to describe the scene of Zhou Wang and da ji drinking and having fun in Lutai, but the essence is vividly encouraging Yuan Shundi and his cronies and other ministers to make indecent moves in the palace. Shang Zhouwang, that is, Zhou, is an alcoholic, a cruel person, obsessed with the beauty of da ji, and goes out to party every night, ignoring political affairs. The "meat forest in the wine pool" is a "classic" lewd pleasure in Shang Zhouwang, that is, a banquet was held in front of the Star-Picking Building to let men and women chase banter naked, and at the same time, two holes were dug under the deer platform, one for holding wine and the other for hanging meat, so that concubines could play naked in the meat forest in the wine pool and fight each other. Yuan Shundi, the last emperor of the Yuan Dynasty, was only interested in prostitution. According to "Ninety-two Biography of Yuan History", Yuan Shundi "chose sixteen magic dances as his adopted daughter. Eight lang, the emperor's brother, and their so-called bankrupt, are naked men and women in front of the emperor. The officials of several governments all say' everything is right', and everything is fine with Hua Yan. When the monarch and the ministers commit adultery, the monks can't help but go in and out of the forbidden area. " Obviously, in the author's eyes, Shang Zhouwang's Lu Tai's Wine Pond and Meat Forest is no different from Yuan Tingshun's Xiang Di. At the same time, the author also cleverly introduced Jiang Taigong's "fishing the Yellow River alone".
The second sentence, "When fishing alone in Huangxi", is about Jiang Taigong's humble fisherman's life in Huangxi since the Shang Dynasty chose his master. In fact, Jiang Taigong is an alcoholic, but his real purpose is to observe the situation patiently and wait for a wise gentleman to realize his great ambition. When the author wrote this poem, he was full of ambition to be an official in the Yuan Dynasty, but the result was that he was hit again and again. So he abandoned his official post and returned to his hometown, living a life of "self-screen in the wild" in order to "break away" from the Yuan Dynasty. Based on this, the author will naturally associate his current situation with the fishing in Jiang Taigong, so he used two sentences to describe the fishing life in Jiang Taigong.
"Clouds see wealth" refers to money, status and so on. Are very weak; "Running water gives birth to eyebrows" means that a man should have the feelings of a gentleman. This is a true portrayal of Jiang Taigong's mood when he was fishing in Huangxi. At that time, the author's real intention was to tell the world that he lived a "self-screen in the wild" mentality, which was the kind of frivolous mentality of Jiang Taigong fishing in Huangxi. In the history of China, a person who has the talent of "helping the world" and the feeling of a gentleman as light as water is often a person who has made great achievements. Undoubtedly, Jiang Taigong's feelings have been recognized by the author, so he further revealed the turning point of Jiang Taigong's ambition-"non-Zhao Xionghua".
"I should be a non-Zhao Xiong, and respect the emperor as a teacher" is a famous allusion to the encounter between monarch and minister-"Jiang Taigong meets Zhou Wenwang". This story is recorded in Teacher Liu Tao Wen. It's roughly like this: Zhou Wenwang will go hunting in Weishui. Before leaving, I made a divination, and the Oracle said, "It is a good omen that the field that is not ended will be big, neither dragon nor tiger." God sent your teacher to help Chang. " Later, when I arrived at the Wei River and saw Taigong fishing, I went to talk to Taigong, and Taigong told Wang Dayue what he had learned. So I invited Taigong to go back to Xiqiao in the same car and worship Taigong as a teacher. The encounter between Jiang Taigong and Zhou Wenwang is a problem that the author thinks about day and night. How can we not arouse the author's indecisive thoughts? So I wrote an eternal sigh-"The porch is as old as a thousand years!" .
"Metaphysics is as inherent as it is, which makes people think for thousands of years", which means that Jiang Taigong's achievements, if designated by fate, have aroused my (the author's) deep thinking after thousands of years. At this point, the author's intention is very clear, that is to say, if he meets such a wise gentleman as Jiang Taigong and makes great achievements, it will also cause people to think deeply after thousands of years. After reading the poem, I never gave up my lofty ambition of "saving the world" because of setbacks. Instead, we are trying to understand the so-called "innate elegance" of China people with a gentleman's feeling that is suitable for the history of China and as light as water.
At the end of Yuan Dynasty and the beginning of Ming Dynasty, Liu Ji's poems were unique and profound. If the classic works of Liu Ji's grief and generosity are mainly concentrated in Yuefu, then the five-character rhythmic poems such as Tai Gong Fishing Wei Tu are Liu Ji's complete awakening, abandoning any illusions about the Yuan Dynasty and embarking on the same patience and endurance as Jiang Taigong.