Land tour in southern song dynasty
When you die, everything is empty,
But I'm sad to see Kyushu.
Julian Waghann Beiding Zhongyuan Day,
Family sacrifices will not be forgotten.
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I already know that everything can be irrelevant when people die.
Just sad that I didn't see the reunification of the motherland with my own eyes.
On the day when the Song army recovered the territory of the motherland,
Don't forget to tell me this when you sacrifice to your ancestors.
Xiuer is the last wish of Lu You, a patriotic poet in the Southern Song Dynasty, to his son.
The language is true and straightforward.
Before he died, he was still obsessed with the territory and people of the Central Plains occupied by the Jurchen nationality and eagerly looked forward to the reunification of the motherland, so he specially wrote this poem as a will to earnestly warn his son. From here, we can realize how persistent, deep, warm and sincere the patriotic passion of the poet is! It is no wonder that since the Southern Song Dynasty, anyone who has read this poem will be moved by it, especially when foreign enemies invaded or the motherland split, which caused countless people to praise it.