"There are no tombs of the heroes of the Five Tombs, and there are no flowers and no wine for hoeing." It means: Although the so-called heroes in history once achieved glory for a while, now their tombs do not exist and they can only be regarded as In the fields used for farming, how can I, Tang Yin, be as free and easy and graceful as I am, leaning on flowers and drinking wine. Wuling Heroes refers to Wuling Heroes in general.
This sentence comes from the "Song of Peach Blossom Temple" by Tang Yin, a poet of the Tang Dynasty.
The whole poem has a beautiful and elegant picture, elegant and handsome style, the melody is windy and dancing in the snow, and the meaning is mellow and profound. Although the eyes are full of fragrant words such as flowers, peaches, wine, drunkenness, etc., there is no vulgarity. Instead, the writing power goes straight through the back of the paper, making people wake up suddenly. This is where Tang Yin's poems and paintings are most effective, and this poem is also Tang Yin's representative work.
The whole poem depicts two scenes, one is the life scene of high officials and rich people in the Han Dynasty, and the other is the life scene of Tang Yin himself in the Ming Dynasty. With only a dozen words such as "bow in front of the carriage", "the carriage is dusty", "lulu" and so on, the life scenes of the high officials and rich people in the Ming Dynasty are vividly sketched. Tang Yin's own life scenes are described in more detail, such as "planting peach trees", "picking peach blossoms in exchange for wine money", "when sober, he only sits in front of flowers, and when drunk, he comes to sleep under flowers", "half-drunk and half-awake day after day" , "I hope that I will die of old age while spending time drinking wine, and I don't want to bow in front of carriages and horses." Which of the two pictures is better is left to the readers to experience and evaluate.
Throughout the whole poem, the layers are clear, the language is simple, the convolutions are euphemistic, and it is almost a ballad-like soliloquy. However, this kind of soliloquy contains infinite artistic tension, giving people a sense of continuity. With his aesthetic enjoyment and strong sense of identity, he is worthy of being the best among Tang Yin's poems. This is also in line with Han Yu's famous conclusion that "the sound of peace is weak, but the sound of melancholy is more beautiful; the words of joy are difficult to work, but the words of poverty are easy to be good" ("Preface to Jingtan Singing Poems").
The two most prominent and impressive images in this poem are "flowers" and "wine". Peach blossoms first appeared in literary works, in the "Peach Blossoms" chapter of "The Book of Songs·Zhou Nan", and were originally intended to express a free and unrestrained emotion. As soon as Tao Yuanming's "Peach Blossom Spring" came out in the Jin Dynasty, peach blossoms were used more to express reclusive feelings. In ancient times, peach also had the meaning of exorcising ghosts and warding off evil spirits. The word "peach" is a homophone for "escape" because it means escaping from the world. In Tang Yin's poems, the image of "peach blossom" appears frequently.