Jia Shang expressed the poet's lack of talent through Jia Yi's experience. Its focus is not on personal gains and losses, but on pointing out that feudal rulers can't really attach importance to talents and make them play a role in politics.
In the poem, Emperor Wendi was called to Jia Yi's propaganda room and talked until midnight. It is written that Wendi can't know sages and benevolence. "Don't ask ordinary people, ask ghosts and gods" reveals the fatuous characteristics of the late Tang emperor who sought immortality with medicine and abandoned politics regardless of people's livelihood. This poem is full of irony, profound and powerful. While sympathizing with Jia Yi's talent, he expressed the sadness that the author himself was politically excluded and his ambition was hard to pay.
There are two opinions about the writing age of this poem. One is "Poems on Life in Yuxi". Note: "This poem was written by Li Shangyin in the first month of the second year of Dazhong (848), and was ordered by Zheng Ya, the secretariat of Guangxi, to go to Zhaozhou as a magistrate.
Because Li Shangyin is the head of a county, he has to sacrifice great events, so he wrote this poem with the title. Another view was put forward by Liu Yang, who believed that this poem was written in March and April of the second year of Dazhong, when Li Shangyin left Guilin and stayed in Beijing.
About the author:
Li shangyin (about 8 13 ~ about 858), a famous poet in the late Tang dynasty, was born in xi, western Henan, and was born by Fan Nansheng. Originally from Hanoi, Huaizhou (now Qinyang, Henan), my ancestors moved to Xingyang (now Xingyang, Henan). ?
In the second year of Tang Wenzong (837), Li Shangyin became the first scholar, and served as secretary of the provincial school, bookkeeper of the school and commander of Hongnong. Because he was involved in the political whirlpool of "the dispute between Niu and Li", he was excluded and frustrated all his life. In the last years of Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty (about 858), Li Shangyin died in Zheng County and was buried at the foot of Beishan Mountain in Dongyuan Tsinghua. His ancestral home was Yongdian, Huaizhou (now Wangzhuang Town, Qinyang Mountain). ?
Li Shangyin was one of the few poets who deliberately pursued the beauty of poetry in the late Tang Dynasty and even the whole Tang Dynasty. He is good at poetry writing, and parallel prose has high literary value. He was called "Little Du Li" with Du Mu and "Wen Li" with Wen. His poems are novel in conception and beautiful in style, especially some love poems and untitled poems are touching, beautiful and moving, and are widely read. However, some poems are too obscure to be solved, and there is even a saying that "poets always love Quincy and hate that no one writes about Jian Zheng".