The poet Lu You of the Southern Song Dynasty has the most preserved poems. Lu You's Ziwuguan, nicknamed Fangweng, was of Han nationality and was a native of Shanyin, Yuezhou (now Shaoxing, Zhejiang). He is the author of dozens of extant collections such as "Jiannan Poetry Manuscript" and "Weinan Collected Works". He said that "ten thousand poems have been written in the past sixty years". "Poetry", more than 9,300 poems still exist today.
Lu You used poetry as a weapon throughout his life to express his passion for resisting enemies and insults and restoring the Central Plains, as well as his worries and indignation about his unfulfilled ambitions. He was powerful, unrestrained in emotion, flowing in writing, and bright in speech. He is unique in the history of Chinese literature. far-reaching impact. He wrote prolifically throughout his life, with more than 9,300 extant poems covering all aspects of social life in the early Southern Song Dynasty. He is the poet with the most extant poems in ancient China.
Lu You's poems cover a very wide range, involving almost every field of social life in the early Southern Song Dynasty. They can be roughly divided into four aspects according to their content: persisting in resisting the Jin Dynasty and crusading against the capitulationists; expressing impassioned enthusiasm for serving the country and The grief and anger of unfulfilled ambitions; descriptions of pastoral scenery and daily life; love poems.
The main content of Lu You's poems is to write about patriotic feelings and express the anger of unrealized ambitions. The characteristic of his poems is that they turn ideals into dreams and form a strong contrast with the sadness of reality, such as "Revelation of Heartfelt Feelings· When I look back on those days, I am filled with sadness. Lu You also has poems about things and love. In his "Bu Suanzi·Yong Mei", the upper column describes the scenery and the lower column expresses the ambition, showing his noble character of perseverance in adversity; The rhythm is rapid, the voice is sad, and the two sighs are soul-stirring, sad and moving.