Mooring in Qinhuai
Du Mu
The smoke cage is cold and the moon is caged in the sand. I moor in Qinhuai at night near a restaurant.
The business girl does not know the hatred of the country's subjugation, but she still sings the flowers in the backyard across the river.
Du Mu, a famous poet of the Tang Dynasty, traveled to Qinhuai and heard a singing girl singing "Flowers in the Backyard of Yushu". The songs were beautiful and frivolous, and men and women sang to each other. The songs were sad, which was the sound of the country's subjugation. At that time, empress Chen had been addicted to this sluggish life for a long time, and regarded state affairs as child's play, and finally lost his country. Although the Chen Dynasty died, this kind of extravagant music was passed down and was still sung by Qinhuai singers and prostitutes. This made Du Mu very emotional. His poem said: These ignorant singers don't even understand the hatred of the country's subjugation, and they still sing the sound of the country's subjugation! In fact, this is an excuse to play on the topic. What he is actually mocking is the politics of the late Tang Dynasty: the officials were indulged in wine and sex, and they were quickly following in the footsteps of Empress Chen. The corner of Qinhuai harbored such a deep sense of rise and fall, which shows that Jinling still had a great influence even though the national political center had moved to Chang'an at that time.