From "Summer Quatrains", it is a five-character quatrain composed by the Song Dynasty poet Li Qingzhao. This is a nostalgic poem that uses the past to satirize the present and express grief and indignation. The original text is as follows:
You will be a hero in life, and you will be a hero in death.
I still miss Xiang Yu and refuse to cross Jiangdong.
The translation is as follows:
You should be a hero among men when you are alive, and you should be a hero among ghosts after death.
To this day, people still miss Xiang Yu because he refused to live an ignoble existence and returned to Jiangdong.
The annotation of the poem is as follows:
Renjie: A hero among men. Emperor Gaozu of the Han Dynasty once praised the founding heroes Zhang Liang, Xiao He and Han Xin as "outstanding people".
Ghost hero: The hero among ghosts. Qu Yuan's "National Memorial": "When the body is dead, the spirit is the spirit, and the son's soul is the ghost hero."
Xiang Yu: At the end of the Qin Dynasty, he established himself as the overlord of the Western Chu, and competed with Liu Bang for the world. In the battle of Gaixia, He committed suicide after defeat.
Jiangdong: The place where Xiang Yu first started his army with his uncle Xiang Liang.
Extended information:
In the second year of Jingkang (1127), the Jin soldiers invaded the Central Plains, smashed the Qionglou Jade Garden of the Song Dynasty, and kidnapped the two emperors of Hui and Qin. Forced to flee south. Later, Li Qingzhao's husband Zhao Mingcheng became the prefect of Jiankang.
One night, a rebellion broke out in the city. Zhao Mingcheng did not want to quell the rebellion, but ran away. Li Qingzhao felt shameful for his country and his husband. When passing by the Wujiang River, he felt the tragedy of Xiang Yu and wrote this poem. At the same time, it also meant to satirize the Southern Song Dynasty and his husband.
Baidu Encyclopedia - Summer Quatrains