Three things: Zhumen, stable and broken bow.
Guan Shanyue was written by Lu You, a poet in the Southern Song Dynasty. Guan Shanyue fully embodies the basic content and spiritual essence of Lu You's patriotic poems, which is a perfect combination of ideological and artistic. Full of the poet's thoughts of caring for the country and loving the people, his feelings are deep and sad, which makes people cry.
Excerpt from the original:
In the fifteenth year of Herong's reign, the general did not fight empty borders.
Zhu dances heavily, but the horse is fat and the bow is broken.
Translation:
It has been fifteen years since the imperial edict made peace with the Jin people, and the general went to the frontier without fighting.
In the deep and gorgeous aristocratic mansion, the songs and dances were performed according to the beat, the fat horse in the stable died silently, and the bowstring was broken.
Although the extended materials of Guan Shanyue not only describe the ruling clique, but also describe the soldiers and adherents, there is a clue that runs through it from beginning to end-Xia Zhao and Rong in the Southern Song Dynasty, and the first sentence of this poem shows this. It is precisely because of the imperial edict and honor that the generals did not fight empty battles, the soldiers did not go into battle to kill the enemy while they were young, and they did not liberate the adherents from the hot water of foreign rule.
The poet's ideological tendency is very clear, which is a condemnation of the compromise and surrender policy of the Southern Song clique, a deep sympathy for patriotic soldiers and adherents who fought against the enemy, and a great hatred for the invaders.
It is precisely because of these thoughts that Guan Shanyue embodies the progressive content and spiritual essence of Lu You's patriotic poems. The patriotic spirit of Lu You's poems is often manifested in the resentment of his unpaid ambition.
In Guan Shanyue's poems, although it doesn't directly express this point like the poems such as Book Wrath, there are also some sentences such as "The general is in an air battle", "The horse in the stable is fat and the bow is broken", "Who knows the strong man's heart in the flute" and "The sand head is empty and the bones are full", which also implies his grief and indignation. The poet is closely related to the anti-Jin soldiers.
Every four sentences in the poem are divided into one level, and the three levels respectively select the different situations and attitudes of three characters on the same moonlit night as the structural framework of the whole poem. The language is extremely concise, but the connotation is very rich and profound. On the one hand, wealthy families have civil and military officials, singing and dancing, and do not think about saving the country; On one side are soldiers guarding the border, bored and unable to serve the country.
On the one hand, the adherents of the Central Plains are shy, with blurred eyes and hope for reunification. These three scenes constitute three contrasting pictures, denouncing the attitude of the court in the Southern Song Dynasty, showing the anguish of patriotic soldiers who have no choice but to serve the country and the desire of the people in the Central Plains to recover their lost land, and reflecting the patriotic feelings of the poet who cares about the country and the people and longs for reunification.