In the Tang Dynasty, "going home" and "being an official" were a pair of contradictions that could never be solved. For the enterprising and arrogant Tang people, if their career fails, they would rather "get drunk and go to the ends of the earth" than return to China easily, and they must persevere. This is why Wei Zhuang took "moving away from home" as a habit and became the normal life. Compared with other poets, the people in the Tang Dynasty showed broad-mindedness, tolerance and ambition, and had no sense of sadness. Wei Zhuang traveled all over China and was a typical drifter in the troubled times of the late Tang Dynasty. His poems can best express the tolerance of literati in Tang Dynasty.
However, no one can overcome homesickness and fame, which will naturally make many poets turn this kind of depression into a dream to express their confusion, contradiction and frustration in reality. Wei Zhuang's life is full of hardships. When he was studying, he cooked by the meter, and he weighed his salary. In addition, he tasted the chaos early, and he was in a hurry. He is wandering and going back to his hometown to cherish his motherland.
"Before the lamp, I feel the dream of Jiangnan, and the mountains and moons are oblique." The tragic meaning of the lonely lamp reveals the poet's loneliness and helplessness, and the addition of the image of "slanting moon" makes the poet's sadness undoubtedly revealed. This is a sad beauty, as if there is only one solitary lamp in the silent night. The author tried to find sustenance in the dark, but when he woke up, he was greeted by an oblique moon.
Wandering is a common chance in life, but it is not surprising in troubled times. He is good at doing it from the inner point of view, and with his profound insight and unique artistic expression, this kind of human nature is particularly moving. The realm of the whole poem is straightforward and not deep, but there are emotional trends everywhere, calm, high-spirited, yearning, melancholy and even confused. Thick and profound, people want to see grace. In the dead of night, the poet awakened by a good dream is full of sadness. The sadness in his heart is not only the feeling of wandering in his life, but also the sadness of life. Wei Zhuang's graceful poetic style is typical of the late Tang Dynasty, which can be seen in this poem.