Lu youzheng

Lu You, a patriotic poet in the Southern Song Dynasty, devoted his life to the just cause of resisting gold and recovering lost land. Although squeezed out and hit by capitulationists, patriotic enthusiasm never waned. The poem "Shizi" is a will written by the poet to his son at the last moment of his life, which expresses the poet's deep and strong patriotic passion of never forgetting the "Northern Central Plains" and reunifying the motherland until his death.

The first sentence is "everything is empty when you die." "Yuan Zhi", already know; "Everything is empty" means that everything can be attached after death. But then the meaning of the second sentence changed: "but I can't see the sad Kyushu", but I can't let go of one thing, that is, the lost land has not been recovered and I have not seen the reunification of the motherland with my own eyes. This resentment is left from birth to death. On my deathbed, my mood is even more painful. The third sentence of this poem, "Julian Waghann concentrated in the north", shows that although the poet is deeply distressed, he is not desperate. He firmly believed that one day the army of the Song Dynasty could pacify the Central Plains and recover lost territory. With this sentence, the mood of the poem changed from sadness to passion. At the end of the sentence, "I never forgot to tell you about the family sacrifice", my mood changed again. I have no choice but to see the day when the motherland is reunified when I am alive, so I have to pin my hopes on future generations. So I told my son affectionately, don't forget to tell him the good news of "Beiding Zhongyuan" when offering sacrifices at home.

This poem is full of twists and turns, which sincerely expresses the poet's complex thoughts and feelings at the end of his life, including endless resentment against the unfinished golden cause and firm belief that the sacred cause will be realized. The whole poem has a sad element, but the tone is passionate. The language of poetry is natural, without any carving, but it is a natural expression of true feelings, but it is more beautiful and moving than deliberately carved poetry.

The work contains two aspects at the same time: on the one hand, he yearns for Wan Li's heroic ideal of joining the army and serving the country; On the other hand, he is sad and angry that his ambition is hard to be rewarded and he has no way to be a volunteer. The two encourage each other: the sadder he is, the more he sticks to his ideals; The more persistent he is about his ideal, the stronger his grief and indignation will become. This makes his poems both passionate and sad. This feeling of grief and loyalty has been stirring in his mind, making him sleepless at night, unable to eat, and often dreaming. However, his ideal was shattered again. Until Lu You died, he didn't expect the Northern Expedition to win. The end of the second year of Jiading (1209) (January of the following year according to the Gregorian calendar). At the age of eighty-five, Lu You couldn't afford to get sick. On his deathbed, he left a poem "Xiuer". Expressed the author's helplessness and expectation of recovering lost land.