Ancient writers often used nostalgia and chanting history to express their inner injustice, or to express certain views on life or politics, or to denounce certain social darkness. Some of Wang Zhaojun's poems also fall into this category. Let’s first look at “Khotan Picking Flowers” ??by Li Bai, a famous poet of the Tang Dynasty:
“People picking flowers in Khotan said that the flowers are similar.
When the Ming Dynasty moved west to Hu, there were many beauties in Hu. Death of shame.
I know that there are many beautiful women in the Han Dynasty, and there are no flowers like them. p>
Since ancient times, the eyebrows have been jealous, and the sand has buried the white teeth.”
In the work, the poet praised Wang Zhaojun’s beauty with deep admiration: compare people to flowers, and flowers are similar to people. ; Comparing the Han and Hu regions, "most of the beauties in the Hu region die of shame" and "there are no comparable flowers in the Hu region." The two sentences "Many beautiful women in Hu are ashamed to death" and "There are no comparable flowers in Hu" reflect the poet's ideological prejudice, but the purpose here is to emphasize the beauty of Zhaojun, and the foothold of the poem is not here, but in the following: That is, a beauty as beautiful as Wang Zhaojun should have been allowed to go to a suitable place, but the opposite happened. Instead, she was framed by evil people and "buried Hu Sha", just like the ugly girl in the salt-free area of ??Qi during the Warring States Period. (named Zhong Lichun) was so ugly that he even "turned up in the deep palace". Therefore, the poet condemned the extremely unfair social phenomenon of not distinguishing beauty from ugliness and inverting black and white with extreme anger. Li Bai has a deep understanding of the inversion of black and white, and talented people being criticized. Therefore, the injustice expressed in the poem is, to a large extent, an expression of his personal embrace.
Look again at "Zhaojun Village" by Su Shi, a writer from the Song Dynasty:
"Zhaojun was originally from Chu, and his beauty shone in the river. Chu people did not dare to marry her, saying she was a Han concubine.
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Who knows that when you go to your hometown, you will be a bastard? When Zhaojun left, he was worried and depressed. Like Li Bai, Su Shi praised Wang Zhaojun's beauty in his poems and expressed sympathy for his misfortune. Finally, he expressed his inner injustice and dissatisfaction with the ups and downs of life.
The central idea of ??works such as nostalgia for the past and chanting history is often not in the poet's ability to sing, but in the discussion of injustice. For example, "Wang Zhaojun" by Li Shangyin, a poet of the Tang Dynasty, also falls into this category:
"Mao Yanshou's paintings desire to enlighten the gods, but endure as gold but not as human beings.
Immediately play the pipa for thousands of miles "There is always spring in the Han Palace."
Although Li's poem is also titled "Wang Zhaojun", its focus is not on praise and sympathy for Zhaojun, but on condemnation of Mao Yanshou. In the poem, Mao Yanshou is first mentioned, and then Wang Zhaojun is mentioned. This style is rare among poems with Wang Zhaojun as the theme. Li Shangyin hated Mao Yanshou deeply. It seemed that he had been suppressing words in his heart for a long time, and he had to scold him to express his happiness. Li Shangyin summarized the ugly reality into his works. At that time, the eunuchs, warlords and cronies all controlled the sky with one hand and only recognized money and power rather than people. They had no personality and no humanity. They rejected dissidents and suppressed talented people. Li Shangyin was one of those who was excluded and suppressed. He used Wang Zhaojun's life experience to express his dissatisfaction.
The content of poetry that expresses one's own feelings through Zhaojun's story is also multi-faceted. Shen Deqian, a native of the Qing Dynasty, failed in the exam and wrote a poem titled "Ode to Wang Zhaojun on Failure", which used Wang Zhaojun's "misfortune" to express his misfortune of failure. The poem goes:
"The music of the pipa is lost in the account, and the sound of resentment is stopped. Without the gift of gold to extend my life, I will waste my life."
The implication is that because there is no money to bribe the examiner, so It is impossible to be selected, and you have to "make mistakes in your life" like Zhaojun.