Ji Hai's Miscellaneous Poems (5)
Qing Dynasty: Gong Zizhen
The vast sadness of parting extends to the setting sun, away from Beijing, riding a whip to the east, feeling that people are on earth.
I quit my job and go home, just like a flower falling from a branch, but this is not a heartless thing. It can be turned into the soil of spring and can also play a role in nurturing the next generation.
"The sadness of parting extends to the distant sunset." When I left Beijing, I waved my whip to the east and felt that I was at the end of the world. I quit my job and went home, just like a flower falling from a branch, but it was not a heartless thing. It has become the soil of spring and can also play a role in cultivating the next generation.
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Creation background
In the 19th year of Daoguang (1839), that is, one year before the Opium War, Gong Zizhen was 48 years old. Disappointed with the rulers of the Qing Dynasty, he resolutely resigned and returned to his hometown. Later, he went to the north to meet his family. On the way back and forth between north and south, he wrote what he thought and felt on account paper with chicken feathers and put it in a bamboo basket.
Later, * * * "got 3 15 pieces of paper, covered 3 15 poems (The Book with Wu Hongsheng) and wrote a large group of poems. This is the famous "Jihai Miscellaneous Poems"-that year was Jihai. This article is selected from the fifth article of Ji Hai Zashi. At that time, the author resigned angrily and left his relatives and friends, full of worries.
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