The ancient poems of Yao Chi with pinyin are introduced as follows:
Yao yáo Chi chí
(Tang táng) Li lǐ Shang shāng Yin yǐn
Yao yáo pool chí ah mother mǔqi qǐ window chāng opened kāi,
yellow huáng bamboo zhú song gē sound shēng moving dòng ground dì mourning.
Eight horses can travel three thousand miles every day,
What is wrong with King Mu mù?
Explanation
The carved window of Queen Mother of the West on Yaochi opens to the east, and the sound of "Huang Bamboo Song" shakes the earth and makes people feel sad. King Mu of Zhou had eight horses that could travel thirty thousand miles a day. Why did he break the contract and stop coming?
Introduction to the author
Li Shangyin (about 813-about 858), also known as Yishan, also known as Yuxisheng, also known as Fan Nansheng, was jointly known as "Little Li Du" with Du Mu and Wen Tingyun. Collectively known as "Wen Li", he was originally from Hanoi, Huaizhou (now Qinyang City, Henan Province), and later moved to Xingyang (now Zhengzhou City, Henan Province) with his ancestors. He was a poet in the late Tang Dynasty.
Li Shangyin is one of the most outstanding poets in the late Tang Dynasty. His poems are carefully conceived, often using implicit symbolic techniques, sophisticated and rich diction, gentle and harmonious rhymes, and subtle twists and turns to express deep emotions. Li Shangyin had the ambition to "return to heaven and earth" and promoted the resurgence of the Tang Dynasty. However, in the late Tang Dynasty, it was no longer possible to realize his ambition.
Li Shangyin was also an outstanding poet in the late Tang Dynasty. There are excellent works in all styles, especially the five-seven-character rhymed poems that are the most accomplished. The attainment of seven-character rhymed poems is even more advanced than that of Du Fu and unparalleled in the late Tang Dynasty.
Main works include "Yaochi" and so on. Li Shangyin's poems In "Three Hundred Tang Poems", Li Shangyin's poems account for twenty-two, ranking fourth in number. According to the "New Book of Tang", there are twenty volumes of "Collection of Fan Nan", twenty volumes of "Collection of Fan Nan", three volumes of "Poems of Yu Xi Sheng", one volume of "Fu", and one volume of "Wen". Some of the works have been lost. There is "Li Yishan Poetry Collection".