Original source: Yuan Yuan Haowen's "On Thirty Poems" (Part 12)
Looking at the emperor's spring heart, he cares for the cuckoo, and the beautiful lady complains about her years.
Poets always love Xikun, but hate that no one writes Zheng Jian.
Zheng's Notes: "Zheng's Notes" by Zheng Xuan of the Eastern Han Dynasty, here generally refers to the notes on ancient books.
The person who analyzed and commented on this poem was Li Shangyin, a poet of the Tang Dynasty. Li Shangyin was a famous poet in the late Tang Dynasty. His time, family background, and background all contributed to Li Shangyin's sentimental and introverted character and mentality in various aspects. In addition to some political poems that criticize reality, his lyric poems (including love poems) often have beautiful moods and are good at turning hazy images of the spiritual world into vague and confusing images through metaphors, symbols, allusions, hints and other vague and tortuous ways. The imagery of the poem shows the characteristics of hazy and ambiguous meaning.
Poets generally love Li Shangyin's Xikun style poems, which are beautiful in style. It's a pity that no one has made perfect annotations for his works like Zheng Xuan's annotations on ancient books. Xikun: Later generations called Li Shangyin's poetry style "Xikun style". Zheng Xuan's annotations for ancient books in the Han Dynasty were highly valued by later generations. Most of Li Shangyin's poems are obscure and difficult to understand, but no one has made detailed annotations for him. Yuan Haowen was deeply moved by this, so he wrote this poem. He quoted verses from "Jin Se" precisely because the meaning of the poem "Jin Se" is obscure, and there are many lawsuits and various interpretations, but it seems difficult to convince the public. "Poets always love Xikun, but hate that no one writes Zheng Jian" are often quoted by later generations to describe the obscurity and difficulty of Li Shangyin's poems. In this poem, Yuan Haowen expresses his affectionate yearning for Li Shangyin's poems, and at the same time expresses regret and sarcastic criticism about the incomprehensible poems.