Appreciation of Xu Xilin's poem Fortress

The poem "Castle Peak is full of loyalty, why not wear boots when you die?" From the story of Ma Yuan, a famous general of Fu Bo in the Eastern Han Dynasty.

Ma Yuan

The Biography of Ma Yuan in the Later Han Dynasty records that he was in his sixties and asked Guangwudi to go out and cross his toes. Facing the emperor's fear that he could not enjoy his old age, he confidently said, "If a man dies in a field on the border and they wear boots to bury his ears, how can he lie in bed and do evil in the hands of a woman?" The Italian gentleman died in the battlefield, died a fair death, and died of old age.

But the original poem should be born in Xu Xilin in the late Qing Dynasty. His seven-character quatrain "Out of the Castle" said: "The military song should be sung with a big sword, swearing to destroy Hunu and go out of Yumen Pass. Just to break the country and solve the battlefield, why are they still wearing boots when they die? "

Not Gong Zizhen's Poems in the Sea.

Xu Xilin

After all, such a generous sentence is neither desirable nor rhymes with "falling flowers are not heartless things, but turning them into spring mud to protect flowers."

As for the last sentence, it is Chairman Mao. When he walked out of Shaoshan as a warm-blooded young man, he made a heroic oath for his sacrifice and ambition.

Young Mao Zedong.

Then, when Mao Anying died, Chairman Mao fought back his grief and asked him if he would transport his son's body back to China for burial. He responded with this poem: "Castle Peak is full of loyal bones, why not take off your boots when you die?", which fully showed the broad mind of a proletarian revolutionary and was known to the Chinese people from now on.