The poet expresses his noble character by singing cicadas.

Poets use cicadas to express noble character, which is high and distant, not by autumn wind.

Cicada is a five-character poem written by Li Shangyin, a poet in the Tang Dynasty. The first four sentences are written by grasping the characteristics of cicada's singing, highlighting its "difficult satiety" and annoying experience and situation, and at the same time comparing the green and ruthless trees with cicada's whining all night. The last four sentences, from cicada to himself, think of his humble official position, vagrancy, rural desolation, poor family, full of emotion.

This poem expresses ambition by chanting cicadas, and entrusts with the generosity of life experience, which not only describes the situation of incompetence and poverty, but also entrusts with his noble character. The whole poem uses the contrast between man and cicada, focusing on the similarities between them, changing the image characteristics of Qiu Chan's poems which are only bleak and lack of connotation, and endowing Qiu Chan with a brand-new image, which is a classic in the poems of chanting for the bosom.

There is a saying in Xie's "Wen Xin Diao Long Qing" in the Southern Dynasties: "In the past, poets wrote articles for Qing." This poem about cicadas is to grasp the characteristics of cicadas and combine the poet's feelings to "write for love". The cicada in the poem is the poet's own shadow.

Grasping these two characteristics, the poet described his situation of being "too hungry" and "disgusted with noise", and entrusted himself with the tragic fate of being too ambitious and down and out, feeling sad and angry without sympathy, and staying in the office and unable to return. In his depression, he saw resentment. There was persistence in resentment, which was touching.

Creative background:

Li Shangyin was born in the night of the Tang Dynasty, and experienced the Six Dynasties from to, which coincided with the intensification of the party struggle between Niu and Li. Li Shangyin joined the Niu Party first and then the Li Party. He struggled in the struggle between the two parties all his life, being excluded and frustrated.

This poem was written in the autumn of 848, the second year of Xuanzong University in Tang Dynasty. At that time, the poet's career was not smooth, and he hoped to get Linghu Mao's help, but he was rejected. The poet observed from "Laurel" that the shogunate of Zheng Ya returned to Kuixia because of his wandering life and wrote this poem.