Most of the ancient Chinese emperors were obsessed with writing poetry.
Some ancient emperors, from the legendary Yellow Emperor and Yao and Shun to King Wen and King Wu of Zhou, had a set of poet's clothes after taking off the emperor's armor. For example, Emperor Shun and his ministers composed the song "Qing Yun Ge" together. This poem is very famous and was used as the national anthem of the Republic of China during the Beiyang Warlord Period. There is a sentence in the song, "The sun and the moon compete for glory. Fudan uses two characters as its school name, which shows its far-reaching influence.
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Did ancient emperors write poems? After all, it is a legend, and there is no evidence in history. Xiang Yu, the overlord of Chu, and Liu Bang, the emperor of Han Dynasty, were probably the founders of imperial poetry. These two men not only competed for the world, but also competed for the title of poet. , fight to the death. "If you don't die, what can you do?" A few years later, Liu Bang also wrote the first "Great Wind Song", "PK" with Xiang Yu: "When the wind blows, when the feathers fly, Jia Wei returns to his hometown, and the brave man keeps it. Quartet! “Both poems have their own merits. The two poets won and lost on the battlefield, and their poems are still inextricably linked to this day.
Neither Emperor Wu of Qin, Han Dynasty, nor Emperor Qin Shihuang left any poems, probably out of disdain, but Emperor Wu of Han Dynasty was an out-and-out poet. He wrote poems and rhymes such as "Autumn Wind Ci", "Tianma Song", and "Huzi Song". Wang Shizhen of the Ming Dynasty believed that his achievements were "under Changqing and above Ziyun", and promoted Lao Liu to the same status as Sima Xiangru and Yang Xiong.
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Although Cao Wei in the Han Dynasty was a small dynasty, it had many poets. Cao Cao, Emperor Wu of Wei, can be called the leader of imperial poetry. His poems "Viewing the Sea", "The Turtle Lives Longevity" and "Dan Ge Xing" are the magnificent pearls in the crown of poetry. Under the influence of Lao Cao, Cao Pi, Cao Zhi, and Cao Suo all wrote many poems. Especially Wang Chen, Cao Zhi is a "professional poet". His masterpiece "Poetry in Seven Steps" uses beans and beans as metaphors, and sings the swan song of "they are born from the same root, why rush to fry each other". No wonder he was hailed as a "man of great talent" by later generations.
The emperors of the Southern Dynasties generally had high poetry quality, such as Chen, father and son, and Chen. They all wrote very good poems. But their poems are full of love and affection, but lack wind and cloud. This poetic disease was "inherited" until the Tang Dynasty. The three emperors Taizong Li Shimin, Wu Zetian and Tang Xuanzong Li Longji laid the foundation for the prosperity of the Tang Dynasty. Their poetry level is average and they don't show off in Tang poetry at all.
Tang Zong and Song Zu also said that Song Taizu and Zhao Kuangyin could only be regarded as half poets. He only wrote one and a half poems, which was really "slightly coquettish". Lao Zhao's defeated general, Li Yu, the empress of Li in the Southern Tang Dynasty, was far better than Lao Zhao in literature. His later works "Poppy Beauty" and "Lang Tao Sha Ling" are desolate and tragic, with profound artistic conception. Wang Guowei praised Li Ci for "deep embroidery", while Nalan Xingde placed Li Ci above Song Ci.
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Ming Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang was a clown and sometimes arty. His poems are slightly inferior in artistry, but they are superior to domineering and express an imperial atmosphere. For example, he has a poem imitating Huang Chao: "I don't give flowers when they bloom, otherwise I will be scared to death." To resist the west wind, he wears gold armor all over his body. "
After the Tang Dynasty, many foreign emperors were keen on writing poems. Emperor Qianlong of the Qing Dynasty wrote more than 40,000 poems in his life. The number was large, but the impression was not very deep. On the contrary, it was not as good as Liao Daozong, Yelu Hongji, and King Jin Hailing. Wan Yanliang's poems are so dazzling.