Lu You (Southern Song Dynasty)
Outside the bridge, the plum blossoms are lonely, no matter what. Twilight arrival, plum blossom is helpless, exhausted, and has to withstand the wind and rain.
Plum blossoms don't want to compete for blooming, and the envy and rejection of flowers don't care. Even after autumn, when it is ground into dirt and turned into dust, plum blossoms still emit fragrance as usual.
In this poem of Yongmei, the author chants about things, expressing his lonely and beautiful interest. Yongmei's masterpiece.
The landscape on the surface depicts plum blossoms blooming alone in the wind and rain. Plum blossoms grow in remote "broken bridges outside the post" and "lonely cities without owners". They are not carefully planted by people, but lonely and open. It's dusk, and it's stormy. In this twilight, plum blossoms that stand upright and open alone will inevitably be lonely and helpless, not to mention the harsh environment and the stormy weather. This is really a deep sigh.
The second part is lyric, which mainly describes two virtues of plum blossom. "I have no intention of fighting for spring, and every group of people will be jealous." One of its advantages is that it is not artificial, vain and does not compete with flowers for spring. In the cold winter, it is aloof and open, and its indifference makes it open-minded and jealous! Its second advantage is noble and upright, even if it is reduced to the point of turning mud into dust, its smell is still the same. These words are meaningful. When the author wrote this word, he was demoted for urging the use of troops to resist gold. Therefore, he used "flowers" as a metaphor for a villain in the officialdom at that time, and plum blossoms as a metaphor for his determination to stick to moral integrity even after suffering.