"Jin Se" expresses the poet's strong love for his lover and his melancholy and emotion about the passing of time. ?
In the poem, the author recalled his youth, lamented his unfortunate experience, expressed his sadness and resentment, and borrowed a lot from Zhuang Sheng's Dream of Butterflies, Cuckoos Crying for Blood, Tears from the Sea, and Smoke from Good Jade. Allusions and other allusions are used, using metaphorical techniques, association and imagination, to transform auditory feelings into visual images, using the combination of fragments of images to create a hazy realm, thereby conveying its sincerity, intensity and yet with the help of visible and perceptible poetic images. A deep and melodious thought. The whole poem has beautiful words, profound implications, long sincerity, and deeply touching feelings.
Creative background
Li Shangyin is talented and sharp in literary thinking. He passed the Jinshi examination in his early twenties. However, he was envied and failed in the Hongke University examination, and his talent has been ignored since then. In the "Niu-Li Party Struggle", the two parties are in a dilemma. The two parties are suspicious and repeatedly rejected, making it difficult to achieve their ambitions. He lost his wife in middle age and was criticized for writing poems to express his feelings. This poem was written around the author's later years. There have always been different opinions on the creative intention of the poem "Jin Se".
Some may think it is a patriotic piece, some may think it is a work to commemorate the deceased wife, some may think it is a self-inflicted injury to one’s life experience and compare oneself to literary talents, or some may think it is a pen to express longing for a child. "Historical Records·Fengchan Shu" records that the ancient zither had fifty strings, but later it was generally twenty-five strings. However, this poem was written after the death of Li Shangyin's wife, so fifty strings means broken strings (it is said that if a twenty-five-string ancient zither string is broken in half, it is called fifty strings). But even so, each string of it, Every syllable is enough to express my longing for those beautiful years.