Lu You was a famous writer and poet in the Southern Song Dynasty in China. He was famous for his bold poetic style and passionate poems. However, in addition to his literary achievements, Lu You is also famous for his love for cats.
Lu You's cat complex can be traced back to his poems. He once wrote a poem for his cat to express his admiration for these little creatures. The following excerpt is from Lu You's poem: A small cat is easy to hide, with exquisite sideburns and light shadows. Sleeping by the lake at the bottom of the peach blossom fan, a charm blows people's hearts.
This poem not only praises the flexibility and beauty of cats, but also describes their leisure time under the peach blossom fan and by the lake. Lu You expressed his love for cats with poems and endowed them with human characteristics.
Lu You's family background:
Lu You is from Yinshan, Yuezhou (now Shaoxing, Zhejiang). He comes from a noble family, a scholarly family in the south of the Yangtze River. High-impedance Lu Yi was a scholar during the Xiangfu period in Dazhong, Song Zhenzong. He was a doctor from the official department to the official department. Grandfather Lu Dian, who studied under Wang Anshi, was proficient in Confucian classics, especially in his official position. His Biographies of the Spring and Autumn Annals and Erya Xin Yi are important classics in the study of Lu family. His father, Lu Zai, is proficient in poetry and has moral integrity. At the end of the Northern Song Dynasty, he was appointed as the transshipment ambassador of Jingxi Road.
In the seventh year of Xuanhe (1 125), on October 17th, Lu Zai went to the DPRK to report on his work, and went to Beijing by water with his wife Tang, and gave birth to his third son, Lu You, on board the Huaihe River. In the winter of the same year, Jin Bing went south, and in the second year of Jingkang (1 127), he broke Bianjing (now Kaifeng City, Henan Province) and perished in the Northern Song Dynasty (the shame of Jingkang). Lu Zai then moved his family south to Yin Shan (now Shaoxing, Zhejiang). Three years after the proposal (1 129), the nomadic people crossed the river south, Song Gaozong led his troops to flee south, and Liu Zai moved to Dongyang, and his family began to settle down gradually.