Author: Li Shangyin
The shadow of mica screen candle is deep, the long river is gradually falling and the stars are sinking.
Chang 'e should regret stealing the elixir.
This article satirizes those who believe in immortals and pursue immortality. Take Chang 'e as an example. It is said that after she stole the elixir and became immortal, she always tasted loneliness in the moon palace. While satirizing vanity, the poet raised an important philosophical question of life: What is the meaning of life? The question implied in this question is: how should people live? What is the purpose of longevity or even longevity? How should realistic people choose between love and immortality? The author obviously disapproves of Chang 'e sacrificing secular life for eternal life. He believes that such lonely eternal life is actually a torture and destruction of life. On the contrary, it is not as meaningful as the children in the world who love it with sorrow and joy and cling to it.
The artistic skills of this poem are also very mature. The whole poem aims to reveal the philosophy of life, but tells a moving story with no conceptual language at all, which inspires people to think.
In this poem, predecessors had self-injury, pity for others, mourning for death, satirizing the female crown and so on. Liu Heyu's "Xieji" said: "The theory of mourning is the most insoluble ... Although the three theories of self-mutilation, cherished person and female crown seem to be irrelevant, they can actually be interlinked ... Presumably Chang 'e's psychology has really seen through the author's own situation and mood. Chang 'e stole medicine and went to the moon to stay away. This is very much like the heroine's way of learning to respect the gods. It is quite natural that she pursues halal but can't bear loneliness, and the poet despises vulgarity and yearns for nobility and is trapped in physical and mental loneliness. So Chang 'e, the heroine and the poet, is actually a trinity, with one environment and one heart.