Appreciation of Li Shangyin's Tanabata Poems

On July 7th, the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl met. This legendary and beautiful love story has made poets of all ages chant and made lonely people ecstatic. On the evening of the seventh day of the seventh lunar month, Li Shangyin looked up at the sky and thought of the reunion of Niu Girl. He couldn't help thinking of the early death of his beloved wife, so he created Tanabata to mourn his dead wife.

"Qixi" Li Shangyin: The phoenix fan is tilted, and the star bridge flies across the magpie. Strive to bid farewell to this world forever, in exchange for the arrival of every year.

We parted and went into the tent. The magpie that built this long bridge has been finished. How can we get together once a year with the death of the world?

In the first two sentences of this poem, the poet looked up at the sky on the evening of July 7 and remembered the beautiful scene where the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl met in the sky: the Weaver Girl had crossed the river and left the Phoenix Cave, and the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl met each other through the fan; After completing the task of filling the river and paving the road, all the black magpies retreated. The poet can't help but think of his beloved wife's early death, and he can't meet again unless he is alone.

The poet sighed deeply in the last two sentences, longing to see his dead wife once a year like a cowherd and a weaver girl. Among them, the word "fighting for the general" in the third sentence is written about the extreme lament of the separation of the dead wife and heaven, which shows that the death on earth is not as good as the meeting in heaven, and clearly expresses the feelings of mourning.