The main content of Xin Qiji is to express strong patriotism and fighting spirit. Specifically reflected in:
1. Express the ambition to unify the Central Plains. ?
Xin Qiji lived in the north in his early years and participated in the anti-golden struggle. After returning to the south, he never forgot to restore the Central Plains day and night. Therefore, he repeatedly wrote about his fighting passion to kill the enemy, serve the country, and regain the Central Plains.
2. Express the indignation of being unable to fulfill one’s ambitions and having no way to serve the country. ?
Xin Qiji was brave and resourceful, and took it as his own duty to fight against the Jin Dynasty and save the country. However, the Southern Song Dynasty court did not reuse him. Instead, it was suspicious of him, alienated him, and appointed him as an idle local official for more than 20 years. Years, this can't help but make him feel sad and angry. This emotion is strongly expressed in many nostalgic lyrics.
3. Criticize the surrender policy of the Southern Song Dynasty. ?
Throughout the Southern Song Dynasty, the conflicts among the upper-level bureaucratic groups were mainly concentrated in the struggle between the peace faction and the war faction. The main peace faction almost always has the upper hand. The poet was very angry about this. In his patriotic poems, he criticized the surrender policy of the Southern Song Dynasty.
Extended information
Xin Qiji was born in the Kingdom of Jin in 1140. He constantly witnessed with his own eyes the humiliation and pain suffered by the Han people under the rule of the Jin people. All this made him set up the ambition to restore the Central Plains and serve the country and avenge his humiliation when he was a teenager. Therefore, he has the chivalrous spirit of a strange scholar from Yanzhao.
In the thirty-first year of Shaoxing (1161), 21-year-old Xin Qiji also gathered two thousand people to join a massive uprising army led by Geng Jing.
His performance in the rebel army, as well as Xin Qiji's amazing bravery and decisiveness, made him famous for a while. Emperor Gaozong of the Song Dynasty appointed him as the judge of Jiangyin, and he began his official career in the Southern Song Dynasty. He was only twenty-five years old at this time.
In the seventh year of Chunxi (1180), when the 41-year-old Xin Qiji was once again appointed as the magistrate of Longxing (now Nanchang, Jiangxi) and the pacifier of Jiangxi, he planned to build a garden-style manor in Shangrao to settle his family.
In the summer of the fifth year of Shaoxi (1194), Xin Qiji was dismissed from office and returned to Shangrao. He lived in Laoquan, started building a new house, and ran Laoquan Manor. He decided to "build my house here and learn from it." , Geng hand planting, five willows in front of the door."
In the summer of the second year of Qingyuan (1196), Daihu Manor caught fire, and Xin Qiji moved his family to Laoquan. Xin Qiji lived a village life in Laoquan, where he visited mountains and rivers, drank wine, composed poems, and wandered around in the clouds and wild cranes.
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