Li Shangyin (about 8 13— about 858), born in Yuxi, was born in Fan Nansheng. My ancestral home is in Hanoi, Huaizhou (now Qinyang, Henan) and my ancestral home is Xingyang (now Henan). Learn less parallel prose, travel to the shogunate, and learn Taoism in Yuyang Mountain, Jiyuan. As an adult, he is a scholar, and has served as a secretary, a provincial school book lang and a transfer officer of Hongnong. Xuanzong dynasty successively entered Guizhou shogunate, Xuzhou shogunate and Zizhou shogunate. Be re-appointed as a salt and iron official. All his life, he struggled to survive in the crack of the struggle between cattle and Li, and was excluded and down and out all his life. He lived in Zhengzhou in his later years and died of illness. Most of his poems criticize current politics and are dissatisfied with the eunuch's autocracy. He is good at subjects, with profound artistic conception, rich literary talent and unique style. He was an outstanding poet in the late Tang Dynasty.
Jinse's poems are titled with the first two words, and Li Shangyin's poems have many examples, which are similar to his untitled poems. This poem is the representative of Li Shangyin's misty poems, and there are different opinions.
Some people say it's a mourning for a young girl, even a maid named "Jinse" in Linghu Chu's family. Some people say it's mourning for his ex-wife Wang. Some people say that this is his sad life experience and the tortuous experience of his patron Hu Ling's family. Some people say that this is the "generation order" of his own poems, but it is actually an expression of his writing experience.