I know that when I die, everything on earth has nothing to do with me. But the only thing that hurts me is that I failed to see the reunification of the motherland.
Therefore, when the great Song Jun team recaptures the Central Plains, you will hold a home banquet ceremony. Don't forget to tell me the good news!
[Notes]
1. Show it to the sons.
2. Yuan: Tong Yuan, original text.
3. but: only. Kyushu: China. Same: unification.
4. Julian Waghann: refers to the Song Dynasty army. Beiding: the north was pacified and recovered. Central Plains: refers to the occupied areas north of Huaihe River.
5. Family Sacrifice: Sacrifice ancestors.
6. Nai Weng: Your father, Lu You refers to himself.
[analysis]
The work contains two aspects at the same time: on the one hand, he yearns for Wan Li's heroic ideal of joining the army and serving the country; On the other hand, he is sad and angry that his ambition is hard to be rewarded and he has no way to be a volunteer. The two encourage each other: the sadder he is, the more he sticks to his ideals; The more persistent he is about his ideal, the stronger his grief and indignation will become. This makes his poems both passionate and sad. This feeling of grief and loyalty has been stirring in his mind, making him sleepless at night, unable to eat, and often dreaming. However, his ideal was shattered again. Until Lu You died, he didn't expect the Northern Expedition to win. The end of the second year of Jiading (1209) (January of the following year according to the Gregorian calendar). At the age of eighty-five, Lu You couldn't afford to get sick. On his deathbed, he left a poem "Xiuer". Expressed the author's helplessness and expectation of recovering lost land.
[Introduction by the author]
Lu You: (1125-1210) a poet of the Southern Song Dynasty. Yinshan people in Yuezhou (now Shaoxing, Zhejiang) have always insisted on resisting gold in their official career, and have been rejected and hit by the establishment. In middle age, he went to Shu to resist Jin, and military life enriched his literary content. His works reveal great light and become an outstanding poet. The amount of words is not as large as that of poems, but it runs through the spirit of patriotism like poems.