"The emperor, land and sea, should be countless, and can't bear to cut Lingyun's heart." Three or four sentences in the poem exaggerate this sadness and push it to the peak before it breaks out. "Lingyun has an inch of heart", which means an inch of tender bamboo shoots, but it has the ambition of Lingyun. There is a pun here, which means that people are young and ambitious. These two sentences answer another reason why Yuling talks about the price of tender bamboo shoots. That is, the bamboo forest is lush, so you can eat bamboo shoots and have the heart to "cut" it into Lingyun's heart. When Zhang died, the poet's pity was also revealed. The poet lamented that the tender bamboo shoots were eaten, indicating that people's ambitions were not rewarded, which was a kind of sadness; Speaking of the poet's coming to Beijing in the sixth year of Daiwa (832), there is another meaning, that is, perhaps because there are too many "talents" in the imperial capital Chang 'an, he won the first prize. But "cut" is an inch in Lingyun's heart. A word "forbearance" is well used. Ninja, with heart, is actually related to "Ling Yun's one-inch heart", but the author expresses the meaning of "He Ren". It means don't die bamboo shoots. Sorrow for one's own misfortune, pain for God's ignorance of oneself, and a feeling of sadness permeates it. The whole poem compares itself to a tender bamboo shoot, one inch long and ambitious, and so does the poet, who is young and ambitious. The sad reality is that bamboo shoots are to be eaten, and Lingyun's ambition died when he first left the forest. The poet, on the other hand, has no ambition. He has the beauty of "sweet buds", but he has no chance to be high. This poem is full of sadness and resentment.
The artistic style of the whole poem is sad and touching, but it is hard to have deep feelings, which has initially shown the artistic characteristics of Li Shangyin's "Affectionate Face" (Liu Xizai's "Art Outline"). It is normal for such a sad poem to be written by a middle-aged and elderly person, but it was written by Li Shangyin, who is about twenty years old. This is the prime time for young people to express their ambitions, but when the poet sees fresh bamboo shoots, he can't help but feel sad, and his poems are also sad and touching. This is a very surprising thing. In fact, the sadness of "cutting Lingyun's heart by an inch" includes the poet's half-life experience and a sad consciousness of "falling apart in advance". First of all, his family is lonely and miserable, with many difficulties (Anping Gongshi). Grandfather's uncle, his family, began to decline, and his ancestors did not exceed the county magistrate for generations. My parents and grandparents live forever. My father died when I was less than ten years old. He returned to China with his mother and lived a poor life. In "Letter to Sister Pei", he wrote: "Apart from clothes, the purpose is to be sweet and urgent, but it occupies several eastern stores and doubles as a book seller." This is a vivid portrayal of his poor life. In addition, in the late Tang dynasty, life was turbulent, governors were separated, eunuchs were in power, cronies were fighting, and peasant uprisings continued. In addition, the society pays attention to the concept of respecting the valve first, and the poet himself "has no strength inside and no dependence outside" ("Sacrificing Sister Xu"), which also makes him lack confidence in the future. The combination of these two factors makes the poet show a pessimistic mood from an early age. The untitled "Stealing a Mirror at the Age of Eight" written at the age of sixteen is a good proof. This poem seems to be about a heartbroken woman, but every sentence is about herself. "Stealing the mirror at the age of eight", with the word "stealing", wrote its precocity, "long eyebrows can draw" and wrote its early knowledge. The same is true of "five-year-old reciting books, seven-year-old writing brush and inkstone" (the book of Shang Cui Huazhou) and "sixteen books of gifted scholars and philosophies, published in ancient Chinese" (preface to (Fan Nan) anthology); Then at the age of ten, she can make skirts, and at the age of twelve, she can play the guzheng. This shows that this woman is blue-hearted, but at the age of fourteen, she was unmarried, and the "spring breeze of fifteen tears" turned to a sad situation. Beauty didn't meet a good master, so only the spring breeze was crying. This "consciousness of early death", which Mr. Wang Meng called "worrying about others in advance" and "lamenting in advance", can be described as appropriate. Li Shangyin's tragic consciousness of "falling early" accompanied his life-long poetry creation. For example, "Laughing pomegranate flowers in waves is not as good as spring, and it is more worrying to disperse in advance" ("Two peony flowers are defeated in the rain"); Seeing Zaomei, I am also sad: "Who is Zaoxiu?" Unequal years "("Go to Fufeng to see plum blossoms in mid-November "); When flowers bloom in the forest, I sigh that "paying attention to details is really helpless, but it still blooms" ("Today"); When he sees weeping willows, he will feel disillusioned that "flowers are like snow, and wine flags are waving in brothels" ("Giving Willows"). Even if it is a lush green tree, he will feel "among the green indifferent trees!" "(cicada). Generally speaking, Li Shangyin was depressed and frustrated all his life. Besides, he is sentimental. In poetry creation, he always shows a little anxiety, or uses allusions, or images, in order to obtain "affectionate" aesthetic feeling. Grasping his tragic consciousness of "early fall" is also the key to appreciate Li Shangyin's "The First Bamboo Shoot in the Seat" and even all his poems.