From this, we can see the poet's lonely feelings of staying alone in the world and being alone. This poem expresses the poet's pent-up grief and indignation, profoundly reveals the depressed situation of those intellectuals in feudal society, and expresses their lonely and depressed mood when their ideals are shattered, which has profound typical social significance.
Full text: Before me, where were those lost times? Behind me, where are the future generations? . ? I think of heaven and earth, there is no limit, there is no end, I am alone, tears fell down!
Translation: You can't see the ancient sages forward, and you can't see the present wise masters backward. I feel sad at the thought of boundless heaven and earth, and cry alone.
This poem was written in the first year of Wu Zetian's Long Live Tian Tong (696). Wu Zetian appointed Wu Yousi to lead the army to conquer, and Chen Ziang served as a staff officer in Wu Yousi's shogunate and went out with the army. Wu Youyi is reckless and has no strategy. In the second year, defeat was imminent. He asked to send 10 thousand men as pioneers to attack the enemy, but Wu refused.
Later, Chen Ziang talked to Wujin again, refused to listen, and reduced him to sergeant. The poet was frustrated one after another, and his ambition to serve the country failed. So, he boarded Jibei Tower and wrote poems such as Youzhou Tower and Qiu Ji's Seven Visits to Ancient Times for Lu Jushi's Tibetan Use.