In the seventh year of Emperor Wendi (BC 173), Emperor Wendi missed Jia Yi in Changsha and called him into the palace. After listening to Jia Yi's speech, Wendi said with great emotion, "I haven't seen Jia Sheng for a long time. I thought I had surpassed him. I didn't know I was worse than him until I saw him today. " Soon, Emperor Wen of the Han Dynasty made Jia Yi his teacher.
Li Shangyin, the author of this poem, lived in the late Tang Dynasty, which was in decline. He was deeply dissatisfied with the fatuity of the emperor, the eunuch's power and the domineering of the buffer region. Moreover, Li Shangyin was involved in the party struggle between Niu and Li, and was repeatedly excluded.
Therefore, he expressed his feelings by hanging Jia Yi, and satirized the behavior of Emperor Wen of the Han Dynasty. Although he could seek the virtuous, he did not know the virtuous, which reflected the social reality of the late Tang Dynasty-that is, the emperors of the late Tang Dynasty, like Emperor Wen, seemed to be enlightened, but in fact they were groggy and incompetent.
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Jia Sheng is a poem with sharp words, profound satire and deep feelings, but extremely restrained and wonderful. Because the first few sentences are gradually upgraded around "attaching importance to morality", the third sentence is quoted but not sent, and the derogatory effect of the last sentence formed by strong contrast is particularly powerful, which is the clever use of anti-falling techniques.
Thus, it is revealed that the feudal rulers are seemingly seeking and respecting the virtuous, but in fact they can't know the virtuous and benevolence, and that the essence of misfortune is hidden under the appearance of winning favor.
The whole poem expresses a thorough discussion of policing strategies with a sigh-filled style. It contains artistic dialectics in the artistic treatment of right and wrong, right and wrong, light and heavy, hidden and obvious, and its artistic style of new policing implication is gradually revealed through this series of successful artistic treatment.
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