I was originally a child of a rich family. I usually live in the world and always try to improve my talents. Although I am depressed about current events, I often draw my sword alone in the grass at the thought of serving my country. I galloped to the west, crossed the frontier fortress of Dingling building, and went north to Zen Jade Terrace. I climbed the mountain, overlooking the scenery thousands of miles away, thinking about the deeds of the ancients, and I couldn't help but feel surging. Who said don't forget the lessons of the ancients who loved the country wholeheartedly and suffered disasters? My love for serving my country will only disappear unless my body is worn away, destroyed and turned to dust.
Distinguish and appreciate
This poem is the poet's description of his life. The poet was born in a very rich family, but he was determined to learn Confucian classics. He was not used to peace and stability, but he died bravely for his country. What is even more rare is that the poet can persist in his ambition to die for his country, consistently and unswervingly.
"I am a noble son, and I really love talents all my life." I was originally a child of a rich family. I usually live in the world and always try to improve my talents. According to "The 140th Biography of Old Tang Books", "(Chen Ziang) has a well-off family, and he is an independent student, especially good at literature." It can be seen that these two poems are indeed the poet's confident self-evaluation. The image of a talented person who "emerges from the mud without dyeing" naturally stands out in front of readers.
"I feel that I am thinking about serving the country and drawing my sword." Artemisia, weeds, refers to the place where the grass is. Although I am depressed about current events, when I think of serving my country, I often draw my sword alone in the grass. The poet is not only brilliant but also ambitious. Feudal intellectuals advocated that "wealth can help the world, and poverty can be immune to it." However, the poet refused to live a clean and honest life, but never forgot to serve the country and the whole world. This spirit of doing what you know you can't do makes the patriotic enthusiasm expressed in these two sentences more tragic and praised by future generations.
"Dingling in Xichi is blocked, and Taiwan Province is independent in the north." Ding Ling, an ancient name. It was distributed in the south of Lake Baikal in the Western Han Dynasty. During the Eastern Han Dynasty, some people moved south and then gradually merged with other ethnic groups. Shan Yu station, so the address is in the west of today's Hohhot, Inner Mongolia. I have galloped to the west, passed through the frontier fortress of Dingling building, and arrived at Chanyutai in the north. The poet went out to the fortress twice, and first arrived in Zhangye and Juyan (now Ejina Banner in Inner Mongolia). The second time mainly stayed in today's Beijing and Hebei. Therefore, these two poems can be described as the poet's image summary of his frontier life, rather than empty words. Their vast life background makes these two poems have a vicissitudes of life and heroic charm.
"Climbing a mountain is a thousand miles away, and homesickness is long." I climbed the mountain, overlooking the scenery thousands of miles away, thinking about the deeds of the ancients, and I couldn't help but feel surging. The poet had a rough life and failed to realize his ambition to serve the country in the battlefield. Instead, they were excluded and hit. In desperation, he can only use words to express his patriotic feelings and resentment. These two poems are the embodiment of the poet's suppressed ambition to serve the country. But even in this case, the poet remains enthusiastic, takes history as a mirror and is full of courage.
"Who said that he didn't forget the disaster and turned to dust?" Who said not to forget the lessons of the ancients who devoted themselves to patriotism and suffered disasters? My love for serving my country can only disappear unless my body is worn away, destroyed and turned to dust. This is the specific content of the poet's "leisure". In other words, although there were many cases like Qu Yuan in ancient times, there are also many such cases today, but this can't shake my heart of serving the country at all. I will do my best until I die.
The whole poem is full of passion, strutting and gripping, starting from life, until ambition, experience, reality and determination to persist in ambition. Every sentence is in the same strain, connected by blood and highly logical, just like a poet's life of constant struggle.
When the poet finished writing thirty poems about feelings, Wang Shi, the owner of Jingzhao, read these poems and exclaimed, "This child must be a literate scholar in the world!" It can be seen that the poet's "Poem of Encounter" was a bright pearl in the poetry circle at that time and even in the whole history of China's poetry. Because of its face-to-face life and feelings, it can give readers a strong artistic shock. Since then, the poet has become another eight poems of feeling. This series of sentimental poems is a collection of the poet's life creation, and it is also an excellent record of the poet's concern for the country and the people all his life.