"Horse Poetry" is a set of twenty-three five-character quatrains composed by the poet Li He of the mid-Tang Dynasty. By chanting horses, praising horses, or lamenting the fate of horses, poems express the heroes' extraordinary talents, lofty ambitions, and untimely emotions and resentment. The method of expression is analogous.
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Li He's twenty-three poems about horses are all about horses, and they outline the image of horses in a short space. For example, "Second" describes the horse in the snowy weather of the twelfth lunar month. "I don't know whether the mouth is hard or soft, so I first prepared the thorns in the mouth." It shows the horse's hard-working spirit. "Third" describes Xiang Yu's black-coned horse's yearning for the hero after Xiang Yu committed suicide: "The King Now that we have solved the sword, where can we chase heroes?" "Fourth" "A thousand-mile horse can still maintain its beautiful qualities even when it encounters a very bad situation: "Knocking the thin bones forward still has the sound of copper", "Twenty-three" ” mocked the feudal rulers for abandoning good horses and only raising some useless “meat horses”. These horse poems are actually works that express one's ambitions and express one's feelings. Through chanting about horses, one may express one's feelings about not being recognized for one's talents, or satirize the feudal ruling class for not cherishing talents, or express one's own feelings of hoping to meet the Ming Dynasty. .
Li He (about 791 AD - about 817 AD), named Changji, Han nationality, was born in Fuchang, Henan Province (now Yiyang County, Luoyang, Henan Province) in the Tang Dynasty. He lived in Changgu, Fuchang, which was later called Li Changgu. , is a descendant of Li Liang, Prince Zheng of the Tang Dynasty. Known as the "Poetry Ghost", he is a famous poet in the Tang Dynasty who is as famous as the "Poetry Sage" Du Fu, the "Poetry Immortal" Li Bai and the "Poetry Buddha" Wang Wei. There are famous works such as "Yanmen Taishou's Journey" and "Li Ping Konghou Yin". He is the author of "Changgu Collection".