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 suffered setbacks one after another and his ambition to serve the country was shattered. 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.
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1. Judging from the wording of Youzhou Tower, this poem is deeply influenced by Chu Ci, especially Yuan You. In the aspect of sentence structure, the syntax of long and short mistakes in Chu Ci is adopted. The last two sentences are five words each, and there are three pauses. The sentence pattern is: before-no ancients, after-no newcomers; The last two sentences each have six words and four pauses, and the sentence pattern is: thinking-heaven and earth-leisurely, alone-sad-weeping.
2. Creation background of Youzhou Tower: This poem was written in the first year of Wu Zetian's long live Tian Tong (696). Chen Ziang is a scholar with political knowledge and talent. 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.