Wen Tianxiang's life
Wen Tianxiang was born at the end of the Southern Song Dynasty, with a noble family background. He was smart and eager to learn since he was a child, and he was very talented. He once took the imperial examination, but was rejected because he opposed the Yuan Dynasty, and finally failed to become an official. However, he did not give up his ideal because of this, but chose to engage in literary creation and political activities.
Wen Tianxiang's poems are full of patriotic feelings. In his poems, he often expresses his love for the motherland and his pursuit of national spirit. His masterpiece Crossing the Ocean is a work that expresses his deep love for his motherland.
The background of crossing the zero ocean
The Zero Crossing and Ding Yang is a poem written by Wen Tianxiang in Yuan Dynasty to express his patriotic feelings. At that time, Wen Tianxiang was exiled by the Yuan government to Dingdingyang, Hainan Island, where he lived in exile for ten years. During these ten years, he kept thinking about the fate of his motherland and his responsibilities, and finally wrote this well-known poem.
The content of "crossing the ocean"
Crossing Zero and Ding Yang is a long poem composed of seven poems, the most famous of which is "Since ancient times, no one has died in life, leaving a heart that shines on history". This sentence expresses Wen Tianxiang's loyalty to the motherland and his pursuit of national spirit.
Wen Tianxiang expressed his love for the motherland and his pursuit of national spirit by describing his life in the ocean and yearning for the motherland in his poems. He wrote: "The ends of the earth are full of thoughts, but the distant thoughts are sent to the East." I miss seeing you day and night, and a flat boat crosses the sea. "