Life is a hero 1, death is a ghost hero 2.
I still miss Xiang Yu 3 and refuse Jiangdong 4.
Translation:
You should be a hero in life and a ghost in death.
Until now, people still miss Xiang Yu because he would rather die than go back to Jiangdong.
Precautions:
1, outstanding person: a hero among people, a person with extraordinary intelligence. Emperor Gaozu Liu Bang once praised Sean, Xiao He and Han Xin, the founding heroes, as "outstanding figures".
2. Ghost hero: the hero in the ghost. Qu Yuan's Nine Songs of National Mourning: "When the body dies, God takes the spirit, and the soul is a ghost."
3. Xiang Yu: At the end of the Qin Dynasty, the leader of the peasant uprising army stood on his own as the overlord of the West Chu, and was defeated by Qin Jun in 1999. Later, he competed with Han and Liu Bang for the world, was trapped, and broke through to Wujiang (now northeast Anhui County), and died because he had no face to see his elders in Jiangdong.
4. Jiangdong: namely Jiangnan. The Yangtze River flows northeast between Wuhu and Nanjing. Before the Sui and Tang Dynasties, this was the main ferry crossing between north and south. It is customary to call the south bank of the Yangtze River Jiangdong. Xiang Yu fought with his uncle Xiang Liang in Wuzhong, Huiji County, which is located in Wuxian County (now Suzhou, Jiangsu Province).
Appreciation of the Works of "Summer quatrains"
This is an ancient poem that satirizes the present and expresses grief and indignation, and it is also a current political commentary written in the form of poetry. Literally, the whole poem only expresses the feelings of the heroes thousands of years ago, but the condemnation of current events is beyond words. It was in the situation that the imperial court was defeated and fled, and she was ruined and displaced, and she tasted all the hardships in the world.
Faced with the current situation, she had to express her resentment that "you are a traitor and I am a ruined family" (Lu Ben's post-war miscellaneous poems). This resentment was also shared by millions of people in distress at that time. So this poem is not only an expression of personal grief and indignation, but also the voice of the general public. Such poems were written by women in feudal times, which is very valuable.
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