Tu Honggang once sang a song called "Serve the Country with Loyalty", but when we see these four words, we will think of another person, this person is the anti-golden hero Yue Fei.
Statue of Yue Fei
When Yue Fei was a boy, the Jin people from the north invaded our territory of the Song Dynasty from the south. However, the court was incompetent and the people in power were incompetent. The territory was invaded and the people were massacred. At that time, Yue Fei was only fifteen or sixteen years old and resolutely joined the army. Not long after joining the army, he had to retire and return to his hometown to observe filial piety due to his father's death. However, he still cared about the battlefield and the safety of the country. When the period of observing filial piety expired, when the Jin soldiers invaded the Central Plains, Yue Fei took off his filial piety clothes and joined the army again.
On the eve of his joining the army, his mother had a candle-lit night talk with him and tattooed the words "loyalty and service to the country" on his back, hoping that Yue Fei would always remember the hatred of the country and the family, and serve for the country and the family. To serve the country, this is the famous story of the mother-in-law's tattoo.
Yue Fei believed in these four words throughout his life and never flinched. The army he led was highly disciplined and brave in combat, and repeatedly performed extraordinary feats on the battlefield. At that time, the main powerful force in the Song Dynasty was The enemy was Dajin in the north. However, after several battles, the Jin soldiers fled as soon as they heard Yue Fei's name. The reputation of the Yue Family Army became famous all over the world, and together with Yue Fei's name, it went down in history.
During the confrontation with the Jin soldiers, the Southern Song Dynasty at that time was headed by the emperor. Qin Hui and other treacherous officials negotiated peace with the Jin soldiers in order to consolidate their claims to imperial power. Yue Fei resolutely resisted, risking his own life and death, honor and disgrace. In addition, he refused to accept the emperor's edict three times, led Yue Fei's army to resist the enemy resolutely, and wrote back to denounce Qin Hui and express his determination to regain the country of the Song Dynasty. He was resented by Qin Hui and other treacherous officials, which also laid the foundation for Yue Fei's subsequent ending. The cause of disaster.
What is the relationship between Xin Qiji and Yue Fei?
Yue Fei, a native of Henan, had the courtesy name Pengju. Famous strategist and military strategist. Ranked among the four generals of Zhongxing in the Southern Song Dynasty, he formed the famous Yuejia Army in China. Yue Fei was eventually unjustly killed in Fengbo Pavilion and was not killed until Xiaozong of the Song Dynasty came to the throne. Xin Qiji, nicknamed Jiaxuan, was born in present-day Jinan. He was a poet of the Bold and Bold faction during the Southern Song Dynasty. He was born in the Kingdom of Jin, but he always regarded resisting the Jin Dynasty as one of his life goals. He was a famous military general in the Southern Song Dynasty. Most of his poems also have great reputations. Deep feelings of patriotism. Xin Qiji and Yue Fei are both famous heroes with patriotism in history.
Pictures of Yue Fei
Both Yue Fei and Xin Qiji lived in the Southern Song Dynasty, which was a difficult time in the Southern Song Dynasty, but they were not loyal to the same emperor. Xin Qiji died two years after Yue Fei Born ten years later, if there is any overlap between them, it is that they are both literary and military, and more importantly, they also have a patriotic heart and the determination to drive the Jin people out of the Southern Song Dynasty. Struggle to regain the territory of the Southern Song Dynasty and defend the country.
However, Yue Fei never appears in Xin Qiji's poems. Why is this? Yue Fei died unjustly and was accused of treason. It was not until many years after Xin Qiji's death that Yue Fei was freed. Therefore, in Xin Qiji's era, Yue Fei's name was not allowed to be mentioned, otherwise he would be killed. Disaster, let alone written in poetry. It can be said that this is the sorrow of the Southern Song Dynasty, the sorrow of Zhao Gou, and the sorrow of our entire nation.
Xin Qiji and Yue Fei are the pride of our nation. They have always guarded the territory of the Southern Song Dynasty and continued to work hard for it. They were honest and upright officials, bravely fought on the battlefield as generals, and their conduct as a person and their national integrity will always be remembered by future generations.