Jiasheng is an epic poem written by Li Shangyin, a poet in the Tang Dynasty, which satirizes the present through the ancient times. It is intended to express the poet's feelings of lack of talents through Jia Yi's experience. Appreciation of the following small series of translations of Jia Sheng by Li Shangyin, welcome to read the collection.
Jia sheng's original text
Jiasheng
Li shangyin
The propaganda room invited the sages to meet the ministers, and Jia was even more incoherent.
Poor midnight is unprecedented, and Mo Wen people ask ghosts and gods.
Appreciation of Li shangyin's poems;
Jia Yi was not only a famous writer in the early Han Dynasty, but also a precocious politician. He became a doctor in his twenties and within a year. Wendi was surprised by his talent and planned to make him a public official. Later, because he was jealous of the powerful minister, he was dismissed as the teacher of Changsha Wang, and only went to Beijing to meet him a few years later.
At that time, Emperor Wen had just presided over the sacrificial ceremony, and was deeply touched. He talked with him about ghosts and gods in the mysterious room in the front hall of Weiyang Palace, and many people asked. Jia Yi answered these questions one by one, which made Wendi unconsciously move his knees to listen. He said with emotion, "I haven't seen Jia Sheng for a long time, and I think I have gone too far, but now I am not as good as it is" (Biography of Jia Yi in Historical Records).
This is exactly what Li Shangyin wrote in this poem, except that he did not report the encounter between the monarch and his subjects with admiration or admiration like ordinary scribes, but profoundly expounded the matter from the opposite angle, thus giving the poem a unique connotation.
At the beginning of the poem, the story of Emperor Wen calling Jia Yi at night was written directly. Words such as "seeking the virtuous" and "visiting the courtiers" describe Wen Di's eagerness to seek the virtuous, and courtiers' "being talented but irrelevant" is the reason why he called at night. .