"Looking back at Chang'an, there are piles of embroidery, thousands of gates are opening on the top of the mountain" describes the Huaqing Palace in Lishan Mountain, Lintong, Xi'an, and comes from "Three Poems on Passing through the Huaqing Palace·Part 1" written by Du Mu, a poet of the late Tang Dynasty.
Original text:
Looking back at Chang'an, there are piles of embroidery, and thousands of doors are opened one after another on the top of the mountain.
The red concubine on horseback smiled, but no one knew it was lychee.
The concubine smiled happily as a horse rode up and smoke was billowing in the air. No one knew that fresh lychees had been sent from the south.
This poem chooses to deliver lychees to the imperial concubine on horseback, vividly revealing that in order to satisfy their own appetites, the rulers did not hesitate to mobilize troops, waste people and money, and effectively criticized Tang Xuanzong and Yang Guifei. of arrogance and extravagance. The first two sentences of the poem pave the way for the background, and the last two sentences introduce the main body of the description and hint at the theme of the poem. The two specific images of "Riding in the Red Dust" and "Concubine's Laughter" are presented side by side, which makes people think and leaves people with suspense. Although "no one knows" is three words, it is thought-provoking and intriguing.
This epic poem was written by Du Mu when he arrived in Chang'an via Huaqing Palace and felt that Tang Xuanzong and Yang Guifei were debauched and ruined the country. Huaqing Palace was once a recreation place for Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty and Concubine Yang. According to the "New Book of Tang: Biography of Concubine Yang": "The concubine was addicted to lychees and she wanted to have them. She rode them on a horse and traveled thousands of miles without changing her taste. , has arrived in the capital." Therefore, many officials died of exhaustion and the post horses fell to death on the road from Sichuan to Chang'an. "Passing the Huaqing Palace Quatrains" intercepts this historical fact, criticizes the arrogance, extravagance and ignorance of the feudal rulers, uses history to satirize the present, and warns the world's monarchs.
Du Mu (AD 803-about 852), courtesy name Muzhi and Fanchuan Jushi, Han nationality, was born in Jingzhao Wannian (now Xi'an, Shaanxi Province) and was a poet of the Tang Dynasty. Du Mu was called "Xiao Du" to distinguish him from Du Fu. Together with Li Shangyin, he is known as "Little Li Du". Because he lived in Fanchuan Villa in South Chang'an in his later years, he was called "Du Fanchuan" by later generations and wrote "Collected Works of Fanchuan".