Wen Tianxiang [Song Dynasty]
Plum blossom north-south road, wind and rain wet skirt.
Who are you going out with? If you don't go home!
Mountains and rivers are eternal, battlements are temporary.
Starving to death is also my ambition, and I choose EU in my dreams.
Literary appreciation
"Plum Blossom North-South Road, the skirt is wet with wind and rain." Tell me a little about the location and scenery in the trip. The author went to Nan 'an Army and crossed the north and south roads of Dayuling (Meiling). The plum blossom written here is not a real scene, but because of Meiling, which, compared with Wind and Rain, initially shows the heavy mood in the journey. Plum blossoms in Meiling swayed in the wind and rain, soaking the clothes of soldiers who fled to most trials after Wen Tianxiang's defeat. At this time, a burst of ice hit his mind.
"With whom out of the ridge? If you don't return to China! " Two sentences, the first one is about the loneliness of travel, which is particularly painful to write in a questioning tone. The next sentence is that I could have returned to my hometown in Luling this time, but I was imprisoned and could not be free. Although I passed by my hometown, I felt that I would never return. These two sentences express the sad mood in this trip, and the repeated contrast between the words "out" and "return" makes the voice and emotion agitate.
"The mountains and rivers are eternal, and the city is not right." Standing on the ridge, Wen Tianxiang overlooks Xihua Mountain and Zhangjiang River of Nan 'an Army, lamenting that green mountains and green waters will last forever, but the battlements have changed from those of Song Jun when they left the ridge to those occupied by Yuan Army, and the flags will be changed accordingly. This sentence implicitly uses Du Fu's "Although the country is broken, the mountains and rivers will last forever" and Ding's "Returning to the hometown for thousands of years, the city is still the fault of the people". .
"Starving to death is my ambition, and I will pick the EU in my dream." The poet Wen Tianxiang would rather starve to death in his hometown than cooperate with Yuan Bing. Poets often dream that they, like Boyi and Shu Qi, collect wild vegetables in shouyangshan for a living. This poem quotes the story of Boyi and Shu Qi. After the subjugation of the Shang Dynasty, Boyi and Shu Qi, the imperial clan, refused to eat Zhou Su, fled to shouyangshan, picked wild vegetables to satisfy their hunger, and finally starved to death in the mountains. Starting from Guangdong, Wen Tianxiang began a hunger strike, ready to starve to death in his hometown. After eight days of hunger strike, he still had nothing to do, so he continued to eat. On the first night of October of the same year when Wen Tianxiang wrote about the Nan 'an Army, Wen Tianxiang was taken to Yuan Dadu and died heroically after being a prisoner for three years, two months and nine days.
This poem is full of poetry, expressing one's own mind and showing strong patriotic feelings and national integrity. This poem is progressive step by step, full of sound and emotion, not a fake sculpture, but a self-view. The author devoted great efforts to Du Fu's poems, and their styles are quite similar, that is, seeing deep temperament in simplicity can be said to be works written with blood and tears.