Weeping with Liu Twenty-eight to Lu Hengzhou and sending Li Yuan to the Second Minister
Heng Yue newly destroyed Tianzhu Peak, and the scholars met each other haggard and weeping.
Only let the words be passed down on the green slips, but not the fame.
There is a hanging chime room in the three acres of space, and the nine plains are still like a hall seal.
Reminiscing about the characters of Jingzhou, recalling Yuanlong several times at night
Appreciation of works
In 811 AD (the sixth year of Yuanhe in the Tang Dynasty), the governor of Hengzhou at that time The famous politician and poet Lu Wen passed away at the age of 40. Lu Wen and Liu Zongyuan were from the same hometown. His stepmother was from the Liu family, so he and Liu Zongyuan were still middle cousins. Lu Wen is a promising young man with the ambition and talent to help the world. Liu Zongyuan highly praised his ambition, talent, knowledge and articles. He said in "Sacrifice to Lu Hengzhou Wen Wen": "Although Zongyuan was eager to learn when he was young, he did not learn about Taoism in his late years. He only had friends with gentlemen, so he knew that he was suitable for the mean and cut down on the mean. Get rid of evil and miscellaneous, reveal the truth, and be true to the truth." Lu Wen was demoted to the governor of Daozhou in 808 AD (the third year of Yuanhe), and two years later he was transferred to the governor of Hengzhou. Heng and Dao prefectures were both close to Yongzhou. Liu Zongyuan was demoted to Yongzhou at that time, so he naturally had more contacts with Lu Wen. Liu Zongyuan lost such a close friend and comrade, and was deeply saddened. In order to commemorate him and praise him, he wrote this poem.
This is a tribute poem to Liu Yuxi, so it is called "Twenty-eight with Liu". The first sentence compares Lu Wen's death to the collapse of Nanyue Tianzhu Peak, highlighting Lu Wen's high reputation and great influence. The vivid imagery strongly shocks the reader's soul. "Shilin meets haggard and weeps" directly describes the grief of everyone, using the word "haggard" to describe it, and "crying" to describe the scene when everyone meets together. Liu Zongyuan said in "The Edict of Dongping Lu Jun, the Governor of Hengzhou in the Tang Dynasty": "When the king died, the people of the two states cried for several months." "I lived in Yongzhou, between the two states, and my mourning was heard in the north and south, on and off the boats. , It must be true, because it was heard in ancient times and seen today." Liu Zongyuan saw these scenes with his own eyes and heard them with his own ears, and he remembered them in his heart and recorded them in writing. It can be seen that Lu Wen's death had a wide impact at the time. It is rare for a local official in the feudal era to be so deeply loved by the people.
The poem's couplet highly praises Lu Wen's moral articles. Liu Zongyuan wrote in "The Edict of Dongping Lu Jun, the Governor of Hengzhou in the Tang Dynasty": "The king's articles should be preserved for hundreds of generations. The ones that survive today are not the king's words, but his words; the king's principles and actions should be the best. In Liu Zongyuan's view, Lu Wen's articles are enough to be passed down to future generations, and Lu Wen's political achievements are enough to contribute to the current dynasty, but Lu Wen is far from giving full play to them. His own talent, in this era, did not allow him to show off his talents and establish a reputation. This is not only a high praise for Lu Wen, but also a lament for Lu Wen's untimely birth. It also implies a lament for his own experience.
The neck couplet describes Lu Wen’s poverty and desolation after his death. Since ancient times, good officials have been regarded as honest and honest. Only good officials can make a difference, benefit the people, and benefit the people. Liu Zongyuan wrote that Lu Wen was impoverished after his death, leaving only an empty shabby room. In fact, he also praised him as an honest official and noble moral character. However, a good official like Lu Wen, who was deeply loved by the people, was repeatedly demoted during his lifetime, and could only send his soul to another country after his death. Although the local people carefully built a tomb for him out of respect and love for him, the fact that he could not be buried in his hometown after his death still made people feel desolate.
The last couplet directly expresses the nostalgia and regret for Lu Wen. At the end of the Han Dynasty, Liu Biao, Liu Bei, Xu Si and others commented on the heroes of the world, and once praised Chen Deng, the prefect of Guangling. Chen Deng was a man of great courage and talent who had the ambition of "helping the world and benefiting the people", but unfortunately he died in middle age. The poet here imagines that when Li and Yuan talked about the heroes of the world in Jiangling, they would also miss and praise Lu Wen and talk about it late into the night, just like Liu Bei and others praised Chen Deng when they talked about the heroes of the world. The poem concludes with Lü Wen compared to Chen Deng, expressing the deep memory of Lü Wen. It also implies that the situation at that time was gloomy and a capable person was needed to turn the tide and turn things around. Lu Wen's unfortunate death made Liu Zongyuan and his friends sigh with sadness.
Liu Zongyuan's eulogy highly praised Lu Wen's moral articles and outstanding talents, expressed the poet's great grief and deep condolences for Lu Wen, and also showed the poet's strong attachment to the country and the nation. A sense of urgency. The poem is deep and sad, and the writing is extremely powerful. Just as Zhong Rong's "Poems" commented on "Nineteen Ancient Poems": "The text is gentle and beautiful, the meaning is sad and distant, and thrilling. It can be said that it is almost a thousand pounds per word."