This spring, the "Chinese Poetry Conference" is still meeting everyone on time, but the popularity has decreased compared with previous years. According to analysis, there are two reasons: first, this season's program is scheduled to be once a week, which is not as compact as before; Second, there are no star-level players like Wu Yishu, Chen Geng, and Peng Min.
Despite this, the poetry conference still attracts many poetry lovers. Have you noticed that some poetry works appear very frequently in the "Chinese Poetry Conference", which is comparable to the resident guests?
For example, Yan Zhenqing's "Persuasion Poems", Li Shangyin's "Jin Se", Li Bai's "Will Enter the Wine", etc., as well as Lu You's "Book of Indignation One": In my early years, I knew that the world was difficult, and when I looked at the north of the Central Plains, I saw desolation.
The building boat crosses the snow melon island at night, and the iron horse is scattered in the autumn wind. Plugging the Great Wall is empty, and the temples in the mirror have been spotted. Zhuge Liang's "Teacher Table" is really famous all over the world, who can compare with him for thousands of years?
This is a masterpiece that has been passed down through the ages and is deeply loved by future generations. It not only contains amazing verses, but also vividly expresses Lu You's lifelong ambitions and state of mind in his later years.
Lu You is the poet who left the most poems in history, and most of the nearly 10,000 poems he has survived are works of speech. He believed that poetry was the best way to express one's heart, not the popular lyrics of the time.
However, Lu You's lifelong dream was not to become a literati, but to recover the rivers and mountains of the Central Plains and wash away the shame of Jingkang. As a native of the Southern Song Dynasty, Lu You has always adhered to the belief in restoring the great cause, and believes that everyone should be like this.
However, in the Southern Song Dynasty, Song Gaozong and the prime ministers were only greedy for wealth and pleasure, indulging in pleasures, and even feared that the return of the two emperors of Huiqin would threaten their status. Therefore, not only did they not intend to recover the old rivers and mountains, but instead suppressed the main battle faction.
Yue Fei died unjustly because of this, and Lu You also felt a big blow, and his career has not been smooth.
In his early years, Lu You was full of confidence, thinking that with the richness of Jiangnan, he would definitely be able to defeat the Jin Kingdom. However, he did not expect that although the enemy was strong, what was more troublesome was internal strife.
He looked at the Central Plains, full of blood but full of resentment, and this emotion lingered in his life. He did not complain about his personal future, but he was saddened by the misfortune of his country.
He once beat the Jin soldiers in Guazhoudu, drove the building ship and warship in the snowy night, and the iron horse galloped freely in the autumn wind, and the good news that the Dasanguan was recovered made him feel extremely happy. These happy moments have become sweet memories in his family and country feelings.
Although the good memories make people nostalgic, they can't escape the cruelty of reality after all. "Plugging the Great Wall is empty, and the fading sideburns in the mirror have been spotted" reveals the deep helplessness in Lu You's heart.
Throughout history, we often compare the goodness of the country to the Great Wall, and they are the guardians of our country. However, the reality made them helpless under the leadership of the Southern Song Dynasty, Yue Fei sighed "empty sadness", and Lu You could only helplessly say "empty self-promise".
It's not that they don't have talents and ideals, but the helplessness of reality makes them grow old and see no hope of recovering their homeland. This poem was written in the thirteenth year of Song Xiaozong's Chunxi, Lu You was 61 years old at the time, and he was already old, even today, he is past the age of retirement, so his sigh seems even more helpless and helpless.
At the end of the poem, the poet mentions his idol Zhuge Liang. Zhuge Liang is not known for his clever calculations in "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", but for his perseverance, loyalty and patriotism.
Although the Shu country he was in was the weakest, he was resolute and devoted himself to his duties until the last moment of his life. From a deeper point of view, Lu You is not only encouraging himself, but also admonishing the imperial court.
Although Liu Chan, the queen of the Three Kingdoms period, was mediocre, he still supported Zhuge Liang's cause, which led to the military action of Six Qishan. However, the situation in the Southern Song Dynasty was much better than that of Shu, but he lacked courage and determination, and even forgot about the hatred of the country and the family, which was the most painful thing for Lu You.
Lu You pursued ambitions all his life and was full of expectations for the country. His poems are full of anger and lamentation, but they are not completely devoid of fighting spirit and hope. Unfortunately, the Southern Song Dynasty was eventually destroyed by the Yuan Dynasty, and he failed to wake up the people.
The Chinese Poetry Conference is an annual poetry event, which allows people to read poetry knowledge, revisit beautiful ancient poems, find cultural genes, taste the beauty of life, feel the interest of poetry, absorb the nutrition of the wisdom and feelings of the ancients, and nourish the soul.