"Don't ask the common people to ask the ghosts and gods"The previous sentence was"Poor night in the middle of the empty front seat"。
This poem is from the Tang Dynasty poet Li Shangyin's "Jia Sheng". The full poem is as follows:
The Xuan Room sought to visit the ministers, and Jia Shengcai was even more incoherent.
Pity the front seat in the middle of the night, and don't ask the common people to ask the ghosts and gods.
The author, Li Shangyin (c. 813-c. 858), whose name is Yishan, was born in Yuxi (谿) and Fan Nansheng, a famous poet of the Tang Dynasty, whose ancestral home was Qinyang, Hanoi (now Jiaozuo City, Henan Province), and was born in Xingyang, Zhengzhou. He is good at poetry writing, and the literary value of the pun is also very high, he is one of the most outstanding poets in the late Tang Dynasty, and Du Mu is called "Xiao Li Du", and Wen Tingyun is called "Wen Li", because the poems are similar to the style of Duan Cheng and Wen Tingyun in the same period, and the three of them are ranked sixteenth in the family, so they are called "thirty-six bodies". His poems are novel in conception and beautiful in style, especially some love poems and untitled poems are written in a lingering and sympathetic manner, beautiful and moving, and are widely recited. However, some poems are too obscure and difficult to understand, so that there is a saying that "poets always love Xikun well, and hate no one to make Zheng notes". Because he was caught between the Niu and Li party disputes, he was very unhappy in his life. After his death, he was buried in his hometown of Qinyang (now the junction of Qinyang and Boai County, Jiaozuo City, Henan). His works are included in the "Collected Poems of Li Yishan".
Regarding the background of the creation of this poem, this poem is Li Shangyin's use of the past to satirize the present, in order to express his dissatisfaction with the emperor's lack of business at that time, and in his poems, it is shown that Emperor Wen of the Han Dynasty, who should have "asked the common people", "asked the ghosts and gods" is a manifestation of not doing his job. Another theory is that this poem may have been written by Li Shangyin in the first month of the second year of Dazhong (848) by the order of Zheng Ya, the assassin of Guizhou, to go to Zhaozhou to serve as a county punctuality.