Mr. Gu Sui once severely praised Li Shangyin and said:? Yishan's Jinse is a masterpiece. ?
Why?
Because this poem is obscure.
Inlaid harp
I want to know why my Jinse has fifty strings, and each string has a youthful interval.
Zhuangzi daydreaming, a saint, was bewitched by butterflies, and cuckoo crowed in the imperial spring.
Mermaids shed pearl-like tears on the moon-green sea, and the blue fields breathed their jade to the sun.
A moment that should last forever has come and gone before I know it.
To say that it is obscure does not mean that the content of this poem is difficult to understand. A seven-character poem quotes four allusions. What puzzles many scholars and historians is that no one can understand the main idea of this poem.
Is it love? Is it ambition? Or his unhappy life?
In the fifth year of Dazhong (85 1), Li Shangyin was 38 years old and his wife Wang died. At this time, he had just received an invitation from Liu Zhongying, then China's ambassador to Dongchuan (now Santai County, Sichuan Province), to work in Zizhou, Sichuan Province. Although Li Shangyin lived in Zizhou for four years, he was often unhappy, but it was the most stable period in his career life, and even once became interested in Buddhism. Jinse is believed to have been written during that period.
Li Shangyin's life can be described as wandering, struggling to survive in the cracks. He moved from shogunate to shogunate, just doing some drafting work. He didn't hold office for a long time in every place and lived a screen life. He is brilliant, but he doesn't use it. This has a lot to do with his wrong choices when he was young. In present terms, it boils down to, right? Careless friends, wrong ideas? .
First, how lucky and unfortunate it was to meet Ling Huchu when I was young.
Li Shangyin was born in poverty. His father died when he was eight or nine years old. He followed his mother back to his hometown in Zhengzhou, Henan Province, and his life was difficult. But he is very talented and learns from his uncle in the family. Five years of chanting, seven years of writing? When I was sixteen? Ancient Chinese for going out to work? .
When Li Shangyin was sixteen years old (829), he met an important figure in his life-Ling Huchu, who was the envoy of Tianpingjun (now Dongping, Shandong). Linghu Chu appreciated his talent and made him an inspector in the staff.