Xi Shi is known as the first of the four beauties of ancient times, and was a Yue chinese in the Spring and Autumn and Warring States periods. According to legend, the Xishi family lived in The Ramadan Mountain, which is now Zhuji County, Zhejiang, the ramadan Mountain is adjacent to the Huan River, the river water rushes along the mountain, the river water contains a large number of Huansha stones, Xishi is also often here Huansha, so people later call this place Xishi Beach, and the poem brought to you today is the title of the name of this place.
《Xi Shi Tan》
Tang Dynasty: Cui Daorong
Zai Yao fell to the state of Wu, and Xi Shi fell into notoriety.
Huansha spring water rush, seems to have uneven sound.
This is a poem of profound significance, the traitor Bo Yao is the demise of the Wu kingdom, but it makes Xi Shi bear this ancient infamy. When I think of the rushing Huan Sha, it seems that I am also exonerating Xi Shi. This poem is not a typical poem of hanging the ancient wounds and wounding the present, but the poet helps Xi Shi to exonerate xi shi against the traditional historical concept of "red face and bad water".
Nowadays, many readers believe that Xi Shi led to the demise of the Wu state, and they believe that after Xi Shi arrived in the Wu state, he confused the emperor, slackened state affairs, and delayed the government. Yue Wang Gou Jian seized this rare opportunity and seized the opportunity to launch an attack on the State of Wu, destroying the State of Wu in one fell swoop, and the emperor who was dying on the verge of extinction drew his sword and killed himself, and even when he was dying, he did not forget to accompany Xi Shi, which showed that the emperor was very obsessed with Xi Shi. This also fully explains why later people felt that the demise of the Wu state was directly related to Xi Shi, but the poet did not understand it this way, he believed that the demise of the Wu state was caused by the traitor Bo Yao, and Xi Shi only carried the insult for him.
Although this poem is only 20 words short, we find the root cause of the demise of the Wu kingdom. The poetry of this poem is very novel, although the first sentence of the poem is plain, but it is clarifying historical facts, in fact, the ideas that the poet wants to express have historical basis. According to historical records, before this war of annihilation, the Yue king Gou Jian had been defeated by the king of Wu, and was later trapped in the place of Huiji, so the yue king sent the doctor Wen Zhi to give many treasures and beautiful women to the Wu state chancellor Bo Yao, hoping to bribe the prime minister to get the opportunity to seek peace, including Xi Shi, with the help of the prime minister, the king of Wu allowed the country to seek peace. The Yue King Gou Jian also got the opportunity to recuperate, and later finally annihilated the Wu kingdom in one fell swoop.
This is the real event recorded in history, from which it is not difficult to find that in fact, the State of Wu had the opportunity to eliminate the Yue Kingdom in advance, but with the help of the Prime Minister, the Yue State had the opportunity to recuperate, and the most important point of this is that the Prime Minister was bribed by the Yue State, if there was no such bribery, the Yue King would have ceased to exist long ago. Therefore, at the beginning of this poem, the root cause of the problem is broken, and the word "trap" is also used just right, so that the poet can easily overthrow the traditional idea of "red face and disaster water" and correct the history that has been reversed in black and white.
However, this poem will be particularly boring if it is all argumentative, so the poet combines the discussion and lyricism in the following, so that it is easy to understand the reader, so that the meaning that the poet wants to express is clearly displayed in front of the reader, and the poet's deep feelings are pinned on. This is a precious poem discussed in lyricism, and the poet also mixes feelings in the discussion, and naturally blends reason and feelings, which is a very successful debate poem.