Ancient poets often expressed their emotions with "vanilla beauty". For example, the palace maid who has been forgotten by the king is used to express her resentment that she has not met and has been degraded; there is also the firmness of women to express her resolute integrity. This technique is actually borrowed from the Bixing technique of the Book of Poetry and the Chu Ci, which is especially common in Han Le Fu poetry.
Many poets of the Tang Dynasty also used this method to express their hearts.
As we all know, after the Anshi rebellion in The Sheng Tang Dynasty, it was already seriously injured, although An Lushan and others tried their best to ambush them, but for the local feudal town jiedushi envoys, the imperial court was no longer able to deter them, and these jiedushi envoys, dividing one side and were ambitious. Li Shidao was also such a divided warlord.
Li Shidao was originally the assassin of Mizhou (Zhucheng, Shandong), his father was the Pinglu Ziqing Jiedushi envoy, who divided the Shandong region, and with the death of his father and brothers one after another, he naturally became the Jiedushi envoy, and also led the name of inspector Sikong and Tongping Zhangshi, and then slowly expanded his territory.
After having force and territory, Li Shidao was not satisfied, and began to adopt various policies of huairou, throwing olive branches to the ministers of the court and some literati, hoping to win them over and cultivate his own civilian power. The purpose of this kind of behavior is self-evident, and at that time, many unsatisfactory literati began to defect to Li Shidao, and Li Shidao also issued an invitation to Han Yu's proud protégé and Zhang Yuan at that time.
Zhang Zhi then wrote a poem replying to Li Shidao, the title of which was "Jie nü Yin Sent Dongping Li Sikong Shi Dao":
Junzhi concubines have husbands, and give concubines double pearls.
The sense of the king is lingering, tied in a red robe.
The concubines' high-rise buildings are even raised, and the good people hold the Mingguang Li.
Zhijun's heart is like the sun and the moon, and the husband vows to live and die together.
Jun Mingzhu wept bitterly, hating not meeting when they were not married.
On the surface, this is a love poem that expresses affection: you know that I have a husband, and you gave me a pair of beautiful pearls. Although you did not observe the etiquette, I was very touched by this, and I thought of your lingering feelings in my heart, so I tied the pearl in my clothes.
My family has a tall house; my husband has a superior job. Although I know your heart, like the sun and the moon, hot and bright, sincere, I have sworn to live and die with my husband. There was no way, I could only return the pearl you gave me, and I was so sad that I wept, only hating myself for not meeting you before I married.
Zhang Zhi, like Han Yu, was resolutely opposed to the fragmentation of the fan town, but at that time, the imperial court could not rectify the fan town with a strong posture, but could only appease the strong, crack down on the weak, and divide and break through one by one. Therefore, in the face of Li Shidao's solicitation, Zhang Zhi naturally could not go back with a loud scolding, saying that "sooner or later the imperial court will destroy you" and so on. However, he could not respond with a vague attitude, because it was very likely that he would be caught by the villains of the imperial court as a way to sue him for "both ends of the snake and mouse".
Therefore, he compared himself to a woman, on the one hand, he felt that Li Shidao valued him, on the other hand, he compared the imperial court to his husband, expressing his determination to be steadfast and loyal to the dead. This euphemistic refusal, that is, to achieve its own purpose, at the same time, the twists and turns of psychological activity in the poem express their helplessness, but also reflect the resolute will.
It is precisely because this poem is delicate, ironed, and full of affection that many people in later generations regard it as a love poem. Especially the last sentence "Hate not to meet and not to marry", in the absence of reading the title of the poem and the whole poem, the author once thought that it was about a woman married to a marriage without love, after meeting someone who loved each other, although she liked it, but obeyed the etiquette, helplessly rejected the other party, and decided to join hands with her husband to grow old.
This poem can be said to take the implication and irony to the extreme. Zhong Yun sighed repeatedly in "Tang Shigui": "The righteousness of the liver and intestines, with the love of the words, wonderful!" wonderful! This means that Zhang Yi expressed his loyalty to the imperial court in the language of writing love poems, which is really wonderful.