He was a remnant of the Southern Song Dynasty, and his life trajectory and ideological activities reflected the mentality of individuals and groups of remnants. He sang with the Southern Song Dynasty scribes who were also remnants of the Song Dynasty, and after entering the Yuan Dynasty, he was mainly active in Jiangnan and had a high status among the remnant groups. He was defined as a literati of the Yuan Dynasty, and his words were considered by some scholars to be the most popular of the Yuan Dynasty, and his students even thought that he was the "Yuan Dynasty Zizong", and he was the Yuan Dynasty literati Qiu Yuan. Today, we will enjoy the ten ancient poems of the Yuan Dynasty literati Qiu Yuan, and experience the profound connotation and ambivalence behind the words.
Qiu Yuan was born in a family of scholars in The Jiangsu and Zhejiang regions of China, and his father was also an intellectual, who attached great importance to the education of his children, so Qiu Yuan read from an early age and was proficient in poetry, words, calligraphy and so on. His life was extremely simple, and in the Southern Song Dynasty and the Yuan Dynasty were the boundaries. Because of his reading of poetry, Qiu Yuan also had great ambitions, but he was in the stage of national alternation, and he did not have a stage to display his talents during the Southern Song Dynasty. Until the fall of the Southern Song Dynasty and after entering the Yuan Dynasty, it fell into the rivers and lakes, lived in poverty, and regarded itself as a remnant of the Southern Song Dynasty and adhered to the position of the remnants. During this period, he traveled extensively, comforting each other with other Southern Song Dynasty relics and poems, mourning his homeland and feeling nostalgic for his life.
After more than ten years of seclusion, his living environment deteriorated day by day, and due to the compulsion of life, Qiu Yuan had to bow to reality, and because of his fame, he finally agreed to the invitation of the Yuan Dynasty and became an official of the Yuan Dynasty. However, his heart is struggling, and as time goes on, the pain and contradictions in his heart become more and more intense. In the eight years of his entry into the army, Qiu Yuan's heart was extremely complicated, and the persistence of the remnants of the Southern Song Dynasty and the reality of entering the Yuan as an official made him have complex contradictions in his heart, and later he chose to live in seclusion in Qiantang and live a secluded life of making friends with zhishi.
Mengjiao is a poet who has a great influence on Qiu Yuan, who not only repeatedly expresses his admiration for the former in his poems, but also compares with the former in his own state of infestation and bitterness. In terms of style, Qiu Yuan accepts and imitates the freshness and nature of Mengjiao's poems, the poetry is cold and deep, and the poetry style is thin and nearly cold. In addition, the encounters between the two are also very similar, and it is easy to be emotionally accommodating, so in terms of poetry, it is also reasonable for Qiu Yuan to emulate Mengjiao.
In terms of pastoral poetry, Qiu Yuan is inclined to Tao Yuanming, and the poems also have similarities with Wei Yingwu and Chu Guangxi. In addition, Qiu Yuan admired Du Fu, who was good at using the dictionary, believing that the use of the dictionary could reflect the erudition of the poet, and imitated the latter in terms of refining words and making sentences. Moreover, Chen Youyi is also a poet whom Qiu Yuan likes very much, because both of them have experienced the iteration of the dynasty and have the same experience of subjugation, and the two will have ideological resonance.
In the ancient poems of Qiu Yuan, the near body and the ancient body are both, of which the near body is elegant and rigorous, the ancient body is simple and elegant, the ancient body is simple and high, the seven words are bold, the style is mellow, the artistic conception is elegant, the content is directly striking people's hearts, and it shows its temperament without reservation. It is worth mentioning that Qiu Yuan's poems embody the thought of the remnants, due to the changes of the times, the thoughts of individual remnants and the thoughts of the group remnants deviate from the persistence with the changes in the environment, and eventually lead to disintegration, and the friends of the remnants have passed away one after another, bringing eternal sadness to Qiu Yuan. Therefore, if we study the poetic context of Qiu Yuan, we can see that the changes in the thinking of the remnants are slowly fading with time, and at the same time, there is a sadness that spreads from the sadness of mourning the homeland to the sadness that the thoughts of the remnants no longer exist.
In terms of feelings, some of Qiu Yuan's poems show patriotic feelings. Before the fall of the Southern Song Dynasty, social turmoil, he used poems to record the decline of the national fortunes, while expressing the feelings of worrying about the country and the people, and there was a feeling of drinking and hatred that could not enter the career and could not repay the country; after the fall of the Southern Song Dynasty, he expressed the hatred and helplessness of the country; after entering the Yuan Dynasty, he had no choice but to enter the official field of the Yuan Dynasty, and the poems expressed their regret and homesickness for his "failure"; in the later period, he re-lived a secluded life, and the poverty of the hanshi in the poems and the lament of the hero's twilight were expressed.
In short, Qiu Yuan's poems have a distinct sense of the times, and they also pin their own ambivalence, which is worthy of careful study and reading by future generations. Today, let's enjoy Qiu Yuan's ten ancient poems with far-reaching ideas, experience the ambivalence of the literati behind the words, and believe that you will like it.