Sometimes it really depends on talent, even a very well-educated person may not be able to write well, and a person who has not received much education may not be able to write well. For example, the Qianlong Emperor, who was raised as a crown prince since he was a child, invited teachers who were the most famous people at that time. And he, one of his hobbies is to write poetry, probably lived a long time, and wrote forty thousand poems in his life.
However, few of these forty thousand poems can be obtained, on the contrary, Liu Bang has not read any books, and he has only written two poems in his life. One of these two songs can crush most of Qianlong's forty thousand, of course, the Qianlong Emperor's persistent perseverance is still worth admiring. Today, I will talk about these two poems written by Liu Bang, Liu Bang everyone knows, the founding emperor of the Han Dynasty. His first poem was composed around the twelfth year of Han Gaozu (196 BC) and was titled "Song of the Great Wind".
In October of that year, King Yingbu of Huainan rebelled, but this was a heroic and good warrior, but the timing of the rebellion was not right. Liu Bang had to personally enlist, in fact, Liu Bang did not have any military talent, as can be seen from the Battle of Pengcheng. However, he was already orthodox at this time, and the emperor's personal conquest could also inspire the soldiers, and it was still very easy to deal with a small prince. After the victory returned, he went to his hometown by the way, invited his former father and fellow villagers, drank and had fun together, and one day, Liu Bang created this poem.
The full text is as follows:
The wind is blowing and the clouds are flying, Wei Jia Hai is returning to his hometown, and and the Ander Mavericks are guarding the four directions!
Before Yingbu, the Han Dynasty had already experienced the rebellions of the Yan kings Zang Di, Han Wangxin, and Chen Feng, and the Xiongnu in the north were still eyeing the tiger. Emperor Liu Bang lamented that it was not easy for him to start a business, and when he thought of these heroes, he not only issued a helpless question. Don't look at the source of this poem, in fact, most of these people were forced by Liu Bang to rebel, only because the emperor's bed allowed others to sleep.
Of course, leaving all this aside, poetry is good poetry, a proud and majestic atmosphere with sadness. In this song, there are both Chu Feng and Wei Feng, which is actually related to the environment in which Liu Bang lived from childhood, his family came from the State of Wei, and this area was occupied by Chu Wei for a hundred years. Combined, the big wind song appears sad and arrogant, which is closer to the image of Liu Bang in people's hearts. Three short sentences, blended together, the style is majestic, it can not be said that it is not a good poem.
The second song, which also expresses helplessness, is called "The Song of the Great Crane", which was composed in the later years of Liu Bang, which should be extremely close to the time of the Song of the Great Wind. The creation of this poem also has a background, Liu Bang had a very favored concubine, named Qi Ji, who bore him a son Ruyi. Liu Bang thought that Ruyi was very similar to himself, and with the addition of favoring Qi Ji, he wanted to make Ruyi the crown prince. But there was a prince at that time, what to do? It was abolished, but he could not abolish it, it was very simple, the mother of Prince Liu Ying was Lü Yan.
This woman has been let down by him for most of her life, and in the end she will be deposed by him, who can bear it? And Lu Lu has a tough backstage, wrists, men can only rely on themselves when they can't rely on themselves, she is the best interpretation. While maintaining affection with the chancellor, he found Zhang Liang for consultation and invited the sage Shangshan Sihao to assist the crown prince. Of course, Liu Ying himself was gentle and benevolent, and the minister naturally supported him. Liu Bang saw that the prince's backstage was too hard to move, so he created this poem through wine to comfort Lady Qi.
The full text of the Song of the Birds is as follows:
Birds fly high and go thousands of miles in one fell swoop. Feathers are in place, across the sea. Across the seas, when there is a lot of money to pay, shang'an to give?
The whole text is quite mocking of Liu Ying, but he can only use a song to mock, and it is useless to be helpless. Again, leaving that aside, this is still a good poem. Thirty words vividly describe Liu Bang's mood at that time, and he has unusual artistic value and historical significance.
References: "History of Gaozu Benji", "Song of the Great Wind", "Song of the Great Wind"