In the past, when people talked about the Yuan Dynasty, their first impression was fierce, fierce, fierce, and even fierce in governing the country. With their nomadic nature, whoever has the biggest fist can speak. Therefore, wherever the Yuan army went, it was like a locust crossing the border, and there was no grass at all. Even if they were later sinicized, they still couldn't change the toughness they had been shed in their blood for generations.
But in the Yuan Dynasty, there were actually many achievements, and many Chinese cultures were also spread to the world during the Yuan Dynasty. At that time, the East was a mysterious country, just like the morning sun attracting the attention of the whole world.
It was also during that period that the Korean Peninsula, which was still called Goguryeo at that time, was deeply influenced. At that time, a great poet who influenced the direction of Korean literature and one of the three major poets of North Korea was named Lee Ki-hyun.
This Lee Ki-hyun was born in North Korea in a family of scholars, his father was a new scholar, and his wife was from a famous family. Therefore, Li Qixian received a good education at a very young age. This guy was talented and intelligent, he was only fifteen years old in Korea, even if Goguryeo was sparsely populated at that time, but at the age of fifteen he could be recruited, and he was also a leader, and seventeen began to go to the career. It's really a young man.
At the age of twenty-seven, he was already a generation of famous ministers at that time, and his political achievements were numerous. In 1313, the king of Goguryeo gave way to the crown prince at the time. He stayed in Yuan Dadu as a lieutenant, which is now Beijing. There, he bought a house, bought various classics, named it Wanjuantang, and entertained himself by reading books. At that time, he befriended the literati of the Yuan Dynasty in the Yuan Dynasty, deeply felt the breadth and profundity of Han culture, and felt that it was a shame for his country that there were no knowledgeable people like the Yuan Dynasty. So he called this Li Qixian to Yuan Dadu, one was to be his own attendant, and the other was to let him learn Chinese culture. That's twenty-six years.
During the Yuan Dynasty, Li Qixian made friends with celebrities in the world, traveled all over the world, traveled all over China, and deeply studied and understood Chinese culture, which can be said that China is his second hometown.
He returned to the Kingdom of Goguryeo at the age of fifty-four, worked as a teacher for the eight-year-old King Zhongmu, wrote the history of Korea, and seven years later again sent an envoy to the Yuan Dynasty. After returning to China, he was given the title of Chancellor. He used his profound knowledge to put forward a lot of innovative political views, perhaps the king's knowledge at that time could not keep up, or it may be that the king did not want to make progress, in short, this li Qixian proposed something, he could not accept, all denied.
Li Qixian was discouraged, and finally simply resigned his official post and returned to the field, specializing in writing books and treatises. He did not come out of the mountains until he died at the age of eighty.
It is a pity that this bachelor with a full belly is not tolerated by the world. If the then King of Goguryeo had adopted his advice, the history of Korea would have been rewritten, but there is no if.
This Li Qixian not only studied Chinese culture in the Yuan Dynasty, but also deeply studied Chinese poetry, and his achievements were also very high. The writing is not much better than that of the Yuan Dynasty. This song "Too Often Quoted" is one of his masterpieces.
Too often quoted
Twilight
The perch crow went to the far mountains. Look at the twilight, into the forest.
The lights are less than the fireflies. People are gone, moss is half-cut.
Illuminate the saddle cool moon, full of white dew, tie the horse to sleep in the cold hall.
Waiting for the star tonight. And where, long pavilions and short pavilions.
The vernacular is this: Dusk is over, and the jackdaws are gone. It was already dark, and as the twilight passed, the trees became a dim sight. The author is anxious to find a place to stay, and the distant lights seem to be smaller than fireworks, and this star light makes pedestrians feel great comfort and hope. But the houses of the barren mountains have not been inhabited for a long time. The lonely and bitter journey was originally a desolate place, but it made Li Qixian write another kind of tranquility.
The moonlight is cold, and shining on the saddle is also a cold feeling. All covered with morning dew, tying the horse to sleep in the cold hall without fire, everything seemed lonely, so desolate. Tonight looking at the watery night and the bright starlight, imagining that tomorrow will embark on that long journey again, it will be another desolate suffering of life.
A poem that writes lonely and bitter travel so bleak and euphemistic, the writing is really extraordinary, and it can be ranked among the three major poets in the three Koreas, and the foundation is really profound.