"Bashan Chushui was desolate, abandoned for twenty-three years. Nostalgic empty chanting flute fu, to the countryside to turn like rotten Ke people. Thousands of sails passed on the side of the sinking boat, and the sick tree was in front of wanmu spring. Listen to a song today, and temporarily rely on the spirit of a cup of wine. "A poem "Reward Lotte Yangzhou First Meeting on the Table", the first two couplets wrote the bitterness and bitterness of Liu Yuxi's twenty-three years of demeaning career, but when he reached the neck link, he turned his pen sharply, depicting the side of the Sinking Boat, the thousand sails racing, the sick tree in front, and the Wanmu Fighting for Spring, changing the tone of sadness and depression, and becoming passionate. This atmospheric ancient famous sentence is actually the most authentic spiritual portrayal of the author Liu Yuxi himself.
Liu Yuxi can be called the most stubborn great poet of the Tang Dynasty.
Dashing and comfortable like Li Bai, after the frustration of the official field, sending love wine and bright moon, traversing between the mountains and rivers, leaving all ordinary affairs behind; implicit and introverted like Bai Juyi, choosing to take the initiative to stay away from things that cannot be changed, and doing a leisure job in peace and stability in the second half of his life, the main business is writing, and the side business is for the official. And Liu Yuxi is different, he is too personality, do not hit the south wall and do not turn back, hit the south wall also do not accept defeat, have to continue to collide, this collision, knocked out twenty-three years of depreciation career.
Liu Yuxi entered the army at the age of twenty-two, and in the era of "thirty old Ming Classics and fifty young scholars", he was definitely a young and promising young man. After Tang Shunzong ascended the throne, the former crown prince Wang Shuwen and Wang Ling entered the center with the intention of reforming the maladministration, and Liu Yuxi and Liu Zongyuan became the core figures of the reform group. The "Second King Liu Liu" clique took many progressive measures during its short reign, but because the reform violated the interests of the feudal towns, eunuchs, and big bureaucrats, it quickly failed under the joint counterattack of conservative forces. Tang Shunzong was forced to abdicate, Tang Xianzong succeeded to the throne, Wang Shuwen died, Wang Pi was demoted and died of illness, and Han Tai, Chen Chen, Liu Zongyuan, Liu Yuxi, Han Ye, Ling Zhun, Cheng Yi, and Wei Zhiyi were successively demoted to the position of Sima of the Remote Eight Prefectures. History calls the "Two Kings and Eight Sima Incident".
In this incident, Liu Yuxi was demoted to Langzhou for nearly a decade. Ten years later, Liu Yuxi was recalled to Beijing together with Liu Zongyuan and others, but within a few months, Liu Yuxi was again relegated to Kuizhou and Hezhou for composing a poem entitled "Yuan He Ten Years From Langzhou to Beijing Opera to Give Flowers and Gentlemen", which satirized the powerful people of the dynasty and offended many people, so he was demoted to Lianzhou again for five years, and then left office due to the death of his mother, and after his reinstatement, he was successively transferred to Kuizhou and Hezhou, a total of five years, accumulating, a total of twenty-three years.
Twenty-three years later, Liu Yuxi, who had returned to Beijing again, wrote "Revisiting the Xuandu Guan Absolute Sentence", which expressed the will to be repeatedly hit and always unyielding. From "The peach trees in the Xuandu Temple, all of which are planted after Liu Lang went", to "Where do the peach Taoists return?" The former Liu Lang is here again", the two contrast, with gray humor, making people cry and laugh.
Liu Yuxi has a strong personality and a fierce spirit, known as "Shihao", and in the years of who lived in distress, he felt a heavy psychological depression, but he never despaired and maintained the soul of a fighter. Time and again, political repression and blows provoked him to become more intensely resentful and rebellious, and strengthened his poetic temperament from different aspects.