In 815 A.D., after the failure of Yongzhen's innovation, and was exiled Liu Yuxi from the exile of Changde City, Hunan Province, was called back to the capital Chang'an, recalling the scene of these years, I couldn't help but feel a lot of emotion, so I wrote the famous seven unique articles "Yuan He 10 years from Langzhou to call relatives, play to see the flowers of the gentlemen":
Zi Mo red dust came to his face,
No one is looking at the flowers.
Xuandu Guanli peach thousand trees,
It's all Liu Lang who went to plant. ”
Reading between the lines of this poem, we read the poet's dissatisfaction with the situation of the court, and this poem is "sarcastic" because of its "sarcasm", especially "the ruling is displeased." (Old Tang Book)
Naturally, he was once again exiled and relegated to Qingyuan, a city farther away in Guangdong Province.
A quote from the English poet Shelley suddenly comes to mind:
"If winter comes, will there be spring?"
14 years later, in 828 AD, Liu Yuxi returned to Chang'an, and he wrote seven unique chapters "Revisiting the Xuandu View":
"Half an acre of moss,
The peach blossoms are clean and the cauliflower is blooming.
Where do the flower planters go?
Former Kakuro is here again. ”
One question and one answer, complementing each other, "Where is the Taoist priest who planted flowers?" and this answer shows Liu Yuxi's inherent nature as a warrior: "Liu Lang is here again today." ”
Liu Yuxi, like Liu Zongyuan, is not just a pure poet, but also a thinker with a clear consciousness.
Liu Yuxi and Liu Zongyuan are the same, in their bodies, there is always a spirit of not admitting defeat.
Today, we reread Liu Yuxi's "Revisiting the Xuandu View", and we still feel the edge of the struggle from every word.