This is an allegorical poem by the Tang Dynasty poet Du Mu.
According to the Southern Song Dynasty Xie Fangde's "Annotated Selected Tang Poems", it is recorded: "Emperor Ming Tianbao, Fuzhou Tribute Lychee, to Chang'an, the color and fragrance remain the same, and the concubine is happy." The state and county are known for their mail, and the people and horses are dead, looking at each other. In order for Yang Guifei to be able to eat the freshest lychees, in order to win a smile from the beauties, the emperor ordered the overdue ones to be beheaded, which caused the tragic situation of "people and horses are dead, looking at each other". Understanding this background, it is easier to understand this poem again, this is actually another version of King Zhou You's "Beacon Opera Princes", Bo Bao smiled. However, one is "Bao Xi Xiao" and the other is "Concubine Xiao", the essence of which is the same.
Du Mu said, "A painstaking search for poetry, to be glamorous", the Song people also commented on his poems, "proud and glamorous, beautiful and beautiful", this poem is not only "glamorous", and "discuss the pros and cons, open your eyes". Behind a trivial matter of eating lychees, what is revealed is the rapid decay and decline of a prosperous dynasty. Thousands of miles of embankment, collapsed in the anthill. It was from a small incident that Du Mu revealed a big thing that the building was about to collapse, which was really wonderful.
"Chang'an looks back at the piles of embroidery, and thousands of doors open on the top of the mountain." One or two sentences are to say, looking southeast from Chang'an City, the scenery of Lishan Mountain is like a group of splendor, and the gate of Huaqing Palace on the top of the mountain is opened in turn. This is the writing "The Importance of Lychee".
In order to ensure the freshness of the lychee, it arrived at the palace as soon as possible, and all the palace doors were prepared and opened in advance to ensure unimpeded access. Even the most distinguished guests and the most meritorious generals may not have this pomp. The bigger the pomp and the smaller the event, the more it can satirize the mediocrity of Emperor Tang Ming.
"When the concubine laughs on the red dust, no one knows that it is a lychee." Three or four sentences are to say, a gallop, billowing smoke and dust, just to win the concubine's smile, no one knows that this lychee is sent from the distant Chongqing Prefecture Fuzhou Horse Whip. This is written "Teleportation Swiftness".
The eight-hundred-mile rush is a last resort in the event of war, or a particularly urgent matter. Just like the beacon tower, it is also a foreign invasion and has to be done as a last resort. Emperor Tang Ming actually used this power to transport lychees, which chilled the hearts of people all over the world, and asked who else would die for such an emperor. In the end, Emperor Tang Ming fled to Shuzhong, and the concubine hanged herself from Ma Weipo, which is also a historical inevitability.
How many people have written about Huaqing Palace, but no one can surpass this one. Du Mu's "Thirty Rhymes of Huaqing Palace" is also very wonderful, but it is extremely capable of laying out. Li Shangyin's "Huaqing Palace": "Huaqing is fortunate to be ancient, and I am afraid that the moth eyebrows will not be overwhelmed." was inevitably laughed at by him, and only taught the Son of Heaven to be dusty for the time being. "There is very little white space, and it is slightly inferior.
It is worth mentioning that this incident was actually fabricated by Du Mu. According to the "Tang Dynasty", "the Ming Emperor was fortunate to Lishan in October, and returned to the palace in spring, and he was in Lishan in June." However, the lychee is ripe in the summer, although the meaning of the word is beautiful, but the fact is lost. It can be seen how great the charm of literary imagination is, and the exaggerated events make this event more ironic, and the whole process is more glamorous and moving, making the world unforgettable for a long time, alerting the kings of the past dynasties, and making great efforts.
Source: Tang and Song poems, ancient poems, ancient poetry calendar
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