If social mobility is blocked and the talent selection channel is not smooth, some talented people will not get the opportunity to shine. In this way, not only will their personal lives be depressed, but the development of the whole society will be hindered. For example, the door valve system during the Three Kingdoms and Two Jin Dynasties and the Southern and Northern Dynasties selected talents based on the height of the door, which made people from low births lose opportunities. Therefore, the best of the people from humble origins wrote poems of indignation in their hearts and cried out to the unjust system. The Southern Dynasty poet Bao Zhao's "Difficulty in The Road to Be Walked" is such a poem, and the original text of the fourth poem is as follows:
The waters are flattened and flow from east to west to north to south.
Life also has a destiny, and Ann can sigh and sit back and forth.
Drink wine to be self-exonerate, raise a glass to cut off the song "Road Difficulty".
Isn't the heart not wooden stone feelingless? Swallow hesitantly.
"The water is flattened, and each flows from east to west, south to north", pour water on the flat ground, and the water will disperse in different directions. The poet starts with a natural phenomenon and pours water on the flat ground, and the water will flow in different directions. This is a typical xingxing method, and the characteristic of the xingxing method is that it is associated with the other. So what does the poet think when he looks at the water flowing everywhere? In the poet's view, the flow of water is like the direction of life, and different flows symbolize different life encounters.
"Life also has a life, An can do sighing and sitting sad", life is also fateful, how can you sigh when walking, and mourn when sitting? If fate can be in your own hands, then what is there to sigh and mourn? However, for the poet, he cannot influence anything but sighs and sorrows. This is related to the door valve system at that time, according to the selection of officials, on marriage, the difference between the scholar and the Han clan is very different. In the face of this situation, the poet from the Han tribe was indignant, but he could only sigh and mourn alone.
"Drinking wine to be self-exonerated, raising a glass to cut off the song "Road Difficulty"", through drinking wine to comfort myself, because of the toast to drink, I interrupted the singing of "Walking Difficulty". Life is difficult, the poet can only borrow wine to pour sorrow, but found that borrowing wine to pour sorrow is more sorrowful, a small amount of wine is not enough to pour out the sorrow in the heart, had to drink cup after cup, and while drinking wine while singing "Walking Difficulty". The poet wants to dispel the bitterness in his heart by drinking and singing, but this is only a momentary self-anesthesia, and it does not change the cold reality, he is not willing, but helpless.
"Isn't the heart not wood and stone without feeling?" Swallowing hesitantly, he did not dare to speak. "The human heart is not wood and stone, how can it be without feelings?" In the face of reality, I did not dare to speak out, wandering, I did not dare to say anything more. The poet even envied wood and stone, which had no feelings, and naturally had no sorrow and resentment. The poet wants to escape, but there is nowhere to escape, because people have feelings, and if they have feelings, they can feel sad and bored. The poet wants to resist, but he cannot change anything on his own, and he cannot find a way to resist. Thus, the poet fell into the contradiction of not accepting his fate and not daring to resist.
In the era of the Northern and Southern Dynasties in which the poet lived, the door valve politics solidified the social class, and people from low origins could not achieve class jump through their own efforts and personal talents, and the poet's pain came from this. This kind of suffering is not only the poet's, but also the suffering of all people in the same social class as the poet in that era, which caused a great waste of human resources and planted an unstable factor in society. The realization of the free and comprehensive development of man is the voice of thousands of people whose circumstances are similar to those of the poet.