The poem was given to Cui Jiu by another name, and it was a five-character ancient poem written in the last years of Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty. At that time, because Li, a traitor of Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty, was favored by Yang Guifei, the politics was very dark and the lower intellectuals could not enter the official position.
Cui Jiu, namely Cui Xingzong, was a poet in the prosperous Tang Dynasty. In his early years, he sang in seclusion with Pei Di and Wang Wei. Later, I became an official, and the official went to the right to fill the vacancy. However, he soon got tired of official life and retired. Pei Di wrote this poem to encourage him.