Summer quatrains
Li Qingzhao
Live like a hero and die like a ghost.
Today, people still miss Xiang Yu because he refused to live and returned to the East.
Poetry annotation
People's heroes. Emperor Gaozu once praised the founding heroes Sean, Xiao He and Han Xin as "outstanding figures".
Ghost hero: the hero in the ghost. Qu Yuan's "Mourning the Nation": "When you die, your soul is a ghost."
Xiang Yu: At the end of the Qin Dynasty, he stood on his own as the overlord of the western Chu State and competed with Liu Bang for the world. In the Battle of Gaixia, he was defeated and committed suicide.
Jiangdong: the place where Xiang Yu fought with his uncle Xiang Liang.
Poetry translation
You should be born a hero and die a ghost.
To this day, people still miss Xiang Yu because he refused to drag out an ignoble existence and returned to Jiangdong.