Xin Qiji's patriotic poems include:

Xin Qiji's "Broken Array: Composing Poems for Chen Tongfu to Send"

I was drunk and looked at the sword with the lamp on, and I dreamed of blowing the trumpet company camp. . Eight hundred miles away, the people under his command are burning, and the sound of fifty strings turning over the Great Wall. Autumn brings troops to the battlefield.

The horse is flying fast, and the bow is shaking like a thunderbolt. Finish the affairs of the king and the world, and win the reputation during and after death. Misfortune happens in vain!

Vernacular translation:

When I was drunk, I turned on the oil lamp and looked at the sword. When I woke up, I heard the sound of the horn of the military camp. Share the beef with your subordinates and let the musical instruments play majestic military music to boost their morale. This is autumn military parade on the battlefield. The war horse is like Lu, running very fast, and the bow and arrow are like thunder, shaking the ears. I want to complete the great cause of regaining the lost land of the country for you, and gain a good reputation that will be passed down from generation to generation. It's a pity that he has become a gray-haired man!

Xin Qiji's "Sending Swords to Fu Yansou"

The three-foot-high evil shines on people, so try to look closely at it with a lamp.

And hang up the empty room as a piano companion, there is no need to take it with you to kill Loulan.

Vernacular translation:

The three-foot Moxie sword was cast into a cold light, and at night, I took out the sword and lit the oil lamp to appreciate it carefully. (Such a good sword) Now I can only stay in my study with my piano as my companion. (The border enemies are rampant) But I can't take it with me to the border to kill the enemies on the border.

Extended information

Xin Qiji, whose original name was Tanfu, later changed to You'an and nicknamed Jiaxuan, was born in Licheng County, Jinan Prefecture, Shandong East Road (now Yaoqiang Town, Licheng District, Jinan City Sifengzha Village) people. A poet and general of the Bold and Unconstrained School in the Southern Song Dynasty, he is known as the "Dragon of Ci". Together with Su Shi, he is called "Su Xin", and together with Li Qingzhao, he is called "Jinan Er'an".

Xin's Ci poems have had a huge impact in the history of literature due to their patriotic content and innovative spirit in art. Chen Liang, Liu Guo, etc. who collaborated with Xin Qiji in lyrics, or later Liu Kezhuang, Liu Chenweng, etc., all had similar creative tendencies with him, forming a powerful patriotic poetry school after the middle of the Southern Song Dynasty. In later generations, whenever the country or the nation was in crisis, many writers drew spiritual inspiration from Xin Ci.

Xin Qiji's political essays, like his lyrics, are majestic and full of heroic sentiments. His ability to use vivid metaphors, powerful evidence, rigorous arguments, and insightful analysis makes his articles unquestionably persuasive. Therefore, later generations regard him as a great writer of political essays in the Southern Song Dynasty, but he is only covered by the name of his poems and is not well known.