I am willing to calm the East China Sea, but I will not change my mind. There is no peace in the sea, and the heart is endless.

Oh! Can't you see that there are many birds in the western hills, and magpies come to nest in Yan.

Jingwei, a bird in ancient mythology. "Shan Hai Jing Bei Shan Jing" said: "The daughter of Emperor Yan is called a girl. The girl swam in the East China Sea and drowned (drowned) and didn't come back, so she was Jingwei. I often take the wood (branch) stone (stone piece) from the West Mountain to (fill) in the East China Sea. " A bird, how powerful, how can it fill the sea? But it is desperate to achieve the ideal of revenge, and its spirit of self-improvement is so tragic, shocking and awe-inspiring.

Gu was an ordinary and great scholar during the Ming and Qing Dynasties. In the troubled times when the Qing fighters swept through China, the sky was falling and the sea was flying, he threw himself into the struggle of the people in the south of the Yangtze River without hesitation. After the failure of the struggle, he wandered around the world, refused to make things clear, and devoted himself to writing, leaving the adherents of the Ming Dynasty to fend for themselves. Although a ruthless Confucian can't turn the tide, his call that "everyone is responsible for the rise and fall of the world" (Liang Qichao's summary of Gu's famous words in the Record of Japanese Knowledge) has become the national spirit of my Chinese sons and daughters.

In this poem, Gu compares himself to "Jingwei". It is the embodiment of Gu and the national justice personage he represents.

This poem belongs to the ancient style, with four rhymes and two lines. The meaning of the poem consists of two dialogues and a narrative, and the composition is very strange.

In the four sentences of "everything", suppose someone can't understand the behavior of "Jingwei" and ask and advise him: There are many unfair things in the world, why do you have to suffer for nothing? Why do you want to use your little body to endlessly hold branches and fill the sea?

"I do" is the answer of "Jingwei": I want to fill the East China Sea, even if my body sinks, my determination will not change! My heart will not stop until the sea is filled!

"Alas" three sentences, into the author's narration: Ouch! Look, there are so many birds with branches in the western hills. Magpies and swallows come and go, so lively! But they are building a nest with branches!

"Historical Records Chen She Family" records that Chen Sheng, the leader of the peasant uprising in the late Qin Dynasty, lamented: "Swallows know the ambition of swans!" We can also say: "The sparrow knows the ambition of Jing Wei!"

According to the Biography of General Wei in Historical Records, Huo Qubing, a famous Han Dynasty star, said heroically when Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty built a mansion for him: "The Xiongnu is not extinct, and there is no home!" We can also say: "The feud never dies, and there is no home to return to!"

From the perspective of creative art, the achievement of the theme of this poem lies in the clever use of the two key words "Xishan" and "Zhan Mu" in the original work of Shan Hai Jing. "Xishan" has both "Jingwei" and naturally there can be other birds; "Biting wood" can actually fill the sea, but in real life its function is to build nests. From this, it can be reasonably imagined that the birth of birds, such as magpies, swallows, trees and nests of their own, highlights the contemporary "jingwei" more stereoscopically-that is, Gu is not sympathetic to the "small family", but concerned about "everyone" (country, nation) and "people"