Li Qingzhao’s famous line praising Xiang Yu is to live as a hero but to die as a ghost. This sentence comes from Li Qingzhao's "Summer Quatrains". The full poem is:

Be a hero in life, and a hero in death.

I still miss Xiang Yu and refuse to cross Jiangdong.

It means that you should be a hero among men when you are alive, and you should be a hero among ghosts after death. To this day, people still miss Xiang Yu because he refused to live an ignoble existence and returned to Jiangdong.

Appreciation of "Summer Quatrains".

"Summer Quatrain" is a five-character quatrain composed by Li Qingzhao, a poet in the Song Dynasty. This is a nostalgic poem that uses the past to satirize the present and express grief and indignation. The first two sentences of the poem are astonishing and speak directly from the heart, proposing that people should "be born as heroes", make contributions to the country, and serve the court; "die" should also be "ghost heroes", so as to be worthy of being a good man who stands upright and upright. The deep patriotism burst out and shocked people's hearts.

In the last two sentences, the poet praised Xiang Yu's tragic actions to satirize the shameless behavior of those in power in the Southern Song Dynasty who did not want to make progress and lived in an ignoble existence. There are only twenty short words in the whole poem, but three allusions are used in succession. It can be said that every word is precious, and there is a sense of righteousness between the lines.