Liu Yong can be said to be a famous figure in China's poetry circle. He was a romantic when he was young, because he was a fairy in his family, and he still had prestige in the local area. When he was born, his father was still an official, so he lived in luxury and had a lot of property to travel, which was also a basis for his later scenery description to be so realistic.
Liu Yong was preparing for the imperial examination when he was young. He is also very talented and has written many poems. Later, the road to the imperial examination was frustrated. He went to the imperial examination for the first time 1. He thought he would be a champion or something, but he failed. At that time, Zhenzong directly said that he didn't want that kind of gorgeous rhetoric, and then Liu Yong didn't pass the exam directly and began to complain in anger. It was also at this time that he wrote He Tianchong.
Later, he prepared for the second exam, but he still failed. At this time, he began to wander among the flowers, but he still did not extinguish the heart of the imperial examination, so he had the third exam and failed the third exam. Under such a blow, he didn't want to take the exam again and began to really become a prodigal son.
In fact, he failed many times in the exam, which is also related to his poems. According to unofficial history's records, after seeing this poem, Song Zhenzong disliked it very much, especially the last two sentences, which belittled the imperial examination, at least in Song Zhenzong, so his road to the imperial examination was almost cut off.