Author: Gong Zizhen
Dynasty: Qing dynasty
Source: One of Shanghai Miscellaneous Poems
Interpretation: Soldiers died heroically outside, and the green hills are endless. Where is not a good place to bury the brave, why do you have to transport it back to your hometown for burial? The flowers falling from the branches are not heartless things, but turned into soil, cultivating the flowers of the coming year.
Extended data:
"Castle Peak is full of loyal bones, so why did they still wear boots when they died?"
"The Biography of Ma Yuan in the Later Han Dynasty" "How can a person lie on the bed and do evil in the hands of a woman when he is going to die and burying his ears in their boots when they die?"
Ma Yuan was a big star in the Eastern Han Dynasty. He became an official when he was young. Once, he let a prisoner go. He fled to a remote village in Gansu alone.
When Emperor Guangwu of Han Dynasty, he went to the battlefield to resist foreign aggression. He fought against the Xiongnu's toe cutting and made many meritorious deeds. Emperor Guangwu named him "General Fu Bo".
Soon, "General" Shang Liu was killed in Guizhou. The news came that Emperor Guangwu was very worried about the war there. Ma Yuan is over sixty years old, but he volunteered to go to war. He said, "My hero went on an expedition for his country and was buried where they died in boots!" " He sent troops to Guizhou, bravely defeated enemy soldiers, and later died of illness on the battlefield.
In the Qing Dynasty, Gong Zizhen pushed the meaning of his predecessors to a higher level, which led to the famous sentence "Why should I wear boots and be buried everywhere in the green hills" in a past miscellaneous poem.
Reference source: Baidu Encyclopedia-Jihai Miscellaneous Poems