Live and be a man among men; Die and become the soul in the soul.

Today, people still miss Xiang Yu because he refused to live and returned to the East.

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1 127, the nomads from the Jin army invaded the Central Plains and took Huidi and Qindi away. Zhao Songcang fled south. Li Qingzhao and his wife also began to wander and flee. Soon, her husband, Zhao Mingcheng, was appointed as the magistrate of Jiankang County. There was a rebellion in this city. Zhao Mingcheng didn't do his duty to direct the war, but quietly ran away with the rope. After the decision of rebellion, Zhao Mingcheng was dismissed by the court. Li Qingzhao was deeply ashamed of her husband's chicken out and was cold and distant from Zhao Mingcheng.

1 128, Li Qingzhao and his wife fled to Jiangxi. Walking to the edge of the Wujiang River and standing in the place where Xiang Yu, the overlord of the place of western Chu, committed suicide by defeat, Li Qingzhao couldn't help feeling excited and recited this poem casually. Hearing this, Zhao Mingcheng felt sorry for himself. Since then, he has been depressed and died of an acute illness.

Sentence solution

Live and be a man among men; Die and become the soul in the soul.

Living is a hero among people, and dying should also be a hero among ghosts. "Outstanding people" is a hero among people. Emperor Gaozu once praised the founding heroes Sean, Xiao He and Han Xin as "outstanding figures". A Ghost, the hero in Bear. Qu Yuan's "Mourning the Nation": "When you die, your soul is a ghost."

Today, people still miss Xiang Yu because he refused to live and returned to the East.

People still miss Xiang Yu because he refused to drag out an ignoble existence back to Jiangdong. "Xiang Yu" led the rebel army to destroy the main force of Qin Jun and became the overlord of Chu. After being defeated by Liu Bang, he broke through to Wujiang (now Hexian County, Anhui Province) and died because he was ashamed to see his elders in Jiangdong. "Jiangdong" is the place where Xiang Yu went to war with his uncle Xiang Liang, that is, the Suzhou area of Huiji County.

Comments and explanations

This poem clearly puts forward the value orientation of life: being born as a hero, dying as a country, and being a ghost as a hero. Patriotic passion is beyond words.