"Miscellaneous Poems of Jihai" Miscellaneous Poems of Jihai ①

Qing Gong Zizhen

The anger of Kyushu relies on wind and thunder,

It is sad that thousands of horses are silent . ②

I urge God to cheer up, ③

Reward talented people in any way.

Author

1792-1841, courtesy name Zhuan, renamed Gong Zuo, named Ding'an, Yucen (next to King Zuo Yingjia), a mountain dweller from Renhe.

Daoguang Jinshi, head of the Department of Official Etiquette. There is "The Complete Works of Ding'an". Zizhen was an enlightenment scholar in modern academic thought.

His poems can open up new worlds, are majestic and colorful, and influenced the revolutionary groups in the late Qing Dynasty and Nanshe poets.

Shen Zhi, the leader of "Tongguangti", also called him a "wonder" and believed that "the talents of Ding'an are the only ones that have been available for hundreds of years."

Notes

①Jihai: the nineteenth year of Daoguang (1839). The author was forty-eight years old this year. Dissatisfied with the darkness of the Qing Dynasty's officialdom, he resigned and returned to Beijing and Hangzhou. Later, he went back and forth again to pick up his family members. During this year's journey between Beijing and Hangzhou, he composed 15 poems from Qijue300

which were collectively named "Miscellaneous Poems of Jihai". The song selected here was originally listed as number 125. Author

Note from the author: "When I passed Zhenjiang, I saw the Jade Emperor, the God of Wind and the God of Thunder. They prayed countless times in the temple, and the Taoist priests begged to write Qingci."

② Thousands of horses were silent: the words came from Su Shi's " "Preface to the Three Horses Illustration": "The vibrating hyena (horse mane) roared loudly, and all the horses were silent."

Silent: dumb. ③Cheer up: to work hard and cheer up.

Criticism

Gong Zizhen's "Miscellaneous Poems of Jihai" is a large-scale autobiographical poem, which is a new style of poetry after Wang Yuanliang in the late Song Dynasty

develop. Cheng Jinfeng commented: "The lines are dazzling and the breath is magnificent", "The voice is deep and full of sorrow, like thousands of jade wailing." This is reflected in the content of Qing Qiao's "Dudu Yin" The Battle of Yongdong in the Opium War

It is different from the others, and it is also different from the style of Huang Zunxian's "Miscellaneous Poems of Jihai" later. This poem is the most outstanding one among Gong Zizhen's "Ji Hai Za

Poems", which best reflects the author's spirit and the requirements of the times. The author cleverly linked the images of the Jade Emperor and other gods in the Sai Shen Meeting to the "God of Heaven" and "Wind and Thunder" to conceive, showing the profound thinking of people under the rule of the Qing Dynasty

Depressing, the reality of society being in complete silence and "all the horses are silent". This reality

is "pathetic". The author is calling for the arrival of huge social changes and looking forward to the emergence of a vibrant

new situation. A new situation cannot appear automatically. He must rely on talents to destroy the old world and create a new one. Talents need to be diverse and should not be embedded in one box. The focus of this poem is that the first half

raises the issue of "anger", and the second half raises the issue of "eclecticism" of talents. This is a new issue.

The author asks people to Rethink and rise to the occasion of transforming the world. The enlightenment meaning of this poem

lies in this. The two verses are of course very expressive.