The versatile Wang Wei left so many wonderful poems to future generations. If you want to ask which poem Wang Wei hates the most? I think it is the following poem:
Every family is sad and crazy, and a hundred people are empty.
Autumn leaves of Sophora japonica fall in vain in the palace, and orchestral music is played in the pool.
This is Wang Wei's work during the An Shi Rebellion. The title is very long. It's called "Bordet banned Pei Di from watching others say that thieves and others are music admirers in Ningbi Pool, and then crying for a while became the slogan of reciting Pei Di". Some places are also called Ningbichi. Let's look at the background of this poem first.
After the Anshi Rebellion, Chang 'an was captured by rebels, and Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty had already fled to Shu with Yang Guifei and others. Wang Wei was caught by the rebels without keeping up, and was forced to take a fake post after his arrest. Wang Wei doesn't want to be An Lushan's slave. He killed himself by taking diarrhea medicine, kept silent and resisted the thief's life. Knowing Wang Wei's talent, An Lushan forced Wang Wei to be a fake official and was held in Bordet, Luoyang. One day, An Lushan held a celebration banquet in Ningbichi. The traitors used knives and guns to intimidate Tang officials to offer poems and musicians to play music.
There is a musician named Lei Haiqing in the pear garden. He refused to perform for the rebels and cursed them. An Lushan saw this and made it public, which made him very sad. Later, Wang Wei, who was trapped in a thin birthmark, learned about it from his friend Pei Di. Wang Wei wrote this song "Ningbichi". It can be said that Wang Wei told Pei Di this poem that both of them had taken great risks. Although An Lushan is a lout, there are some poets around him. If you know this, the consequences will be unimaginable.
"Every family is sad and gives birth to wild smoke" explains the tragic situation after the Anshi Rebellion, especially the sentence "When will the hundred generations go to the sky", which expresses the yearning and expectation for the past Tang Dynasty. Missing the former dynasty was one of the biggest taboos of the authorities. Later, Li Yu, the leader of the Southern Tang Dynasty, was executed for a poem "Yumei". Although An Lushan got the palace in Tang Gaozong, it was only an empty palace, and the ministers of civil and military affairs were "camping in the Tang Dynasty", and compared the Anshi Rebellion to "the fallen leaves in Qiu Si", suggesting that their rule would not last long. The last "Playing the Orchestral String on Ning Bichi's Head" is a narrative of Ning Bichi.
After the Anshi Rebellion subsided, those who used to be fake officials were liquidated and Wang Wei was imprisoned. Because when Wang Wei was captured, he wrote to Ning Bichi to express the pain of national subjugation and yearning for the imperial court, and because his brother assistant minister of punishments made meritorious deeds and requested to cut books to atone for his brother, Wang was pardoned, and Su Heng reduced him to Prince Zhongyun. Wang Wei left many famous works, but this poem is not well known in Wang Wei's poems, and the background of this poem is the last thing Wang Wei wants to see. However, this poem that made Wang Wei "hate" saved Wang Wei's life.
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