Ancient Poet's Sense of Family and Country

In ancient China, the meaning of home is slightly different from modern times: in ancient times, the emperor called himself the son of heaven, meaning the son of heaven, has all the territories in the world, the so-called "under the sky, no one is not the king's land", so the son of heaven territory is called "the world"; the son of heaven will be part of the land divided to the brotherhood of sons and nephews, known as the vassal kings, the lord king's territory is called the "country"; and the vassal kings can be divided into some of the land to their sons and nephews, known as the secretary, the great ministers, the Secretary, The domains of the feudal lords were then called "homes". The Confucian requirement for scholars to "cultivate one's moral character, align one's family, rule the country and pacify the world" and the couplet of the Donglin Academy, "The sound of the wind and the rain, the sound of reading, the sound that enters one's ears; family affairs, state affairs, world affairs, all matters of concern," well illustrate the relationship between the family, the country and the world. Later, with the development of the times, the "family" has gradually evolved into a blood relationship as a bond *** with the dependents of life and the place where they live.

It is this relationship between the ancient state and the family, so the family and the country became the collective unconscious of the Chinese intellectuals, and became the strongest spiritual color of the ancient literati. Mencius said: "the basis of the world lies in the country, the basis of the country lies in the family, the basis of the family lies in the body". That is to say, the success or failure of one's own honor and disgrace are all tied to the family and the country. So even as free and handsome as Li Bai to do their own life planning is: do not give yourself, do not move people, do not go to the lift, leaning on the sky sword, hanging bow Fusang, and then a brilliant, leaping into the position of the auxiliary, show the king's talent, once the success of the job, the effect of the Liuhou, the law of the Taizhu, the lake and the sea and go. In the final analysis, it is still the heart of the country, want to help the people. Even Li Bai such a strong thought of the poet is still so, not to mention those who see the interests of the family and the country than the life of the literati.

China is a country of poetry, this y rooted in the heart of the feelings of the family and the country will naturally be in the bottom of the poet's pen surging, echoed in the poem, and sheep pass, endless as a wisp. As early as more than two thousand years ago, during the period of the Classic of Poetry, family and national sentiments were expressed in many ways. For example, the poem "Kibi", from the wheat seedlings in front of us, associated with the rise and fall of the country, from the heart y sigh: "Those who know me, that I am worried, those who do not know me, that I do not want. The sky is long, what is this person"? The sadness of the corn later became synonymous with the sorrow of the family and the country. It can be said that the feeling of family and country has long been deep into the bone marrow of the country, into the blood of the literati.

Tang poetry is the pinnacle of classical Chinese poetry, rich in connotation, there are many poems that express the feelings of the family and the country, especially the border poems are the most expressive of such feelings. There is Wang Han's "Liangzhou Lyrics", the generous and heroic "Don't laugh when you are drunk on the sands, how many people have come back from ancient battles"; there is Wang Changling's "Out of the Soldier's Palace", the sorrowful and angry "But the flying generals of the Dragon City are here, and I don't teach the bearded horses to go over the yinshan mountains"; Cen Sen's "Encountering the Envoy to the Capital", the helpless and despairing "We meet each other on the horse without a pen and paper, and we have to rely on the word of the emperor to tell us that we are at peace"; and there is Gao Shi's "Swallow the Songs of Swallows", the air that swallows the mountains and rivers "The Han family's smog is in the Northeast, and the Han generals resign from their home slopes to the remnants of thieves". ......Tang poetry in the family and country feelings naturally and inevitably also have a negative part of the melancholy, but in general, more of the performance is a generous and heroic male sentiment, is a warrior to protect the family and defend the country of the clouds of ambition, the performance of the atmosphere of the great Tang Dynasty meteorology.

Lyrics are a variation of poetry, known as "poetry", called "small way" by the orthodox literati. At the beginning of its creation, it was mostly about flowers and moonlight, love between women and men, and it was difficult to express the big theme and the big weather.