The second part is Dong's travel songs.
North Sanhe chaos, four seas rushing, four Yongjia;
But with Dongshan Xie Anshi, I smile at Jinghu sand for you.
Sanchuan: refers to Luoyang area, named after the Yellow River, Luoshui and Yishui.
Hokuriku: refers to the Anshi rebellion. Four seas: the whole country.
Yongjia: Yongjia Rebellion in the Western Jin Dynasty. In the fifth year of Yongjia, Liu Yao, a Hun, invaded Chang 'an, the capital of the Western Jin Dynasty, and captured the emperor, the royal family and the Han family to take refuge across the river.
At this time, the Anshi Rebellion captured Luoyang, which was very similar to the Yongjia Rebellion in history.
Xie An's family: Xie An, a famous Eastern Jin Dynasty soldier, was named An. He sat in the imperial court and appointed his nephew Xie Xuan as the former commander of the army, defeating the former Qin army with 80,000 people.
Hu Sha: It refers to the Anshi Rebellion.
Xie An is a legend. It is said that when the news of the victory in the Battle of Feishui came, he was playing chess with his guests. When he saw the good news, Xie An kept a straight face. The guest was curious and asked him what it was. He said casually, "Children break thieves at will." Nothing, just the children in front beat off the enemy. This calm is really unparalleled.
The main idea of this poem is: Luoyang rebels are like hemp, and the whole country is in a state of war, just like Yongjia rebellion; If Wang Yong can hire me, I will like Xie An, let go of rebellion in laughter.
The Anshi Rebellion is not worth mentioning in Li Bai's eyes. He can defeat the enemy by talking and laughing.
Dong Xun's eleven songs
Try to use the jade whip of the king to command Rong Lu to sit at the banquet;
As soon as the south wind blew, he swept away the sky, then went west to Chang 'an, and the victory went to the emperor, who worshipped him.
Jade whip: refers to the power to command the army.
Rong Lu: This is a disparaging term for ethnic minorities. This refers to the An Shi Rebellion, because An Lushan is a minority and there are many minority soldiers in his army.
Joan Banquet: A splendid banquet.
Heaven: refers to the emperor.
There is an allusion to "commanding Rong Lu to sit at Joan's table". During the Three Kingdoms period, Zhuge Liang pacified and subdued the ethnic minorities in central Sichuan, and Meng Huo was convinced by the "seven captures of Meng Huo". Li Bai compares himself to Zhuge Liang here, saying that he can subdue the rebels like Zhuge Liang.
The main idea of this poem is: please give me the military power of the king, and I can command the rebels sitting at the banquet; The south wind swept away the bandits and entered Chang 'an in the west, where they were pleased with the imperial edict.
Li Bai wiped out the rebels, just as the wind swept away the dust, and it was wiped out with a single blow.
There are eleven poems in this group, two of which are representative poems, which fully embodies Li Bai's lofty aspirations and lofty sentiments.
Li Bai has been an old man in his sixties since he entered Wang Yong's Lilin Gate. In this life, he has never been an official except as an academician who waited for three years to be summoned by Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty. Even if he was appointed as an academician waiting to be summoned, he was only the literary attendant of the emperor, and his lofty ideal of helping the world and the people has never been realized.
However, with the war, Li Bai was full of passion and lofty sentiments. He wants to get military power from Wang Yong Li Lin, and he wants to show his ambition. He wants to destroy the rebels who have brought disaster to the country and people. After more than 50 years of conflict between ideal and reality, there have been confusions and disappointments, but Li Bai's beliefs have never been crushed and his lofty sentiments have never been erased.