From "Summer quatrains"
[Author] Li Qingzhao
Life is an outstanding figure, and death is also a ghost hero.
Today, people still miss Xiang Yu because he refused to live and returned to the East.
Writing background
In August of the first year of Song Qinzong Jingkang (1126th), nomadic people attacked Kaifeng again. In November, Kaifeng fell. In February of the following year, the Jin people deposed Song Huizong and Song Qinzong, and the Northern Song Dynasty perished. In December of the first year of Jianyan in the Southern Song Dynasty (1 127), there was a mutiny in Qingzhou. Li Qingzhao and her husband's collection of Jinshi antique calligraphy and painting for decades was burned, leaving only a few. Li Qingzhao, burdened with the hatred of national subjugation and the pain of losing her treasure, expressed strong indignation at the invasion of Jin people and the government's blind pursuit of peace and protection in the South Song Dynasty. So this frail woman used Xiang Yu's failure to return to Jiangdong to satirize the government of the Southern Song Dynasty.