On the Tragic Implication of Yuan Haowen's Recording Poem of Returning Hometown
Yuan Haowen set out with his family from Guanshi in Shandong Province in August of the tenth year of Emperor Taizong of Mongolia(1238)and returned to Xinzhou in the following summer.In this difficult journey back,Yuan Haowen created 11 questions and 38 poems,showing the sad and deep nostalgia for the country,the people experienced drought,displacement and slavery of the miserable situation,as well as the personal suffering of the journey,Chu prisoners of sorrow.These poems reflect Yuan Haowen's true Confucian tendency of"saving the world and helping the people",which is an important material for the study of Yu-an Haowen's behavior and political thought in his later years.At the same time,they also objectively show the bad traffic environ-ment and natural disasters in Yuan Haowen's journey back home,as well as his depressed mental state.
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