Source: Song of Emperor Gaozu by Tang Wangjue.
Original poem:
Han ancestors had money and jumped by boat. Three-foot sword in hand, there is no way to destroy Qin in the west.
Five-star gathering in October, seven years of four seas guests. Resist the universe and win the world.
Translation:
Emperor Gaozu took the opportunity to leap over Longmen in Fengyi Uprising in Pei County.
He rose to win the world with a sword of three feet and wiped out the tyrannical and heartless Qin in the west.
In October, sages meet like five stars, and within seven years, all countries are guests.
Powerful forces are shaking the heavens and the earth, and they have ascended the throne of ruling the people of the world.
Extended data:
The whole poem concentrates the great experience of Han Gaozu's life into the poem by biography, and sets off his great achievements in establishing the Western Han Dynasty with the difficulty of starting a business, which is consistent with the emotional tone of other poems in the pre-Tang Dynasty, but it is concise and rich in meaning by using historical events and selecting typical materials.
Wang Jue is good at writing poems, and Ode to the Emperor Gaozu eulogizes Liu Bang's great cause of "fighting the sword three feet and destroying the Western Taoism and Qin Dynasty". Ode to the Hous of Huaiyin not only praised Han Xin's brilliant military exploits, but also expressed deep sympathy for Han Xin. His poems are quite different from the style of Liang Chengong, who was the dominant poet at that time. They are simple, sober and intriguing.