Source: Ji Hai's Miscellaneous Poems 220
Original text:
Only the great explosive power of lightning can make the land of China exude vitality, but the social and political situation is not angry, but a kind of sadness.
I suggest that God stand up again, let go of his talents and don't stick to a pattern.
Translation:
China needs a storm if he wants to live. This silence is really sad. I hope that the emperor will regain his spirit and not be limited to one specification or way to choose talents for governing the country.
Extended data:
This poem embodies Gong Zizhen's criticism of society and her mourning for the plight of talents. This is related to the dark reality at that time, and it is also directly related to his own incompetent mentality. Imperial examination is the main way to train talents and select officials in feudal society, so the decadent bureaucratic system is bound to be closely related to the rigid imperial examination system. Gong Zizhen severely criticized the imperial examination system.
Gong Zizhen, a scholar-bureaucrat, speaks in a harmonious society. His social criticism influenced the reformists and revolutionaries in modern China, and he was the pioneer of the Enlightenment in modern China. Gong Zizhen's social criticism thought was brilliant in the late feudal society and early modern China.