To tell the truth, if it were simply a matter of choosing poems, Ye Tian now had countless verses he could recite.
Yet he specifically chose Liu Yuxi’s *Two Poems on Autumn* because the creation background of these two poems bore some similarity to his own situation.
In the year 805, Emperor Shunzong of the Tang dynasty ascended the throne and appointed Wang Shuwen to reform the court. Liu Yuxi also participated in this reform movement, but it met with fierce opposition from the eunuchs, regional military governors, and bureaucratic factions, ultimately ending in failure.
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