How can ancient people relieve their anguish when they are lovelorn?

In ancient times, when people were lovelorn, they usually wrote poems to express their inner anguish.

when people are lovelorn, they will go to buy buy, a shopping mall, or sing a song in KTV to relieve their inner anguish. If it is relatively curtilage, then you will play games crazily with your mobile phone or computer at home. However, in ancient times, social productivity was low, people generally had little money, and entertainment places were very single, so there was nothing to play.

So in ancient times, if you were lovelorn, you would make an appointment with a few friends, go hiking in groups of three or five, write poems, express your inner anguish, and pour out your grief and tenderness in poems. Therefore, in the history of China, there are so many beautiful always in my heart poems and lyric poems.

Next, let's talk about the story of a poet, Cui Jiao. Cui Jiao is a poor scholar, so poor that she can only live in her aunt's house, and her aunt's house has a maid, who is beautiful and very beautiful. Although Cui Jiao is poor, he is attractive and talented. After a long time, they naturally decided on a relationship.

Unfortunately, Yu Yong, a local secretariat, also liked this handmaid very much, so she bought her back as a concubine. It's a bolt from the blue for Cui Jiao, who is in love. Cui Jiao, who was lovelorn, sadly wrote a poem "Give a Maid", which was sung through the ages. "The prince and grandson follow in their footsteps, and the green beads cry and drop their scarves. As soon as Houmen entered the sea, Xiao Lang was a passer-by. "

Coincidentally, Li Qingzhao, a famous poetess in Song Dynasty, wrote her inner thoughts about her husband and her untold anguish in poems, such as Drunken Flower Yin and Slow Voice, because her beloved husband Zhao Mingcheng passed away.

It can be seen that writing poems is the most common way for after be lovelorn, an ancient man, to relieve his inner anguish.