Seeking Spiritual Home——Analysis of Ouyang Xiu's "Yingzhou Complex"

Ouyang Xiu decided to spend his rest years in Yingzhou City since he was asked to go there as a satrap in his middle age.After leaving there,he wrote a lot of poems to express his wish to return Yingzhou.The dominant reason is the Yingzhou City's charm and his nostalgia for Yingzhou is actually his longing for seclusion for his homesickness is also expressed in Yingzhou and combined together.His nostalgia for Yingzhou is isolation from reality and search for free spiritual home.It is caused by his life pathos: decline of health,loss of political ideal,and scattering of relatives and friends.