黄遵宪作为近代社会的新派诗人,站在时代新的高度,创作了一系列富于强烈爱国主义思想的诗篇。这些诗篇具有与前人的爱国主义“显明的不同的性质”,它与“民族独立和民主革命”的资产阶级民主主义思想紧密结合,因而带有自己时代的鲜明特色。1鸦片战争以前,封建统治者采取“闭关锁国”政策,上层统治者中存在着“唯我独尊”的思想,就是知识分子阶层也盛行着一种国粹主义观点。他们抵制外来的新思想、新事物,拒绝学习外国先进经验,把外国一概斥为蛮夷之邦,自我陶醉于“天朝上国”的迷梦之中。鸦片战争爆发后,面对国家豆剖瓜分的危难 Huang Zunxian, as a new poet in modern society, stood at a new height of the times and created a series of poems full of strong patriotism. These poets have a “distinctly different nature” from that of their predecessors in patriotism. They are closely integrated with the bourgeois-democratic thinking of “national independence and democratic revolution.” Therefore, they have the distinctive characteristics of their own times. Before the Opium War, the feudal rulers adopted the policy of “closing their doors to lock up the country,” the idea that “the only one should respect oneself” existed in the upper rulers, and that there was a kind of quintessenceist view prevailing in the intelligentsia. They resist foreign new ideas and new things, refuse to learn advanced foreign experience, denounce foreign countries as barbarian states, and marvel themselves into the dream of “heavenly nation”. After the Opium War broke out, faced with the crisis of the national bean cut