Li Bai's "Guan Shan Yue" has just 60 characters, which is suitable for you to use in writing calligraphy works.
Guanshan Moon
Tang Dynasty: Li Bai
The bright moon rises out of the Tianshan Mountains, among the vast sea of ??clouds.
The wind blows tens of thousands of miles across Yumen Pass.
The Han Dynasty descended to the Baideng Road, and the Hu took a peek at the Qinghai Bay.
The land was conquered, but no one returned.
The garrison guests looked at the border towns, thinking about returning home with many sad faces. (Wang Bian Yi, Part 1: Looking at the Colors at the Bian)
The tall buildings are like this at night, and I can’t even sigh.
Translation
A bright moon rises from the Qilian Mountains and passes through the vast sea of ??clouds.
The mighty wind swept through Wanliguan Mountain and arrived at the border pass where the border guards were stationed.
Back then, Han soldiers were targeting the Baishan Mountain Road, while Tubo coveted large areas of rivers and mountains in Qinghai.
In these places where ancient battles have been fought, few soldiers survive the expedition.
The garrison soldiers looked at the border town, their faces looking forward to returning home were so miserable and sad!
When the wives of soldiers and soldiers in the high-rise buildings of this house were sighing in sorrow, they probably didn’t stop.
"Moon Over the Mountain" is one of the Yuefu songs of the Han Dynasty. It belongs to the "drum and horn horizontal blowing music" and was often played and sung by soldiers guarding the border on their horses at that time. Li Bai's poem still inherits the ancient Yuefu in content, but his writing style is unique, recreating the ancient meaning and making some innovations. The poet wrote about the hardships of ancient border guards and denounced the suffering caused by unjust wars to the people. He used it to insinuate and criticize the militarism of the ruling class of the Tang Dynasty and express the theme of opposing aggressive wars.
This poem describes the scenery of the frontier fortress, the experiences of the garrison soldiers, and goes deeper into the pain of lovesickness between the garrison soldiers and the missing woman. The descriptions at the beginning are all exaggerations and foreshadowing for what follows. The focus is on the emotions caused by looking at the moon. The feeling of leaving someone behind and missing one's wife is often described by a group of poets in a delicate and overly melancholy manner. To match this, the realm is often narrow. But Li Bai used the picture of a frontier fortress of thousands of miles, "The bright moon rises out of the Tianshan Mountains, among the vast sea of ??clouds. The wind blows across Yumen Pass for tens of thousands of miles" to trigger this emotion. Only a person with such a broad mind as Li Bai would write like this. Looking at the whole poem, Li Bai uses vast, deep and majestic pictures to express the homesickness of the garrison people, which is actually a natural expression of the poet's broad mind. If most of Li Bai's poems use "moon", "trip" and "wine" to vent his personal anger, then this poem about Guan Shanyue shows another sentiment of his concern for people's livelihood and compassion for others. This poem is grand in momentum and profound in artistic conception. It sounds sad and desolate but also powerful and tragic.