Qinghai Lake is covered with dark clouds, and the continuous snow-capped mountains are bleak. Yumen, the ancient city of frontier fortress, is a grand pass, thousands of miles away, facing each other from afar. The soldiers guarding the border have been through many battles, their armor is worn out, their ambitions are immortal, and they will never return to their hometown until they defeat the invading enemy.
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Wang Changling in Tang Dynasty? Seven Military Songs (4)
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Seven Ancient Warfare Songs (No.4) is one of the Seven Ancient Warfare Songs written by Wang Changling, a great frontier poet in Tang Dynasty. Among them, "Yellow sand penetrates the golden armor for hundreds of battles, but Loulan will never be returned if it is not broken" is a famous sentence in the famous works, which shows the spirit of frontier fortress soldiers to kill the enemy to death.
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The first two sentences mentioned three place names. Snow Mountain is Qilian Mountain in the south of Hexi Corridor. Qinghai and Yumenguan are thousands of miles apart, but they appear on the same picture. The first sentence is looking forward, and the next sentence is looking back at home.
There are dark snow-capped mountains in Qinghai, and the lonely city looks at Yumenguan. At the beginning, the poet painted a magnificent and desolate frontier fortress scenery, which summarized the face of the northwest frontier fortress. The sky on Lake Qinghai is covered by long clouds, and the snow-capped mountains in Hubei are faintly visible. Over the snow-capped mountains, it is an isolated city in the desert of Hexi Corridor, and further west, you can see Yumen Pass.
In the Tang Dynasty, there were Tubo in the west and Turkic in the north. At that time, Qinghai was the place where Tang Jun and Tubo fought many times, and outside Yumenguan was the sphere of influence of the Turks, so these two cities were important frontier cities in the Tang Dynasty. Looking at Qinghai and Yumenguan reminds the soldiers of the fighting scenes that happened in these two places, and they can't help but have a boiling passion.
It can be seen that these two sentences contain rich feelings, such as the attention of the soldiers on the frontier, the pride of being able to shoulder the heavy responsibility of defending the country, the loneliness of the harsh environment in the frontier, and the longing for the hard life of the generals on the frontier. All kinds of feelings are integrated into this desolate and vast, confused and dim scene.
"Yellow sand wears golden armor in hundreds of battles, and it will not be returned without breaking Loulan." These two sentences have changed from the description of the environment with mixed scenes to direct lyricism. "Yellow sand wears golden armor in hundreds of battles" is a poem with strong generalization. The length of the border defense, the frequency of wars, the hardship of fighting, the toughness of the enemy and the desolation of the border are all summed up in these seven words.
"Hundreds of battles" is more abstract, and the word "yellow sand" highlights the characteristics of the northwest battlefield. From "winning every battle" to "wearing golden armor", we can imagine the arduousness and fierceness of the battle, and we can also imagine a series of heroic sacrifices in this long time.
However, although the shining golden armor has worn out, the soldiers' ambition to serve the country has not been tempered, but has become more determined in the tempering of desert sand. "Never break the Loulan, never return it" is the heroic oath of the battle-hardened soldiers. The more the last sentence emphasizes the hardships of fighting and the frequent wars, the more powerful and shocking it becomes.
Baidu Encyclopedia-Seven Poems of an Ancient Warsong (4)