the desert is lonely and straight, and the long river sets the yen. This is a famous sentence written by Wang Wei, a great poet in the Tang Dynasty, which has been circulated through the ages. For many years, people have always had a question: where is the landscape written in this poem? Recently, a person in charge of Ningxia Tourism Bureau, after reading a lot of materials and doing some textual research, thinks that the scenery written by Wang Wei may be in Ningxia.
This poem is entitled "Making the Frontier Embarrass", and there are 8 lines in the whole poem: "If a bicycle wants to ask about the border, it belongs to the country, and it is
too late. Sign the tent and sweat, and return the geese to Hu Tian. The vast desert is solitary smoke, the sunset on the yellow river is round. Xiao Guan always stays in Yanran when he rides. " Wang Wei was instructed by Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty to ask questions and visit the military situation. It is mentioned in the poem that he met the reconnaissance cavalry at Xiaoguan, which is near Guyuan County, Ningxia (in the southeast of the county, in the north of Guyuan County, and now in Liwangbao, Haiyuan County,
), which shows that Wang Wei has indeed been to Ningxia. Some scholars believe that Wang Weihen
probably started from Chang 'an, went to Guyuan first, then crossed the Yellow River in Haiyuan County, Ningxia and went straight to Wuwei and Zhangye, Gansu Province. On the way, Wang Wei was intoxicated by the sight
and was happy to write. In just 1 words, I vividly wrote the magnificent scenery
beyond the Great Wall, which Wang Guowei, a master of Chinese studies, called "spectacular through the ages".
Recently, Su Zhongshen, a scholar from Ningxia, mentioned in the article Yanran Mountain and Yanran State that the Yanran State mentioned by Wang Wei
is the Jimi State which was put in Huile County in the first year of Tang Kaiyuan, and this
state should be located in Zhongning County of Ningxia today (it was once a part of Zhongwei County in history). It is a relatively safe shortcut from
Xiaoguan to Hexi Corridor via Tengger Desert in Tang Dynasty, and the crossing place of this road is in Zhongning, Ningxia. He also wrote: "When Wang Wei sent an envoy to Hexi and passed through Zhongning, Huang
a faction in Beichuan District of Henan Province was prosperous. In the poem,' all the guards are in Yanran'. Yanran is Yanran's state, which was located in Huile County on the north bank of the Yellow River before entering the Tengger Desert.
Huile County in the early Tang Dynasty was in Hui 'anbao, Yanchi County, Ningxia. "
From this, it can be inferred that the
place where you can see both "lonely smoke in the desert" and "sunset over the long river" may be in Zhongning and Zhongwei in Ningxia. Moreover, the artistic conception in
poems can still be found in this area. A few years ago, a brilliant photographer photographed that fascinating scene.
although the beacon smoke is gone, the beacon tower is still there, and the scenery is still charming.