Expression-A poem written by a frontier soldier on his way home in the Western Zhou Dynasty describes his hard life in the frontier and expresses his patriotism and homesickness.
Xiaoya Cai Wei is one of China's ancient realistic poetry anthology The Book of Songs. This is a poem about soldiers returning home, which sings the hard life and homesickness of soldiers who joined the army. This poem consists of six chapters, each with eight sentences.
In the first five sections, the author focuses on the hardships of life, strong homesickness and the reasons why he can't go home for a long time, revealing that soldiers have both the pleasure of defending the enemy and the pain of fighting, showing their desire for peace. The last chapter ends the poem with a painful lyric, which is touching.
This poem uses overlapping sentence patterns and figurative techniques, which embodies the artistic characteristics of The Book of Songs. The first four sentences of the last chapter describe the scenery and feelings at two specific moments, that is, going out that year and surviving today. The text is simple and profound, and the scene blends, which has always been considered as one of the famous articles in the Book of Songs.
Title: Xiaoya Cai Wei
Work alias: Cai Wei
Creation year: Western Zhou Dynasty
Source: The Book of Songs
Literary genre: four-character poems
Author: anonymous