When autumn comes on the border, the scenery will be completely different, and the geese flying to Hengyang have no nostalgia. As the bugle sounded in the barracks, the sound of horses neighing came from all sides. Mountain peaks juxtaposed like a barrier of thousands of miles are filled with smoke, and the sunset is hazy. I can only see four wild deserts and a lonely city tightly closed.
Fisherman's Pride Qiu Si is a poem written by Fan Zhongyan, a poet in the Northern Song Dynasty. The poet described a lonely and bleak bird's-eye view of the frontier fortress in the last film with a technique of almost sketching; The next piece of the poem expresses the feelings of the soldiers in the border area that their aspirations are hard to pay and they are homesick and worried about the country. The whole poem expresses the heroism and hard life of the soldiers, with an open and desolate artistic conception and vivid image.
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The first film focuses on scenery. The first sentence is "Qiu Lai is different in scenery", and "Xiaxia" points out the area where Yanzhou is located. "Qiu Lai" points out the seasons. "Different scenery" summarizes the different scenery between Yanzhou in autumn and the mainland. The poet is from Suzhou, and he is far more sensitive to the seasonal changes in this place than the northerners, so he summed it up with a word "different", which contains the meaning of surprise. "Hengyang geese go unnoticed", geese are migratory birds. Every autumn, the geese in the north fly to the south to avoid the cold.
"No attention" means that the geese here spread their wings to the south in autumn and have no nostalgia, which reflects that in autumn, the cold wind is bleak and desolate in this area. On the other hand, the desolate scene of autumn in this area is all contained in the word "no attention" of geese, which seems to be vigorous.
The following is a continuation of the battlefield scene in Yanzhou in the evening: "The sound of horns rising from all sides". This sound rises with the sound of military trumpets, forming a strong sad atmosphere, which is ready for the lyric of the next film. "A thousand miles away, the city is closed by the long smoke and the setting sun", and the above sentence writes about the surrounding environment of Yanzhou, which is surrounded by layers of mountains;
The next sentence leads to the military struggle against Xixia. "Long smoke and sunset" easily reminds readers of the poet Wang Wei of the Tang Dynasty, "The desert is lonely and the long river sets the yen", which describes the magnificent scenery beyond the Great Wall. However, after the "long smoke and sunset", the weather is different with the word "isolated city closed". Thousands of hills, lonely cities, long smoke and sunset, this is what you see; Edge sound, horn sound, this is what I heard.
Combining what we have seen and heard, we can see a picture of a battlefield full of cold air, especially the word "isolated city", which vaguely reveals the unfavorable military situation in the Song Dynasty. Since the establishment of the Song Dynasty, it has adopted the policy of attaching importance to the interior and neglecting the exterior, tightened internal control, and stationed the imperial army in all parts of the country, while giving up vigilance on the frontier for a long time and relaxing its military equipment. In the first year of Baoyuan (138), Yuan Hao of Xixia proclaimed himself emperor, and Song Ting dispatched troops and raised his voice to make a crusade. However, if things started hastily, they would not know the soldiers and the soldiers would not know the war, so that every battle would be defeated.
After the poet moved to Yanzhou, on the one hand, he strengthened military training, on the other hand, he built fortifications around Yanzhou, and he was always on the defensive, afraid to attack easily, and the situation in Yanzhou was temporarily stabilized. As far as the whole situation is concerned, Yanzhou is still isolated. Therefore, the word "isolated city closed" truly reflected the military situation at that time, and reflected that the garrison force in the Song Dynasty was very weak. As the city gate where the headquarters was located, it closed as soon as the sun set, showing the seriousness of the situation. This sentence paved the way for the lyric of the next film.