The poem is about drinking horses crossing the autumn water, the water is cold and the wind is like a knife.
Source: Wang Changling of the Tang Dynasty, "The Second Song of Four Songs under the Forbidden City".
It means drinking horses to cross the autumn water, the autumn water is cold, and the cold wind cuts the face like a knife;
The whole poem
"The second piece of the four songs under the plug"
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.[Tang Dynasty].Wang Changling.
Drinking the horse across the autumn water, the water is cold and the wind is like a knife.
The sun has not gone out on Pingsha, and I can see Lintao dimly.
In the old days of the Great Wall Battle, Xian Yan was in high spirits.
The yellow dust is enough for the present and the past, and the white bones are a mess of wormwood.
Notes ①Drink the horse: Give the horse water. ②Pingsha: The vast desert. decline. An An: Same as "An An". Lintao: The area around present-day Minxian County in Gansu Province is the starting point of the Great Wall. ③ Battle of the Great Wall: Refers to the second year of Kaiyuan, when Tang generals killed tens of thousands of enemies and "the Tao River stopped flowing." Xian: Capital. ④ Basil: generally refers to weeds.
Appreciation of the whole poem
This Yuefu song, like "Song on the Sea", expresses the author's anti-war thoughts. If "Song on the Top" is still in the style of implicit allegory, then "Song on the Top" is a direct expression of the author's opposition to war and yearning for a peaceful life.
The poem is based on the Great Wall as the background, using the first person and the perspective of "I" to describe the pain caused by the war to the people. "Drinking horses across the autumn water, the water is cold and the wind is like a knife." The bitter coldness of the water illustrates the harsh environment outside the Great Wall. The metaphor of wind and knife is often used in Tang Dynasty poetry. For example, "the limelight is like a knife cutting the surface", which should be a common idiom of poets in that period.
"The sun has not disappeared on the flat sand, and I can see Lintao dimly." These two lines of poems blend the scene and describe the author's vision very well. From "Crossing the Autumn River" to "Meeting Lintao", it has a strong sense of realism and simplicity. It is written in a letter, but it is extremely sentimental. The two words "An An" are used overlappingly to express the sorrow in the heart through the repetition of sounds, which is deeply poetic.
The last four sentences express ancient thoughts, writing about the area around the Great Wall, where wars have always been constant, bones are piled into mounds, and the scene is miserable. As the saying goes, "The bones are exposed in the wild, and there is no rooster crow for thousands of miles." Below! The whole poem is shocking and deeply expresses the author's non-war thoughts.