Author: Wang Changling-"Seven Songs of Military Service" (I)
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The bonfire is in the west of the city 100 feet, and you sit alone in the sea breeze and autumn at dusk.
Guan Shanyue, who plays Qiangdi, is not worried about the golden boy Wan Li.
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"Joining the Army" is a frontier poem written by Wang Changling with the old inscription of Yuefu, with seven poems in total. This song depicts the deep homesickness and homesickness of border guards.
This little poem is concise and has a distinctive style of writing. The poet skillfully handled the relationship between narration and lyricism. The first three sentences describe and describe the environment, creating an atmosphere by deepening and repeatedly rendering, paving the way for the fourth lyric sentence, highlighting the position of lyric sentences and making lyric sentences particularly powerful. "Firefighting in the West" suddenly pointed out that this was a lookout in the west of the bonfire city in Qinghai. Yuan Ye, which is desolate and lonely, has only this 100-foot tall building. This kind of environment can easily cause people's loneliness. The season is in autumn, and the chill invades people. This is the season when wanderers miss their loved ones and wives. Time meets dusk again. "Chickens live in the hustle and bustle, and it is dusk, and cattle and sheep come down." The gentleman is in service, don't think too much! "("The Book of Songs, Feng Wang, The Battle of Gentlemen ") This time often causes people to miss their loved ones who are serving. At this moment, the recruiter who has been absent for a long time is just sitting alone in the lonely garrison building. Heaven and earth are long, and there are no couples in prison. Homesickness rolls with the autumn wind blowing in the direction of Qinghai Lake. What is described above is the environment seen through vision. There is no sound and there is no three-dimensional sense. Then the poet wrote: "Play Guan Shanyue's Qiangdi more". In the lonely environment, there are waves of flutes, just like the call of relatives and the sigh of vagrants. This continuous flute sound, like a fuse, made the homesickness of frontier fortress people suppressed in their hearts uncontrollable, and finally broke out, which led to the last sentence of the poem. This wisp of flute sound is a scene for the piper who "sits alone" on the lonely building, but this scene is full of feelings expressed by the piper, which makes the environment more specific and richer in content. How ingenious and natural it is for the poet to use this sentence, which is equally affectionate and scenic, to complete the transition from scenery to emotion without revealing traces!
The poet's brushwork is also euphemistic and tortuous in expressing the ideological activities of recruiting talents and talents. The environmental atmosphere was created, paving the way for lyricism, and then it came naturally, directly describing the psychology of the border people-"Wan Li has no sorrow". What the author wants to show is to invite people to miss their loved ones and the countryside, but he doesn't write directly, but through the sadness of Wan Li's boudoir wife. The same is true of the actual situation: the wife's unforgettable thoughts are the result of inviting people back to China and not returning. This song and pen completely combine the feelings of recruiting people and thinking about women. As far as the whole article is concerned, this sentence is the finishing touch, which immediately makes the whole poem full of charm and more touching power.
Year: Tang Dynasty
Author: Wang Changling-"Seven Songs of Joining the Army" (Part Two)
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The new sound of pipa dance is always the old love.
I can't listen to endless worries, and the high autumn moon shines on the Great Wall.
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This poem intercepts a fragment of the frontier fortress's military life, and expresses the profound and complicated feelings of the defenders through the writing of the military feast.
"Pipa dances to make new sounds". With the change of dance, the pipa played a new tune, and poetry and painting unfolded in a piece of music. Pipa is a musical instrument full of frontier flavor, and "playing the barbarian pipa, guitar and harp with him" is often essential for drinking and having fun in the army. These instrumental music, for the defenders, have an exclusive emotional appeal and are easy to arouse strong feelings. Since it is a "new sound", it can always give people some new interests and new feelings, right?
No, "forever is the past." The main content of side music can be summarized as "old love". Because art reflects real life, who is the defender who has not left his hometown or even abandoned his young wife? "Bieqing" is really the most common and profound emotion and creative material. Therefore, the pipa can be changed to a new tune, but it cannot change the emotional content contained in the lyrics. An Interpretation of Yuefu Ancient Poems says: "Guan Shanyue" grieves for his death. In the sentence, "Guanshan" is not only a literal meaning, but also a pun on the tune of "Guan Shanyue", which has a deeper meaning.
The "old" in this sentence corresponds to the "new" in the previous sentence, which has become a poetic turning point and produced a sound trend of resisting falling and rising, especially when "forever" is a powerful transfer, the effect is particularly obvious. Since the second sentence emphasizes the "old" of other feelings, is this music too boring? No, "I can't hear enough sadness", that tune can always disturb people's hearts at any time. Therefore, the endless "endless" tunes really make people afraid to listen, and they are always emotional. This is another turning point in the poem, another cadence of voice and emotion. Is the word "endless" a complaint? Is it a sigh? Is it awesome? Meaningful. As an "endless" solution, it is naturally biased towards resentment. However, if you don't listen enough, it will include praise. Therefore, the "worry about the frontier" mentioned in this sentence is not only a long-lost defense and homesickness, but also has more meanings. At that time, the northern border was not removed, and it was still impossible to stop the soldiers. When you think about this, the defender will feel uneasy. Most of the predecessors only saw its "meaning and bitterness" side, which may not be very comprehensive.
The first three sentences of this poem are all lyrical in music. When it comes to "border worries", the word "endless" is used, so how to finish the sentence with a limited number of seven words is the most obvious skill. The poet made a gentle gesture here in order to have sex with the scenery. It seems that after the scene of buying wine and drinking music in the army, a vast and desolate scene of the Great Wall reflecting the moon suddenly appeared: the ancient and majestic Great Wall was undulating, the autumn moon was shining high, and the scene was magnificent and sad. How do you feel about this? Is it infinite homesickness? Is it an ambition to make meritorious deeds or a sorrow for reality? Perhaps, you should also add a deep love for the mountains and rivers of the motherland, and so on.
Readers may feel that the emotional trickle of the first three sentences has developed in twists and turns (new sounds-old feelings-inaudible) and has merged into a deep lake. "The bright moon shines on the Great Wall in the crisp autumn", where feelings leave the scene and poetry sublimates. It is precisely because of this inexhaustible feeling that the poet "thinks endlessly" and "seems to be detached from reality" that people feel such rich and profound thoughts and feelings, and the inner world of defenders can be vividly expressed. In addition to the twists and turns of voice and emotion, this poem is also a stroke that cannot be ignored.
Year: Tang Dynasty
Author: Wang Changling-"Seven Songs of Joining the Army" (4)
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There is a dark snow-capped mountain in Qinghai, with long white clouds and a lonely city looking at Yumenguan.
Yellow sand wears golden armor in hundreds of battles, but the loulan is not returned.
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Readers of frontier poems in Tang Dynasty are often confused by the confusion and spatial separation of ancient and modern place names in poems. Some people doubt that the author is not familiar with geography, so they don't seek a good solution, and others write for it. This is the case with this poem.
The first two sentences mentioned three place names. Snow Mountain is Qilian Mountain in the south of Hexi Corridor. Qinghai and Guan Yu are thousands of miles apart, but they appear on the same picture, so these two sentences have various interpretations. Some people say that the first sentence is looking forward, and the next sentence is looking back at home. This is very strange. Qinghai and Snow Mountain are in front, and Yumenguan is behind. Then the hometown of the lyric hero should be the Western Regions west of Yumenguan, not the Han soldiers, but Hu Bing. On the other hand, the second sentence is an inverted sentence of "Looking at Yumenguan, an isolated city", and the object of looking at it is "the dark snow mountain in Qinghai". There are two misunderstandings here: one is to interpret "looking from afar" as "looking from afar", and the other is to misunderstand the general description of the northwest border region as what the lyric hero sees. The former misunderstanding is due to the latter misunderstanding. One or two sentences can be imagined as a picture of a vast area: over Qinghai Lake, the clouds are long and warm; To the north of the lake, there are snow-capped mountains thousands of miles across the cotton pavilion; Crossing the snow-capped mountains, it is an isolated city, standing in the desert of Hexi Corridor. Further west, it is the Yumen Pass, a military fortress far away from the lonely city. This long scroll, which condensed things thousands of miles away, was a typical environment for soldiers living and fighting in the northwest frontier at that time. It is a bird's eye view and a summary of the entire northwest border. Why did you specifically mention Qinghai and Guan Yu? This is related to the situation of the war between ethnic groups at that time. The strong enemies of the west and the north in the Tang Dynasty were Tubo and Turkic. Our special envoy's task in Hexi is to cut off the traffic between Tubo and Turkic, and take care of the two powerful enemies in the west and north within one town, mainly to defend Tubo and protect the Hexi Corridor. "Qinghai" area is the place where Tubo and Tang Jun fought many times; Outside Yumenguan, it is the sphere of influence of Turks. Therefore, these two sentences not only describe the scene of the whole northwest border, but also point out the extremely important geographical situation that the "isolated city" rejects Tubo in the south and defends Turks in the west. The strong enemies in these two directions are the heart of the soldiers guarding the "lonely city", so Qinghai and Guan Yu should appear on the screen. This is not so much what the soldiers see, but rather what emerges in their minds. These two sentences are permeated with rich and complex feelings while writing the scenery: the frontier soldiers' concern for the frontier situation, their pride and sense of responsibility for their tasks, and the loneliness and hardship of frontier life are all integrated in the tragic, open and misty scenery.
Three or four sentences changed from environmental description with 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, making people see the scene of "the ancient battlefield with sunset and sand like clouds"; 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 highlights the difficulty of the battle and the frequency of the war, the more forceful it becomes, hitting the floor. In a word or two, the realm is broad and the feelings are tragic and rich; There is an obvious turning point between three or four sentences, and the two sentences are in sharp contrast. Although the phrase "yellow sand" describes the hardships of war, the actual feeling of the whole image is majestic and powerful, not deep and sad. Therefore, the last sentence is not a lament for returning home without a day, but a firmer and deeper oath based on a deep understanding of the hardships and length of the war. An important ideological feature of the excellent frontier poems in the prosperous Tang Dynasty is that while expressing the lofty sentiments and ambitions of the frontier guards, they do not shy away from the hardships of war. This article is an obvious example. It can be said that three or four sentences are not empty and superficial lyricism, but only one or two sentences of rich environmental description are needed. The high unity of typical environment and characters' feelings is a prominent advantage of Wang Changling's quatrains, which is also clearly reflected in this paper.