From: Seven Songs of Military Service in Changling, Tang Wang.
Original poem:
Seven Songs of Joining the Army (4)
Tang Dynasty: Wang Changling
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.
Changyun: Thick clouds. Snow Mountain: Qilian Mountain, the top of which is covered with snow all year round, so it is cloudy. Lonely city: Yumen Pass. Yumenguan: The name of the border pass was set in the Han Dynasty, in the west of Dunhuang City, Gansu Province. One is "Yanmenguan". Break: a "chop".
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Creative background:
In the prosperous Tang Dynasty, the national strength was strong, the monarch was determined to forge ahead, and people were eager to make a difference in this era. The military commander made contributions in the battlefield, and the poet was infected by the great spirit of the times and wrote a series of magnificent poems with tragic and lofty sentiments. Seven Poems of Joining the Army is a frontier poem written by Wang Changling, a poet in the prosperous Tang Dynasty, using the inscriptions on the old Yuefu.
There are dark snow-capped mountains in Qinghai, and the lonely city looks at Yumenguan. At the beginning, the poet painted a magnificent and desolate frontier fortress scenery, which summarized the face of the northwest frontier fortress.
In the Tang Dynasty, there were Tubo in the west and Turkic in the north. At that time, Qinghai was the place where Tang Jun and Tubo fought many times, and outside Yumenguan was the sphere of influence of the Turks, so these two cities were important frontier cities in the Tang Dynasty. Look at Qinghai and Yumenguan, let
Soldiers can't help but get excited when they think of the fighting scenes that happened in these two places.
It can be seen that these two sentences contain rich feelings, such as the attention of the soldiers on the frontier, the pride of being able to shoulder the heavy responsibility of defending the country, and the loneliness of the harsh environment in the frontier and the hard life of the generals. All kinds of feelings have melted into this desolation.
In the vast, confused and dim scene.
"Yellow sand wears golden armor in hundreds of battles, and it will not be returned without breaking Loulan." These two sentences have changed from the description of the environment with mixed scenes to direct lyricism. "Yellow sand wears golden armor in hundreds of battles" is a poem with strong generalization. "Never break the Loulan, never return it" is the heroic oath of the battle-hardened soldiers. The more the last sentence emphasizes the hardships of fighting and the frequent wars, the more powerful and shocking it becomes.
Wang Changling is good at using psychological description to express delicate and changeable feelings. Wang Changling was an early poet who expressed her husband's feelings in her poems, which laid the foundation for the delicate description of the characters' psychology in Song Ci. He described their beating hearts through the psychological changes of their husbands; Or express the inner pain of the recruiter through singing and dancing in the camp; Or with the help of the unique life scene in the border.
The characteristics of Wang Changling's Seven Musts are euphemistic, subtle, tortuous and far-reaching artistic conception. Many of them express the poet's exposure and bitterness to reality through comparison and sustenance, so they are in the same spirit as Qu Yuan's Li Sao. Wang Changling's poems also make good use of allusions.
Wang Changling's poetry embodies the poet's pursuit of elegant and vigorous language art style from three aspects: the choice of language image, the use of sentence patterns and the combination of sentence patterns.