Drink, my horse, when we cross the autumn water! ,
The stream is cold and the wind is like a sword.
When we watch the sunset on the beach,
Far, far away, the shadow of Lintao.
Ancient wars, initiated by those long walls,
Used to be the pride of all men.
But ancient times are now yellow dust,
Confused its ruins and bones in the grass.
One autumn evening, after crossing the river, I asked the horse to drink water by the river. At this time, the water is very cold and the wind is blowing like a sharp steel knife. The sun is still hanging on the flat desert and has not set. Looking over, you can see Lintao. When people think of the Great Wall War, they all say that these heroes have high spirits. The yellow sand is rolling, and the Millennium is still the same, but the bones of those heroes are sadly scattered in the Artemisia grass. How can it not make people sad?
This Yuefu song, with the Great Wall as the background, depicts the misery and cruelty of the war.
The first four sentences of the poem are about the bleak scene of late autumn festival beyond the Great Wall and sunset on Pingsha. The Great Wall has always been a battlefield, full of mountains and bones, and desolate.
The whole poem is shocking and expresses the idea of not fighting.