Tang Dynasty: Li Bai
A bright moon rises from Qilian Mountain and crosses the vast sea of clouds.
The mighty wind blew Wan Li and crossed Yumen Pass.
At that time, Han soldiers pointed at the mountain road, and Tubo coveted the vast territory of Qinghai.
This is a land of wars in past dynasties, and few soldiers can survive.
The garrison soldier looked at the remote border town, and his hometown could not help but look sad. (Look at the border town: look at the border color)
The soldier's wife looked at the tower and lamented when she would see her relatives far away.
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"Guan Shanyue" is one of the Yuefu songs in Han Dynasty, which belongs to "Drum and Horn Crossing Songs". At that time, the border guards often sang it. Li Bai's poems still inherit the ancient Yuefu in content, but the brushwork is unique and innovative.
"The bright moon rises from the mountains in the sky, in the infinite haze of the sea of clouds. Thousands of miles to the wind, blowing Yumenguan battlements. " Four sentences are like a montage of film and television literature, melting the "poetic topics" one by one. The images of Guan, Shan and Yue are independent and interrelated, which lays the desolate tone of the whole poem. "Moon", a cloud rising from Tianshan Mountain, is a vast, magnificent and magnificent cloud scene. "Wind", the north wind of the desert all over the sky, like tigers howling and wolves howling, blows all over Yumen Pass, how huge the momentum is and how turbulent a foreign land is. The poet skillfully uses "Changfeng" to organically connect "Guan" with "Yue". The moon is still there, the pass is still there, and the soldiers who guarded the Long March for generations are gone forever. When will the endless war stop? Therefore, the poet vividly rendered the vast images of "Changfeng, Yue Ming, Tianshan and Yumenguan" and created a magnificent and desolate artistic conception. Through the description of the huge picture scroll of the frontier fortress, the poet weaves a "homesickness" complex for the soldiers who look forward to their hometown below.
"China's army marched along Deng Bai Road, while the Tatar army peeped in the blue waters of the bay. Because there is no famous battle in history that sent all the soldiers back. " On the basis of the description of the scenery, the theme of "because there is no famous battle in history that sent all the soldiers back" was expressed. "China people take Deng Bai Road, Tatars see Bibo Bay", and the poet quoted allusions and superimposed them on the natural frontier scenery of "Guanshan", which printed a magnificent scene of soldiers going to the battlefield. According to historical records, Emperor Gaozu Liu Bang led his troops to the Xiongnu and fought bloody battles in Deng Baishan (now Datong West). Liu Bang's soldiers were besieged by the Xiongnu for seven days and seven nights. The Green Bay area is also the place where Tang Jun and Tubo fought for years. The endless wars of past dynasties made it almost impossible for soldiers to survive in their hometown. That helpless drink may become the last farewell to future battlefield battles. This painful mood can only be solved by getting drunk.
Garrison in the border town, thinking of hometown, eyes full of desire. And those rooms above tonight, tossing and turning, sighing, can't rest. "The soldiers looked at the scene of the border, thinking of their hometown, and their faces were full of sadness. They speculate that in this vast moonlit night, the wife in the tall building will never stop sighing. The word "looking at the frontier" seems to be casually written in Li Bai's works, but it closely links Wan Li's frontier fortress and battle scenes with "guarding the guests". What you see is so vast and distant. The soldiers' thinking and imagination of women in tall buildings, as well as their sighs, are particularly profound in such a broad background.
Looking at the endless ethnic conflicts in the ancient frontier, the poet revealed the great sacrifices brought by the war and the pain brought to countless expropriated people and their families, but did not simply condemn or praise the war. The poet seems to be thinking about the heavy price paid by generations for this. Faced with such contradictions, poets, recruiters and even readers can easily arouse a desire. This desire is not directly expressed in the poem, but the idea that "a soldier is a sharp weapon, but a saint has to use it" (The Battle of the South) is easy for readers to produce when reading this work.
This poem describes the scenery of the frontier fortress, the experience of stationing troops, and the pain of turning to stationing troops at a deeper level and thinking about women. The first description is to render and pave the way for the following, but the focus is on the feelings caused by the moon. In the works of a group of poets, the feeling of leaving others and thinking about women is often delicate and too sad, and the corresponding realm is often narrow. But Li Bai used "the bright moon hanging high in the sky, the vast sea of clouds." And the wind, has come thousands of miles, knocking at Yumenguan battlements "Wan Li frontier fortress figure triggered this feeling. Only a broad-minded person like Li Bai can write like this. Throughout the poem, Li Bai expressed the artistic conception of defending people's homesickness with a broad and profound picture, which is actually the natural expression of the poet's broad mind. If most of Li Bai's poems use "moon", "travel" and "wine" to vent personal resentment, then this poem by Guan Shanyue shows another feeling that he cares about people's livelihood and shows compassion for others. This poem is magnificent and profound in artistic conception, which makes people sad and tragic to read.