Joining the army is the name of HanYueFu PingDiao, most of which is about the fighting life of the army. Since the Tang Dynasty, Wang Changling and others have circulated poems in this name, expressing the process and mood of literati joining the army and fighting in the frontier court, thus expressing their sense of mission and heroic feelings of making contributions to the country.
First song
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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Clouds over Qinghai darkened the snow-capped mountains and looked at Yumen Pass. Soldiers beyond the Great Wall have put on helmets and armor in many battles. If they can't capture Loulan City in the west, they will never come back.
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The first two sentences mentioned three place names. Snow Mountain is Qilian Mountain in the south of Hexi Corridor. Qinghai and Guan Yu are apart from Wan Li, but they appear on the same picture, so there are different interpretations of these two sentences. 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.
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 strength 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, which reminds people of the scenes of "the medieval battlefield with sand clouds at dusk": "hundreds of battles" and "wearing golden armor", and it is even more conceivable that the battle was arduous and fierce, and it is also conceivable that there were a series of heroic sacrifices in this long time.
The second song
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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This building in the west of Huo Feng City is hundreds of feet high. At dusk, I sat there alone, bathed in the autumn wind of Qinghai Lake. The music "Guan Shanyue" played by Qiangdi was brought from afar by the autumn wind, which can't eliminate my yearning for my wife thousands of miles away.
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This 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.
The third song
The desert is foggy, and the red flag is half rolled out of Yuanmen.
The former army fought in Taohe River overnight, and it was reported that Tuguhun was captured alive.
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In the desert, the wind is howling, the dust is flying and the sky is dark. A group of soldiers left the barracks with flags at half mast and headed for the enemy. At this time, there was good news from the troops ahead: they captured the enemy alive in the night battle of Taohe River and won a great victory.
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This document is very concise, and it shows the great power of Guan Yu from the atmosphere at that time and the reaction of governors. On its objective artistic effect, it is more fascinating than writing dozens of rounds of sword fights. Of course, this passage by Luo Guanzhong has his uniqueness, but if we avoid the positive narrative and let people imagine the scene of the war through the rendering of the atmosphere and the description of the side, it is not his initiative. This song "Joining the Army" by Rainbow Changling should be said to be an early and successful poetic form.
"The dust in the desert is dim", because the Altai Mountain, Tianshan Mountain and Kunlun Mountain in the northwest all run from west to east or southeast, forming a big horn in Hexi Corridor and eastern Qinghai. The wind is extremely strong, and when the wind is crazy, sand and stones fly. So "weak sun" followed by "desert dust" does not mean that it is getting late, but that the wind and sand cover the sky. But this not only shows the violent climate, but also appears as a background, which naturally plays a role in setting off and hinting at the military situation. In this case, what action will Tang Jun take?
From the description, the poet chose the follow-up troops that did not directly fight with the enemy, but only brought out the brilliant "night battle of the former army" from the side. This is an unconventional idea. If we change the narrative of the midnight oil from the front, it will inevitably appear dull and cannot be completed with short quatrains. Now, by avoiding describing the war process in a positive way and comparing it from the side, the shortcomings of quatrains become advantages. It allows readers to imagine how hard and excellent the striker's battle is from "Dusty Desert" and "Taohe Night Battle". Appreciate how dramatic this expedition is from "It is reported that it was captured alive".