Wan Li in Pingsha looks like a layer of white frost and snow in the moonlight. On the continuous Yanshan Mountains, a bright moon is in the sky, like a hook.
When can I get the appreciation of the emperor, put a halter made of gold on this good horse, and let me gallop on the battlefield in autumn and make contributions?
original text
Five Poems by Ma Lihe in Tang Dynasty
The desert sand is like snow, and the Yanshan moon is like a hook.
Don't be a golden brain, go and step on the clear autumn.
Extended data:
The opening of the whole poem is very atmospheric. Write the earth landscape full of vision first, which is endless sand, dazzling in the sun, like snow in winter. The hot landscape and the cold landscape are integrated through imagination. Then write Yanshan mountain, crescent moon like a hook.
The first sentence and the second sentence are dual: desert-Yanshan, sand as snow-moon as a hook. Time from day to night, scene from the ground to the horizon. In just ten words, I wrote a concrete and sensible world.
The second half of the poem is often interpreted by later generations as the author's melancholy mood, and it is written that the horse should be equipped with a golden brain (a halter decorated with gold) and gallop in the cool and pleasant autumn. The word "step" is well used, which is not only the action of running horses at ordinary times, but also the pride of stepping on autumn.
However, it is obvious that one wants to be rich and famous. What does a real horse care about the golden halter and stepping on the autumn? The former is heavily buckled on the head, and it is tired to think about it; The latter has nothing to do with the values of horses.
References:
Baidu Encyclopedia _ Ma Shiqiu