From the work Ge Yanxing by Gao Shi, a poet in the Tang Dynasty.
Excerpts are as follows:
The northeast border of China is shrouded in smoke and dust. In order to repel the barbaric invaders, our generals left their families.
Stride forward together, looking like heroes should watch, and received the emperor's most cordial favor.
They walked through the elm pass with the sound of gongs and drums. They waved a row of flags around the stone tablet.
Until their captain in Shahai gave the order with feathers, the hunting fire of the Tatar chieftain flashed along the Wolf Mountain.
The highlands and rivers on the outer border were cold and desolate, but soon the barbarians' horses ran wild in the wind and rain.
Half of us were killed at the front, but the other half are still alive, and the beautiful girls are still singing and dancing for them at the camp.
The translation is as follows:
Fireworks rose at the border of the Tang Dynasty, and dust rose in the northeast. The generals of the Tang Dynasty left home to break the cruel border thieves.
The soldiers were invincible on the battlefield, and the emperor gave them rich rewards.
The sound of gongs and drums resounded through the heavy drums, out of Shanhaiguan, and the standard was hunting in Jieshi Mountain.
Captain Yu Shu flew over the vast sand sea, Xiongnu Khan held fire hunting, and the light came to my Wolf Mountain.
The mountains and rivers are barren and desolate to the edge of the soil. The sound of the Hu people cavalry fighting powerful weapons was caught in the wind and rain.
In the first half of my life, the soldiers were defeated, and the beauty was still singing and dancing in the camp!
Extended data:
Creation background
Although Ge Yanxing followed the old theme of Yuefu, it was written because of something, which is the development of Yuefu poetry. Go further, and you will arrive at the new Yuefu of Du Fu's "Two Ways, Car Shop, Three Officials and Three Farewells". Ge Yanxing is a theme of Yuefu, which belongs to a part of the flat tune of Xianghe Pavilion. This piece of music has not been recorded before, so it is said that it was composed by Cao Pi.
Cao Pi has two poems, one is about Qiu Si, a woman, which was initiated by him. Therefore, future generations should learn from him and write poems that will always be in my heart with the tone of Yan Gexing. Ge Yanxing, written by Gao Shi, is about the life of frontier soldiers. He was the first person to write this theme with Yan Ge's operas. Annotators have never made detailed comments on the preface and literature and history, and they all think it is a satire on Zhang Shousheng. The author feels that Zhang Shoujue, the envoy of Youzhou, lost in the battle with the nation, but lied about his military situation and made a poem of irony.
Brief introduction of the author
Gao Shi (704-765) was born in Bohai Guo (now Cangzhou, Hebei) and later moved to Song Cheng, Songzhou (now Suiyang, Shangqiu, Henan). Anton is the grandson of Gao Kan, a minister and poet in the Tang Dynasty. He used to be an assistant minister of punishments, a regular servant of scattered riding, and was named Hou of Bohai County, known as Gao Chang's in the world. Yu Yongtai died in the first month of the first year, and was given a gift by the ministers of the Ministry of Rites, posthumous title.
As famous frontier poets, Gao Shi and Cen Can are called "Gao Cen", together with Cen Can, Wang Changling and Wang Zhihuan, they are called "four frontier poets". His poems are vigorous and full of the unique spirit of the times in the prosperous Tang Dynasty. There are twenty volumes in the anthology.
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