From the Tang Dynasty Li He's "South Garden Thirteen Fifth Songs", the original text is:
Why didn't the great man take weapons to collect the fifty States of the mountain?
Please go to see the paintings of the founder heroes with pictures. Another scholar was once called the aristocrat of a million families?
Translation:
Why didn't anyone take that weapon and take it from all 50 states, including Guansai River and Guansai Mountain, with a buffer region between them?
Please board the Lingyan Pavilion painted with heroes of the founding of the People's Republic of China. Which scholar has been rated as the rank of every household in the food city?
Extended data
Creative background:
This poem is the fifth of Thirteen Poems in Nanyuan, which was written by Li Jinshi when he retired to Nagaya after failing in the exam. The writing time can be traced back to the turn of spring and summer of Tang Xianzong Yuanhe six years (8 1 1).
Appreciate:
The word "why not" in the first sentence is very expressive. It not only constitutes specific sentences (questions), but also emphasizes the tone of rhetorical questions, which enhances the power of poetry to convey feelings. Faced with the situation of raging fires and wars, the poet was extremely anxious and couldn't wait to go to the battlefield immediately to defend his country.
"Why not do it" is imperative, and it also implies the critical military situation and the poet's own anxiety. In addition, it also makes people feel the pent-up resentment of the poet.
The word "take" in the second sentence, as easy as lifting weights, has the potential to break bamboo, vividly expressing the poet's desire to save the country. However, it is not easy to "capture fifty states of Guanshan", and the scholar's spirit naturally cannot achieve the great cause of recovering Guanshan, but if he wants to get rid of the sad situation in front of him, he still has to go through a military career and kill the enemy to make achievements. This contradiction highlights the poet's anger and injustice.
In the last two sentences, the poet used rhetorical questions instead of declarative sentences, which made the meaning of complaint stronger. The poet seems to highlight the necessity of joining the army from the opposite side, but in fact he further expresses his incompetence and resentment.
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