The next sentence of "The Yellow River is far above the white clouds" is "A lonely city in the Wanren Mountains." It comes from the first poem of "Two Poems from Liangzhou" by Wang Zhihuan, a poet of the Tang Dynasty. The meaning of these two poems is: Why use the Qiang flute to play the plaintive "Willow Song" to complain that spring is not coming? The spring breeze It can't be blown outside Yumen Pass at all.
The full text of "Two Poems from Liangzhou" is as follows: ?
Far above the Yellow River among the white clouds, there is an isolated city named Wanren Mountain.
Why should the Qiang flute blame the willows? The spring breeze does not pass through Yumen Pass.
Translation: The Yellow River seems to be rushing from the white clouds, and Yumen Pass stands alone in the mountains. Why use the Qiang flute to play the plaintive "Willow Song" to complain that the spring is not coming? The spring breeze cannot blow outside Yumen Pass.
Appreciation: The first sentence "The Yellow River is far up among the white clouds" captures the characteristics of overlooking and paints a moving picture. On the vast plateau, the Yellow River rushes away. Looking far to the west, It seems to flow into the white clouds. The second sentence "An isolated city in Wanren Mountain" describes the isolated city on the fortress. It outlines the geographical situation of the location, highlights the desolate situation of the border guards, and provides a typical environment for the latter two sentences to depict the defenders' psychology.
The author's life and contributions are as follows:
Wang Zhihuan, courtesy name Ji Ling, was born in Jinyang, Bingzhou, and was a famous poet in the prosperous Tang Dynasty. He was smart at a young age and was good at writing. He was good at writing poems and quoted most of them as lyrics. He was especially good at five-character poems, especially describing the scenery of the frontier fortress. He has a bold and uninhibited character, and often sings fencing laments, harmonizing with Gao Shi, Wang Changling, etc. His representative works include "Climbing the Stork Tower" and "Liangzhou Ci". In the first year of Tianbao's illness, he died in official residence.
According to the epitaph, it can be known that Wang Zhihuan was born in the fourth year of Chui Gong of Wu Zetian. At that time, the Wang family in Taiyuan was a prominent family, and Wang Zhihuan's fifth ancestor, Wang Longzhi, was the governor of Jiangzhou in the later Wei Dynasty. It may be that he moved to Jiangzhou because of this. Great-grandfather Wang Xin was a doctor and author in the Sui Dynasty, and became the magistrate of Anyi County in the Tang Dynasty. Wang Zhihuan was smart and studious since he was a child. When he was young, he was heroic and bohemian. He often fenced and sang tragic songs. He traveled around in Wuling years, and he could study articles intensively when he was not twenty years old. Before he was in his prime, he had already lost the secrets of classics.
The above content refers to Baidu Encyclopedia—Wang Zhihuan