Author Ai Qing, the full text is: In the area where the Yellow River flows, at the bottom of countless dry rivers, the unicycle, with its only wheel, makes the gloomy sky twitch, through the cold and silence, from the foot of one mountain to the foot of another, sending out the plaintive cries of the people in the north. In the freezing days, between poor villages and small villages, wheelbarrows with wheels separated depict deep ruts on the gray loess layer and cross the vast desert. From this road to that road, the sorrows of the northern people are intertwined.
The whole article is divided into two parts:
1. The artistic rendering around the "shrill sound" of unicycle echoes the "sadness" of the people in the north.
2. It closely follows the "rut marks" left by wheelbarrows, interweaves with the "sadness" of northerners, and gives people a strong touch from hearing to vision. The form of this poem is basically repetitive in the arrangement of syllables and the creation of artistic conception (except for the differences in words and images). This unique simple and repetitive structure deepens the atmosphere and feelings of the poem.
The image of wheelbarrow and the idea of this poem;
The cart in the poem is a symbolic image and a reflection of the profound disaster of the Chinese nation's historical destiny. The "sadness of northerners" expressed by the poet with the help of a wheelbarrow also contains sadness about the conservative and rigid lifestyle. It is not only a quiet and sad protest of the poet against the maker of suffering, but also a philosophical enlightenment to change the lifestyle of unicycle and inspire the national spirit.