War in Chengnan
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War in Chengnan
Li Bai
Last year’s war Sang Qian Yuan will fight on Conghe Road this year. The troops are washed by the waves on the sea, and the horses are released into the grass in the snow of Tianshan Mountain. After a long march of thousands of miles, the three armies were all old.
The Xiongnu used killing as farming. Since ancient times, only white bones and yellow sand fields can be seen.
The Qin family built a city to avoid the barbarians, while the Han family was still at war. The war is endless, and there is no end to the war.
There is no end to the war. Fighting to death in the field, the defeated horse howls to the sky in sorrow.
The black kite pecks at the human intestines and flies up to the dead branches. The soldiers are careless, but the general is empty. But he knows that soldiers are deadly weapons, and saints must use them as a last resort.
This poem uses the title of a Yuefu poem from the Han Dynasty. It is intended to learn from the tradition of Yuefu poems, but it is more vivid and profound than the Han Dynasty poem "War in the South". "Sangqian", "Conghe", "Tiaozhi" and "Tianshan" are all frontier place names. Soldiers of the Tang Dynasty traveled far away from their homeland to fight in these places, and often never returned. Some border peoples engage in war and plunder, and countless people have died in the desert in ancient and modern times. The place where the Great Wall was built in the Qin Dynasty to defend against the Xiongnu is still at war and wars continue to this day ("Han family", Tang people used to use "Han" to refer to "Tang", which actually refers to the Tang Dynasty). The defeated horse screamed on the battlefield in search of its owner, but his owner was eaten by crows and eagles, and his intestines were hung on dead branches. The soldiers died in battle, and the general leading the army was busy in vain and gained nothing. Finally, the poet used the words of ancient military books: War is not a fun thing, and a virtuous monarch only uses it as a last resort. Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty was very happy about his achievements. He fought for many years and the people suffered hardships. This poem was written for this reason.
"Battle to the South of the City" is an old title of the Han Dynasty Yuefu. It belongs to the "Drag and Drum Song Ci" and is one of the eighteen pieces of "Rao Ge" in the Han Dynasty. The ancient Han Ci mainly describes the cruelty of war, which is equivalent to the third paragraph of Li Bai's poem. Li Bai did not stick to ancient poems and showed great creativity in both ideological content and artistic form. The content is developed into one and two paragraphs, which make the nature of the war clear at a glance, and the conclusion of the whole poem expresses his own opinions. In terms of art, it combines the achievements of the development of Tang poetry, changing from simplicity and simplicity to elegance and beauty. Such as the ancient sayings: "The water is deep and agitated, and the pampas grass is dark. The owl rides to death in battle, and the horse wanders and crows." "You can go away and escape." This poem is refined into two groups of neatly symmetrical sentences, which appear more concise and refined, and full of unrestrained momentum in singing, showing Li Bai's unique style.
Era: Han
Author: Yuefu of the Han Dynasty
Work: Zhan Chengnan
Content:
Zhan Chengnan , if you die in the north of Guo, you can eat it if you die in the wild.
Call me a black man: And you are a wealthy guest!
If a wild death is not buried, how can the carrion escape?
The water is deep and agitated, and the pampas grass is dark;
The owl cavalry died in the battle, and the rogue horse wandered and screamed.
Why should Liang build a house to the south? Why north?
If you don’t get grain and millet, how can you eat it? Would you like to be a loyal minister?
Think of your son and his good ministers, and your good ministers are sincere:
If you go to attack in the morning, you will never return home at dusk!
Battle to the south of the city
Yang Jiong
The road to the north of the city is far away,
The battle to the south of the city is hard.
The flags are like bird wings,
The armor is like fish scales.
Freezing water and cold hurt horses,
Sad wind and sorrow kill people.
The sun is bright in the heart,
The yellow dust is dark for thousands of miles.
"War in the South of the City" is a five-character poem written with an old Yuefu inscription. Although the poem narrates the military career of the expedition to the frontier fortress in the tone of a conqueror, it is different from the "Battle in the South" in the Han Dynasty Yuefu, which was written in a bloody and miserable way. When the protagonist in the poem narrates the war, he is full of pride, confidence and hope of victory. The style of the poem is vigorous and passionate, and is filled with strong patriotism. Just as Li Tiaoyuan commented in "Yucun Poetry": "It is thick, simple and lush, just like the founding style." After reading it, people feel excited and it has become one of the poet's representative works.