Cen Can in Tang Dynasty
The north wind swept across the earth and messed up Pennisetum, and the weather in August will be covered with heavy snow.
Suddenly, like a night wind blowing, like a pear tree in bloom.
Snowflakes fell into the curtains and wet them. The fur was not warm and the gold cup was too thin.
The general used cold hands to protect his hands. The armored steel was too cold to wear.
The north wind swept across the earth and scattered the white grass. It snowed heavily in August in the northern part of Saibei, as if a spring breeze had blown overnight. Trees are like pear blossoms, snowflakes fly into the bead curtain to wet it, and fox fur is covered with brocade quilt. The general's hand is too cold to open the bow, the real one is too cold to put on, the vast desert is covered with thick ice, and the sky in Wan Li is filled with gloomy clouds. The wine was charged to the manager's account as a repeat customer. At night, the snow in front of Yuanmen kept falling, the red flag froze and the wind could not move. Outside the east gate of Luntai, I'll take you back to Beijing. When you get there, the Tianshan road is covered with heavy snow, and you can no longer be seen on the winding mountain road, leaving only a line of horseshoe prints on the snow.
Appreciate:
This poem is the representative work of Cen Can's frontier poems, which was written on his second frontier trip. At this time, he was highly valued by Feng Changqing, the envoy of Anxi, and most of his frontier poems were written in this period.
This poem describes the magnificent scenery of snow in August in the western regions, expresses the feelings of seeing guests off beyond the Great Wall and seeing them off in the snow, and expresses sadness and homesickness, but it is full of whimsy and does not make people sad.
The romantic ideal and strong feelings expressed in the poem make people feel that the snow outside the Great Wall has become an object worth pondering and appreciating. The whole poem has rich and broad connotations, magnificent and romantic colors, magnificent momentum, distinct and unique artistic conception and strong artistic appeal, which can be called the masterpiece of frontier poems in the prosperous Tang Dynasty. Among them, "If the spring breeze comes, the night comes, blowing open the petals of ten thousand pear trees" and other poems have become famous sentences that have been told through the ages.