The last sentence describes the sight of heavy snow flying all over the sky after the garrison returned home. Due to the snow, the roads in their hometown were muddy and difficult to walk on. For the soldiers who were thirsty, hungry and tired, they were filled with sadness and sorrow that only others could not understand.
The poem is written in the tone of a garrison soldier, inspired by picking weeds. The first five stanzas focus on the hardships of the border garrison life, the strong homesickness, and the reasons for not being able to go home for a long time, revealing the soldiers' It not only expresses the joy of victory over the enemy, but also deeply feels the pain of the war, revealing the desire for peace. The last chapter ends the poem with painful lyrics, which is deeply touching.
This poem uses overlapping sentence patterns and bixing techniques, which embodies the artistic characteristics of the Book of Songs. The first four sentences of the last chapter describe the scenery and feelings at two specific moments: the expedition and the survival today. The words are simple, the meaning is deep, and the scenes are blended. It is a famous sentence widely recited in the "Book of Songs".
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"Xiaoya·Caiwei" describes such a scene: cold winter, rainy and snowy, an interpreter A retired Zhengfu walked alone on his way back home. The road is rugged and we are hungry and thirsty; but the borders are getting farther and farther away, and the countryside is getting closer. At this moment, he looked at his hometown in the distance and recalled the past. He couldn't help but have many thoughts and mixed feelings.
Hard military life, fierce battle scenes, and countless scenes of climbing high and returning home, all reappeared before my eyes. "Xiaoya Caiwei" is the reminiscence and lamentation of a soldier who had been guarding for a long time on his way back three thousand years ago. It is classified under "Xiaoya", but quite similar to "Guofeng".
The whole poem has six chapters, which can be divided into three parts. Since it is a reminiscence on the way home, it is written in flashback. The first three chapters are the first part, recalling the feeling of longing to return and describing the reasons why it is difficult to return. The first four sentences of these three chapters express the feeling of missing home and looking forward to returning home in a step-by-step way. As time goes by, this feeling becomes more urgent and unbearable.