It's far to the north,
The war in the south of the city is fierce.
Flags are like the wings of birds.
Armor is like fish scales.
Cold water hurts horses,
Too worried about killing people.
Understand the sun with one inch of heart,
Thousands of miles of dark yellow dust.
Appreciation of Yang Jiong's Poems
The Battle of the South of the City is a five-character poem written in the old inscriptions of Yuefu. Although the poem tells the story of the military career of the expedition to the frontier fortress in the tone of a combatant, it is different from the poem "The Battle of the South of the City" written by Han Yuefu, and it is like a river of blood and cannot be read. When describing the war, the hero in the poem is full of pride, confidence and hope for victory. The style of poetry is vigorous and powerful, full of strong patriotism. As Li commented in Yu Cun Shi Hua, it is rich and simple, and it is still the ethos of founding the country. After reading it, I was very excited and became one of the representative works of the poet.
The first couplet begins with a dialogue, and the sentence explains the location of the war directly, as if the painter's pen had drawn a broad background outside the Great Wall first.
Every sentence is to the point, describing the war scene positively, secretly containing the tragic scene of fighting in the south of the city, the demise of the northern country, and the death of the dead in the wild. The poet's summary, which was sobbing, was soaked with tears, simple and sincere.
Zhuan Xu described the battlefield scene by approximate sketch. The standard is hunting, the helmet is shiny, and the knife and blood are faintly visible. The method of parallelism and embellishment makes the form of war very imposing, which not only shows the greatness of the army, but also shows the fighting spirit of the soldiers. From the poem, readers can deeply feel the pulse of the hero in the poem: excited heart, proud feeling, running around and killing each other.
In life and death, people's mood is more complicated and unpredictable. After a flurry, feelings followed. So the neckline naturally becomes a lyrical narrative. Cold water hurts horses, so we use Chen Lin's poem: Drinking horses in the caves of the Great Wall, Shui Han hurts the muscles and bones. Call the Great Wall officials,' Be careful not to detain Taiyuan soldiers! (Drinking Horses in the Cave of the Great Wall) On the surface, it is about horses, but in fact it is about people, which subtly expresses the meaning that it is not appropriate to miss the bitter cold in the frontier. I hate being too worried about killing people, and I further expressed my feelings with the sentence meaning of Song Yu's Sad Autumn. The autumn wind is chilly, the grass outside the Great Wall is withered, and the bleak atmosphere adds homesickness. This couplet truly reflects the thoughts and feelings of the vast number of soldiers beyond the Great Wall, and is also the expression of the poet's ideological tendency.
The tail couplet ends with a scene with a thousand miles of dark yellow dust, which not only depicts the natural scenery of yellow sand flying in the desert, but also renders the tragic war, covering the sky with thousands of miles of dust. However, the soldier's heart is full of bright sunshine. Cunxin understands Japanese sentences, which is subtle and wonderful, with novel words, rich connotations and strong artistic generalization ability, revealing a bright inner world. His heart was tied to his motherland, and with the confidence to win, he died and continued to recruit soldiers to serve the king in the battlefield.