The Poetic Nature of Shouxiang's Night Crying on the Wall

Poetry: the sand is as white as snow before returning to Yuefeng, and the moonlight outside the city is like autumn frost. I don't know where the bleak reed flute blows, and all people look at their hometown overnight. Night Cry at the Watching Wall is a seven-character quatrain written by Li Yi, a poet in the Tang Dynasty. It is a poem describing the homesickness of frontier soldiers, depicting the strong homesickness and sadness of frontier soldiers (including pipers) from many angles, and expressing the author's thoughts and feelings of missing his hometown.

Shouxiang Nightingale, the original Shouxiang Nightingale

Li Yi in Tang Dynasty

The sand in front of Lefeng is as white as snow, and the moonlight outside the city is like autumn frost.

I don't know where the bleak reed flute blows and I look at my hometown all night.

Notes on Shouxiang Town Listening to the Flute at Night (I) Surrender City: In order to resist the Turks, Zhang Renyuan, a famous soldier in the early Tang Dynasty, built a surrender city in the north of the Yellow River, which was divided into three cities: East, Middle and West, all in the present Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. Another way of saying it is: In 646 AD (the twentieth year of Zhenguan), Emperor Taizong personally went to Lingzhou to accept the surrender of a Turkic Ministry, hence the name "Surrender City".

⑵ Huilong Peak: There were Huilong County and Lingzhou Branch in the Tang Dynasty, located in the southwest of Lingwu County, Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region. Lehuifeng is the highest peak in the area. The work Le Huifeng refers to the beacon tower near Le Hui County.

(3) At the gate: one is "on the city" and the other is "outside the city".

(4) Reed pipe: flute. A reed flute.

5. Conscription: Soldiers guarding the border. All: all.

Watch the wall at night "appreciates the first two sentences of the poem and writes about the scenery under the moon when entering the city." Deserts such as frosty moon and snowy moon are typical environments that cause homesickness. The description of the environment shows the feelings of the characters. On this silent night, the night wind brought the bleak and bitter flute, which aroused the feeling of looking forward to hometown. "Looking after people overnight" does not mean homesickness or homesickness. But through the modal behavior of the characters to express their psychology and write endless homesickness.

Night Cry on the Watch Wall was written in late autumn and early winter of the first year of Zhong Jian. Li Yi went to Lingwu to meet Cui Ning, the ambassador of North China, and wrote "Listening to Shouxiang Wall Flute at Night".

The author of Shouxiang Nightcry introduced Li Yi, a poet in the Tang Dynasty. The word Yu Jun is from Longxi Ancient Tibetan (now Wuwei, Gansu). In the fourth year of Dali (769), he was a scholar. In 783, Jianzhong was awarded an outstanding degree. After his career was frustrated, he went to Zhao Yan.

In the 13th year of Zhenyuan (797), he was appointed as Liu Ji, and our special envoy went to Youzhou. In the sixteenth year of Zhenyuan (800), he went south to Yangzhou and other places and wrote some beautiful poems describing the scenery in the south of the Yangtze River.

After Yuanhe entered the DPRK, he served as secretary, junior supervisor, bachelor of Jixian, right riding officer, prince guest and left riding officer. In the first year of Taihe (827), he was appointed as an official by the Ministry of Rites. I wrote 50 poems about joining the army, and now there are 2 volumes of Li Yi Ji.