1. Similarities
"Drinking Horses in the Great Wall Grottoes" and "Traveling, Traveling, Traveling Again" are both outstanding representatives of poems about women on the frontier. Poems about women focus on women, or examine women's living conditions and social reality from a woman's unique perspective, and express sadness.
2. Differences
1. Bixing technique
The opening chapter of "Drinking Horses in the Great Wall Cave" is a very typical and clever use of qixing. "Green grass by the river" arouses the whole text, and is interesting and contrasting. It not only introduces the theme, but also exaggerates the artistic atmosphere and highlights the center of the whole poem, achieving a unique performance effect.
"Xing Xing Xing Xing Xing" expresses his feelings directly without stirring up the whole text through excitement. It appears to be sincere, generous, natural and contagious.
2. Phonological coordination
"Xing Xing Xing Xing Xing" uses repeated words to open up the tone and express the full artistic conception. It can be said that it is a wonderful stroke in the poem and can be called a Yuefu poem in the Wei and Jin Dynasties. The first sentence in the middle uses a combination of overlapping words.
"Drinking Horses in the Great Wall Grottoes" focuses more on the fluency of phonology. The whole poem is coherent from beginning to end. Every sentence rhymes and every two sentences changes rhyme, which fully reflects the phonology of Yuefu poetry. The sense of harmony in beauty subtly provides a good phonological background for the narrative of poetry.
Extended information
The background of the creation of "Xing Xing Xing Xing Xing"
This is a poem that reflects the grief and sorrow of a missing woman. It is one of the "Nineteen Ancient Poems" one. There are many opinions about the historical background of "Nineteen Ancient Poems".
Yuwen Suoan believes that early Chinese poetry is a copying system and cannot find conclusive evidence that "ancient poetry" is earlier than the Jian'an period. Muzhai proposed that most of the "Nineteen Ancient Poems" and the important components of Jian'an poetry were written by Cao Zhi.
Li Shan’s note under the title of "Selected Poems of Zhaoming·Part 1" explains very clearly: "It is an ancient poem, so the author is not known." He also believes that it was written in the Eastern Han Dynasty, which is also the first time since the 20th century. L.
Modern people generally believe that it was not the work of one person at a time, and that it should have been produced in the decades before Emperor Xian of the Eastern Han Dynasty established Jian'an. As for the specific creation time of "Xing Xing Zhong Xing Xing", it is difficult to verify.