Autumn wind is also a common object in ancient poetry. However, in ancient poems, the ancients rarely called it "autumn wind" directly, but replaced it with "west wind" For example:
Last night, the west wind withered the trees, and I went up to the tall building alone and looked at the horizon. (Yan Shu's "The Recent Flowers")
The west wind kissed the light of the sun, and in front of us were the tombs and palaces of the Han Dynasty. (Li Bai's "Recalling Qin E")
Sail back to the sunset, with the west wind on your back and the wine flag tilted. (Wang Anshi's "Guizhixiang")
Make up in the shadow, you want to talk. Is the west wind the king? (Yan "The Recent Flower")
The Weihe River is westerly, the leaves are in chaos, and the poetry turns around. (Zhou Bangyan's Qi Tianle)
Mo Tao doesn't forget me, the curtain rolls west wind, and people are thinner than yellow flowers. (Li Qingzhao's "Drunken Flowers")
The ancient road and the west wind are thin. When the sun sets, heartbroken people are at the end of the world. (Ma Zhiyuan's "Tianjingsha Qiu Si"
The four seasons in ancient China were often associated with "orientation" (east, west, north and south), "five elements" (water, gold, wood and earth) and "five colors" (blue, red, white, black and yellow). Autumn corresponds to "west" in orientation, so "west wind" is also autumn wind, and they are interlinked in meaning. Moreover, in terms of orientation, China had the idea of "the sky is round and the place is round" in ancient times, and the central (Central Plains) was positive. Xirong was the western part of the pre-Qin period, and the western part of the Han Dynasty was the western region. In a word, the distant west gives people the feeling of a vast desert, with long yellow sand, flying sand and stones, a barren, desolate, bleak and lifeless scene. At the same time, the west, in the direction, is also the sunset side, which means dusk, sadness, desolation and bleakness. We can even think of the cold wind blowing from Siberia, and there is a feeling that the west wind is coming and the winter is coming.
In ancient poetry, the image of the west wind is more suitable for expressing sad scenes such as sadness, loneliness, desolation, desolation, sadness and desolation.