What we see in William Wang's Liangzhou Ci is a beautiful banquet scene, with wine, luminous cups and pipa playing, and getting drunk to the fullest. These all have obvious frontier colors. The battlefield leads the protagonist out once, and it turned out to be an army about to go out. This is a photo of military life. The people in the poem are optimistic, heroic and desperate.
The whole poem is a sad poem, because the soldiers are about to leave and will die in the battlefield. War is cruel, but in the author's pen, the tone of the article is optimistic and heroic, full of high-spirited spirit, and the language is bright and smooth. This is a classic work in frontier fortress poetry.
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Liangzhou Song
Wine luminous glass, want to drink pipa right away.
Don't laugh when you are drunk on the battlefield. How many people fought in ancient times?
Wine made from grapes is packed in beautiful wine glasses, and it is fragrant and mellow. When the cup is about to be tasted, the pipa sounds, and the intoxicating rhythm makes people excited. Have a drink, even if you lie on the battlefield drunk, don't laugh at me. How many people have been able to return to the battlefield alive since ancient times?
Liangzhou Ci is a seven-character quatrain, which is a frontier poem, mainly describing a fragment of the frontier army, thus highly praising the soldiers who guard the frontier. The poem describes a life segment of eating and drinking in the army, which sublimates emotions and shows the heroic spirit of loyalty, patriotism and defending the border to the death. Reading this poem makes people relaxed and happy. The tone of the whole work is bold, lively and vigorous.