The pinyin version of the ancient poem in Bian Dao of Song Dynasty is as follows:
píng yě yǒu qiān lǐ, jū rén wú yi jia.
The plains are thousands of miles away, and there is no one living there.
ji?bing nián zhèng shǎo,ri jiǔ shù ti?n yá.
The soldier is still young, and he has been guarding the ends of the earth for a long time.
"Song Bian Daozhong" is a five-character quatrain composed by Gao Chan, a poet in the Tang Dynasty. This poem describes soldiers who have been guarding the frontier far away for a long time, revealing the pain caused by frequent wars in the late Tang Dynasty to the working people.
The first two sentences of the poem first describe the terrible scene of "plain fields" thousands of miles away and uninhabited; the last two sentences reveal the cause of this problem. The three words "young and young" show that young and strong Forced by the "army soldiers", he left his homeland and guarded the border for a long time without returning. Poetry first writes the effect and then the cause, first describes the scene and then the narrative. It is clear-cut, simple and profound.
About the author
Gao Chan (date of birth and death unknown) was born in the county of Bohai (now Cangzhou, Hebei). He was originally a poor scholar, no one recommended him, and he was suave and unconventional, so he failed to take the first place in the rankings. In the fourteenth year of Xiantong (873), he only entered the civil service. In Qian Ningzhong (894-898), he became the censor Zhongcheng. Be friendly with Zheng Gu. His two most famous poems are "Looking at Jinling Evening" and "Xia Di Hou Shang Yong Gao Shilang". The poem "Song Bian Daozhong" has a sense of the times.