It's from Tianjingsha Qiu Si, a poem written by Ma Zhiyuan, a writer of Yuan Dynasty.
It means that the dead vines are wrapped around the old trees, and crows return to their nests at dusk live on the branches. Words such as "withered", "old", "faint" and "thin" make the rich autumn colors contain infinite desolate and miserable emotional appeal.
The whole poem juxtaposes a variety of scenery, and combines it into a picture of a sunset in the autumn suburbs, which makes a wanderer ride a thin horse on a bleak background, revealing a sad mood, and expressing a wandering wanderer's bitterness and sadness of missing his hometown and being tired of wandering in autumn.
Full text:
Old trees with withered vines faint crows, small bridges with flowing water, old roads with thin horses with west winds. When the sun sets, heartbroken people are at the end of the world.
Translation:
Dead vines are wrapped around the old trees, and crows that return to their nests at dusk inhabit the branches. Under the small bridge, there are several families beside the flowing water. On the ancient and desolate road, the autumn wind is bleak, and a tired thin horse is carrying a wanderer. The sunset slowly sets to the west, and the extremely sad traveler is still wandering in the end of the world.
Creative background:
Ma Zhiyuan was keen on fame when he was young, but he never succeeded because the Yuan rulers carried out the policy of ethnic oppression. He has lived a wandering life almost all his life, and he is depressed and embarrassed because of it. So on the journey of wandering alone, he wrote this song "Tianjingsha Qiu Si".
in Ma Zhiyuan's poem, the first four sentences are all about scenery, and these scenery words are all sentimental words. The words "withered", "old", "faint" and "thin" make the rich autumn colors contain infinite sad and bitter feelings.
The last sentence "heartbroken people are in Tianya" is even more wonderful as a curved eye, which makes the scenery described in the first four sentences an environment for people's activities and a trigger for the sad feelings of heartbroken people in Tianya. The scenery on the song is not only what Ma Zhiyuan saw during his journey, but also what he saw in his eyes.
but at the same time, it is the emotional carrier, which is the heart. There are feelings in the whole song, and there are scenes in the feelings, which constitute a touching artistic realm.