Bai Xuege sent Magistrate Wu back to the capital
The north wind blew the white grass on the ground and folded it⑵, Hu Tian made snow fall in August⑶.
Suddenly a spring breeze comes overnight, and thousands of pear trees bloom⑷.
The bead curtains are scattered into the wet Luo curtains ⑸, and the fox fur is not warm and the brocade quilt is thin ⑹.
The general's horn and bow cannot be controlled ⑺, and the protective armor is too cold to wear ⑻.
The vast sea is covered with hundreds of feet of ice, and the gloomy clouds condense thousands of miles away.
The Chinese army prepares wine and drinks for returning guests, harps, lutes, lutes and qiang flutes.
The snow falls one after another at the gate of the camp, and the wind blows and the red flag does not turn over due to the freezing cold.
I saw you off at the east gate of Luntai, and the Tianshan Road was covered with snow when you left.
You can't be seen on the mountain winding road, leaving a place for horses to walk in the sky above the snow. [2-3]
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⑴Judge Wu: The name is unknown, but he should be the judge in the Feng Changqing shogunate. Judge, official title. In the Tang Dynasty, the Jiedushi envoys and other ambassadors sent by the imperial court could appoint staff to assist in judging official matters. They were called judges, and they were staff members such as Jiedushi envoys and observation envoys.
⑵ White grass: a kind of pasture in the northwest, which turns white after drying.
⑶Hu Tian: refers to the sky in the north of Saibei. Hu is the common name used by the ancient Han people for all ethnic groups in the north.
⑷Pear blossom: blooms in spring with white flowers. Here it is a metaphor for snowflakes accumulating on branches, like pear blossoms in bloom.
⑸Bead curtain: a curtain strung with pearls or decorated with pearls. Describe the beauty of the curtain. Luomu: A tent made of silk fabrics. Describe the beauty of the tabernacle. This sentence says that snowflakes fly into the bead curtain and wet the curtain. "Bead curtain" and "Luo curtain" are all beautification terms.
⑹Fox fur: fox fur robe. Brocade quilt: A quilt made of brocade. Thin brocade quilt: The silk quilt looked thin (because of the cold). Describe that the weather is very cold.
⑺Horn bow: A hard bow decorated with animal horns at both ends, one is called a "carved bow". Unable to control: (The weather is too cold and it is too cold) to draw (the bow). Control: Pull away.
⑻Duhu: This is a general term for the officer who guards the border town, and is intertextual with the "general" above. Tie Yi: Armor. Difficult to hold: One is "Yu Zhu", the other is "Yu Zhu". Author: Also written as "author". [4]
⑼Hanhai: Desert. This sentence says that there is thick ice everywhere in the desert. Linqian: criss-crossed. Baizhang: One means "hundred feet" and the other means "thousand feet".
⑽Bleak: dim and dull.
⑾Chinese Army: Called the chief general or headquarters. In ancient times, the army was divided into three armies: center, left and right. The center army was the commander's camp. Drinking guest: A person returning to the capital with a banquet refers to Judge Wu. Drink, verb, feast.
⑿ Huqin, Pipa and Qiangdi: Huqin, etc. were all musical instruments of the fraternal ethnic groups in the Western Regions at that time. This sentence says that music was played while drinking. Qiang flute: a wind instrument of the Qiang people.
⒀Yuanmen: The door of the military camp. In ancient times, the army camped and surrounded it with chariots. At the entrance and exit, two chariot shafts stood facing each other, shaped like doors. This refers to the outer gate of Shuai Yamen.
⒁Wind switch: The red flag was frozen due to snow, and the wind could not blow it. The Yiyan flag is blown in one direction by the wind, giving people the feeling of being frozen. Pull: pull, pull.
⒂Luntai: Tang Luntai is located in Miquan County, Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region today, and is not the same place as Han Luntai. Tianshan: Also known as the Qilian Mountains, it stretches from east to west in Xinjiang and is more than 6,000 miles long.
⒃man: spread all over. Conjugate adjectives into verbs.
⒄Mountain Loop: The mountain loops and the road twists and turns