From: Tan Sitong's Tongguan
Original text:
Finally, high clouds were gathering in the city, and the autumn wind blew away the sound of hooves.
The river is still too wild, and the mountain enters Tongguan to solve the injustice.
Translation:
For a long time, the high clouds gathered at this majestic pass, and the autumn wind blew away the sound of horseshoes.
The surging Yellow River and the vast vilen are not stretched enough. Even after entering Tongguan from Huashan, I don't know what flatness is.
Extended data
Tongguan is a seven-character quatrain written by Tan Sitong, a politician and poet in the late Qing Dynasty. The first sentence of this poem is that Tongguan stands on the mountainside, facing the Yellow River. The situation is very dangerous. The author of the second sentence passed by here, and the sound of hooves was blown away by the autumn wind, indicating the time and distance; Three or four sentences are about the mighty Yellow River, and the mountains in Tongguan are rolling. The whole poem is bold and unrestrained, and the combination of scenery writing and romance is exquisite and vivid.
Creation background
This poem was written by the poet at the age of eighteen, which was the eighth year of Guangxu (1882). This spring, the poet got up from Liuyang and went to Lanzhou, Gansu, where his father Tan Jixun worked. After passing through Tongguan, the poet was deeply attracted by the magnificent scenery in front of him and wrote this hymn sincerely.