Xiaoya Cai Wei is one of China's ancient realistic poetry anthology The Book of Songs. This is a poem about soldiers returning home, which sings the hard life and homesickness of soldiers who joined the army. This poem consists of six chapters, each with eight sentences.
In the first five sections, the author focuses on the hardships of life, strong homesickness and the reasons why he can't go home for a long time, revealing that soldiers have both the pleasure of defending the enemy and the pain of fighting, showing their desire for peace. The last chapter ends the poem with a painful lyric, which is touching.
This poem uses overlapping sentence patterns and figurative techniques, which embodies the artistic characteristics of The Book of Songs. The first four sentences of the last chapter describe the scenery and feelings at two specific moments, that is, going out that year and surviving today. The text is simple and profound, and the scene blends, which has always been considered as one of the famous articles in the Book of Songs.
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The theme of this poem is serious. Because of its ferocity, the soldiers of the Zhou Dynasty were well prepared. As a garrison sergeant, the author, through commanding the generals, sent garrison soldiers to guard China under the orders of the emperor, describing the seriousness of the army and the hardships of life.
The author's patriotic feelings are expressed through his hatred for you. It is also reflected in the description of their loyalty to their duties-the sharp contrast between "not eager for success", "not eager for success", "dare to settle down", "never leave" and extreme homesickness.
The description of natural scenery in the whole poem is touching: Wei Zhisheng, Wei Zhirou, Wei Zhigang, the flower of Tang Di, the flower of weeping willows and the scene of rain and snow all set off the life of the literati, but their hearts are homesick.
What is written here is the true thoughts of soldiers. Sadness did not diminish the value of this patriotic poem. On the contrary, it shows people's pure, simple and reasonable ideological content and feelings. It is this pure authenticity that gives this poem great vitality and appeal.
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