Original poem:
Riding a bike to visit the border and passing through Juyan County.
Pengpeng also floated out of Korea, and the geese heading north also flew into the sky.
The vast desert is lonely, and the Yellow River sets the yen.
When I arrived at the small pass, I met a spy waiting for the knight and told me that Dou Hu was in Yan.
Translation:
I want to go to the border crossing by bike, and the country I pass by has passed my residence. Thousands of miles of cornices also floated out of Sai Han, and the geese heading north soared in the sky. Solitary smoke goes straight to the vast desert, and the sunset on the endless Yellow River is round. When you meet detective knight in Xiaoguan, tell me that Duhu is already in Yanran.
Source: Wei's "Going to the East"
Poetry appreciation
In the twenty-fifth year of Kaiyuan, Cui, our envoy from Hexi, was defeated by Tubo, and the court ordered Wang Wei to send envoys to the fortress to comfort the soldiers, who also served as the judge in our tent. He wrote this poem on his way to the fortress.
The poem depicts the magnificent scenery of the frontier fortress and praises the victory of Tang Jun. It is the masterpiece of Wang Wei's frontier poems, with magnificent artistic conception, clear scene and lofty artistic conception. In the sentence "Desert", four typical scenes, desert, solitary smoke, long river and sunset, are selected and matched with each other to depict a strange and magnificent frontier fortress picture. Wang Guowei said: "The long river sets the yen, which can be described as an eternal spectacle."