Leading a horse to drink water across the river, the biting autumn wind in Shui Han is like a sword. The battlefield is vast, the sunset has not yet set, and Lintao is seen in the distance in the darkness. There was a fierce battle on the Great Wall that year, and it was said that the soldiers guarding the border were in high spirits. Since ancient times, yellow dust has been everywhere, and bones have been scattered with weeds.
Original text:
Border songs
Tang Dynasty: Wang Changling
Horses lead horses to drink across the river, the wind is biting, and the autumn wind is like a sword.
The sunset on the vast battlefield has not yet fallen, and I saw Lintao County in the distance in the dark.
The Great Wall once fought a fierce battle, saying that the frontier soldiers were in high spirits.
Since ancient times, there have been sandstorms, bones everywhere and weeds everywhere.
Extended data:
The characteristic of this poem in conception is to express the theme with profile description. The poem does not specifically describe the war, but expresses the poet's views on the war through the description of the scenery beyond the Great Wall and the remains of the past war. The first four sentences come from what the sergeant saw and felt when drinking horses and crossing the river, depicting the bleak and biting cold scene outside the Great Wall.
The poet chooses the time of description in late autumn dusk, which is more conducive to expressing what he has written. When writing about bitter cold, only choose the water and wind that can best express the environmental characteristics. Concise pen and ink can receive good artistic effect. The "horse drinker" in the first sentence is the sergeant The "water" in the poem refers to Taoshui, and Lintao City is on the bank of Taoshui.
"Drinking a horse" must lead the horse into the water, so it feels like "Shui Han", seemingly casual, but actually clever. In the Central Plains or the south of the Central Plains, the autumn wind just makes people feel cool, but the autumn wind beyond the Great Wall is already "like a knife". It shows that the wind is not only fierce, but also cold, and only one cross is used to describe the regional characteristics vividly.
Write three or four sentences about the prospect of Lintao. "Pingsha" is called the land of desert. Lintao, an ancient county name, is named after Lintao Water, the county seat. That is to say, Min County in eastern Gansu today is the starting point of the Great Wall, and the Tang Dynasty is the seat of Zhou Min in Longyou Road, where wars often occur. Twilight is boundless, the vast desert is invisible, and there is a golden sunset hanging on the horizon. From a distance, Lintao City is hidden in the twilight. The realm is vast and magnificent.