It is still the moon and border pass in Qin and Han dynasties, and the enemy has fought a protracted war.
If Wei Qing, who attacked Longcheng, and Li Guang, the flying general, were alive today, the Huns would not be allowed to go south to spend their horses in Yinshan.
Wang Changling (690-756 AD) was a native of Taiyuan, Shanxi, Han nationality. A famous frontier poet in the prosperous Tang Dynasty, later generations praised him as the "Seven Wonders".
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On the long border, the war has never stopped, and the soldiers who went to the frontier to fight have not returned. If General Wei Qing who attacked Liuzhou and General Li Guang who flew in were alive today, they would never let the enemy cross the Yinshan Mountain.
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This poem is called "the first of the seven wonders of the Tang Dynasty".
This is a frontier fortress poem lamenting that the country has no elite soldiers. The first sentence of this poem is the most intriguing. It's about the Han Pass, Mingyue Qin here. Great historical changes have taken place, and the fighting has not stopped. Write two sentences about how many men died in battle and how many tragedies were left behind. Three or four sentences have written the people's wishes for thousands of years, hoping to have a "flying dragon" to calm the chaos and stabilize the border defense. The whole poem sings a profound and open-minded theme in plain language, with smooth momentum and one go, which is amazing to sing. Li Panlong of Amin Dynasty once praised it as a masterpiece of Tang Dynasty, which is not too much.
As a way out of fame. Some intellectuals, most of them have frontier life experience, and their poems mainly describe frontier life, forming the so-called "frontier poetry school". Wang Changling is an important member of this school.
Poetry begins with writing about scenery. "The moon was bright in Qin Dynasty, but closed in Han Dynasty". The bright moon was in the sky, shining on Wan Li frontier fortress, showing the vastness of frontier fortress and the depression of scenery. In front of the "Moon" and "Pass", it is decorated with "Qin and Han Dynasties", which has a higher artistic conception and leads us to distant ancient times, which is even more thought-provoking: the border war has been continuous since Qin and Han Dynasties and has continued until now, which has really dragged on for too long! This is a description of the long history of frontier fortress in Time.
In the face of such a scene, people in the frontier feel moved by the scene, and naturally think of countless people who have devoted themselves to the frontier since the Qin and Han Dynasties and have not returned to their deaths. "The Long March has not yet returned" also points out the remoteness of the frontier fortress from a spatial perspective. The "people" here not only refer to the soldiers who died in the battlefield, but also refer to the soldiers who are still holding on and cannot return. "People have not returned" means that the border defense is not consolidated, and the second is sympathy for the foot soldiers. These are two sides of the same question, the former is the cause and the latter is the result. This is a big problem that has not been solved from the Qin Dynasty to the Han Dynasty and even the Tang Dynasty. How to solve this problem? The third and fourth sentences are the poet's answers.
"Only make the Dragon City fly, but don't teach tigers and horses to cross the Yinshan Mountain", which directly expresses the desire of frontier soldiers to consolidate their frontier defense and defend their country: as long as there is a famous soldier like Wei Guang, the enemy cavalry will not cross the Yinshan Mountain. These two sentences speak for themselves. In other words, due to the improper employment of people by the imperial court, the generals were unqualified, which led to the situation of burning eyebrows and people's livelihood.
Although this poem has only four short lines, its content is complicated through the description of frontier fortress scenery and conscription psychology. Have strong sympathy for the soldiers who have been defending for a long time, and have the desire to end this border defense regardless of the situation; At the same time, it also showed dissatisfaction with the court's failure to select and appoint talents, and at the same time paid attention to the overall situation and realized the justice of the war. Therefore, his personal interests are subordinate to the needs of national security, and he issued an oath of "not teaching Huma to turn over the shady mountain", which is full of patriotic passion.
The poet did not describe the frontier fortress scenery in detail, but chose a typical picture of garrison life to reveal the inner world of foot soldiers. Scenery description is only a means to depict the thoughts and feelings of characters. In the Han dynasty, music was integrated into the scene and saturated with the emotional color of the characters. The complex content is thrown into the four-line poem, which is profound, implicit and intriguing. This poem has rich artistic conception, high style and concise language.