This frontier fortress poem reflects the life of the Hu people in the frontier fortress. Through this poem, we can see the author's view of the nation. He did not oppose the Hu people to the Han people because of the war. He believed that the vast majority of ethnic minorities were also peace-loving. They were also victims of war and also longed to live a better life. Live a peaceful life.
The first couplet "Gaoshan Dai County borders Yan in the east, and the Yanmen Hu people are close to it" explains the geographical environment of Yanmen County and the distribution of the local Hu people. The couplet vividly describes the daily hunting life of the Yanmen Hu people: "The wild geese release the eagles to chase the birds, and they can hunt the substitute horses in Qiutian." In these two sentences, there are three images of "Hu Ying", "Stock Birds" and "Daima". , are all preceded by a modifier with frontier characteristics in front of the animal, highlighting its regional characteristics and very frontier characteristics. From the descriptions of the Hu people's life of flying eagles, catching birds, and riding horses for hunting, readers can truly feel a kind of life full of national characteristics, which is refreshing, as if they have seen an autumn with "the sky is blue and the fields are vast". hunting screen. The neck couplet vividly depicts the natural scene of the border area: "The mountain tops are burned by wildfires in the cold, and the lonely peaks are wet and smoke in the rain." These two sentences depict the two scenes of "wildfires burning the mountains" and "rainy and wet lonely peaks". The imagery may be Thick or light, vast and vivid or quiet and vast, and full of seasonal and regional characteristics. In the two sentences, "cold" and "fire", "dampness" and "smoke" are opposite to each other and complement each other, which is interesting. In addition, the wildfires and smoke on the hilltops are quite similar to beacons in war. For people who have suffered from war, it is easy to think of war, and the writing naturally leads to the following. The two lines at the end of the couplet "I heard that there is no fighting in western Liaoning, and I often sleep in restaurants when I am drunk" describe the scene of people who have been ravaged by war longing for peace and enjoying life in a peaceful environment.
This poem is original and original, vividly describing the living conditions of the Hu people, and vividly describing the brave and martial, rough and heroic spiritual outlook of the border minority people. The Daibei scenery of hunting in autumn and wild burning on the mountaintops and the custom of the Hu people getting drunk calmly in peacetime are extremely novel and unique. The poem first describes the daily life of the Hu people, and then writes a small episode, that is, mistaking wildfire, rain and fog for beacon smoke and finally relieved. In the poet's writing, the Hu people, like the Han people, also hate war and are equally humane, thus giving this poem a solemn anti-war theme.