Yuxi Liu Tang
The mountains are still the same, surrounded by abandoned ancient capitals, and the tide is beating against the lonely empty city as in the past.
On the east bank of Huaihe River, the ancient cold moon, midnight, peep at the old palace.
1: selected from the whole Tang poetry, volume 365. Liu Yuxi, a poet in the middle Tang Dynasty. This poem expresses the feeling of the decline of the national movement by describing the depression scene of the stone city. Stone Town, the name of the ancient city. Originally the ancient city of Jinling, Sun Quan was rebuilt in this name during the Three Kingdoms period. It was once the capital of Wu, Eastern Jin, Song, Qi, Liang and Chen, and was abandoned in the Tang Dynasty. Today is Nanjing.
2. Stone Town: In Xiliangqing, Nanjing today, the stone wall guarded by Sun Wu during the Three Kingdoms period was called the Stone Town. Later generations also called Stone Town Jianye.
3. Ancient country: ancient capital. Stone Town was always a national capital during the Six Dynasties.
4: Surround: Surround.
5. Huaishui refers to the Qinhuai River flowing through Shitou Town.
6. Old times: refers to the Han, Wei and Six Dynasties.
7. Female wall: refers to the low city on Shicheng.