Handan was the capital of Zhao State during the Warring States Period, now Handan City, Hebei Province. "Youth's Journey" is an old Yuefu title and belongs to the miscellaneous song lyrics.
The above six sentences exaggerate the bold and unrestrained life of "Youxia Zi", whose momentum is like a copper pill moving along the plank, traveling at lightning speed. In the two sentences "I don't know who the liver and gallbladder are, I still remember Mr. Pingyuan", the momentum suddenly changes, and the poem turns to reveal the inner heart of the "Handan boy". They are far from satisfied with the life of being a chivalrous and chivalrous person, and hope to make contributions to the country and realize their ambitions with their chivalrous and heroic spirit. Unexpectedly, this beautiful wish was not understood by the real society, but was rejected and suppressed. It made him unable to help but wander through the ages, remembering the Pingyuan Lord who "treated his scholars with all his heart" and enabled him to be dignified and solve problems for the country. These two sentences are filled with the poet's melancholy that a close friend is hard to find, his resentment that his achievements are hard to achieve, as well as his strong criticism of reality and his deep reflection on history! At the same time, the torrent of emotion also changes from the previous flying to the heavy, which enhances the frustration power of the poem.
In the first half of the poem, the poet uses the experiences of the "Yangxia Zi" to express his feelings of despair, while in the second half, he further expresses his depression and injustice with straightforward discussions. It starts with the song "Don't you see me", which reminds people to pay attention: Nowadays, people in the world only determine the thickness of the "communication" between the two parties based on the amount of "gold". Without "gold", relationships will naturally be "sparse" (meaning to be dispersed). The poet's feelings have turned from the previous seriousness to anger. It is precisely because of his deep "sigh" and his deep understanding of the turmoil of the world that he hates "old travels" and "current affairs", which effectively forces the last two words. Sentence: "Let's drink fine wine with the young man and go back and forth to shoot and hunt at the top of the Western Mountains!" This ending seems to be open-minded and "unrequested" from the world, but in fact it is the truth, full of generosity and resentment, "going out of the distant gods" . It not only depicts the heroic spirit of the "Rogue" with the heroic feats of "drinking fine wine" and "shooting the Western Mountain" (Xishan is Mafu Mountain in the northwest of Handan). Moreover, the empty word "Qie" is placed at the beginning of the sentence, which further reflects his high-mindedness and strong character of being scornful of the world and waiting for the right time. Such a high-pitched final performance is like a peak rising up, with profound meaning and endless aftertaste. Therefore, Zhao Xi commented: "Strengthening is so powerful!" ("The Compilation of Hundred Poems of the Tang Dynasty")
Gao Shi used the name "Handan boy" (that is, the "Rogue Son" in the poem) in the poem. "") himself, by describing their bohemian life and the harsh circumstances of the world, he expressed his anger at the difficulty of realizing his ambitions. The poems are written boldly and passionately, with a strong "spirit", which fully embodies Gao Shi's characteristic of "writing poems with spirit". "New Book of Tang·Biography of Gao Shi" commented that his poems "exalted themselves by their temperament". The so-called "temperament" refers to the author's extremely generous and passionate feelings. This poem uses "Handan boy" to express his strong feelings. It has both heroic and majestic songs and passionate voices that express one's heart directly; This intricate interweaving of majesty and lowness, fieryness and depth effectively highlights the complex emotions of pursuit and disappointment, joy and pain deep in the soul of the "Handan boy", thereby profoundly revealing the "floodiness" of the "state of the world". Generally speaking, it is more difficult to write a seven-character poem in a vigorous and powerful way than a five-character poem, but Gao Shi's seven-character poem is written in a "wu Ao Qi Heng" style, which is due to his "high temperament".
In line with this ups and downs of emotional expression, this poem alternates between whole and scattered sentences, with scattered as the main part, and the rhyme scheme alternates between flat and oblique and is full of changes. For example, it starts with two loose sentences, then two whole sentences, and then returns to loose sentences. The first four sentences use low rhyme and oblique tones, the middle four sentences use literary rhyme and flat tones, the two sentences "Jun Bu Jian" use rhyme and are medicinal rhyme oblique tones, and the last two sentences return to You Yun and flat tones. In this way, with the change of the whole and the rhyme, it not only adapts to the ups and downs of emotions, but also has the beauty of neatness and symmetry in form, the wonderfulness of flying horizontally, the distinct rhythm, and the beautiful tone. Literary, emotional, and meticulous. These characteristics directly affected the later development of the long Qigu.