It is from Guan Shanyue written by Li Bai in the Tang Dynasty. The original text is:

the bright moon lifts from the Mountain of Heaven, in an infinite haze of cloud and sea. The mighty wind blows tens of thousands of miles, passing through the Yumen pass.

china marches its men down Baideng Road, while Tartar troops peer across blue waters of the bay. This is the land of war in the past dynasties, few soldiers can survive.

Garrison the border town, and think of home, with wistful eyes. The wife of the soldiers at the high tower, Lament when can see distant relatives.

Translation:

A bright moon rises from Qilian Mountain and passes through the boundless sea of clouds. The mighty long wind blew over Wan Li and the Yumen Pass where the soldiers were stationed.

In those days, the Han soldiers pointed directly at Baideng Mountain Road, and Tubo coveted a large area of rivers and mountains in Qinghai. This is the place where the soldiers fought in the past dynasties, and few of them survived.

The soldiers guarding the border town looked far away, and they couldn't help but look sad when they missed their hometown. At this time, the soldiers' wives were in high buildings, lamenting when they could see their distant relatives.

Extended information

Creation background:

Li Bai saw the battle scene, so he lamented that the national strength of the Tang Dynasty was strong, but the frontier dust had not been cleared. This poem was written while sighing about the hardships of the soldiers in the war and the worries of the women in the rear.

Ideological theme:

This poem is about the mutual yearning between the soldiers on the frontier who are far away from home and their wives at home, which profoundly reflects the pain brought by the war to the general public.

The whole poem is divided into three layers, with the first four sentences, which mainly describe the vast frontier prospect including three factors: Guan, Shan and Yue, thus expressing the homesickness of the people who went to war. The middle four sentences specifically describe the scene of war, and the battlefield is tragic and cruel; The last four sentences are written to ask people to look at the edge of the land and miss their hometown, and then infer that their wife sighs at the moonlit high-rise building.

About the author:

Li Bai (71 -762)

, whose word is too white, is also called "the fallen fairy". He is a great romantic poet in the Tang Dynasty, known as "the immortal of poetry" by later generations, and called "Li Du" with Du Fu, in order to be ""with the other two poets Li Shangyin and Du Mu.

according to the book of the new Tang dynasty, Li Bai is cheerful and generous, loves drinking and writing poems and making friends, and is deeply influenced by Huang Lao's thoughts of arranging villages. Most of his poems are written when he is drunk. His representative works include Looking at Lushan Waterfall, it is hard to go, Difficult Road to Shu, Going into Wine, Liang Fuyin, Early Making Baidicheng and many others. Li Bai's Ci Fu enjoys a very high status in terms of its pioneering significance and artistic achievements.

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