Clouds over Qinghai darkened the snow-capped mountains and stood in the lonely city overlooking Yumen Pass in the distance. The Great Wall has worn out its helmet and armor in many battles, and it will never come back until it defeats the enemies in the west.

original text

join the army

Author: Changling Wang

There is a dark snow-capped mountain in Qinghai, with long white clouds and a lonely city looking at Yumenguan.

Yellow sand wears golden armor in hundreds of battles, but the loulan is not returned.

To annotate ...

1. Joining the army: an old topic in Yuefu, mostly about military war.

2. Qinghai: Qinghai Lake.

3. Snow Mountain: This refers to Qilian Mountain in Gansu Province.

4. Wear: Wear.

5. Loulan: The name of the Western Regions in the Han Dynasty generally refers to the pirates who harassed the northwest frontier at that time.

Author's resume

Wang Changling doesn't talk much. A famous frontier poet in the prosperous Tang Dynasty, later generations praised him as the "Seven Wonders". The first secretary of the provincial school, Lang, also learned from the macro words, and awarded Si Shuiwei, who was relegated to Lingnan because of things. There are Li Bai, Gao Shi, Wang Wei, Wang Zhihuan and Cen Can. His poems are famous for their four wonders, especially the frontier poems written in northwest frontier fortress before he ascended the first place, which is known as "the poet king Jiangning".