The nights in Ma Chuncheng are even colder, and the temples have gone through a hundred years.
Xishan does not change its youth, but sends the sunset to the world!
In the spring of the 18th year of Daoguang (1838), the poet lived in Beijing, and one day he went out and passed through the Western Hills. From the horses and chariots, he saw the sunset, the mountains and rivers, and thought of his own experience, so he couldn't help touching his own poems and singing this little poem casually.
The beginning of this poem is shrouded in an unusual sad atmosphere. In the chilly spring in Beijing, driving at night will only make me feel chilly, heavier and heavier than during the day. On the surface, this sentence seems to be just an objective narrative. In fact, there is a sad hug in this sentence. How can you see it? The second sentence of the poem gives an outspoken answer. From the lament that the poet left only two white hairs in an empty place for most of his life, we can see that he has nothing to show in his life, and his sadness is self-evident. The "centenary" in the poem is a metaphor of limited life, and the word "empty leftover" contains endless sadness and emotion, while "long temples" vividly depicts the poet's desperate situation of serving the country. Since his youth, Zhang Jiliang has been ambitious, very concerned about the sufferings of people's livelihood, and has the strategy of knowing how to support the frontier. In order to realize his ambition, he went to Beijing several times, but failed. In the feudal era, it was tantamount to blocking his only way to help the world politically, and all his beautiful ideals were doomed to be like a mirage, and there could be no result. This is why this poem is shrouded in the root of sadness from the beginning. In the poet's view, no matter how beautiful the scenery is, it will be stained with sadness because of love, not to mention the real and urgent chill in the evening of spring city!
When the poet looked up from the sad atmosphere, he inadvertently turned his eyes to the western hills and sang the next two more sad words. Xishan, the general name of the mountains in the western suburbs of Beijing, consists of Miaofeng Mountain, Xiangshan Mountain, Yuquan Mountain and Cuiwei Mountain, and is a famous scenic spot in the suburbs of Beijing. Xishan is green at any time and will never change its vibrant green, so it doesn't have to worry about the passage of time at all. It sends away another sunset for the world without nostalgia. Between the lines of three or four sentences, we can understand that the poet's mood is very uneasy. There is both incomparable envy and even jealousy of Qingshan and a sigh of white hair. If this understanding is correct, then behind this sigh is the poet's heavier sense of sadness.
At this point, it is not difficult to see that this little poem, mainly relying on the ingenious contrast between "sideburns" and "mountain colors", profoundly reflects the poet's inner depression in his later years. Although he was in high spirits, he was not used by the court, which truly reflected the patriotic anxiety of upright intellectuals in feudal times and left a profound and sad thought for future generations.