The spring breeze in Liangzhou Ci has two meanings: the first one should be understood from the surface meaning: it represents the real spring breeze, which reflects the hardship of the frontier environment, and the second one is from the author's writing intention: it shows that the ruling class is not sympathetic to the people's feelings and has never cared about the soldiers guarding the frontier.

The original text of Liangzhou Ci:

The Yellow River is far above the white clouds, and

Wan Ren Mountain is a lonely city.

Why should Qiangdi blame the willow?

Spring breeze doesn't pass Yumenguan.

Translation of Liangzhou Ci:

Looking at it vertically, the Yellow River is drifting away, as if it were rushing among the winding white clouds, just in the high mountains of Wan Ren in the upper reaches of the Yellow River, where an isolated city, Yumenguan, stands tall and lonely. Why use the Qiang flute to blow the sad willow song to complain that spring is not coming? It turns out that the spring breeze around Yumenguan can't be blown!

This poem comes from the extended materials of Two Poems of Liangzhou Written by Wang Zhihuan in Tang Dynasty

Writing background:

According to Wang Zhihuan's epitaph, Wang Zhihuan resigned from his post in 726, the 14th year of the reign of Emperor Xuanzong of Tang Dynasty, and lived a free life for 15 years. "Two Poems of Liangzhou" is regarded as the 15-year period when he resigned from his post and lived at home, that is, from the 15th year of Kaiyuan (727) to the 29th year (741).

Two Liangzhou Ci Poems is a group of poems by Wang Zhihuan, a poet in the Tang Dynasty. The first poem depicts the special feeling of overlooking the Yellow River from a special perspective, and at the same time shows the magnificent and desolate scenery of the frontier fortress area, which is tragic and desolate, and exudes a generous spirit. The cold of the frontier fortress reflects the sorrow that the frontier guards can't return to their hometown. This sorrow is not depressed, but heroic and broad.

The second poem reflects the relationship between the Tang Dynasty and the northern minorities. In the Han Dynasty and Tang Dynasty, the poem describes a border leader who came to the Tang Dynasty to seek relatives but failed to do so. By describing his actions and psychology, the prosperity of the Tang Dynasty was set off from the side.

About the author:

Wang Zhihuan (688-742) was a famous poet in the prosperous Tang Dynasty, whose name was Ji Ling, Han nationality, Ji Men, and he was a native of Jinyang (now Taiyuan, Shanxi). Bold and uninhibited, he often mourns fencing, and his poems were mostly sung by musicians at that time. At that time, he often sang with Gao Shi and Wang Changling, and was famous for describing the frontier fortress scenery. His representative works include at heron lodge and Liangzhou Ci.

Wang Zhihuan moved from Bingzhou (Taiyuan, Shanxi Province) to Jiangzhou (now Xinjiang County, Shanxi Province) in his early years, and served as the master book of Hengshui in Jizhou. Li Di, the magistrate of Hengshui County, betrothed his third daughter to him. Because of being slandered, he was dismissed from office, and later returned to serve as the captain of Wen' an County, and died during his term of office.

Wang Zhihuan is "generous and generous, charming and talented". He was good at writing articles in his early years, and he was good at writing poems, which were often quoted as lyrics. He is especially good at five-character poems, and wins by describing the scenery of frontier fortress. He is a romantic poet.

Jin Neng's "Epitaph of Wang Zhihuan" says that his poems "taste or sing to join the army, sing out the fortress, and worry about the bright moon in the mountains. Xiao Xi gets the sound of the cold wind, which spreads to the movement and spreads to the population."

But there are only six quatrains in his works, including three frontier poems. His poems are represented by at heron lodge and Liangzhou Ci. Zhang Taiyan called Liangzhou Ci "the most quatrains".

Wang Zhihuan has no biography in the old and new Tang Shu, and the biography of Tang Caizi is also very simple, saying that Wang Zhihuan is a Ji disciple. Jin Neng, a native of the Tang Dynasty, wrote a preface to the epitaph of Taiyuan Wangfujun in Wen 'an County, Wen 'an County, Tang Dynasty, which recorded that his family was in Jinyang, and his official moved to Jiangxi County, and Jinyang (now Taiyuan) was his origin, and he lived in Jiangzhou (now Xinjiang County, Shanxi Province) when he was an official.

The epitaph says that Wang Zhihuan died in February of the first year of Tianbao (742), at the age of 55. It can be inferred that he was born in the fourth year of hanging arch after Wu (688).

Wu Hou hung over the arch for four years (688), and Wang Zhihuan was born in the royal family of Taiyuan, a famous family at that time. Wang Long, his fifth ancestor, was the secretariat of Jiangzhou in the post-Wei Dynasty, and may have moved to Jiangzhou for this reason. Great-great-grandfather Wang xin, a doctor and a writer in Sui Dynasty, became the magistrate of Anyi County in Tang Dynasty.

in the 14th year of the reign of Xuanzong (726), Wang Zhihuan was appointed as the main book of Hengshui in Jizhou, and wrote Banquet Ci and Farewell. In the 1th year of Kaiyuan (722), Wang Zhihuan married Li Bo Hai, the third daughter of Li Di, the magistrate of Hengshan County in Jizhou.

In the 14th year of Kaiyuan (726), Wang Zhihuan resigned as a result of being framed and slandered.

Wang Zhihuan is a famous poet in the prosperous Tang Dynasty. His poems about northwest scenery are quite distinctive, magnificent, broad in artistic conception, full of enthusiasm, beautiful in rhyme, catchy and widely praised.

the words used in his poems are very simple, but the creation is extremely far-reaching, which makes people wrap themselves in poems and have endless aftertaste. He was one of the frontier poets in the prosperous Tang Dynasty. "The Yellow River is far above the white clouds", only seven words, the magnificent scenery of the motherland is vividly on the paper. Unfortunately, his poems are seriously lost, and only six of them have been handed down from generation to generation, and they are included in The Whole Tang Poetry.

Although there are only six poems left in Wang Zhihuan today, two of his poems are very famous. One is at heron lodge: mountains cover the white sun, and oceans drain the golden river. to ascend another storey to see a thousand miles further This poem has a magnificent artistic conception and high momentum. In which "but you widen your view three hundred miles, by going up one flight of stairs." It is also a well-known aphorism for thousands of years.

In China, even a three-year-old child can recite this song "Climbing the Que Tower". There are four sentences and twenty words in the whole poem, none of which is uncommon or difficult to understand, but it shows readers a magnificent picture, which cannot but be said to be a masterpiece of talented people. Wang Zhihuan's "at heron lodge" also made the stork tower a historic building.

His other poem "Liangzhou Ci": The Yellow River is far above the white clouds, and there is a lonely city, Wan Ren Mountain. Why use the sad willow song to complain about the spring delay, the old Yumen pass, a spring breeze is not blowing ah! This poem is just 28 words, with a magnificent and vast landscape, a magnificent and desolate style, and an impassioned and vigorous style. This poem was sung by the music at that time and spread widely.