A bright moon rises from Qilian Mountain and crosses the vast sea of clouds.

A bright moon rises from Qilian Mountain and crosses the vast sea of clouds.

2. "Seven Songs from the Army, the Fourth Song" Tang Dynasty: Wang Changling

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

Qinghai Lake is covered with dark clouds, and the continuous snow-capped mountains are bleak. Yumen, the ancient city of frontier fortress, is a grand pass, thousands of miles away, facing each other from afar.

3. "Two Liangzhou Ci Poems and One Song" Tang Dynasty: Wang Zhihuan

The Yellow River is getting farther and farther away, because it flows in the middle of the Yellow River, and Yumenguan is located on a lonely mountain.

The Yellow River seems to rush out from the white clouds, and Yumenguan is hanging alone in the mountains.

4. "Four Poems of Xia Sai" Tang Dynasty: Wang Changling

The withered mulberry trees sing cicadas, and the intersection of Xiaoguan in August is crisp in autumn.

After leaving the frontier, the climate turned cold and it was full of yellow reeds.

Cicada chirps in the withered mulberry forest, and autumn is crisp on Xiaoguan Road in August. After entering the fortress, the climate became cold, and the inside and outside of the pass were all yellow reeds.

5. "Xia Sai Quwo" Tang Dynasty: Li Yi

Yan Song is not broken, and the horses are green.

In the endless singing of heroic geese, geese flying from the border are flying high and grazing horses are barking. Spring has come and the grass on the ground has turned green.