Why should the Qiang flute complain that the spring breeze of the willows does not reach Yumen Pass? The full poem is as follows:

Wang Zhihuan

Tang Dynasty, "Two Poems of Liangzhou, One"

Far above the Yellow River, among the white clouds, there is an isolated city called Wanren Mountain.

Why should the Qiang flute blame the willows? The spring breeze does not pass through Yumen Pass.

Translation:

The Yellow River seems to be rushing from the white clouds, and Yumen Pass stands alone in the mountains. Why use the Qiang flute to play the plaintive "Willow Song" to complain that the spring is not coming? It turns out that the spring breeze cannot blow in the Yumenguan area!

Notes:

Liangzhou Ci: also known as "Crossing the Fortress". Lyrics for a popular song at the time ("Liangzhou Ci"). There are two original titles, one of which is "Liangzhou Song" in Volume 79 of "Modern Songs and Lyrics" of Guo Maocheng's "Collection of Yuefu Poems", and quoted from "Le Yuan": ""Liangzhou" is a palace tune. Guo Zhiyun, the governor of Central and Western Liang Prefecture in Kaiyuan Dynasty".

When the poet first arrived in Liangzhou, he faced the vast scene of the Yellow River and the border town, and listened to the song "Breaking Willows". He was inspired to write this song, which expresses the soldiers guarding the border who miss their hometown. Poetry.

The first two sentences of the poem describe the vast and magnificent scenery in the northwest. The first sentence captures the special feeling of looking at the Yellow River from bottom (upstream) to upstream (upstream), from near to far, and depicts a moving picture of "the Yellow River is far up among the white clouds": the turbulent Yellow River is like a ribbon flying up. cloud. The writing is really a spiritual leap and a broad atmosphere.

"The Yellow River flows into the sea" and "The water of the Yellow River comes up from the sky" are both intended to exaggerate the majesty of the Yellow River flowing thousands of miles, showing the dynamic beauty. The "Yellow River is far up among the white clouds" is in the opposite direction to the flow of the river. It is intended to highlight its long-standing and leisurely manner and express a kind of static beauty.