One Day One Poem 1

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I am a Chinese boy, and my major in my university is Chinese language.From now on, Let me introduce some famous Chinese poems to you. One day one poem.Today I will introduce a poem named BEYOND THE BORDER, composed by a Tang peroid famous poet named Wang Zhihuan.It is English traslation of this poem as follow. Folk-song-styled-verse Wang Zhihuan BEYOND THE BORDER Where a yellow river climbs to the white clouds, Near the one city-wall among ten-thousand-foot mountains, A Tartar under the willows is lamenting on his flute That spring never blows to him through the Jade Pass Here is the Chinese poem: ??????? ??? ?? ???????, ???????? ???????, ???????? The introduction of Wang Zhihuan:Wang Zhihuan(688-742AD),Zi(In China, when a boy is 20,he will have a Zi, for being honored by other people)Li Lin. He was born in Jinyang(Taiyuan today). He is a famous poet who is good at writing poetry about frontier fortress. the admiration to the poem: In the Kaiyuan during Tang period, The King of China, Tang Xuan Zong, let himself have his own way. He didn't care for his army in the frontier.While Wang Zhihuan went into Liangzhou, he heard the plantive music played by Chinese flute called Qiang Di.He wrote down this poem. He In this poem, he express his sympathy to the soilder in the frontier. He used a special viewpoint to drawing the Yellow River. It also shows superb and wild view of the frontier fortress. The emotion in the poem is solemn,stirring and liberal. The cold weather represents the sadness which the soilder had because they were not able to go home.But the sadness is not downhearted but heroic.