This is a masterpiece that describes the homesickness of the frontier troops during their journey.
The most popular thing about Journey to the End of the World is the artistic conception of drifting to a foreign land and dreaming of returning home, "a journey of mountains and a journey of water". If the words are natural and true".
What is more valuable about this poem is that it is lingering but not decadent. The tenderness reveals the man's generous ambition to serve the country by guarding the frontier. The phrase "a thousand tents of lights at night" is worthy of being "an eternal spectacle". Nalan Xingde was the noble son of Zhu Di's Red Mansion. He was talented and sentimental, and his temperament was deeply influenced by Chinese scribes. Although he once had ambitions to actively serve the world, he yearned more for a warm, comfortable and elegant life. The monotonous, restrictive and tiring work of a bodyguard was far from his temperament, which depleted his ambition and lost his interest in "making meritorious service" and "establishing virtue". The dirty inside story of party strife in the upper political circles also made him afraid of retreating. The contradiction between the poet's temperament and his life situation is the fundamental reason for the formation of his haggard, sad and unreasonable tragic character. Long-term driving tours also disrupted his family life. The combination of professional depression and separation sorrow, coupled with the shock of the death of his beloved wife, plunged him into a sea of ??misery. He could not blame God or others for his failure, so he poured out his endless misery at the end of his pen and condensed it into poems with a strong sense of sadness. The basic content of Nalan's Ci is the pain of long-term imprisonment, the pain of separation and death, and the unnameable melancholy. Nalan Xingde made up for the shortcomings of narrow subject matter with his outstanding artistic skills. His poems are all distinguished by the word "true", with true feelings and true scenes, "pure and willful spirit, untainted by dust" (Kang Zhouyi's "Huifeng Cihua"). The descriptions are sincere and strong, the scenes are realistic and vivid, and they are produced with superb line drawing. They look like natural beauties without any whitewashing, all of them are vivid, real, and swaying. Wang Guowei once said: "Nalan Xingde sees things with natural eyes and expresses emotions with natural tongue. Since he first entered into his will, he has not been tainted by the customs of the Han people, so he can really do this." ("Human Words") The so-called "untainted" "Han style" means that he can freely express his true emotions, his artistic conception is natural, and he does not have the problems of imitating and piling up allusions. Poetry writers in the early Qing Dynasty, such as Chen Weisong and Zhu Yizun, did not break away from the shackles of the ancients and were able to adapt the old ideas of their predecessors. There are always words and sentences by famous writers before them, so their words, even the best works, are inevitably looming. Following the shadow of the masterpieces of the forefathers, they can never surpass the ancients; it is not that they do not want to create new images, but their ideological habits and talent constraints restrict them, making them search for a lifetime but never get a word. Nalan Xingde, however, relied on his keen observation, fresh feelings and high level of language generalization to create new situations and showed extraordinary artistic creativity. He is good at using his own mind to look directly at the scene in front of him and express his inner feelings. He can truly and accurately convey the scenes that everyone can see but that everyone can't describe, and create a brand-new artistic conception that is inhumane. His famous lines such as "A Thousand Tents of Lights in the Deep Night" and "The Great River Is Gathered by Ice" are enough to be regarded as spectacular through the ages, together with "The bright moon shines on the snow" and "The sun sets over the long river". He often writes about melancholy as if he were casually throwing it out, but it does not make people think that he is straightforward and superficial. He expanded the original personal sorrow into a universal expression of human nature, thus arousing readers' screams and possessing a unique aesthetic personality and strong appeal. In the past three hundred years, especially in the past hundred years, he has been the Qing Dynasty poet with the largest number of readers and the greatest influence. He is also one of the most outstanding ancient poets in China.