Sauvignon Blanc · A journey to the mountains
Nalan Xingde
A journey to the mountains, a journey to the water,
Heading towards Yuguan Go there.
Thousands of tent lights in the middle of the night.
As soon as the wind changes, the snow changes,
The dreams of homesickness are shattered.
There is no such sound in my hometown.
Notes
After walking through mountain roads and waterways, we were walking towards Yuguan. It was late at night, and people were lighting lamps in their tents. It was windy and snowy at night, and the noise shattered my homesick dreams. There was no such sound in my hometown.
Chengdu is a road, a journey, a mountain is a journey, and a water is a journey, that is, the mountains are long and the rivers are far.
Yuguan is now Shanhaiguan
Napan is the other side of Shanhaiguan, which refers to being outside the pass.
There are as many tents as there are thousands of tents in the army camp.
In the old days, there were five updates a night, each lasting about two hours. The first watch of wind and the first watch of snow means that it is windy and snowy all night long.
The sound is noisy and annoying.
Hometown Hometown
This sound refers to the sound of wind and snow.
Translation
My army went to Liaodong for inspection, and the accompanying thousands of troops marched through mountains and rivers, marching towards Shanhaiguan in a mighty manner. At night, the lights in the camp are brilliant and magnificent. It was late at night, the wind and snow were blowing outside the tent, and the sound of gusts of wind and snow made it impossible to sleep. The author is homesick and lonely, and he can't help but feel resentful: Why aren't there such disturbing sounds in his hometown? ("There is no such sound in my hometown" may seem unreasonable, but in fact it is reasonable. Is there no wind and snow in my hometown? But the same sound of wind and snow in the cold sky will naturally have different feelings when you listen to it at home and when you listen to it in a foreign land.)
Appreciation
The most popular thing about Journey to the End of the World is the artistic conception of "a journey of mountains and a journey of water" of drifting to a foreign land and dreaming of returning home. It is easy to pick up without showing any polish. No wonder Wang Guowei Comment: "The words are as natural and true as the words."
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 "spectacular through the ages"