Chapter 315 The shadow behind the prosperous Tang Dynasty, poor bones by the Wuding River!

Tianmu's tone and topic suddenly changed.

【But everything has two sides. 】

[Just as the Han Wudi period, which was one of the peaks of Chinese civilization, certainly demonstrated the Han people’s confidence and the bloodiness of the nation. ]

【But it also caused the number of households in China to be halved, causing public outrage. 】

Liu Che: "I know, I know. Can you please stop talking about it? I will pay attention to it."

Canopy.

[Similarly, in another prosperous era when martial virtues reached their peak.]

[The countless soldiers of the Tang Dynasty went to the border areas. ]

[While achieving a glorious victory, a large number of casualties were also inevitable. ]

【And there are many wars that are actually meaningless. 】

[And there were also very heavy casualties. ]

[Even a total defeat! 】

[This also gave rise to another important category of frontier poems.]

【That is the frontier poem with anti-war themes. 】

【This is actually a necessity. 】

【For example, in modern society, the United States is the biggest source of war. 】

【It is also the country that produces the most anti-war films.】

[Similarly, during the Tang Dynasty, which was at the peak of its foreign conquests, the most anti-war frontier poems were naturally produced.]

【Let us take a look at these equally classic frontier poems of another type. 】

[The first song "Song of the Frontier" comes from the Tang Dynasty, the poet Linghu Chu. ]

[The grass on the border is withered and wild geese are flying. The soldiers look south and their clothes are soaked with tears. Their faces are covered with yellow dust and their beards are long. They have not returned home yet, their hair has turned white.]

[This is a very typical anti-war frontier poem, describing the harsh environment in the frontier area and the soldiers leaving their homes.]

[I have fought until I am old and gray, but there is still no hope of returning. 】

[The sadness of dying on the frontier is very likely. 】

[Another one is "Song of the Frontier" by Wang Changling, a poet from the Tang Dynasty.]

【Drinking horses across the autumn water, the water is cold and the wind is sharp. The sun has not yet set on the flat sand, and Lintao is dimly visible. In the past, when we fought at the Great Wall, we all said that we were high-spirited. The yellow dust is enough for the present and the past, and the bones are scattered among the weeds. 】

【This one describes the cruelty of war more directly.】

[It is not necessary to describe the battlefield in detail, but through the description of the environment, it is very direct. ]

[It also reflects Wang Changling's dissatisfaction with the Tang Dynasty's aggressive border policy.]

【After all, he is a famous frontier poet. 】

[Wang Changling was able to see with his own eyes the hardships these veterans of the border area endured, as well as the cruelty of death after a lifetime of military service.]

[Similarly, the great poet Li Bai also wrote frontier poems that expressed anti-war ideas.]

【It is his Guan Shan Yue. 】

[The bright moon rises from the Tianshan Mountains, amidst the vast sea of ​​clouds. The wind blows thousands of miles across, passing through the light of Yumen. The Han army marches down the Baideng Road, while the Hu army peeks into the Qinghai Bay. From the battlefield, no one ever returns...]

[As a famous song of conquest, it directly reflects the resentment of the soldiers who left their homes and fought on the border for a long time.]

[Countless soldiers were killed or wounded, and their families were unable to reunite for a long time.]

[A lot of the content is used to describe the homesickness of relatives and also reflects the strong anti-war sentiment. ]

【There is the poet Li Bai. 】

【Then the life of the great poet Du Fu was even more difficult, and the times he lived in were extremely turbulent. 】

[Du Fu's "Song of the Chariots" is a long poem that describes the period after the heyday of the Tang Dynasty.]

【The bloody and cruel truth. 】

[Father, mother and wife saw him off, the dust obscured the view of Xianyang Bridge. He stopped the road and cried, his voice reaching the sky...]

[If a girl is born, she can still marry her neighbor; if a boy is born, he will be buried with the grass. Have you not seen that in Qinghai, no one has ever collected the bones since ancient times? New ghosts are worried about the grievances, and old ghosts are crying. The sky is cloudy and rainy, and the sound of chirping is heard...]

Outside the sky.

When Liu Bei saw this.

See that line from the great poet Du Fu.

Haven’t you seen the head of Qinghai, where no one has collected the bones since ancient times?

Finally, I couldn't control my emotions anymore.

For the hard life of ordinary people in war times.

And cried endlessly.

"Great!"

"This Mr. Du Fu from later generations, his poems are really great."

"He used the best poetry to describe the cruelest current situation."

"And the chaotic world we live in is no different."

Liu Bei, who rose step by step from the chaotic times, now has a foothold in Jingzhou.

Rongma was born.

I have seen too many tragic situations.

Especially the massacre by Cao Cao in Xuzhou. The bones were exposed in the wild and there was no one living for thousands of miles.

It also gave Liu Bei a great spiritual shock.

It also made Liu Bei extremely confident.

And now.

Once again I saw Du Fu’s poems describing the tragic situation of the chaotic world in later times.

It also made Liu Bei, who was also living in a chaotic world.

A strong sense of empathy was generated.

But Liu Bei also knew.

With his own abilities, he could not control the Tang Dynasty hundreds of years later.

It can only be viewed from the perspective of appreciating literature.

Continue looking at the sky.

[Well, the next poem is also from the Tang Dynasty poet Cao Song's "Miscellaneous Poems of the Year of Yi Hai"]

[This is the most classic line in the poem, which has been passed down through the ages and is often quoted by people today.]

【The land of marshes and mountains is included in the battle map, how can the people live happily? Please don't talk about becoming a marquis, one general's success is the sacrifice of thousands of soldiers. 】

[The most famous part of this poem is, of course, "One general's success is the result of the sacrifice of thousands of men."]

[This poem includes expanding territory and conferring titles of nobility and becoming a general.]

[But at the same time, it also directly states the nature of these achievements, which are built on the blood and bones of countless soldiers. ]

【As the saying goes, one general's success is built on the sacrifices of thousands of men. 】

[Sometimes, the nature of war is cruel. ]

[It sounds bad to say it, but this is the truth.]

……

【And today we are going to talk about the last poem in our video. 】

[Although it is not like the previous ones, it is not written by the top poet. 】

[But it has been passed down through the ages and has become one of the pinnacles of anti-war frontier poetry. ]

[It comes from the poem "Travel to Longxi" by Chen Tao, a poet of the Tang Dynasty.]

[I vowed to wipe out the Xiongnu without caring about my own life, and lost five thousand minks and silks in the dust of the Huns. It's a pity that the bones by the Wuding River are still the man in the spring girl's dream. 】

[The content of the sky curtain seems to be about Li Ling's 5000 isolated soldiers in the Han Dynasty. ]

【But everyone knows that it actually refers to the Tang Dynasty at that time. 】

[This line, "My bones are still with me by the river, but I am still the lover in my dreams," describes a man who is fighting in a frontier area and missing his lover. He can only dream of meeting her every night.]

[The woman hopes that the man can return soon. ]

【But what he didn't expect was that the beloved he had been waiting for would return. 】

[It has already become the Wuding River. ]

[Or the withered bones from a certain frontier battlefield. ]

[He has been dead for many years, and has turned into a pile of white bones, and no one has come to collect his body. ]

[These two lines of poetry use strong contrast to highlight the cruelty of war and make people sigh. ]

[Although the poet does not directly state his attitude towards war.]

【But it is already beyond words. 】

【Therefore, it can become the best anti-war poem. 】

【The work has been handed down to this day. 】

……

The sky screen video ends here.

The emperors of the Tang Dynasty all fell into confusion.

And awkward silence.

Because these frontier poems, especially the anti-war poems that were played later.

They are all about the Tang Dynasty.

Emperor Taizong of Tang, Li Shimin, thought it was okay.

Because Li Shimin knew.

In essence, he was the founding emperor.

The founding emperor did not fight wars.

Are we going to leave the war to our descendants?

So Li Shimin knew.

Even if they have tried their best to avoid it, a large-scale war will be started in the border area.

Avoid excessive loss of national strength.

But there will certainly be some meaningless casualties.

There will definitely still be a sky curtain, the kind of situation that is described, the pitiful bones by the Wuding River.

But Li Shimin knew that he was unavoidable.

(End of this chapter)