Beyond the Border (Chu Sai)
王昌龄
秦时明月汉时关
万里长征人未还
但使龙城飞将在
不教胡马度阴山
qín shí míng yuè hàn shí guān
wàn lǐ cháng zhēng rén wèi huán
dàn shǐ lóng chéng fēi jiàng zài
bù jiào hú mǎ dù yīn shān
秦时的明月，汉时的关塞；万里征人仍未归。只要龙城飞将在，就不让胡马越过阴山。
The same moon over Qin and Han frontiers; the long campaign still unfinished.
边塞名篇：明月与关塞穿越朝代，思念与守土并置。英语常搜 “Beyond the Border / Chu Sai”。
Frontier classic for English “Chu Sai / Beyond the Border” searches. Time collapses; longing and defense share one sky.
长期项目像长征：需要的是可靠的「飞将」，不是口号。
Long projects need a reliable ‘Flying General,’ not louder slogans.
Read first, then practice — fill in lines and write a character.
Fill in the blanks
Practice calligraphy
This poem belongs to a place on the map—open the landscape to read both together.
This poem is linked from a city essay—open the place to read the name and the verse together.
Datong
Great unity — Northern Wei’s Pingcheng threshold where cave Buddhism faced the wall’s weather
Dunhuang
Blazing beacon — oasis where the Silk Road left walls of painted prayer
Jiayuguan
Fine valley pass — Ming Great Wall’s western gate where agrarian China staged its last named threshold
Loulan
Kroraina remembered — vanished Silk Road oasis whose name outlived its map
Shanhaiguan
Mountain–sea pass — eastern gate of the Wall, Ming–Qing hinge where “inside” met the northeast
Turpan
Turfan oasis — grapes and manuscripts under the Flaming Mountains on the Silk Road’s western ledger
Wuwei
Martial awe on the Hexi — Liangzhou, Tang frontier capital of music and frontier verse in Chinese memory
Zhangjiakou
Zhang family’s pass — frontier threshold where farm and steppe learned to face each other