Liangzhou Song
王翰
葡萄美酒夜光杯
欲饮琵琶马上催
醉卧沙场君莫笑
古来征战几人回
pú táo měi jiǔ yè guāng bēi
yù yǐn pí pá mǎ shàng cuī
zuì wò shā chǎng jūn mò xiào
gǔ lái zhēng zhàn jǐ rén huí
Fine grape wine in a luminous cup; about to drink when pipa urges from horseback. If I lie drunk on the sand, do not laugh—since ancient times, how many returned from war?
Toast and dread in one breath on the frontier.
边塞的狂欢与悲凉并置。豪迈底下是统计般的残酷。读时注意语气的转折。
The Yellow River flows from the sky; jade-like gates stand in mountain wind. Frontier poetry here is not abstract patriotism—it is cold, bright, and lethal beauty. Wang Zhihuan’s couplet pairs cosmic water with human fortification. Read beside Guan Shan Yue and Chu Sai: the north-west as test of nerve. Today: borders are still places where scale humbles the self—desert, sea, or a line on a map that changes everything.
面对高压时，允许短暂的「痛饮」；也记得问：我们付出的代价是否被看见。
Under pressure, name the cost—even while you toast.
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
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