Ancient meaning (Li Qi)
古意 (李頎) · Three Hundred Tang Poems
Ancient meaning (Li Qi)
A man goes on long campaigns,
a youth from You and Yan, born to the saddle.
He wagers victory beneath his horse's hooves,
and has always held his seven-foot body light in worth.
When he kills, none dare stand before him,
his beard bristles out like a hedgehog's spines.
Yellow clouds drift above the Long plateau, white snow flies below,
and he cannot return home until he has repaid his lord's favor.
A young wife in Liaodong, fifteen years old,
well versed in playing the pipa and skilled in song and dance.
Now she plays a Qiang flute tune of the frontier passes,
and brings the tears of all three armies down like rain.
古意 (李頎)
男兒事長征，少一作「生」小一作「作」幽燕客。
賭勝馬蹄下，由來輕七尺。
殺人莫敢前，鬚如蝟毛磔。
黃雲隴底白雪飛，未得報恩不能一作「得」歸。
遼東小婦年十五，慣彈琵琶解歌舞。
今一作「合」爲羗笛出塞聲，使我三軍淚如雨。