王维《使至塞上》新解

A New Interpretation of Wang Wei's Poem “ On the Encouraging Royal Mission to the Fortresses on the Northern Frontier”

王维诗歌《使至塞上》中的地名多为泛指、虚指,意在以"汉"喻"唐",处处洋溢着作者奋发、进取的激昂豪情。王维出使塞外,是由多方面原因促成的:早年的侠客豪情,是促使其出使塞外的内在动力;监察御史、肩负王命,是出使宣慰的职责所在;朝中党争、政局变动,是其出使塞外的外在促因。

Most of the geographic names mentioned in Wang Wei＇ s poem ＂On the Encouraging Royal Mission to the Fortresses on the Northern Frontier＂ has the features of general or phantom reference by using the Han dynasty allusions to make an analogy to the similar martial affairs in the Tang Dynasty, so as to make his whole poem permeated with his strenuous and enterprising passionate pride. Wang Wei was sent to encouraging royal mission for interior and exterior reasons, the interior of which is his early motivation with lofty sentiments of any chivalrous man, and the exterior of which includes his duty of taking the office of a supervisory censor and undertaking the royal commission to bring royal gifts to the officers and soldiers in the northern frontier army in recognition of their services, and also involves his external contributor that is the fact that there existed the partisan struggles and the political upheavals in the current royal court.