The pronunciation of "straight columns and horizontal thresholds" in "Afang Palace Fu"

The pronunciation of "straight railings and horizontal sills" in "Afang Palace Fu" is: zhí lán héng jiàn; this sentence already expresses the distinction between railings and sills. The former means that the fence pole is vertical, and the latter is Horizontal, that is, horizontal.

The rule of the Six Kingdoms ended, the four seas became one; the mountains of Shu became bare, and the Epang Palace was built. Covering more than three hundred miles of ground, it blocks the sky and the sun. Building along Lishan Mountain to the north and then turning to the west, the Wei River and Fanchuan River flowed into the palace wall. A building is built every five steps, a pavilion is built every ten steps, and the cornices are as high as a bird's beak. Each one follows the terrain, the four directions converge to the core, and compete with each other for supremacy. The pavilions are intertwined, twisting and turning, like dense honeycombs, like swirling water vortices, standing high, and there are tens of millions of them.

Overall Appreciation

"Afang Palace Fu" was selected into the seventh volume of "Guanwen Guanzhi". The editor pointed out that this work "is a masterpiece for Sui Guang (Emperor Sui Yang) and Shu Bao (Emperor Sui Yang)" Chen Houzhu) and others are very insightful; however, due to the lack of understanding of Du Mu's social environment and political attitude, it has not been able to accurately reveal the author's creative intention and the ideological significance of this work.

This poem uses typical artistic techniques to express the grandeur of the palace architecture, the beauty of the harem, and the preciousness and luxury of the treasures in a short space of time in a clear-cut and concrete manner. From this, we can conclude that the reason why Qin Shihuang could not rule for a long time was because the mob took advantage of the situation and did not show kindness, which provided profound lessons and warnings to the supreme ruler at that time. In addition to its shocking ideological power, the full text also has high artistic value.