瓜洲在唐宋两代有着重要的交通运输价值,被誉为"南北襟喉之处",文人对其多有吟咏.唐宋的行旅泊舟诗词突出表现了瓜洲江面颠风恶浪这一地理特征,风格凄婉空灵,饱含萧瑟悲凉的怀乡之思.宋室南渡后,瓜洲由南北之中变成王朝版图的边境地带,与镇江多景楼一同构成南宋登临咏怀诗词的特殊意象组合,被视为故国之殇的地理象征.绍兴年间,南宋朝廷获得了采石之战的胜利,而瓜洲作为战场则得到了鲜明浓厚的诗史书写,最终成为蕴含着古人"故乡—故国"双重情结的独特名胜之地.
Guazhou,known as"the throat of the north and the south"for its important transportation value in the Tang and Song Dynasties,are often sung about by literati.Poems about travel and boat-berthing in Guazhou in the Tang and Song Dynasties highlight the violent winds and waves of the Guazhou river with a style bleak and ethereal,full of homesickness.Since the Song Dynasty migrated towards the south,Guazhou changed from the center to the border area of the dynasty territory.Together with Duojing Tower of Zhenjiang,it constituted the special image combination in the Southern Song Dynasty poems,used as the geographical symbol of the disappearance of the homeland.During the Shaoxing period,the Southern Song Court won the Battle of Caishi,and Guazhou,as a battlefield,got a more vivid and strong description in the poetry,finally developing into a unique place of interest with the dual complex of"hometown-homeland"of ancient people.