The meaning of "Eight Thousand Miles of Road, Clouds and the Moon" is that after 8,000 miles of fighting on the sands, all you can see are the clouds and the moon in the sky.
This phrase is from Yue Fei's <
The Raging Hair, by the railings, the dashing rain breaks. Lifting up my eyes, I look up to the sky and whistle long and passionately. Thirty years of fame, dust and earth, eight thousand miles of clouds and the moon. I don't want to wait around, but I'll be sad when I'm young!
Jingkang shame, not yet snow. When will the hatred of the subjects be extinguished? I'm so proud that I'm hungry for the flesh of the captives and thirsty for the blood of the Xiongnu. I will pack up the old mountains and rivers from the beginning of my life and head for the Heavenly Palace.
Yue Fei (1103-1141) was a native of Tangyin, Xiangzhou (now part of Henan). In the fall of the third year of Jianyan (1129), Wuzhu invaded from the south, and Du Chong, who had been reappointed as the governor of Jiankang (present-day Nanjing, Jiangsu Province), surrendered without a fight. The Jin army was able to cross the Yangtze River, and soon captured Lin'an, Yuezhou (present-day Shaoxing), and Mingzhou, and Gaozong was forced into exile at sea. Yue Fei led a lone army to persist in fighting behind enemy lines. He first attacked the rear guard of the Jin army in Guangde and won six battles in six victories. And in the Jin army attacked Changzhou, led the troops to support, four battles and four victories. The following year, Yue Fei set up an ambush in Niutou Mountain, broke the Jin Woodruff, recovered Jiankang, the Jin army was forced to retreat north. From then on, Yue Fei's fame spread to the north and south of the Yangtze River and shook the river. In July, Yue Fei was promoted to Tongzhou Township and know the Taizhou, with more than 10,000 men and horses, and established a disciplined, brave anti-Jin brigade "Yuejiajun".
Shaoxing three years, Yue Fei for the elimination of Li Cheng, Zhang with the "military bandits," and other "military bandits," won the high Zong award "loyal Yue Fei" banner. In April of the following year, Yue Fei waved his division to the north, broke the Jin puppet pseudo-Qi army, recovered Xiangyang, Xinyang and other six counties. Yue Fei was also promoted to the Qingyuan military governor. In December of the same year, Yue Fei and defeated the Jin soldiers in Luzhou (now Hefei, Anhui), Jin soldiers were forced to return north. Shaoxing five years (1135), Yue Fei led the army to suppress the Yang Mai rebels, from which collected 50,000 to 60,000 elite soldiers, so that the "Yue family army" strength greatly increased.
In the sixth year of Shaoxing, Yue Fei once again set out on a northern expedition, capturing Yiyang, Luoyang, Shangzhou and Guozhou, and then besieging the Chen and Cai regions. However, Yue Fei soon realized that he was alone, with no reinforcements and no provisions, and had to withdraw to Ezhou (present-day Wuchang, Hubei). The northern expedition, Yue Fei ambition has not been rewarded, the town of Ezhou (now Wuchang) wrote a thousand years of the famous song "Man Jiang Hong".