Source: Wang Dongting
Author Liu Yuxi? the Tang Dynasty
Baili Lake water mirror, mountain clouds shake people's clothes.
Looking at Dongting from a distance, there is a green snail in the silver plate.
Interpretation of vernacular:
Calm waves, moonlight and water blend together, and the lake is like a bronze mirror that does not need polishing, smooth and bright.
Overlooking Dongting, Dongting Mountain with green mountains and lush trees stands in Dongting Lake with white light, just like a green snail in a silver plate.
Extended data writing background:
Looking at Dongting Lake was written by Liu Yuxi when he went to Hezhou as a secretariat and passed through Dongting Lake in the autumn of the fourth year of Changqing in Tang Muzong (824).
Liu Yuxi said in the preface to Liyang Seventy Rhymes: "In August of the fourth year of Changqing, the secretariat of Kuizhou was changed to Liyang (Hezhou), floating on the Minjiang River, watching Dongting, crossing the gorge and heading east to Xunyang."
In 20 years, Liu Yuxi was exiled to the south and went to Dongting. According to the literature, there are about six times. Among them, only the state is transferred, this time, in autumn. And this poem is a vivid record of this trip.
This poem describes the beautiful scenery of Dongting Lake under the autumn moon, expresses the poet's love and praise for the scenery of Dongting Lake, and shows the poet's magnificent bearing and lofty and wonderful feelings.
The first sentence describes the moonlight of the lake, the second describes the calm of the lake when there is no wind, and the third and fourth sentences focus on Junshan in the lake.
The whole poem chooses the perspective of moonlit night to have a panoramic view of a thousand miles of Dongting, grasps the most representative lakes and mountains, writes gently, and creatively reproduces the beautiful scenery of Dongting on paper through rich imagination and clever metaphor, showing amazing artistic skills.