Sender: Wang Dongting
Author: Liu Yuxi
The lake and the moon set each other off, and there is no wind mirror on the pool surface.
Looking at Dongting from a distance, there is a green snail in the silver plate.
Translation:
The wind and waves are calm, and the moonlight is mixed with water and color. The lake is like a bronze mirror that doesn't need polishing, smooth and bright. ?
Looking at Dongting from afar, the mountains are green and the water is green. The lush Dongting Mountain stands in the Dongting Lake with white light, like a green snail in a silver plate.
Creation 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.