"Painting" is a five-character quatrain written by Wang Wei, a poet in the early Tang Dynasty. The whole poem expresses the poet's yearning for the beautiful things in the painting and his sorrow for reality.
Original text:
Looking at the mountains from a distance, the mountains are colorful, but hearing the water up close is silent.
Spring has gone, the flowers are still there, and the birds are not surprised when people come.
Vernacular translation:
You can see the green color of the mountains in the distance, but you can't hear the sound of running water nearby. Spring has passed, but the flowers are still blooming. When people come closer, the birds on the branches remain motionless. Extended information
This is a painting appreciation poem. Judging from the description in the poem, the mountains, water, flowers, and birds in the painting are all typical Chinese painting themes, and it must be quite beautiful. Realistic and expressive works.
The author turns a static painting into a beautiful landscape scroll through text description: green mountains, flowing water, blooming flowers, singing birds, A vivid scene leads readers into infinite reverie. When the reader returns to reality from his reverie, he realizes that everything in the painting is just a lifeless still life.
The paintings in the poem seem to represent a kind of dream, a dream that is visible but not available, but that kind of dream can only be remembered when the human mind is in a quiet state. But the last resort is a fact. The poet can only look for the last thing in the world that can express his feelings with a touch of meditation. People have gone, leaving empty flowers, birds are not frightened, people come again, there is no eternal beauty, and all beauty will be hidden in illusion.
Reference material Baidu Encyclopedia-Painting (Poetry by Wang Wei of Tang Dynasty)