1. "Looking at Lushan Waterfall" is a famous poem describing scenery written by Li Bai, a poet in the Tang Dynasty.
2. Full text:
Wanglushan Waterfall
Li Bai of the Tang Dynasty
The incense burner produces purple smoke in the sunshine, and the waterfall hangs in front of the river in the distance.
Flying down three thousand feet, it is suspected that the Milky Way has fallen into the sky.
3. Translation:
The sun shines on Xianglu Peak and a faint purple smoke rises.
From a distance, you can see a waterfall hanging in front of the mountain.
The rapidly flowing waterfall is three thousand feet long,
It is suspected that it is a bank falling from the sky.
4. Appreciation:
This is a poem describing scenery. The poet was at the foot of Xianglu Peak in Mount Lu, admiring the scenery from a distance. He first looked at the incense burner peak above. "The sun shines on the incense burner and produces purple smoke." The rays of the sun shine on the incense burner peak, and purple smoke rises in the "censer". Smoke is usually gray-white, so how can the smoke here be purple? Because there is a waterfall under Xianglu Peak. The water vapor transpires, mixes with the clouds, and shines through the sunlight, reflecting purple. Looking from a distance, it hovers on the peak that looks like an incense burner. What is lingering is the purple smoke cloud. How wonderful this scenery is! Smoke from incense burners is a very common thing, and the poet used it to describe the wonderful scenery of Xianglu Peak.
Then look down at the waterfall at Xianglu Peak. "Looking at the waterfall Kagemae River from a distance", looking from a distance, a waterfall hangs on the water in front. The most expressive thing here is the word "hang". The waterfall was originally water that suddenly poured down from the mountain wall. From a distance, it looked like a hanging cloth, so it was called a waterfall. The author uses the word "hang" to describe it from top to bottom, which is very vivid. The first poem of "Wanglu Mountain Waterfall" contains the poem "hanging flow three hundred feet", and "hanging" is also used to describe Xianglufeng Waterfall.
The third and fourth sentences further describe the waterfall, "flying down", describing the rapidity of the waterfall rushing straight down from the high mountain wall. "Three thousand feet" is an exaggerated number. Like the "three hundred feet hanging flow" mentioned above, it is an exaggeration to describe the momentum of a waterfall flying down from a very high point on a steep mountain wall. The last sentence "It is suspected that the Milky Way has fallen from the sky", which means that people suspect that it is the Milky Way falling from the extremely high sky. The Milky Way is originally a silver-white band of light surrounding the sky on a clear night. It is both spectacular and full of mysterious beauty. It is a celestial wonder of nature. The Milky Way is used as a metaphor for a waterfall, showing that the waterfall is sparkling silver and majestic. The magnificent spectacle is truly a unique association. When the poet uses this metaphor, he does not use the words "like" or "like", but uses the word "suspicious" to deliberately say whether it is true or false, which emphasizes the realistic degree of similarity between the two.