Birding Creek is the first poem in a group of poems "Five Miscellaneous Talks on Yunxi of Huangfuyue" written by Wang Wei, a poet in Tang Dynasty. The original poem is as follows:
People are idle, osmanthus flowers fall, and the night is quiet and empty.
When the moon comes out, the birds are startled, and the sound enters the spring stream.
Interpretation of vernacular Chinese: Spring night is silent, osmanthus slowly fades, and there is no one around. The silence of the spring night makes Shan Ye look more empty. Perhaps the moonlight disturbed the birds, and gentle songs came from time to time in the mountain stream.
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Creation background: The background of Wang Wei's Birding Stream is a stable, unified and prosperous society in the Tang Dynasty. This poem is the first of the ancient poem "Five Miscellaneous Topics of Huangfuyue Yunxi" written by Wang Wei's good friend Huangfuyue. Each of the five poems describes a landscape, which is close to landscape sketch, but different from ordinary freehand brushwork, perhaps a scenic spot.
Bird Watching Creek focuses on the quiet beauty of spring mountain at night. In Wang Wei's poems, we can not only see the charming environment of spring mountain dotted with bright moon, fallen flowers and birds singing, but also feel the peaceful and stable social atmosphere in the prosperous Tang Dynasty. Expressed the author's love for spring scenery in the mountains.
The whole poem "Bird Sound Flow" is closely related to the word "quiet", much like a landscape sketch. With moving scenery such as falling flowers, the moon rising and birds singing, the poet highlights the quietness of the spring mountain on a moonlit night, achieves the artistic effect of moving with quietness, and vividly outlines a poetic picture of "the mountains are more secluded". The whole poem is aimed at writing quietly, but it is handled with moving scenery. This contrast is very obvious to the poet's Zen and interest.