Boating in Guazhou is a seven-character quatrain written by Wang Anshi, a writer in the Northern Song Dynasty.
Standing at Guazhou Ferry, looking south, there is only one Yangtze River between Jingkou and Guazhou, and Zhongshan, where I live, is hidden behind several mountains.
The warm spring breeze once again blew the fields in the south of the Yangtze River green. When will the bright moon shine on me and return to my home at the foot of Zhongshan Mountain?
Literary appreciation:
The whole poem is entitled "boating in Guazhou", which points out the poet's foothold.
The first sentence "Guazhou in Jingkou is a water room" describes the scenery in front of us. The poet stood at Guazhou Ferry and looked south. He saw that Jingkou and Guazhou on the south bank were so close, separated by a river. The word "one water sword" describes the rapid and instantaneous arrival of a ship.
The second sentence, "Zhongshan is only separated by several mountains", wrote his review of Zhongshan with nostalgia. Wang Anshi settled in Jiangning with his father Wang Yi in the fourth year of Jing You (1037), and Jiangning has since become his resting place. After the first strike, he lived in Zhongshan, Jiangning
The word "only separated" is very close to Zhongshan. It is very common to say that the interval between several mountain knives reflects the poet's deep attachment to Zhongshan. In fact, after all, Zhongshan was blocked by "several mountains", so the poet's sight turned to the river.