Climb the Stork Tower and press the slash to pause.
Climbing the Stork Tower
Author: Wang Zhihuan (Tang Dynasty)
The sun ends against the mountains, and the Yellow River flows into the sea.
If you want to see a thousand miles away, go to the next level.
Translation
The setting sun slowly sinks against the Western Mountains, and the mighty Yellow River rushes towards the East China Sea.
If you want to see enough of the thousands of miles of scenery, you have to climb to a higher tower.
Notes
1. Stork Tower: The former site is in Yongji County, Shanxi Province. The three-story building faces Zhongtiao Mountain in front and the Yellow River below. Legend has it that storks often stop here, hence the name.
2． Day: sun.
3. Yi: rely on.
4. Exhaust: disappear. This sentence means that the sun sets against the mountains.
5. Desire: The desire to get something or achieve a certain goal, but it also means hope and want.
6． Exhaustion: to exhaust, to reach the extreme.
7. Clairvoyance: broad vision.
8． Update: replace, replace. (Not the commonly understood meaning of "Zai")
"Climbing the Stork Tower" is a poem written by Wang Zhihuan, a poet in the Tang Dynasty. The first two sentences of this poem describe the natural scenery, but at the beginning of the stroke, it is reduced to ten thousand miles away, making the distance ten thousand miles away. The last two lines are freehand, written unexpectedly, and blend the philosophy with the scenery and situation seamlessly. The poet's soul was shocked by nature, and what he realized was a simple and profound philosophy, which can urge people to abandon their self-sufficient knowledge, climb high and look broadly, and constantly explore new and better realms. Poetry critics in the Qing Dynasty believed: "Wang's poem is only twenty characters long. The first cross has the general idea, and the last cross has the potential to span a thousand miles." This poem is the masterpiece of five-character poetry in the Tang Dynasty. Wang Zhihuan was inspired by this five-character poem. The quatrains are famous throughout the ages, and the Stork Tower is also famous in China for this poem.
Although this poem only has twenty characters, it uses thousands of huge rafters to depict the majestic momentum and magnificent scenery of the northern country's rivers and mountains. Its majestic momentum and profound artistic conception have been inspiring the Chinese nation for thousands of years. up. Especially the last two sentences are often quoted to express a life attitude of active exploration and unlimited enterprising. To this day, this poem still appears on major political and diplomatic occasions in China from time to time.