"Climbing the Stork Tower" is a five-character quatrain composed by Wang Zhihuan, a poet in the Tang Dynasty.
1. Full text:
The sun sets over the mountains and the Yellow River flows into the sea.
If you want to see a thousand miles away, take it to the next level.
2. Notes
1. Stork Tower: The ancient name is Stork Tower. It was named because storks and magpies sometimes lived on it. Its former location is in Gupu, Yongji City. On the bank of the Yellow River southwest of the city.
2. Daytime: the sun. Yi: rely on. Exhaust: disappear. This sentence means that the sun sets against the mountains.
3. Desire: want. Exhaustion: to exhaust, to reach the extreme. Clairvoyance: broad vision.
4. Update: again.
3. Translation
The sun gradually sets against the mountains, and the Yellow River flows eastward towards the sea.
If you want to see the scenery thousands of miles away, then please go to another high-rise building.
Extended information:
The first two sentences of this poem describe the natural scenery, but when you start writing, you shrink it thousands of miles away, making it possible to reach thousands of miles away; the last two sentences are freehand, writing It is so unexpected that it seamlessly blends philosophy with scenery and situations, becoming an immortal swan song on Stork Tower.
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 and ignorant knowledge, climb high and take a broad view, and constantly explore new and better realms.
This poem is the masterpiece of five-character poetry in the Tang Dynasty. Wang Zhihuan is famous throughout the ages for this five-character quatrain, and Stork Tower is also famous in China for this poem.
Write what you think in the last two sentences. "Wish to see a thousand miles away" describes the poet's endless desire to explore. He also wants to see further and see the places that his eyes can reach. The only way is to stand higher and "go to a higher level." building".
From the second half of the poem, it can be inferred that the first half may be about what he saw on the second floor (not the highest floor), and the poet also wanted to further see the distant scenery as far as he could see, and even more Climbed to the top of the building. The use of the word "lou" at the end also plays a role in pointing out that this is a poem about climbing a building.