01 "Birdsong Stream"
Wang Wei of the Tang Dynasty
The people are idle, the osmanthus flowers are falling, the night is quiet and the spring mountains are empty.
When the moon comes out, birds startle the mountains, and they sing in the spring stream.
Wang Wei likes to create a quiet artistic conception in his landscape poems, and this poem is the same.
The whole poem is intended to describe tranquility, but it uses moving scenes such as falling flowers, moonrise, and birdsong to make the poem appear full of vitality but not dull, and more prominently shows the tranquility of the spring stream, which is extremely vivid. See the poet's Zen mind and interest.
02 "Staying on the Jiande River"
Meng Haoran of the Tang Dynasty
Moving the boat to Yanzhu, the guests are worried about the new arrival at dusk.
The sky is wide and the trees are low, the river is clear and the moon is close to people.
The poet once rushed to Chang'an with full hope, but now he can only search south for Wuyue with a feeling of abandonment and anger.
At this moment, he was alone, facing the vast fields, the long river, the bright moon and the lonely boat, the melancholy of traveling, the longing for his hometown, the frustration of his official career, the disillusionment of his ideals, the ups and downs of life... … Thousands of worries can’t help but come one after another, flooding into my heart.
03 "Lu Chai"
Wang Wei of the Tang Dynasty
No one can be seen in the empty mountain, but the sound of people's voices can be heard.
Returning to the deep forest, the light shines on the moss again.
This poem creates a deep and bright symbolic realm, showing the author's sudden enlightenment during the deep meditation process.
Silence without sound and darkness without light are easy for most people to detect; but silence with sound and darkness with light are less noticed by people.
04 "On the Lake in Autumn"
Xue Ying of the Tang Dynasty
When the sun sets on the five lakes, the mist is full of sorrow.
Through the ups and downs of the ages, who can ask about the eastward flow?
Things that have happened continuously for thousands of years have risen and fallen with the water on Taihu Lake, and flowed eastward with the lake water.
The fight for fame and fortune, fighting and killing have all disappeared with the wheel of history. The only thing that remains unchanged is the river.
05 "Xinyiwu"
Tang·Wang Wei
Hibiscus flowers bloom at the end of the wood, with red calyxes in the mountains.
There is no one in the Jianhu, opening and closing one after another.
This poem is written from the blooming to the falling of the flowers, and a sentence of environmental description is inserted into it. The situation before and after is completely different, from the hair to falling.
This short four-line poem not only depicts the beautiful image of Xinyi flowers, but also writes a lonely scene and environment, making people feel a sense of loneliness in the environment of the times.