Wang Dongting author information

About the author:

Liu Yuxi was a writer and philosopher in the Tang Dynasty. The word Meng De is from Luoyang (now Henan) and Zhongshan (now Dingxian, Hebei). Zhenyuan (Tang Dezong year number, 785 ~ 805) is a scholar, who participated in the erudition and macro wording of the course. Give supervision and advice. He once participated in the Wang clique and opposed the separatist forces of eunuchs and buffer regions, and was demoted to Sima Langzhou, and later moved to Lianzhou as a secretariat.

Later, he was recommended by Pei Du as a guest of honor for the Prince and was added to the history of the school department. The world is called Liu Binke. His poems are popular and fresh, and he makes good use of metaphors to entrust political content. Poems such as Zhuzhi Ci, Liuzhi Ci, and Flower Arrangement Tian Ge are rich in folk songs and unique in Tang poetry. There is Selected Works of Liu Mengde.

Extended information "Wangdongting" Original:

The lake and the moon set each other off, and there is no wind mirror on the pool surface.

Looking at Dongting from a distance, there is a green snail in the silver plate.

Translated by Wang Dongting:

Calm waves, moonlight and water blend together, and the lake is like a bronze mirror that does not need polishing, smooth and bright.

Overlooking Dongting, Dongting Mountain with green mountains and lush trees stands in Dongting Lake with white light, just like a green snail in a silver plate.

This poem describes the beautiful scenery of Dongting Lake under the autumn moon, expresses the poet's love and praise for the scenery of Dongting Lake, and shows the poet's magnificent bearing and lofty and wonderful feelings. The first sentence describes the moonlight of the lake, the second sentence describes the calm of the lake when there is no wind, and the third and fourth sentences focus on Junshan in the lake.

The whole poem chooses the perspective of moonlit night to have a panoramic view of a thousand miles of Dongting, grasps the most representative lakes and mountains, writes gently, and creatively reproduces the beautiful scenery of Dongting on paper through rich imagination and clever metaphor, showing amazing artistic skills.

The first sentence describes the clear lake and the green light of the plain moon, just like the meeting in Qiongtian, which is an ethereal, ethereal, quiet and harmonious realm. It shows a harmonious picture of Tianshui and jade characters without dust. The word "harmony" has been refined, showing a harmonious picture of water and sky, jade and dust-free, and it seems to convey the rhythm of a water town night-the rhythm of moonlight and lake water.

The second sentence describes that there is no wind on the lake, and the lake covered with mist is like an unpolished bronze mirror. The word "the mirror is not polished" vividly and aptly shows the calm, peaceful and gentle scene of a thousand miles of Dongting, which has a hazy beauty in the moonlight.

Because only "there is no wind on the pool surface", the water waves are calm, and the lake and the moon can be coordinated. Otherwise, the lake is noisy and the waves are empty, and the lake light and autumn moon are not interesting, so there will be no "two-phase harmony".

The third and fourth sentences focus the poet's attention on Junshan from the overall picture of the vast lake and moonlight. In Yin Hui under the bright moon, Dongting Mountain is greener, Dongting water is clearer and the mountains and rivers are integrated. It looks like a small green snail in a carved silver plate, which is very attractive.

The autumn moon Dongting described by the poet has become a fine treasure of arts and crafts, giving people great artistic enjoyment. "Green snail in a silver plate" is really an incredible punch line. The advantage of this sentence is not only reflected in the accurate warning of metaphor, but also in the poet's magnanimity and lofty feelings.

In the poet's eyes, a thousand miles of Dongting is just a mirror and a cup and plate on the case. It is very rare to lift weights lightly, the pool is natural and unpretentious.

It is a reflection of the poet's character, sentiment and aesthetic taste to express the relationship between man and nature so cordially and to describe the lakes, mountains and mountains so broadly and clearly. Boldness without thought, full of romance.