The Story of Yueyang Tower has 368 words.
The original text of Yueyang Tower is as follows:
In the spring of the fourth year of Qingli, Teng Zijing was appointed to guard Baling County. The next year, the government will be harmonious, and everything will be ruined. It is to rebuild Yueyang Tower, add its old system, and engrave Tang Xian's poems on it, which belongs to the composition to remember.
Yu Guanfu Baling wins, in Dongting Lake. The mountains are far away, the Yangtze River is swallowed, the soup is vast, the horizon is boundless, the morning sun is shining, and the weather is myriad. This is the grand view of Yueyang Tower, which was prepared by predecessors. However, Wuxia in the north, Xiaoxiang in the South Pole, and the poets who moved to other places will be here, and they will have a good look at things.
if my husband is raining hard, even the moon can't open, the evil wind is howling, the turbid waves are emptying, the sun and stars are hidden, the mountains are hidden, business travel is not good, the dusk is fading, the tigers are howling and the apes are crying. When you go to Dengsi Building, there are people who are homesick, sorrowful, sorrowful and sad.
If it is spring and Jingming, the waves are calm, the sky is bright and blue, Sha Ou Xiangji, swimming in brocade scales, and the shore is green and green. Or the long smoke runs out, the bright moon is thousands of miles away, the floating light jumps over the gold, the static shadow sinks the wall, and the fishing songs answer each other. What a joy! When you go to Dengsi Building, you will feel relaxed and happy, and you will forget the humiliation and leave the wine in the wind, which will make you happy.
fu! What is it to taste the heart of the ancient benevolent, or to do something different from the two? Don't be happy with things, don't be sad for yourself. If you live high in the temple, you will worry about your people, and if you are far away from the rivers and lakes, you will worry about your king. It's worrying about advancing and worrying about retreating. But when will you be happy? It must be said that "worry about the world first, and then enjoy the world"! Hey! Weiss, who are we going home with?
September 15th, six years.
Full-text translation:
In the spring of the fourth year of Qingli, Teng Zijing was demoted to be a prefect in Yuezhou. In the second year, the government affairs were smooth, the people were happy, and all kinds of abandoned businesses were set up. So the Yueyang Tower was rebuilt, and its original scale was expanded, and the poems of famous people and modern people in the Tang Dynasty were engraved on it. I was asked to write an article about it.
I think the beautiful scenery of Baling County is all on Dongting Lake. Dongting Lake contains distant mountains and breathes the flowing water of the Yangtze River. It is vast and boundless. In the morning, the lake is full of sunshine, and in the evening, it is dark, and the scenery changes endlessly. This is the magnificent scene of Yueyang Tower. The predecessors' descriptions of these scenes have been very detailed. Even so, it leads to Wuxia in the north and Xiaoshui and Xiangjiang in the south. Most people who have been demoted and far-tuned, and poets who write poems and compose poems, gather here and watch the natural scenery here, which will probably trigger different feelings.
like the continuous drizzle, when it doesn't clear up all month, the cold wind roared and the turbid waves rushed into the sky; The sun, the moon and the stars hide their brilliance, and the mountains also disappear; Businessmen and passengers can't pass, masts fall and oars break; In the evening, it was dark, and only the roar of tigers and the sad cry of apes were heard. At this time, when you board this building, you will feel that you have been demoted to leave the capital, miss your hometown, worry about people saying bad things, and be afraid of people's sarcasm. If you look up, it will be full of depression and coldness, and you will be deeply touched and very sad.
when the spring breeze is warm and the sun is shining, the lake is calm, and the sky meets the lake light, which is green and boundless; Bai Ou on the sandbar, sometimes flying and sometimes stopping, beautiful fish floating or sinking; The grass on the shore and the orchids on the continent are rich in fragrance and green in color. Sometimes the smoke on the lake completely dissipates, and the bright moonlight falls a thousand miles. Sometimes the microwave ripples on the lake, and the floating moonlight shines golden. Sometimes the lake is calm, and the quiet moon image sinks into the jade in the water. The fisherman's song rang, echo each other, and the fun was endless! At this time, when you board this building, you will feel open-minded, cheerful, glorious and humiliating, and you will forget it together. You will end up drinking your glass in the breeze, and you will feel really happy.
alas! I used to explore the thoughts and feelings of people with noble morality in ancient times. They may be different from the above two moods. What is the reason? It is because in ancient times, people with high moral character were not happy or sad because of the quality of foreign things and their own gains and losses. Being an official in the imperial court worries about the people; Not being an official in the imperial court, but being in the middle of the remote rivers and lakes, I am worried about the monarch. In this way, they are also worried about entering the imperial court as an official and retiring from the Jianghu. Even so, when will they be happy? Then we must say, "Be sad before the world is sad, and be happy after the world is happy"? Alas! If there is no such person, who will I go with?
it was written on September 15th, 6th year of Qingli.