"The setting sun is lonely in Qi Fei, and the autumn water is * * * and the sky is one color" comes from the preface to Wang Tengting by Wang Bo in the Tang Dynasty. The author outlines a quiet and far-reaching picture with four scenes of sunset, loneliness, autumn water and sky, which has always been regarded as a subtle sentence in landscape writing and widely sung.
Translation excerpts
Zhang Yu old county, Hongdu new home. The stars are divided into wings, and the ground is connected with Lu Heng. Three rivers and five lakes in Jin, controlling barbarians and attracting Ouyue. Wuhua Tianbao, the dragon lamp shoots the bull fighting market; Outstanding people, Xu Ru got off Chen Fan's couch. Xing Chi Cai Jun Xiongzhou fog column. At the turn of summer, the host and guest are all in the southeast. The commander-in-chief Gong Yanyi is elegant, and the halberd is in the distance; Fan Yi of Yuwen Xinzhou is temporarily stationed. Ten days holiday, win friends like a cloud; Welcome to the wedding. Teng Jiao, a poet of Meng; Purple electric paste is General Wang's armory. Home is slaughter, Tao is name; What does a boy know? Bowing is always the winner.
When Wei is in September, the sequence belongs to Sanqiu. The water is cold and the pool is clear, and the smoke is purple. Yan Yan is on the road, visiting the scenery, and worshipping; Close to Emperor Cheung Chau, you will see the old pavilion where heaven and man are integrated. Mountains and clouds are heavy; Feige is full of blood, and there is no land under it. Heting ancient bamboo, the haunt of poor islands; Gui Dian Lan Gong is the posture of hills.
Embroidered and carved, Yamahara is full of vision, and Kawasawa is bold and unrestrained. Yan Lu, the hometown of Zhong Mingding's delicious food; Gechuan maze, bluebird Huanglong. Clouds selling rain Ji, colorful. Sunset and lonely Qi Fei, autumn waters and sky are the same color. Fishing boats sing late and resound all over the coast of Peng Li; Yan Zhen was stunned by the cold, and his voice broke Hengyang's pu.
Writing background
Wang Teng Pavilion is named after Wang Teng Li Yuanying. Li Yuanying is the youngest son of Tang Gaozu Tang Gaozu and the younger brother of Emperor Taizong Li Shimin. He is extravagant, immoral, and his political achievements are mediocre. But he is good at singing and dancing, good at painting butterflies and very artistic. He built the Wang Teng Pavilion for the fun of singing and dancing. This famous building in the south of the Yangtze River was built in the prosperous Tang Dynasty, and it soon became famous for Wang Bo's Preface to Wang Tengting. Han Yu said in "Newly Made Wang Tengting": "The less time, the more beautiful Jiangnan is, and Wang Tengting bears the brunt, which is magnificent and unique."
Brief introduction of the author
Wang Bo (about 650-676), Zi 'an, Han nationality, was a writer in the Tang Dynasty. He was born in a Confucian family, and was called "Wang Luo" and "four outstanding men in the early Tang Dynasty" with Yang Jiong and Lu.
When Wang Bo was sixteen, he got a position at the invitation of Yusuke. He was kicked out of Pei Wang Fu for "cockfighting". After that, Wang Bo spent three years traveling in Bashu mountains and rivers and wrote a lot of poems. After returning to Chang 'an, he asked Zhou Guo to join the army. When he joined the army, he was demoted twice for killing government slaves privately. In August of the 3rd year of Shang Dynasty (676), Tang Gaozong returned from visiting his father and drowned across the sea. He is good at five laws and five unique skills, and his representative works include "Farewell to Vice Governor Du to Shu". The main literary achievement is parallel prose, which is the best in quantity and quality. His masterpiece is Preface to Wang Teng Pavilion.