When I asked your students, a pine tree said, "The guest book is a seven-character quatrain written by Ye Wei, a poet in the Northern Song Dynasty.
Original text:
When I asked your students under a pine tree, "my teacher," he replied, "went to pick herbs." ?
However, through these clouds, how can I know which corner of the mountain it is facing? .
Translation:
Under the pine tree, I asked the hermit's son where his master had gone. He said that the master had gone to collect medicine. Pointing to the high mountain, he said, it's in this mountain, but the forest is deep and dense, and I don't know where he is.
Appreciation of works:
In the Tang Dynasty, there were several poems with the theme of seeking seclusion. Jia Dao's suicide note is the most admired by later generations. The artistic conception of Ye Wei's four-line poem is similar to Jia's poem "I asked your students, under a pine tree", and he replied, "My teacher, go to collect herbs". However, through these clouds, how can I know which corner of the mountain it is facing? ".
People don't know who the "hermit" in the title of the poem is. Ye Wei himself was a famous hermit in the early Song Dynasty. He had contacts with many hermits, which reflected this aspect of the poet's life. He wrote that hermits looked for each other but never met each other.
Compared with Jia Dao's poems, although the topic is the same, the internal meaning is obviously different. In Jia Dao's poem, the hermit asks, "How can I tell, through all these clouds?" But, after all, "but to which corner of the mountain" still has a goal. The hermit in this poem is more wandering and elusive.
In the first sentence, "looking for the truth and straying into Penglai Island" pointed out the place to look. Hermit seems to be a Taoist, and poets call him a "real person", which makes him immortal, showing his admiration. The word "mistake" not only shows that the poet came here unconsciously, but also shows his surprise at this lonely scene. "The fragrant wind does not move the pine flowers" has the scenery he saw. The fragrance is still, and the pine blossoms fall, which shows the seclusion of the hermit.