Looking at the West Lake is a set of poems by Su Shi, a writer in the Song Dynasty.
The author was invited to accompany the court director and the prostitute on the same lake for the night. The trace of metaphor is very obvious. The "restlessness" of the "new moon" is actually a reflection of people's trajectory and anxiety, and the "lingering" of the moon is a reflection of travelers' mood.
The new moon on the fifth and sixth day of the fifth lunar month has sunk to the western hills before the second watch. How can we continue to "spit" the lake? And "half a piece of jade" is actually a code word for "breaking a piece of jade". It goes without saying that these two so-called "tourists" have to watch "half a piece of jade to show off its beauty" in the middle of the night.
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Between each poem in the group, the author uses couplets (this poem originated from Cao Zhi's Wang Biao as a White Horse), and the end of each poem is the beginning of the next poem, with a slight change: the beginning of two or four poems is five or six words at the end of one or three poems; The first four words of the third song are the third to the sixty-fourth words of the last sentence of the second song, but the word "West has disappeared" has been changed to "Go".
The beginning of the fifth song is the end of the fourth song. This is perfect and patchy, and it is easy to read. In style, this group of poems is very different from Su Shi's other poems describing the West Lake, such as The Storm in Youmeitang and The Drunk Book in Wanghulou. Those poems are magnificent, but this group of poems gives people a fresh, elegant and quiet aesthetic feeling.