Wang Wei's "Bird Sound Stream" is based on the stable and unified prosperous Tang society when Kaiyuan (713-741) traveled to the south of the Yangtze River. This is the first group poem "Five Miscellaneous Poems of Huangfuyue in Yunxi" written by Wang Wei's good friend Huangfuyue, who lives in Yunxi Mountain Villa. It is written by a poet who lives in Wuxi (that is, Ruoshuixi) in the southeast of Shaoxing County.
Wang Wei wandered around Ruoye, feeling the scene in front of him, and thinking of the famous sentences of predecessors describing Ruoye River. He wants to compete with the ancients to win the blue, and he wins the blue, so he has a wonderful poem "When the moon rises, the birds are surprised, and when the spring comes, it is in the stream". From the analysis of the style and artistic conception embodied in the poem Bird Sound Stream, this poem should be written in the period of "Kaiyuan Prosperity" of Xuanzong of Tang Dynasty, and it is the work of Wang Wei in his youth.
Original text:
People are idle, osmanthus flowers fall, and the night is quiet and empty.
When the moon comes out, the birds are startled, and the sound enters the spring stream.
Translation:
Spring night, silent, sweet-scented osmanthus, gently falling. Castle peak and clear forest are more empty.
The bright moon rose, which alarmed several perched mountain birds. The crisp song echoed in the empty mountain stream for a long time.
Appreciate:
The word "people are idle" at the beginning can't be read easily. "People are idle" means that there is no human disturbance around, indicating the poet's inner leisure. On this premise, the delicate osmanthus fell from the branches before being noticed. Poets can find this kind of "falling" through the touch of flowers falling on their skirts, or through the sound, or through the slightest fragrance when petals fall. In short, the factors that "depravity" can affect people are very subtle. When this subtle factor can be clearly felt from the surrounding world, the poet can't help but marvel at the silence of the night and the special emptiness shown by this silence. Here, the poet's mood and the environmental atmosphere of Chunshan blend and influence each other.
In this spring mountain, everything is intoxicated with the color and tranquility of the night. Therefore, when the moon rises, bringing bright Yin Hui to this empty valley shrouded in darkness, all the birds in the mountain are startled. Birds are surprised, of course, because they are used to the silence of the valley. It seems that even the moon rises with new excitement. But it is also conceivable that the bright moonlight makes the scene before and after the valley suddenly change. The so-called "moon stars are scarce, birds fly south" (Cao Cao's "Short Songs") readers can associate it. However, Wang Wei lived in the prosperous Tang Dynasty, which was different from the chaos in Jian 'an period, and even birds and animals were nervous. The background of Wang Wei's Mountain Birds on the Moon is a stable, unified and prosperous society in the Tang Dynasty. Although the bird is surprised, it is by no means "three turns around the tree, no branches to follow." They don't fly away from the spring stream, or even take off at all, but occasionally make noises in the Woods. They are not so much "surprised" as feeling fresh about the moon coming out. Therefore, if we compare Cao Cao's "A Short Song", in Wang Wei's poems, we can not only see the beautiful environment of spring mountain dotted with bright moon, fallen flowers and birds, but also feel the peaceful and stable social atmosphere in the prosperous Tang Dynasty.
I hope it helps you.