Birdsong Stream
[Author] Wang Wei
The people are idle, the sweet-scented osmanthus falls, the night is quiet and the spring sky is empty.
When the moon comes out, birds startle the mountains, and they sing in the spring stream.
This poem uses movement to describe still sentences: It is the bird that scares the mountains when the moon rises, and it sings in the spring stream.
The greatest artistic characteristic of poetry is to use movement to contrast stillness, and to blend stillness with movement.
The two sentences "Osmanthus flowers fall when people are idle, and the spring sky is in the quiet night" describe a quiet and beautiful artistic conception: in the silent valley, there are few people around, only the spring osmanthus falls silently; the night is deeper, and everything is sound. Silence, as if there is nothing. Then the poet wrote a more poetic scene: "The moonrise frightens the mountain birds, and they sing in the spring stream." Because the mountains are too quiet, when a bright moon suddenly rises , when the bright silver light shone on the empty valley shrouded in night, it actually alarmed the birds in the mountain, so they began to chirp by the stream in the valley. This cry seemed to break the tranquility in the mountain for a moment, but it also made people feel that the empty mountain was even more Silence and silence.
Wang Ji once wrote such a poem: "The noisy cicada forest is more quiet, and the bird singing mountain is more secluded." Wang Wei's little poem has different meanings but the same purpose. But if you taste it carefully, Wang Ji The poems can't help but give people a sense of reasoning and are full of philosophical implications, but they lack vivid descriptions. However, this poem is vividly written, vivid and natural, and has infinite interest. Although the poem contains flowers falling, moonrise, and birdsong, However, "these moving scenery makes the poem appear full of vitality and not dull, and at the same time, through movement, it more prominently displays the tranquility of the spring stream." It can be seen that he is still coming from behind.