Climbing Mount Tai is a famous Taishan prose written by Yao Nai during the Qianlong period of Qing Dynasty. This paper describes the author's experience of climbing Mount Tai to watch the sunrise in the snow, describes the magnificent situation of Mount Tai, and makes textual research and correction on the mistakes recorded in Mount Tai. The text is concise and vivid, and the scenery is particularly excellent. It's a famous classic of Tongcheng School.
Yao Nai participated in the compilation of Sikuquanshu, which was completed in the thirty-seventh year of Qianlong and registered as Shi Yu. In the thirty-ninth year of Qianlong (1774), he returned to the field in the name of foster parents. He passed through Tai 'an, climbed to the top of Mount Tai with his best friend Zhu (Zi Ziying) on the evening of February 28th this year1February, and arrived at the back of the Japanese Pavilion at Riguanfeng at 5 o'clock the next New Year's Eve (that year1February).
Watching the sunrise, I wrote this travel note. Wang Keyu, a scholar, called this essay "The Top of Mount Tai" by Yang Shuo, "Mount Tai in the Rain" by Li Jianwu, and "Picking the Mountain Son" by Feng Jicai as the four famous essays of modern Mount Tai.
The original text of Mount Tai:
The sun on Mount Tai flows westward. Its yin helps water flow eastward. All the sunny valleys are in Brunei, and all the shady valleys are in economy. When divided into north and south, the ancient Great Wall is also. The highest peak, south of the Great Wall 15 miles.
In December of the thirty-ninth year of Qianlong, I took a snowstorm from Beijing, crossed Qihe River and Changqing, crossed the northwest valley of Mount Tai and crossed the Great Wall. As for Taian. It was the last day of a month, and Ying, the son of the county magistrate Zhu, boarded the ship from the south foot. Forty-five miles, the road is all paved with stones, more than 7 thousand.
There are three valleys to the south of Mount Tai. Li Daoyuan is surrounded by water in the valley below Tai 'an City. I started walking along the road, and the road was less than half gone. I crossed the ridge in the middle and followed the valley in the west, and then I reached the top of it. In ancient times, climbing a mountain and following the East Valley was Tianmen.
The East Valley was called Tianmenxi in ancient times, so I can't get there. What passed the cliff today is called Tianmen Cloud. The road is foggy, slippery and difficult to climb. Harmony, Cangshan negative snow, bright candle south; Looking at Sunshine Castle in the evening, the water is picturesque and the mountains are foggy.
Wu Shenhui, Wugu and Ziying are sitting in the pavilion waiting for the sunrise. Strong winds and snow hit the face. The pavilion is self-sufficient in the east and full of clouds. In a little white clouds, dozens of people stand upright and the mountains are also. The colors of the sky and clouds are different, and they become five colors in an instant. In the morning, it is as red as Dan, and there is red light under it, so shake it. In other words, so is the East China Sea. Looking back at the Japanese view, we can see Xifeng, or we can win, or we can't, but we are all struggling.
There are Dai Temple and Yuan Jun Temple in the west of Tingxi. The emperor's palace is in the east of Yuan Jun Temple in Bi Xia. It is the day when Taoist stone carvings have been lost since Tang Xianqing. Hermit.