Shao Yong in Northern Song Dynasty
Original text:
At first glance, it is two or three miles away, and mist hangs over four or five families.
Pavilion 67, 89 bloom.
Translation:
At first glance, two or three miles away, mist enveloped four or five families. There are six or seven pavilions beside the village, and many flowers are in full bloom.
Literary appreciation:
Through the expression of brocade, this poem arranges the scenes of smoky villages, people's homes, pavilions and flowers together to form an idyllic landscape, creating an elegant artistic conception and expressing the poet's love and praise for nature.
The two sentences of "a row of two or three miles, four or five houses in a smoky village" are linear visual impressions, "a row" is a horizontal movement, "two or three" refers to a large number of empty fingers, the kitchen smoke is vertical, and the two sentences of "six or seven pavilions, eighty or ninety flowers" are transformed into point-like visual impressions: pavilions are full of flowers.
The poet arranged a quantifier in every sentence of this poem, namely "Li", "Jia", "Zuo" and "Zhi", which are novel and changeable, and each sentence also arranged two or three numbers:
The word "one" begins with "23", "45" and "67" embedded in the sentence, and "890" returns to the beginning of the sentence. Ten Chinese characters representing numbers from one to ten are woven together with roads, smoke, villages, pavilions and flowers in natural numerical order. Coupled with the natural arrangement of poems and paintings, only a few strokes can form a natural, simple and hazy mountain village landscape painting.
Creative background:
The exact writing time of this poem is unknown. It was the poet who saw the spring scenery and charming pastoral scenery in the countryside when he visited the city of * * * in March. He wrote this poem in order to express the poet's leisurely mood and positive attitude towards life.