The poem comes from "Looking at the Dongting" by Liu Yuxi, a writer in the Tang Dynasty. The original text is as follows:
The lake and the moon set each other off, and there is no wind mirror on the pool surface.
Looking at Dongting from a distance, there is a green snail in the silver plate.
Interpretation of vernacular: The moonlight and water color of Dongting Lake blend together, and the lake is as calm as an unpolished bronze mirror. Looking at Dongting Lake from a distance, the landscape is as green as ink, like a green snail in a silver plate.
Comment on words and phrases:
Dongting: The name of the lake is in the north of Hunan Province today.
Lake light: the wave light on the lake. Two: the lake and the autumn moon. Harmony: Harmony. Water and moonlight.
Pond surface: refers to the lake surface. Mirrors are not polished: ancient mirrors were made of copper. This sentence means that the lake is as calm as a mirror; It is said that the scenery in the lake is blurred from a distance, just like a mirror is blurred without polishing.
Green landscape: a "landscape color". Mountain refers to Junshan Mountain in Dongting Lake.
Silver plate: describes the calm and clear Dongting Lake. Silver is "white clouds". Green snail: used here to describe the military mountain in Dongting Lake.
Extended data:
This poem describes the beautiful scenery of Dongting Lake in the moonlight on an autumn night. Microwave is quiet, calm, beautiful and particularly pleasant. The poet's imagination flies, vividly depicts the hazy beauty of Dongting Lake in a fresh style, and draws a beautiful landscape map of Dongting Lake, showing the poet's love for nature, magnificent bearing and lofty and wonderful feelings.
The first sentence describes the clear lake and the green light of the plain moon, just like the meeting in Qiongtian, which is an ethereal, ethereal, quiet and harmonious realm. It shows a harmonious picture of Tianshui and jade characters without dust. The word "harmony" has been refined, showing a harmonious picture of water and sky, jade and dust-free, and it seems to convey the rhythm of a water town night-the rhythm of moonlight and lake water.
The second sentence describes that there is no wind on the lake, and the lake covered with mist is like an unpolished bronze mirror. The word "the mirror is not polished" vividly and aptly shows the calm, peaceful and gentle scene of a thousand miles of Dongting, which has a hazy beauty in the moonlight. Because only "there is no wind on the pool surface", the water waves are calm, and the lake and the moon can be coordinated. Otherwise, the lake is noisy and the waves are empty, and the lake light and autumn moon are not interesting, so there will be no "two-phase harmony".
The third and fourth sentences focus the poet's attention on Junshan from the overall picture of the vast lake and moonlight. In Yin Hui under the bright moon, Dongting Mountain is greener, Dongting water is clearer and the mountains and rivers are integrated. It looks like a small green snail in a carved silver plate, which is very attractive. The autumn moon Dongting described by the poet has become a fine treasure of arts and crafts, giving people great artistic enjoyment.
"Green snail in a silver plate" is really an incredible punch line. The advantage of this sentence is not only reflected in the accurate warning of metaphor, but also in the poet's magnanimity and lofty feelings. In the poet's eyes, a thousand miles of Dongting is just a mirror and a cup and plate on the case.
It is very rare to lift weights lightly, the pool is natural and unpretentious. It is a reflection of the poet's character, sentiment and aesthetic taste to express the relationship between man and nature so cordially and to describe the lakes, mountains and mountains so broadly and clearly. Boldness without thought, full of romance.