Buddhist retreat behind the broken mountain temple
On a pure morning, near the ancient temple, the early sunshine points to the treetops.
A secluded place with bamboo paths, branches and flowers, to a Buddhist retreat.
Here, birds live in the mountain light, and people's hearts feel quiet in the pond.
All is silent here, but the bell is ringing.
Vernacular translation:
Walking into this ancient temple early in the morning, the rising sun reflected the Woods on the mountain.
The path hidden by bamboo forest leads to the depths, and the flowers and trees before and after the meditation room are lush and colorful.
Bright mountain scenery makes birds happier, and the clear pool water makes people feel relaxed and happy.
At this moment, everything was silent, except the sound of ringing the bell.
Overall evaluation:
This poem is about Buddhist temples, expressing the author's seclusion of forgetting the secular world and expressing his feelings for mountains and rivers. The poet climbed the mountain in the morning and entered Xiaofu Temple. The rising sun shone on Shan Ye Woods. Buddhists call the place where monks gather "jungle", so it means to praise Buddhist temples, which shows the feeling of praising Buddhism and metaphor in the scene of lighting up the forest. Then, the poet crossed the bamboo path in the temple and went deep into the backyard, and found that the meditation room for chanting and worshipping Buddha was deep in the flower forest in the backyard. Such a quiet and wonderful environment makes the poet amazed, intoxicated and ecstatic. He lifted up his eyes and saw the green hills behind the temple being illuminated by the sun, and the birds flying and singing freely; When I walked to the clear pool, I saw the world and my own figure shaking in the water. Zhan Ran was empty and bright, and the worldly distractions in my heart were suddenly washed away. Buddhism is an empty door. Buddhists say that after meditation, a monk "eats again, but tastes Zen" ("Wei Convenience Goods"), and his spirit is extremely pure and pleasant. At this moment, the poet seemed to understand the mystery of Zen, get rid of all worldly troubles, and be as free and carefree as a bird. It seems that other sounds in nature and the world are silent, and only the sound of Zhong Qing is melodious and loud, bringing people into a pure and pleasant realm. Obviously, the poet appreciates the beautiful residence of this Buddhist temple, appreciates the artistic conception of this empty door, and places his feelings of seclusion.
This is a five-character poem, but it is archaic in style, simple in language and flexible in meter. Its first couplet is a flowing pair, and the second couplet is not matched because of the need of conception and cultivation. This poem has been highly appreciated since the Tang Dynasty, mainly because of its beautiful artistic conception and rich interest. The poem expresses seclusion by chanting Buddhist temples, ends with the praise and detachment of the morning visit to the mountain temple, and simply writes scenery and expresses emotion, which is still unfinished. This euphemistic and implicit artistic conception, as Yin Kun said when commenting on the artistic characteristics of Chang Jian's poems in the Tang Dynasty: "When building a poem, it is like finding a village road, but finding a wild path. A hundred miles away, it will lead to the main road." Therefore, its purpose is far-reaching, its popularity is different, and good sentences are coming, only on meaning. "He brilliantly pointed out that Chang Jian's poems have the characteristics of ingenious conception, and are good at guiding readers into their scenic spots in the folk, and then understanding the theme of the poems, instead of surprising them with description and rhetoric. Therefore, good sentences in poetry often seem to suddenly appear in front of readers, which is amazing. And its beautiful sentences, like the conception of poetry, are ingenious and subtle. In the Song Dynasty, Ouyang Xiu loved the phrase "Bamboo Path", saying that "it is difficult to achieve a long-term combination of words, and it is difficult for people who know how to create meaning to work. "Later, he stayed in a mountain village in Qingzhou and personally experienced the artistic conception and interest written in the two sentences of Bamboo Path. He wanted to write such a poem, but he still couldn't write a word (see Qingzhou Village Theory). Ouyang Xiu's experience vividly illustrates the benefits of the sentence "Bamboo Path", which does not describe beautiful scenery and makes people feel like they are in the environment, but causes the friendly aftertaste of passers-by, so it is difficult to make clouds. Similarly, the word "light of the mountain", praised by Yin Kun as "warning strategy", is not only a word to warn people, but also has a deeper meaning, aiming at thought-provoking. It is precisely because the poet focuses on conception and creation that the word-building does not seek similarity, but contains metaphors, focusing on expression, which is fascinating and intriguing.
Most of the landscape poems in the prosperous Tang Dynasty praised seclusion and interest, all of which had an artistic conception of leisure, but each had its own unique style and achievements. Chang Jian's poem, written in Jueyou, has the general artistic conception of landscape poetry in the prosperous Tang Dynasty, but its style is elegant, which is different from Wang Wei's loftiness and Meng Haoran's plainness in art and is really unique.
The poem "Zen Realm after Broken Mountain Temple" often written by poets in the Tang Dynasty was selected as 300 Tang poems. This poem describes the impression after visiting the Buddhist temple in the morning, depicts a unique and peaceful realm with concise brushwork, and expresses the poet's joy in visiting scenic spots and his strong pursuit of lofty realm. The whole poem has a simple style, distinct layers, profound images, muddy artistic conception, concise and clear, strong appeal and quite complete art. This is a unique and famous poem in the Tang Dynasty.
Chang Jian, a native of Xingzhou (according to the tombstone), later traveled to Chang 'an (now Xi 'an, Shaanxi Province), a poet in the Tang Dynasty, whose name is unknown. In the 15th year of Kaiyuan (727), he was a scholar with Wang Changling, but he was not proud of his long career and lived a wandering life for a long time. After moving home, he lived in seclusion in Ezhu. Tian Baozhong, a former Xu Yiwei. There are not many existing literary works in Chang Jian, among which the famous one is Zen after Broken Mountain Temple.