Excerpt from the original:
When I read Wang Wei's Autumn Night in the Deep Mountains, I was still young. I can't imagine the nobleness of the "bright moon in the pine", and I don't know what it's like to "flow on the stone". Mom said it was a beautiful landscape painting, so let me recite it well and I'll know the meaning when I recite it. But although I have memorized this poem, I still don't understand its meaning. The rural scenery such as empty mountains, clear springs and fishing boats is only hazy, while the countryside is even more blurred.
Later, I went to college and gained some knowledge of ancient Chinese. I was often proud of my classmates and friends. Over and over again, "moonlight in the pine forest, crystal stone in the stream" always wins the praise of teachers. Later, I went deep into the countryside, where there were pastoral areas, but there were no pine and bamboo flowing springs; I went to Huashan and Emei Mountain, listened to the sound of spring on a moonlit night, listened to the bells in an ancient temple, took a fishing boat in the south of the Yangtze River, and visited women by a stream, all in pursuit of the brilliant artistic conception of Wang Wei's Autumn Night in a Mountain and the persistent complex of "there is moonlight in the pine forest and crystal stone in the stream".
For a time, on earth, I thought I had nymphs in my chest, and even pretended to be an old fisherman, arguing with my colleagues and persuading people in trouble. I think, with Wang Wei in my heart, I gave up the troubles of the world and saw through the disputes of the world of mortals; I even think that a pot of green tea can play jokes on ancient and modern times.
This article is from Jia Pingwa's Bright Moon and Clear Spring in My Love.
Analysis:
This is a very literary and sentimental essay. The author's interpretation of "bright moon and clear spring" in Wang Wei's poems is a process in which the author's own life experience is constantly enriched and his interest in life is maturing. From a teenager who can only recite but doesn't know what it means to a teenager who thinks he has read it, it is not until a middle-aged person "has experienced countless life experiences and accumulated experience" that he really understands the philosophy of life.
In the author's eyes, Wang Wei's Mingyue Spring is not only a "material creation, but also a spiritual Mingyue Spring". The author relies on it to pursue the ideal realm of life, that is, to maintain a noble mind and indifferent feelings, "be willing to be poor and lonely, and maintain an independent personality from beginning to end", not bound by material desires, and to maintain his own persistence.