The water in the canal meanders northward, looking sideways as if there is no end, and finally flows into the thirsty pool. On one side of the pool are strange stones, trees, flowers and beautiful bamboo, where people can sit side by side and have a rest. The wind blew through the treetops, and sweet sounds echoed between cliffs and valleys. You see, it's very quiet. The sound they make when they are blown by the wind spreads in the distance.
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Collection of Poems and Songs is an essay by Liu Zongyuan, an essayist in the Tang Dynasty, and it is the sixth of the Eight Records of Yongzhou. This paper describes the author's pursuit of beautiful scenery along the canal, and expresses the author's repressed feelings by exploring novelty, broadening his mind and pursuing beautiful scenery, so as to express the author's feeling of winning.
Less than a hundred steps to the southwest from Yuanjiaketan, they saw a stone canal on which people built a temporary bridge. There is a spring flowing quietly, and the sound when flowing is sometimes big and sometimes small. The width of the spring canal is sometimes one foot, sometimes two feet, and its length is about ten steps. Its current overflowed when it met a big stone.
Jump over the big stone and walk forward, and you will find a stone pool covered with calamus and surrounded by moss. The canal water turns west again, flows into the gap on the edge of the rock, and finally flows into the small pool in the north like a waterfall. Fiona Fang in Tan Xiao is less than 100 feet. This pond is clear and deep, and there are many fast-swimming fish.