There are high mountains on both sides, without interruption at all.
2. From the pavilion at midnight, there is no sunrise.
If it weren't for midnight, even the sun and the moon couldn't be seen.
Excerpt from the original:
The Three Gorges, 700 Li, is surrounded by mountains on both sides, and there is no gap. Rocks piled up, blocking the sunshine in the sky, and there was no sunrise since midnight. As for launching Xiangling, it is along the back block. Or the king ordered an emergency notice, sometimes going to Baidicheng and going to Jiangling at dusk. During this period, although he took the wind, he didn't get sick.
Vernacular translation:
Between 700 miles of the Three Gorges, there are continuous mountains on both sides, without interruption at all; Overlapping cliffs block the sky and the sun. If it weren't for midnight, even the sun and the moon couldn't be seen.
In summer, the water rises, the river overflows the mountains, and the descending or ascending ships are blocked. Sometimes the emperor's orders need urgent communication. At this time, as long as you leave Baidicheng in the morning and arrive in Gangneung at night, there will be a journey of 1200 miles in it. Even if you ride a galloping horse and drive a high wind, you are not as fast as it.
This article is from the Three Gorges written by Li Daoyuan in the Southern and Northern Dynasties.
Extended data writing background:
The Three Gorges is an essay written by Li Daoyuan, a geographer and essayist in the Northern Wei Dynasty. This article is a beautiful and fresh landscape prose, which describes the majesty and preciseness of the Three Gorges of the Yangtze River, depicts the unique scenery of the four seasons of the Three Gorges, and shows a tall and straight ink and wash landscape painting in the map of the Yangtze River. The full text is rigorous in structure, ingenious in layout, seamless, concise in language and vivid in description.
Li Daoyuan was born in an official family. When I was a child, I went to Shandong with my father to seek waterways. Later, he traveled the Qinling Mountains, north of Huaihe River and south of the Great Wall, inspected river valleys, collected relevant customs, historical stories, myths and legends, and created 40 volumes of Notes on Water Mirrors. Nominally, it is based on the annotation of Shui Jing Zhu, but actually it is a re-creation on the basis of Shui Jing Zhu.
The author writes winter and spring together, taking into account the characteristics of the two seasons. When there is no water in winter, there will be a "green pool", and when things are fresh in spring, there will be "glory" of vegetation. What is written in this section is completely different from that described in the previous section. Summer water is fierce, spring water flows; Water in summer is dangerous, and water in spring is interesting. The author thinks that the scenery of the Three Gorges is "very interesting", which is quite different from the feudal literati's thoughts and feelings about the Three Gorges.
Andy, professor of Chinese Department of South China Normal University, Dictionary of Ancient Chinese Appreciation: "Although his Notes on Water Mirror is a masterpiece of geography, it can also bring great artistic enjoyment to people. The Three Gorges is one of the most fascinating chapters. It seems to be a magnificent and colorful landscape painting scroll, which is amazing and joyful to appreciate! "
About the author:
Li Daoyuan (472-527) was born in Zhuozhou, Fanyang (now Zhuozhou, Hebei). The son of Fan Li, a general in Pingtung, was an official and geographer in the Northern Wei Dynasty. He has served as deputy general of the imperial history, commander of the northern corps commander, etc., and has also served as chief history of Jizhou, satrap of Luyang County, secretariat of East Jingzhou, and Yin of Henan Province. Strict law enforcement, was appointed as ambassador Guan Yu by the Northern Wei court. In the third year of Xiaochang in the Northern Wei Dynasty (527), Guo Zihui was killed by Bao Xiaobu at Yinpan Post.