Original text:
The empty mountains are bathed in a new rain, and feel the early autumn at night.
The bright moon shed clear light from the cracks and cleared the fountain on the rocks.
The bamboo forest is sonorous, the washerwoman returns, and the lotus leaves are swaying to get on the canoe.
Spring spring might as well give it a rest, and the autumn sun can stay on the hills for a long time.
Translation:
The empty mountain is bathed in a new rain, and the arrival of night makes people feel that it is early autumn.
The moon is clear and clear, and the clear spring is flowing.
The bamboo forest was noisy until the washerwoman came back, and the lotus leaves swayed like canoes.
The wheat straw in spring might as well let it rest, and the prince and grandson in the mountains can stay in autumn.
Extended data:
Creation background
This poem is about the scenery at dusk after rain seen by mountain people in early autumn. Wang Wei wrote it when he lived in seclusion in Xiawangchuan, Zhong Nanshan.
This poem is a masterpiece of landscape, which embodies the poet's noble feelings and pursuit of ideal realm in poetic imagery.
"The empty mountain after the rain stands in the autumn evening." The poem clearly says that there are female fishing boats, but the poet writes "the empty mountain". This is because the dense trees on the mountain cover up the traces of people's activities. The so-called "there seems to be no one on the empty mountain, but I think I heard a voice" (Chai Lu).
Because there are few people here, "no one in the cave knows about foreign affairs, and outsiders only see the empty mountains and thick clouds" ("Peach Blossom Garden"), naturally someone came from Fugui Mountain. The word "empty mountain" points out that besides, it is like a paradise. In the early days of Shan Yu, everything was new. It was early autumn evening. It is conceivable that the air is fresh and the scenery is wonderful.
"Moonlight in the pine forest, crystal stone in the stream." It was dark, but there was a bright moon in the sky. The flowers have withered, but there are pine trees covered. The mountain spring is clear, flowing through the rocks, like a pure white plain, shining in the moonlight, vividly showing the quiet and clear natural beauty.
Wang Wei's Ode to the Four Saints on Economy once praised the noble sentiments of the two sages, saying that "there is no evil wood in the shade, and drinking water must be extreme." The poet himself is such a noble-minded person. He once said: "It is better to drink its water and rest in the wild forest, instead of sitting on the beam and seeing the princes in the rugged." This month, pine trees and clear springs on rocks are exactly the ideal realm he pursues.
These two sentences are picturesque, free and easy, and have little strength. This touching writing of natural scenery has reached the level of artistic perfection, which is really beyond the ordinary people's learning.