This poem was written by Jia Dao, a monk in the middle Tang Dynasty, when he visited a hermit in the mountains.
When I asked your student under a pine tree, he replied, "My teacher went to pick herbs".
However, through these clouds, how can I know which corner of the mountain it is facing? .
Cangsongxia asked the young schoolchildren, and he said that his master had gone to the mountains to collect medicine.
I only know that it is in this mountain, but I don't know his whereabouts because there is fog in the mountain.
The first sentence of this poem is about the seeker asking the boy, and the last three sentences are the boy's answers. The poet used a combination of questions and answers to describe his anxiety that he could not be found.
In the poem, white clouds are nobler than hermits, and pine trees are used to describe the hermit's character, which shows the seeker's admiration and admiration for hermits.