Su Shi's "Inscription on the Wall of the Western Forest":
Original text
Viewed horizontally, it looks like a ridge and peaks on the side, with different heights near and far.
I don’t know the true face of Mount Lu, just because I am in this mountain.
Appreciation
If the poetry tradition before the Song Dynasty was characterized by expressing aspirations and emotions, then in the Song Dynasty, especially Su Shi, a new style of poetry characterized by reasoning and reasoning appeared . This style of poetry is a new path developed by the Song Dynasty people after Tang poetry. In Su Shi's words, it is "creating new ideas in the law and expressing wonderful principles in the bold and unrestrained". The characteristics that form this type of poetry are: the language is shallow and the meaning is deep, the things are meaningful, and the taste is indifferent. "Inscribed on the Silin Wall" is such a good poem.
The last two sentences, "I don't know the true face of Mount Lu, just because I am in this mountain" are a way of reasoning in the scene and talking about the experience of traveling in the mountain. The reason why we cannot identify the true face of Mount Lushan is because we are in Mount Lushan and our field of vision is limited by the peaks and ridges of Mount Lushan. What we can see is only one peak, one ridge, one hill and one valley of Mount Lushan. This is only partial. This is bound to be one-sided. These two wonderful sentences bring out the entire artistic conception, providing readers with a space to reflect on their experiences and gallop their imaginations. This is not just a rational understanding that comes from traveling through mountains and rivers. This is what you see when you travel to the mountains, and it is often the same when you observe things in the world. These two poems have rich connotations. They enlighten people to understand a philosophy of how to deal with people - because people are in different positions and have different starting points for looking at problems, their understanding of objective things will inevitably be one-sided; to understand the truth of things and the overall picture, we must transcend the narrow scope and get rid of subjective prejudices.