[Edit this paragraph] Overview of the work
Name of the work: Wuxing’s Miscellaneous Poems Creation Year: Qing Dynasty Author: Ruan Yuan Genre of the work: Seven-Character Poetry
[Edit this paragraph ]Original text of the work
Wu Xing’s miscellaneous poems (1) Communicate across the four rivers embracing the city, (2) Scattered across thousands of streams to thousands of homes. (3) Plant water chestnuts deep and shallow for rice, (4) Plant lotus neither deep nor shallow. This poem was used as an essay question for the Anhui paper in the 2010 general college entrance examination. "The city is surrounded by four rivers of communication, and thousands of streams spread across thousands of homes. Plant water chestnuts in the depths and rice in shallow depths, and lotus in neither depths nor shallows." Write an essay on the thoughts and associations triggered by this philosophical poem, except for poetry. No less than 800 words.
[Edit this paragraph] Notes on the work
(1) Wuxing: Today’s Huzhou City, Zhejiang Province. Miscellaneous poems: poems whose specific content is not clearly revealed in the title. (2) Exchange of four waters: that is, exchange of four waters. Cross, cross vertically and horizontally. Four rivers: Huzhou City has four main rivers including Dongtiao River and Xitiao River. Baocheng Xie: It flows in a zigzag way around Wuxingcheng. Scattered into thousands of streams: scattered into several tributaries. (3): spread all over, covered. (4) Water chestnut: an annual aquatic herb with slightly triangular leaves and air sacs on the petioles. It blooms in summer and is white. The fruit has a hard shell and horns and is edible. [1]
[Edit this paragraph] Appreciation of the work
The first two lines of the poem describe the fractal characteristics of the river system. "Communication" and "oblique" more or less reveal the author's observation and feelings about the irregularity and complexity of the water system, which is a certain transcendence of the plastic geometry. The second sentence is a typical depiction of water fractals, accurate, vivid and full of charm. "Sanzuo" means dispersion. Going up the four rivers surrounding Wuxing City, the author sees thousands of streams that are constantly bifurcating, forming a branching fractal diagram as a whole. The fractal shape of the water system creates the fractal shape of the distribution of residential areas. The water system in nature is originally formed by the gradual convergence of thousands of streams and streams. Villages are formed by people choosing water to live in. They are all a type of fractal structure. The author uses the usual personification technique of poets, as if there was a fractal distribution of residential areas first, and then in order to get closer to thousands of villages and households, the rivers started from the four rivers outside Wuxing City and gradually dispersed into thousands of streams and streams, spreading all over the world. The water system is the fractal of the natural geographical system, and the distribution of residential areas is the fractal of the humanistic system. The two fractal pictures are inseparably intertwined, which not only displays the unique aesthetic charm, but also embodies the virtues of the earth. Geographic fractals create the fractal characteristics of meteorology. Geographic fractals and meteorological fractals jointly create the fractal characteristics of the ecological environment, leading to the diversity, difference, correlation and complexity of animals and plants, forming the fractal characteristics of plant ecosystems. The last two sentences of the poem show that the author has realized this ecological fractal to a certain extent. Through the image description of crop interplanting, it reflects the ecological diversity brought by the river fractal and further enriches the connotation of the poem's depiction of the water system fractal. . This poem illustrates a truth by writing about the beautiful scenery of the Jiangnan water town: people must proceed from reality in everything they do, adapt to local conditions, and act in accordance with objective laws. Metaphysically "one size fits all" and absolute.
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