No one can be seen in the silent valley, only voices can be heard. The shadow of the setting sun shines into the deep forest and on the moss, and the scenery is pleasant.
Note: Luzhai (zhài): "firewood" is the same as "village", and it is a fence. This is a place name.
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Some people call poetry "the art of time" because good poetry always captures the most expressive moment and makes it eternal through artistic touch. This is the case with Wang Wei's Chai Lu.
With its unique sensitivity, the poet grasped the moment of "the voice of an empty mountain man" and "the sunshine there enters a small forest" and created an eternal quiet and ethereal artistic conception. Li Dongyang commented on Huailutang's poems in the Ming Dynasty: "Light and thick, near and far, you can talk to the knower, but it is difficult to talk to the layman."
Hu Yinglin in the Ming Dynasty and Wang Shi in the Qing Dynasty both said that the poems in Wang Wei's "Wang Chuan Bie Ji" were "Zen every word". Although this statement may be exaggerated, Wang Wei's landscape poems often reveal a kind of Zen meaning of "silent and charming", which makes people "forget their life experiences and be silent in all thoughts".
Because Wang Wei observes nature with a pure and ethereal heart, this makes his poems lively, but they always aim at silence. This silent mentality is naturally related to Wang Wei's long-term influence on Buddhism, especially Zen thought. Because of this, later generations addressed Wang Wei as "Shi Fo".
For the "Zen" in this poem, today's Li Zehou made further growth.
Commenting on three poems, Chai Lu, Wu Xinyi and Bird Watching Creek, he said, "Everything moves. It is very common and realistic, but the meaning it conveys is eternal stillness, the stillness of ontology ... This is the stillness obtained in' movement', the virtual environment obtained in real scenes, the ontology obtained in countless phenomena, and the eternity obtained in the field of instant intuition.
How beautiful nature is. Seems to have nothing to do with the world. In spring, flowers bloom and birds sing. However, at this moment of understanding nature, you feel the existence of immortality ... the moving time and space scene seems to be just to show immortality-frozen eternity. "
Perhaps, it was at the moment described in the poem that the poet once again realized the essence of life-that is, "eternal silence, ontological silence."