Chai Lu's Original Text and Its Translation

There seems to be no one on the empty mountain in Chai Lu, but I think I heard a voice.

Go back to the depths of the forest and shine at me from the green moss.

Pay attention to Chai Lu (zh? I): A scenic spot in Wangchuan. Wangchuan is located in Lantian County, Shaanxi Province, where Wang Wei lived in seclusion in his later years. He runs a big villa with beautiful scenery here.

Empty mountain: empty mountain forest.

But smell: only smell. However, only.

Return to the scenery: the light of sunset. Scenes, the same in ancient times? Shadow? The shadow of the sun.

Answer: Go further.

Shan Ye is empty,

I only heard loud voices.

The golden light of the sunset shone deep into the forest,

There is a dim lamp on the moss.

[Author's Brief Introduction] Wang Wei, the word Momo, was born in 70 1 year and died in 76 1 year (another view is that Wang Wei was born in 699 and died in 759, according to textual research, the former view is affirmative), and he is from Qixian County, Shanxi Province.

In the Tang Dynasty, he was a great poet as famous as Li Bai, the immortal poet, and Du Fu, the sage poet. Later scholars who studied Wang Wei also called him "Shi Fo". This title not only has the Buddhist meaning and religious tendency in Wang Wei's poems, but also expresses the affirmation of Wang Wei's lofty position in the field of Tang poetry by later generations.

Wang Wei was very literary when he was a teenager. In the ninth year of Kaiyuan (72 1), he was the first scholar, and he was very happy. I joined the army in Jeju for some reason. After returning to Chang 'an. In the 22nd year of Kaiyuan, Zhang Jiuling was appointed as the secretariat. Wang Wei was demoted to the right. Twenty-four years (736), Zhang Jiuling went on strike. The following year, Jingzhou was relegated to a long history. Li's appointment as the secretariat was a turning point in Xuanzong period, and politics changed from relatively clear to increasingly dark. Wang Wei was depressed about Zhang Jiuling's demotion. In To Zhang, the Prime Minister of Jingzhou, he said:? Jiang Fang and agricultural nurseries, art planting in old Yuan Qiu. ? Expressing the meaning of seclusion. But he didn't quit officialdom. In the 25th year of Kaiyuan, he was ordered to visit Cui, our envoy from Hexi. Later, he learned from the temple history that Wang Wei's official position was gradually promoted. Before the Anshi Rebellion, officials were bored and worried about the officialdom at that time, but on the other hand, they were attached to the stack and could not leave decisively. So when in Rome, do as the Romans do, and live a semi-official and semi-secluded life for a long time. He used to believe in Buddhism. At this time, with the increasing negative thoughts, his Buddhist beliefs are also developing day by day. When he was young, he used to live in a mountain forest. After middle age, he once lived in Zhong Nanshan. Later, he found jobs in Wangchuan, Lantian and Song. So he travels among them with his good friend Pei Di and likes to write poems. In the fifteenth year of Tianbao (756), the Anshi rebels captured Chang 'an, Xuanzong entered Shu, and Wang Wei was captured by the rebels. After the recovery of the two capitals, those who suffered from false jobs were convicted at different levels. He was praised by Su Zong for a poem "Ningbichi" that missed the Tang Dynasty, and his brother Wang Jin had a high official position, so he was only demoted to Prince Zhongyun, and later he moved something and finally became a senior official.

There are less than 400 poems by Wang Wei. Among them, the most representative of his creative characteristics is the description of natural scenery such as mountains, rivers and pastoral areas, and poems that recite seclusion. Most of Wang Wei's pastoral poems depict the natural beauty, but at the same time, they reveal the leisure interest in the leisure life. Poets especially like to express a quiet and tranquil realm, and some works are desolate or lonely, showing indifference to reality and even Zen thoughts and feelings. Wang Wei became increasingly depressed after middle age and sought sustenance in Buddhism and landscapes. He claims to be? When you feel silence, you will have more leisure in your life? ("Fan Fu Busan Walking Monk"). This state of mind has been fully reflected in his poetry creation. In the past, many people admired Wang Wei's poems, on the one hand, because of his high artistic skills, on the other hand, because of his leisure and negative thoughts. Su Shi once said:? Poetry is fascinating; Look at the picture. There are poems in it. ? Wang Wei is not only outstanding in literary talent, but also an excellent painter who is good at music. His profound artistic accomplishment, love for nature, and long-term living experience in the mountains and forests make him have a keen, unique and nuanced feeling of the beauty of nature, so the landscapes in his works are particularly full of charm, and often slightly exaggerated, showing a profound and far-reaching artistic conception, which is intriguing. His poems are very picturesque, with bright colors and a combination of motion and static, especially good at showing the changes of light color and sound in nature in detail. Wang Wei's landscape poems, usually in the form of five laws and five sentences, are short in length, exquisite in language and soothing in syllables, which are especially suitable for expressing the tranquility of landscapes and the poet's leisurely mood. Wang Wei's high achievements in describing natural scenery made him unique in the poetry circle in the prosperous Tang Dynasty and became the representative of the pastoral poetry school. He inherited and developed the tradition of writing landscape poems initiated by Xie Lingyun, and absorbed the freshness and naturalness of Tao Yuanming's landscape pastoral poems, which made the achievements of landscape pastoral poems reach a peak, thus occupying an important position in the history of China's poetry.