The following are the poems of Jiang Qianxueji's picture scroll:
I don't know Xiangji Temple, but I have entered Yunfeng several miles away.
The ancient trees are untouched, and there are no clocks in the mountains.
The sound of the spring is swallowed by dangerous rocks, and the sun is cold and green.
In the dusk, there is a song in the empty pond, and Zen is used to control the poisonous dragon.
This is a poem about traveling, mainly describing the deep silence of the ancient temple in the mountains. This poem is about describing the mountain temple, but it does not describe it from the front, but describes the surrounding scenery in profile to highlight the beauty of the mountain temple. Finally, when I saw that the deep pool was empty, I thought about the Buddhist scriptures saying that the violent poisonous dragon had been subdued. It means that only by overcoming evil thoughts and delusions can we realize the profoundness of Zen and appreciate the tranquility. The whole poem does not mention the temple, but the temple is already in it. The poem has wonderful conception and exquisite calligraphy. Among them, "The sound of spring swallows dangerous rocks, the sun is cold and green pines", which has always been praised as a model of calligraphy.
The word "pass" in the title of the poem "Passing Xiangji Temple" means "visit" or "visit". He is going to visit Xiangji Temple, but he starts from "I don't know"; "I don't know" yet he wants to visit, which shows the poet's free and uninhibited style.
Because he "didn't know", the poet walked into the vast mountains and forests to look for it. After walking a few miles, he entered the mountains shrouded in white clouds. The front of this sentence is written about people entering the cloud peak, which actually reflects the profoundness of Xiangji Temple. Before we even arrived at the temple, it was already covered in clouds and fog, and we could easily imagine how far away Xiangji Temple was.
The next four sentences describe what the poet saw and heard in the deep mountains and forests. Let’s read three or four sentences first. There was no one in the jungle among the towering old trees; suddenly there was a faint sound of bells, echoing in the deep mountains and empty valleys, making the already silent mountain forest cast a layer of confusion and mystery, making it seem even more peaceful.
The word "where" seems ordinary, but is actually wonderful: due to the deep mountains and dense forests, people don't know where the bells come from, and only the "buzzing" sound lingers around; this is consistent with The "no one" in the previous sentence corresponds to the "no one" in the previous sentence, and also implicitly inherits the "I don't know" in the first sentence. There are paths but no one walks on them, and you can hear the ringing of bells but don’t know where you are. In addition, it is surrounded by towering ancient trees and mountainous mountains. This is a very remote and quiet realm.