Meet sb. leave
I got off the horse and gave you a toast. I asked you where you were going and why.
You answer: "I am not satisfied", and then I will rest at the foot of Nanshan. (3).
But (4) don't ask, white clouds pass through there without end.
To annotate ...
(1) Drink your wine: I advise you to drink. Drink, make drinks.
(2) Where to go: Where to go. Go ahead, go ahead.
(3) Hermit: seclusion. Nanshan: Zhongnan Mountain in Qinling Mountains is located in the southwest of Xi City, Shaanxi Province. Rutim: Edge.
(4) but, only.
Vernacular translation
Please dismount and have a drink. Dare you ask your friend where you are going?
You said that because you were not satisfied with your life, you went back to your hometown and lived in seclusion near Zhong Nanshan.
Let's go. Why should I ask again? Look at the white clouds floating endlessly.
Make an appreciative comment
This poem was written to send a friend to live in seclusion. There are six sentences in the whole poem, only the first paragraph is narrated, and five words describe that he rode a horse to see his friends off for a long distance, and then dismounted and set a wine to see them off. The place to dismount is also a place to drink, probably at the mountain pass leading to Zhong Nanshan. In this way, the topic is sufficient. The following five sentences are questions and answers with friends. The second sentence asks a friend where to go, which naturally leads to the following answer, and the transition to seclusion shows concern for friends. Three or four sentences are friends' answers. A seemingly prosaic sentence, when read carefully, is simple, affectionate and meaningful. Wang Wei's works are a hermit with his own shadow. As for why he is not satisfied, Du Fu and others must complain a lot, but only one point is mentioned here, which shows the elegance of character temperament, the rejection of secularity and the yearning for seclusion.
The word "dissatisfied" points out the reasons why friends retire and expresses the depression and injustice in their hearts. As for what friends are dissatisfied with, of course, it mainly refers to political and academic talents. The poet didn't write clearly, and there is no need to write, leaving room for imagination. Five or six sentences are his comfort to his friends after learning that they are not satisfied. He advised his friends to go to the mountains instead of worrying about the world's ups and downs. Only the white clouds in the mountains are endless. What is said here is that there are endless white clouds in the mountains, and the "exhaustion" and impermanence of fame and fortune in the world are contained in them. These two sentences are very complicated, rich in meaning, and the charm of the poem is very strong. The sentence contains the poet's sympathy and comfort for his friends, his own resentment against reality, his denial of the prosperity of the world and his yearning for seclusion in the mountains. It seems to be broad-minded and detached, but it also has some helpless emotions. From the whole article, the poet's question-and-answer method not only enables the sender and pedestrians to communicate their thoughts and feelings, but also omits a lot of descriptive words, which also makes the poem ethereal and cordial.
Wang Wei's "Farewell" uses Zen into poetry, which is full of Zen master's initiative. The disciples of the Zen master often don't talk, but do some strange things for the sake of "mutual affinity". Even if you want to convey Zen, it is often a wonderful metaphor, and the profound meaning is hidden in the images of nature, so that disciples can experience it themselves. Wang Wei absorbed this method of expressing deep meaning through intuition, suggestion, metaphor and symbol in his poetry creation. In this poem, he condensed and integrated the complex feelings of his inner world into a natural picture of "white clouds passing through there endlessly", thus achieving the artistic effect of "smiling at flowers is self-evident" and full of thoughts.
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