The full text of the original poem is:
The sun sets slowly near the western hills, and the Yellow River flows into the East China Sea.
By going up one flight of stairs, look further.
The name of wind and rain means to ask: when will the weak grass stand the test of wind and rain? It expresses doubts and thoughts about whether the weak and fragile things in nature can withstand difficulties and hardships.
Wang Zhihuan (Tang Dynasty, about 688-742) was one of the famous poets in ancient China. He was born into a bureaucratic family in the early Tang Dynasty and later became an official.
Wang Zhihuan is famous for his profound and freehand poetic style, especially good at writing landscapes and expressing philosophies. Most of his works are based on natural scenery, which combines thoughts and feelings about life, fate and human nature. His representative works include "In Heron Villa" and "Climbing the Phoenix Terrace in Nanjing".
Wang Zhihuan's poems are full of philosophical thoughts and philosophy of life, which have a far-reaching influence on later poets and are considered as one of the most distinctive and intelligent poets in the Tang Dynasty.
Climbing the Phoenix Terrace in Nanjing is a famous work by Wang Zhihuan, a poet in the Tang Dynasty. The theme of this poem is to describe the beautiful scenery of Jinling (now Nanjing), and through the symbolic landmark of Phoenix Terrace, it expresses the description and materialized thinking of the prosperous times.
The poem reads: "A hundred battles have broken iron clothes, and the sunset curtain has fallen in the south of the city. The children in Jinling feel sad about the swing. They are full of intense pain and cold weather. Several watchmen who survived the solitary wall in the sunset saw off at the east gate of Luntai. The Yuanmen shot out the snuff, but they saw the brothel crossing. " These sentences show readers the bustling scene of Jinling City, and also imply the disappearance of the prosperous times and the desolation of the strong men's seclusion.
The whole poem expresses Wang Zhihuan's thoughts on life and destiny with delicate descriptions and deep emotions. Through the prosperity and loneliness of Jinling, he reflected the rise and fall of life and the glory of the past. Nanjing on the Phoenix Terrace is loved and read by readers for its profound artistic conception and ideological connotation.