1, source
From Wang Zhihuan's In the Heron Tower in the Tang Dynasty.
2. Original text
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.
Step 3 explain
The sunset slowly sinks beside the mountains, and the surging Yellow River rushes to the sea.
If you want to see the scenery thousands of miles away, you must climb a higher tower.
Extended data:
Make an appreciative comment
This poem perfectly combines truth with scenery and events, so that readers don't think this is reasoning, but think it makes sense. This is a mode to express the philosophy of life through thinking in images according to the characteristics of poetry.
The writing of this poem has another feature: it is a quatrain full of antithesis. In the first two sentences, the nouns "daytime" and "Yellow River" are relative, the colors "white" and "yellow" are relative, and the verbs "one" and "ru" are relative. The last two sentences are the same, which constitutes a formal perfection.
Creation background
This poem is one of the last six quatrains of Wang Zhihuan, a poet in the Tang Dynasty. In his early years, the author served as the chief bookkeeper in Hengshui County, Jizhou, and was soon dismissed because of being framed. Wang Zhihuan, who is less than 30 years old, lives a life of visiting relatives and friends and wandering around the world. This poem was written by the author at the age of thirty-five.