Original: The incense burner in Rizhao emits purple smoke, and the waterfall hangs thousands of rivers. On the high cliff, it seems to be thousands of feet high, which makes people think that the Milky Way has fallen from heaven to earth.
Under the sunshine, the incense burner peak produces purple mist. From a distance, you can see the waterfall hanging like a white silk in front of the mountain. The waterfall on the high cliff seems to have several thousands of feet, which makes people think that the Milky Way is falling from the sky.
The author described the purple smoke emitted from the blast furnace at sunrise, and then described the magnificent scene of Lushan Waterfall pouring down from the mountain in front in the distance from the perspective of overlooking. The waterfall flew down as high as 3,000 feet, which was shocking. Finally, Li Bai compared the waterfall with the Milky Way and imagined that it fell from nine days, giving readers a magnificent and extraordinary feeling.
By describing the magnificent scene of Lushan Waterfall, this poem conveys the theme of short life and magnificent nature, and shows Li Bai's bold poetic style and love for natural scenery. This poem is also widely read because of its vivid description and unrestrained rhetoric, and has become one of Li Bai's representative works.
Brief introduction of the author
Li Bai (70 1 -762), whose real name is Taibai, is a violet layman. He is one of the most outstanding romantic poets in the Tang Dynasty in China, and is known as the "Poet Fairy". He is one of the writers with important position and influence in the history of China literature. Li Bai was born in Fengxiang County, Shaanxi Province today. He lived in the prosperous period of Tang Dynasty, and experienced such major events as Kaiyuan Prosperity and Anshi Rebellion.
His poems are famous for being bold and unrestrained, rich in images and passionate, and he is good at using exaggerated rhetoric and rich imagination to describe natural scenery and express emotions. His works cover a variety of subjects, including landscape and pastoral, expressing love, bold life, political criticism and so on. Li Bai is good at writing seven-character quatrains, five-character quatrains and Yuefu poems. His works are full of romantic sentiment, free life attitude and extraordinary realm.
He often drinks to drown his sorrows, so he is also called "Brewmaster". Li Bai's works spread widely and have far-reaching influence. With his unique creative style and colorful poetic forms, he created a new style of China's ancient poetry, which had an important influence on later literary creation. His poetry works include Looking at Lushan Waterfall, Thinking on a Quiet Night, Drinking, etc. , still widely read and appreciated.