It is said that it was written by Wang Wei in the Tang Dynasty, but there is no such poem in Wang Wei's works or the whole Tang poetry. First, it was originally part of the ode poem written by the Buddhist monk Zen master in the Southern Song Dynasty to annotate the Buddhist classic "Diamond Sutra"; When it is said that it was written by an anonymous person in the Song Dynasty, for example, when the Chinese textbooks for primary schools in Shanghai are included, the author column is "anonymous person in the Song Dynasty".
Original text:
From a distance, the mountains are high and the clouds are light, and the colors are bright. When you look closer, you can only hear the sound of water, but there is no sound.
Spring has passed, but there are still many flowers and flowers. People go nearby, but the birds are still not disturbed.
Translation:
You can see the green of the distant mountains, but you can't hear the sound of running water nearby. Spring has passed, the flowers are still unbeaten, people are approaching, but the birds on the branches are not afraid.
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Evaluation by famous experts
Yang Jidong, president of Beiyue Literature and Art Publishing House, Dictionary of Appreciation of Poetry and Songs: Poetry Volume;
This poem is only four sentences and twenty lines, but it is full of sound, color, mountains, water, flowers, birds and people. In particular, several groups of antonyms are used: far-near, you-nothing, and qu-lai, so as to increase the tension, three-dimensional sense and rhythm of poetry content, which has received good artistic effects.
If "the mountains are colored", "the water is silent", "the flowers are still there" and "the birds are not surprised" are images or natural scenery in the painting, then the author has created another world for us with "seeing from a distance", "listening from a distance", "spring has gone" and "people have come". It is not without reason that such short and pithy works have been handed down to this day.
Poetry appreciation
The poem "Painting" describes the natural scenery, but admires a painting. The first two sentences are written about beautiful scenery and silent running water; The last two sentences describe that flowers bloom in four seasons, and birds are not afraid of people. The four poems constitute a complete picture of landscape flowers and birds.
The first sentence, "The mountains are colorful in the distance", is an intuitive and objective image. This color has infinite meanings, but the beauty of comeliness, handsome, red, wet and green can also be the beauty of cool gray, or it can be a strange and extraordinary color, which can only be tasted by meditators.
The second sentence, "Listen to the water silently", has a "dynamic environment", because the source of living water comes, and the word silent enters the static environment, which is quiet and far-reaching. Since poetry sings about painting, painting is naturally silent, which has nothing to do with "listening close" and "listening far". But logically speaking, "negative" contains "positive", and negative propositions always assume positive propositions first.
"Water is silent" not only describes the objective facts of painting, but also indicates that the water in painting should have a sound, but now it seems to have a sound, which makes the viewer have the desire to "listen attentively", which is also the reason why superb painting art plays an empathetic role.
The third and fourth sentences "Spring is still blooming, and people are not surprised when they come." It is said that although the flowers bloom in that most beautiful season, they will float away after burning to the most beautiful extreme, and only in the painting, the flowers are beautiful and don't thank, and the birds in the painting are always so lovely and moving.
The painting in the poem seems to represent a dream, a dream that can be seen but cannot be realized. Moreover, just like the second sentence of "Water is Silent", "The bird is not surprised when people come" also means that the bird should be "surprised", so this shows that the bird described by the artist is realistic. Here, the poet uses "quietly listening to the sound of water" to express the gurgling sound of water, and "people are not surprised when they come" to express the amazing vitality of birds. The technique is very clever.
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