From "Miscellaneous Poems on a Boat from Qiantang to Tonglu" by Liu Siwan of the Qing Dynasty.
The whole poem is: a fold of green mountains and a screen, a bay of clear water and a harp. Silent poetry and audio paintings must be found on the Tonglu River.
It means: The green hills are as green and beautiful as painted screens (silent poetry); the streams in the bays are as sweet as a continuously playing musical instrument. (audio picture). This intoxicating silent poetry and audio painting can only be found on the Tonglu River.
The poem focuses on the beauty of Tonglu's landscape. The green mountains are like a screen and the water sounds like a piano. It is like a silent poem or a sound painting, which is very poetic and picturesque. In ancient my country, Chinese landscape paintings were often called "silent poetry", while music and poetry were called "sound paintings." This poem uses poetry, painting and music to compare the landscape of Tonglu, which is so appropriate.
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Author background
Liu Siwan (1762~1821), also known as Jianzhi, Fuchu, and Chunfu. A native of Yanghu County, Changzhou Prefecture, Jiangsu Province (now part of Wujin, Changzhou). The great-great-grandson of Liu Yuyi, the fifteenth generation of the Liu family in Wujin Xiying. Hanlin of the Qing Dynasty, politician and scholar.
In the fifty-ninth year of Qianlong (1794), Jiayin Enke Shuntian Township Examination was held. In the first year of Daoguang (1821), his mother Yu Youlan died of illness due to excessive grief at the age of sixty.
Specializes in poetry, lyrics and parallel prose. (The biography of the Qing Dynasty was written when he was sixty years old, and there is no year of death. This is to be supplemented by the year record.) He was young and talented, and his knowledge was extraordinary. He traveled to the capital early and became famous at that time. Jinshi in the 13th year of Jiaqing. He is the author of "Collection of Shang Yutang" and "Biographies of Qing History" which are popular in the world.
Baidu Encyclopedia—Liu Siwan