1. The ancient poems "Hua Cao" or "Hua" in primary school Chinese textbooks are as follows. The author is generally not marked or is marked as an anonymous person from the Song Dynasty
Painting
The mountains look colorful from a distance,
The water is silent up close,
Spring has gone and the flowers are still there,
Birds are not surprised when people come. .
2. As for the origin of this poem, there are many disputes in academic circles, and there has never been a unified statement.
The most common one is "Painting", which is believed to be from the Song Dynasty poet Daochuan Zen Master
The mountains are colorful when viewed from a distance, but the water is silent when heard up close.
Spring has gone and the flowers are still there, and the birds are not surprised when people come.
Everything is revealed, everything is flat.
How to say no, it’s just because it’s too clear.
Appreciation
This is a very famous ancient poem but it has been passed down for a long time.
The first half of this poem was adopted in the primary school Chinese textbook, and individual words in the poem were changed according to the versions circulated through the ages, namely, "Looking at the mountains from a distance, listening to the silent birds, and the flowers returning in spring." Nowadays, birds are not surprised when people come." However, the textbook does not indicate the author and the year of production of the poem, but generally labels it as "ancient poetry."
Regarding the author of the poem, for a long time, there have been many versions such as Wang Wei in the Tang Dynasty, Zen Master Dachuan in the Tang Dynasty, Wang Mian in the Yuan Dynasty, Tang Bohu in the Ming Dynasty, and Gao Ding in the Qing Dynasty.
These legends all have one thing in common, that is, they have no historical basis.
Most of them are just conjectures and rumors spread on the Internet. Some people even believe that the poem originated from a poem describing a painting and titled it "Painting" based on a one-sided understanding of the first half of the poem. question.
Yes, you can see the colors of the mountains in the painting, but you can’t hear the sound of the water in the painting; spring has passed, but the flowers in the painting are still in full bloom; when people get closer, the birds in the painting don’t even notice. You won't be disturbed either - it looks like a good fit on the surface!
However, if you experience it this way, the last four sentences of the poem will be completely incomprehensible.
The first four sentences and the last four sentences are completely irrelevant, which is very inappropriate.
In fact, this poem is a poem that expounds Zen principles. It describes the pure nature and the observation of all appearances by the pure nature, which is different from the ordinary thinking mind's observation of the realm.
Self-nature sees mountains, although there is form, existence and non-being, it is just an illusion; self-nature listens to the sound of water, the sound is not real, and the sound is also silent; self-nature observes spring flowers, there is no choice, it is the moment Self-nature, so although spring has passed, the flowers of self-nature have not withered, because self-nature does not arise or die; when people come, birds fly away because of delusional thoughts, but the self-nature of birds remains the same. Any disturbance.
Although the bird does not understand, the Zen master understands it clearly.
In this way, all manifestations are based on the great road of self-nature; the nature of all things is pure self-nature, and they are originally equal.
Why do people not understand the Zen Master’s sincere words? It's just because people have fallen into discriminating thinking and transformed the present wonderful clarity of their own nature into the discriminating and clear thinking of the mind.
This distinction and attachment of the sixth consciousness is the root cause of the "disease" of all sentient beings.
Only by letting go of it can you understand your true nature.