Stork tower
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.
Vernacular translation:
Near the mountain, the sun sets, and the Yellow River flows eastward into the sea.
If you want to see a thousand miles of scenery, please climb the building again.
Creative background:
This poem is one of the last six quatrains of Wang Zhihuan, a poet in the Tang Dynasty. The author served as editor-in-chief in Hengshui County, Jizhou (now Hengshui County, Hebei Province) in his early years, and was dismissed soon after being framed. Wang Zhihuan, who was less than 30 years old, lived a life of visiting relatives and friends. When writing this poem, Wang Zhihuan was only thirty-five years old.
In the Heron Tower is a poem by Wang Zhihuan, a poet in the prosperous Tang Dynasty. The first two sentences of this poem are about natural scenery, but when you start writing, you will shrink Wan Li at your fingertips, so that you can have Wan Li at your fingertips. The last two sentences are freehand brushwork, written unexpectedly, which combines philosophy, scenery and situation seamlessly and becomes an immortal swan song on the stork tower.
The poet's mind, under the shock of nature, has realized a simple and profound philosophy, which can urge people to abandon the superficial knowledge of complacency, climb high and look far, and constantly open up new and better realms. Poetry critics in the Qing Dynasty also thought: "Wang's poems lack two horizontal lines, and the front horizontal line has been exhausted, and the back horizontal line has a thousand miles." This poem is a masterpiece of five-character poems in Tang Dynasty. Wang Zhihuan is famous for this five-character quatrain, and the mirage is also famous in China.
Although this poem has only twenty crosses, it depicts the majestic momentum and magnificent scene of the northern rivers and mountains with thousands of giant rafters, which has been inspiring the Chinese nation for thousands of years. In particular, the last two sentences are often quoted to express a positive exploration and unlimited enterprising attitude towards life. Today, this poem has appeared in many important political and diplomatic occasions in China.
Wang Zhihuan (688-742) was a famous poet in the prosperous Tang Dynasty. His name is Ji Ling, Han nationality, and he was born in Jiyang (now Taiyuan, Shanxi). Bold and uninhibited, he often mourned swordsmanship, and his poems were sung by musicians at that time. At that time, he often sang with Gao Shi and Wang Changling, and was famous for describing the frontier fortress scenery. Representative works include Heron Pavilion and Liangzhou Ci.
In his early years, Wang Zhihuan moved from Bingzhou (Taiyuan, Shanxi) to Jiangzhou (now Xinjiang County, Shanxi) and served as the main book of Hengshui in Jizhou. Li Di, the magistrate of Hengshui County, betrothed his three daughters to him. Because of being slandered, he was dismissed from office, and later returned to serve as the county magistrate of Wen' an County, and died during his term of office.
Wang Zhihuan is "generous, charming and talented". He was good at writing articles and poems in his early years and was often quoted as lyrics. Especially good at five-character poems, to describe the frontier scenery to win. He is a romantic poet. Jin Neng's "Epitaph of Wang Zhihuan" said that his poem "Taste or chant to join the army, chant out of the cottage, worry about the mountains and the bright moon, so small that the cold wind sounds, spread to the movement, spread to the population." But his works have only six quatrains, including three frontier poems. His poems are represented by Lusu and Liangzhou Ci. Zhang Taiyan called Liangzhou Ci "the most quatrains".