Looking at Lushan Waterfall
The incense burner in Rizhao is full of purple smoke, and I can see the waterfall hanging in Qianchuan from a distance.
It's flying down three thousands of feet, and it's suspected that the Milky Way has set for nine days. [1]?
Notes on Poetry
Lushan Mountain: one of the famous mountains in China, is located in the Poyang Lake Basin in the north of Jiujiang City, Jiangxi Province, and in Lushan District of Jiujiang City.
incense burner: incense burner peak, which is located in the northwest of Lushan Mountain, is named because it is shaped like incense burner and the mountain is covered with smoke. Purple smoke: refers to the cloud and water vapor irradiated by sunlight showing purple cloud and water vapor. Look from a distance.
chuan: a river, which means a waterfall here.
straight: straight
three thousands of feet: describing the height of a mountain is an exaggeration, not a real one.
doubt: doubt
Milky Way: also known as Tianhe. The ancients referred to the banded clusters of galaxies.
nine days: the ancients thought that the sky was nine times heavy, and nine days was the highest level of the sky, which here refers to the extremely high sky.
from a distance.
poetic genre
quatrains originated in the Han Dynasty, took shape in the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties and flourished in the Tang Dynasty. At that time, there were four sentences and one song, which were called "joint sentences". "Wen Xin Diao Long Ming Shi" says that "the rhyme of the couplet is redundant". The Tang and Song Dynasties were the golden age of Chinese classical poetry, and quatrains were popular all over the world, and the creation was prosperous. Famous Zhang Jiashi was as beautiful as a group of flowers, which was unprecedented. Quatrains, also called "quatrains", or "truncated sentences" and "punctuated sentences", both of which have the meaning of short truncation. According to the interpretation of The Origin of Poetry, quatrains mean "cutting off sentences", that is, cutting off four lines of metrical poems, or cutting off the first two lines, or cutting off the first two lines or the last two lines, or cutting off the middle two lines. Another way of saying it is from "five words are short and ancient, seven words are short and songs are short". The Tang people endowed it with temperament, made it stereotyped and became a quatrain. There are four quatrains each, usually five or seven. Referred to as the five wonders, seven wonders, and occasionally six wonders. The quatrains are divided into two categories: the absolute and the ancient. The law was only after the rise of the law poem, and the ancient law was long before the law poem appeared. Xu Ling, editor-in-chief of the Chen Dynasty in the Southern Dynasties, has the name of "ancient quatrains". However, although this quatrain rhymes, it is relatively free, or it can be said that some poets are unwilling to be bound by metrical rules. After the popularity of the law, the ancient quatrains are still used and developed. There are too many ancient quatrains in five words, but too few in seven. Rhyme, like metrical poetry, pays attention to sticking to it according to the level of the metrical sentence.
The poetry translation is:
The incense burner peak irradiated by the sun produces purple smoke, and from a distance, the waterfall hangs in front of the mountain like a white horse. The water is pouring down from the height of the Three thousands of feet, as if the bright Milky Way water had fallen from nine days.
An indomitable incense burner, clouds of white smoke rose slowly in Ran Ran, dimly discernible between the green hills and the blue sky, and turned into purple clouds under the irradiation of the red sun. This not only makes the incense burner peak more beautiful, but also romantic, creating an unusual background for the unusual waterfall. Then the poet turned his eyes to the waterfall on the mountain wall. "Looking at the waterfall hanging in front of the river", the first four words are the point; "Hanging in front of the river" is the first image of "looking", and the waterfall is like a huge white practice hanging high between mountains and rivers. The word "hanging" is wonderful, it turns from motion to stillness, and vividly shows the image of a pouring waterfall in "looking from a distance" The word "hang" also contains the poet's praise for the magical power of nature. The third sentence also describes the dynamics of waterfalls. "Flying down three thousands of feet", a stroke, forceful every word. The word "fly" vividly depicts the scene of the waterfall spewing out; "Straight down" not only describes the high and steep mountains, but also shows the urgency of the water flow. The sky is straight down, and it is unstoppable. However, the poet was not satisfied enough, and then he wrote a sentence, "It is suspected that the Milky Way has fallen for nine days". He really wants to fall out of the sky and amaze his soul. "Doubt is" is worth pondering. The poet clearly said it in a trance, and the readers know it is not, but they all think that it is only in this way that it is more vivid and realistic. The secret lies in the image that has been bred in the poet's previous description. The towering incense burner peak is hidden in the clouds and mist. Looking at the waterfall in the distance is like flying down from the clouds and falling in the sky, which is naturally associated with a galaxy falling from the sky. It can be seen that the metaphor of "Doubt is the Milky Way setting for nine days" is strange, but it does not come out of thin air in the poem, but naturally emerges from the portrayal of the image. It is exaggerated and natural, novel and true, thus arousing the whole article, making the whole image more colorful, magnificent and magnificent. It not only left a deep impression on people, but also gave people room for imagination, showing the artistic style of Li Bai, which is "Wan Li falls, and the potential is still strong at the end". Lushan Mountain is beautiful, and the waterfall of incense burner peak is particularly spectacular. The poet wrote this quatrain with great excitement. With exaggerated metaphor and romantic imagination, the two sentences focus on pen and ink to further describe the image of the waterfall. "Flying" is about mountains and high waters, "straight down" is about waterfalls, and "Three thousands of feet" is about exaggerating the spectacular waterfalls. It can be said that every word is full of pearls and stones. The last sentence compares the waterfall to the bright galaxy, which is vivid and appropriate, and one of the words "doubt" is straightforward and meaningful. Incense burner refers to the incense burner peak of Lushan Mountain, "in the northwest of Lushan Mountain, its peak is pointed and round, and the smoke clouds gather and disperse, like the shape of Boshan incense burner" (Music History "Taiping Universe").
Appreciation of this poem by editing
The incense burner refers to the incense burner peak of Lushan Mountain, "in the northwest of Lushan Mountain, its peak is round and the smoke clouds gather and disperse, like the incense burner of Boshan Mountain" (the music history "Taiping Universe"). However, when it comes to the poet Li Bai's pen, it becomes another scene: an indomitable incense burner, with clouds of white smoke rising slowly in Ran Ran, ethereal between the green mountains and the blue sky, and turned into a purple cloud under the irradiation of the red sun. This not only makes the incense burner peak more beautiful, but also romantic, creating an unusual background for the unusual waterfall. Then the poet turned his eyes to the waterfall on the mountain wall. "Looking at the waterfall hanging in front of the river", the first four words are the point; "Hanging in front of the river" is the first image of "looking", and the waterfall is like a huge white practice hanging high between mountains and rivers. The word "hanging" is wonderful, it turns from motion to stillness, and vividly shows the image of a pouring waterfall in "looking from a distance" Who can "hang" this giant? "Zhuang zai's good fortune"! Therefore, the word "hanging" also contains the poet's praise for the magical power of nature. The third sentence also describes the dynamics of waterfalls. "Flying down three thousands of feet", a stroke, forceful every word. The word "fly" vividly depicts the scene of the waterfall spewing out; "Straight down" not only describes the high and steep mountains, but also shows the urgency of the water flow. The sky is straight down, and it is unstoppable. However, the poet was not satisfied enough, and then he wrote a sentence, "It is suspected that the Milky Way has fallen for nine days". He really wants to fall out of the sky and amaze his soul. "Doubt is" is worth pondering. The poet clearly said it in a trance, and the readers know it is not, but they all think that it is only in this way that it is more vivid and realistic. The secret lies in the image that has been bred in the poet's previous description. Look! The towering incense burner peak is hidden in the clouds and mist. Looking at the waterfall in the distance is like flying down from the clouds and falling in the sky, which is naturally associated with a galaxy falling from the sky. It can be seen that the metaphor of "Doubt is the Milky Way setting for nine days" is strange, but it does not come out of thin air in the poem, but naturally emerges from the portrayal of the image. It is exaggerated and natural, novel and true, thus arousing the whole article, making the whole image more colorful, magnificent and magnificent, which not only left a deep impression on people, but also gave people room for imagination, showing Li Bai's artistic style of "Wan Li falls down, but it is still strong at the end". How beautiful! Wei Qingzhi, a Song Dynasty poet, said, "The fifth word of a seven-character poem should ring. ..... The so-called ringer is committed to the place. " This view seems particularly convincing in this poem. For example, the word "health" not only makes the incense burner peak "alive", but also vaguely shows the sight of smoke rising and floating in the mountains. The word "hanging" has been mentioned before, and the word "falling" is also very wonderful. It vividly depicts the majestic momentum of sudden high altitude and huge flow. It is hard to imagine what this poem would look like if these three words were replaced. Xu Ning, a poet in the middle Tang Dynasty, also wrote a poem "Lushan Waterfall". As the poem goes, "There is no rest when thunder rushes into the river. The ages are as long as white practice, and a boundary breaks the green hills. " Although the scene is not small, it still gives people a sense of embarrassment, probably because it is full of waterfalls, waterfalls, etc. It looks very solid and rigid. Although it is a small poem, it smells quite rich. Compared with Li Bai's kind of being inside and out, it is a far cry from being tangible and ethereal. No wonder Su Shi said, "The emperor sent the Galaxy to hang down, and in ancient times there were only fallen immortals. I don't want to wash bad poems with Xu Ning. " Although there is something radical about the poem "Playing Xuning Waterfall", its basic tendency is correct, which shows that Su Shi is not only a famous poet, but also an insightful connoisseur.
Appreciation of the famous sentence in this paragraph
-"Flying down three thousands of feet, it is suspected that the Milky Way has set for nine days." Lushan Mountain has beautiful scenery, and the waterfall at Xianglu Peak is particularly spectacular. The poet wrote this quatrain with great excitement. The first two sentences generally describe the spectacular scene of Xianglufeng Waterfall. The first sentence was written from the incense burner peak. Under the bright sunshine, the light water vapor turned into purple mist, giving people a hazy aesthetic feeling. The second sentence describes the waterfall, and the word "hanging" vividly describes the momentum of the waterfall. With exaggerated metaphor and romantic imagination, the two sentences focus on pen and ink to further describe the image of the waterfall. "Flying" is about mountains and high waters, "straight down" is about waterfalls, and "Three thousands of feet" is about exaggerating the spectacular waterfalls. It can be said that every word is full of pearls and stones. The last sentence compares the waterfall to the bright galaxy, which is vivid and appropriate, and one of the words "doubt" is straightforward and meaningful. [2]?
Editor's brief introduction to the author of this paragraph
(Tang) Li Bai (71 ~ 762), Han nationality, whose word is Taibai, was named Qinglian Jushi, and also named "Xianxian". Known as "Poet Fairy", he is also called "Li Du" with Du Fu. It is more than seven feet long (about 1.83 meters). Born in Sheyecheng, Duhufu, Anxi (a desolate place near Xinjiang where ancestors were exiled), he moved to Changlong County, Mianzhou, Sichuan Province in his childhood (now jiangyou city, Sichuan Province, represented by Guo Moruo) and was born in Qinglian Township, Jiangyou, Sichuan Province. A great romantic poet in Tang Dynasty. His poetic style is bold, elegant and free-spirited, with rich imagination, natural language flow and harmonious and changeable melody. He is good at absorbing nutritional materials from folk songs and myths, forming his unique magnificent and gorgeous colors, which is the new peak of positive romantic poetry since Qu Yuan. I am called "Poet Fairy". Han Yuyun: "Li Du's article is in full swing." ("adjusting Zhang Ji"). Li Bai's poems and songs, Pei Min's sword dance and Zhang Xu's cursive script in the Tang Dynasty were named "Three Musts". Li Bai's swordsmanship ranked second in the Tang Dynasty (below Pei Min), but if Li Bai abandoned literature and devoted himself to the study of swordsmanship, I believe it would not be inferior to Pei Min. Together with Li Shangyin and Li He, they are also called "Three Li" in Tang Dynasty. When Li Bai was young, he was a chivalrous man who met with difficulties and drew his sword to help him (this is related to chivalrous thought, one of his three major thoughts). There are some records about this in unofficial history. Li Bai's ancestral home was in Chengji, Longxi (now Jingning County, Gansu Province). At the end of Sui Dynasty, Li Bai was born here because he moved to Broken Leaf City in Central Asia (now near tokmak, northern Kyrgyzstan) to avoid chaos. He spent most of his life roaming. At the age of five, his family moved to Zhangming County, Mianzhou (now Jiangyou, Sichuan). At the age of twenty, he left Sichuan alone and began to roam widely. He went to Dongting Xiangjiang River in the south and Wu and Yue in the east, and lived in (now Anlu City, Hubei Province). He traveled everywhere, hoping to make friends and pay homage to celebrities, so as to be introduced, ascend to a high position in one fell swoop, and realize his political ideals and ambitions. However, after ten years of roaming, I have accomplished nothing. He continued to go north to Taiyuan and Chang 'an, east to Qi and Lu, and lived in Rencheng, Shandong (now Jining, Shandong). At this time, he has made many celebrities and created a large number of excellent poems, which are famous all over the world. In the early years of Tianbao, recommended by Taoist Wu Yun, Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty called him to Beijing and ordered him to worship the Hanlin. Soon, due to the slanderers of powerful people, he was pushed out of Beijing in Tianbao three or four years (AD 744 or 745). Since then, he has been wandering around Jiang and Huai, and his thoughts are extremely boring. Li Bai lived in the heyday of the Tang Dynasty, and he had the progressive ideal of "helping the poor" and "settling down the Li Yuan", and he struggled to realize this ideal all his life. A large number of his poems not only reflect the prosperity of that era, but also expose and criticize the dissoluteness and corruption of the ruling group, showing the positive spirit of despising the powerful, resisting the traditional bondage and pursuing freedom and ideals. In art, his poems are novel in imagination, unique in conception, strong in emotion, magnificent in artistic conception, fresh and bright in language, magnificent in momentum, and bold and unrestrained in style, forming a bold and unrestrained artistic style, which has reached the peak of positive romantic poetry art in ancient China. There are nearly a thousand poems, including Li Taibai, which is a representative figure of romantic poetry in the prosperous Tang Dynasty.