People are idle, osmanthus flowers fall, and the night is quiet and empty.
When the moon comes out, the birds are startled, and the sound enters the spring stream.
Wang Wei, also known as Shi Fo, has a natural affinity with nature because of his semi-official and semi-secluded lifestyle. The nature in his works always gives people a sense of tranquility, safety and leisure, such as "moonlight in the pine forest, crystal stone in the stream" and "nobody can hear except my comrade, the bright moon." Wang Wei's poems create a quiet poetic habitat for readers, especially the word "quiet". Where this ethereal and quiet beauty comes from is that Wang Wei has created a poetic picture for us, which makes people immersed in it, relaxed and happy, lingering and talking to themselves.
Su Shi's evaluation of Wang Wei's poem "There is a picture in the poem and a poem in the picture" can be said to point out the poetic essence of Wang Wei's poem, just like this poem "Birds in the Stream":
It's quiet and relaxing inside, so you can hear the sound of flowers falling, right? The man strolled leisurely in the valley, following his heart. The spring night is quiet, the valley is empty, the moon sticks out from behind the mountain, and the empty moonlight shines on the empty Shan Ye. The swaying light attracted the attention of the mountain birds, who took off in the air, and the stream flowed slowly in the mountain stream and tinkled through the valley. Birds are singing in harmony with the stream. On this quiet moonlit night, a symphony is playing. Singing and singing, birds inhabit the mountain stream. Moonlit night, how beautiful!
The moonlit night illuminates the pedestrian's path. In this empty valley, there is only the bright moon and the breeze. Only I, when all is silent, will "disturb" the mountain birds. If there are birds singing, I will pay attention to the gurgling water in the mountain stream, hear the falling flowers and hear the sound of the stream. The moon can scare away birds. This is not only the dead of night, but also a dilution in the author's mind.
The author must have the leisure to "come and go alone" in order to see that everything is painting and meaning, and to feel generate and form his own poems. If you have "poetry" and "distance" in your heart, you will have your own "poetry" in your life.