Compare the surface of Dongting Lake to a "silver plate", and compare Junshan Mountain in Dongting Lake to a "green snail".
it's from Wang Dongting written by Liu Yuxi in the Tang Dynasty.
Original text:
Looking at the Dongting
Liu Yuxi in the Tang Dynasty
The lake and the moon are in harmony, and there is no wind mirror on the pool surface.
Looking at the Dongting Lake from afar, there is a green snail in a silver plate.
Translation:
The water and light in Dongting Lake are in harmony with the autumn moon, and the water is as calm as a bronze mirror.
From a distance, the Dongting Lake landscape is green, just like a silver plate holding a green snail.
Extended information:
"Looking at Dongting from afar, there is a green snail in the silver plate." This sentence depicts a picture of Dongting Lake under the moon metaphorically: Junshan is like a green snail under the bright moon, standing on the Dongting Lake as calm as a silver plate.
The word "Yao" depicts a magnificent picture of Dongting Lake under the bright moon Yin Hui. A word "color" makes people feel the unique beauty of greener mountains, clearer water and interdependent mountains and rivers in the moonlight.
In this way, in the extremely high visual atmosphere, not only the artistic conception of the poem is more open, but also it lays a further foundation for the later description.
Liu Yuxi's "Looking at Dongting" chose the perspective of a moonlit night to have a panoramic view of the Dongting, grasping the most representative lakes and mountains, and recreating the beauty of the Dongting with rich imagination and clever metaphors, which not only expressed his love for nature and broad mind, but also showed the poet's amazing artistic creativity.
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