Excerpts from the original text:
Zhang Yu old county, Hongdu new home. The stars are divided into wings, and the ground is connected with Lu Heng. Three rivers and five lakes in Jin, controlling barbarians and attracting Ouyue. Wuhua Tianbao, the dragon lamp shoots the bull fighting market; Outstanding people, Xu Ru got off Chen Fan's couch.
Xing Chi Cai Jun Xiongzhou fog column. At the turn of summer, the host and guest are all in the southeast. Governor elegant, _ Jiyuan; Fan Yi of Yuwen Xinzhou, _ screen temporarily stationed. Ten days holiday, win friends like a cloud; Welcome to the wedding. Teng Jiao, a poet of Meng; Purple electric paste is General Wang's armory. Home is slaughter, Tao is name; What does a boy know? Bowing is always the winner.
When Wei is in September, the sequence belongs to Sanqiu. The water is cold and the pool is clear, and the smoke is purple. Yan _ On the road, visit the scenery of Chong 'an; Close to Emperor Cheung Chau, you will see the old pavilion where heaven and man are integrated. Mountains and clouds are heavy; Feige is full of blood, and there is no land under it. Heting ancient bamboo, the haunt of poor islands; Gui Dian Lan Gong is the posture of hills.
Vernacular translation:
This is Zhang Yu County in the Han Dynasty, and now it is the governor's office of Hongzhou. The position in the sky belongs to the division between two stars, and the position on the ground connects Hengshan and Lushan. Take Sanjiang as the skirt and Five Lakes as the belt, control Chu land and connect Fujian and Vietnam. The essence of things is the treasure of heaven, and the sword light shines directly on the interval between cattle and barrels.
Ying Jie is among the people, and because the earth has aura, Fan Chen specially built several couches for Xu Ru. Magnificent Hongzhou City, houses are like fog, and talents are as active as stars. The city is located in the key place at the junction of Yi and Xia, and the host and guests are all concentrated in the talents in the southeast.
Commander-in-chief Yan Guogong enjoys a high reputation. He came to Hongzhou from afar and worked as a shepherd in Yuwen House. He is a model of virtue and stopped here on his way to his post. On the tenth holiday, outstanding friends gathered together; The distinguished guests came from afar to attend the party.
Meng, a literary leader, is a literary talent and dances Cai Feng. In General Wang's armory, there is a sword as sharp as purple electricity and blue frost. Because my father is going to be a county magistrate, I passed this famous place on my way to visit relatives. Young and ignorant, I was lucky enough to attend this grand banquet in person.
It's September, and the autumn is crisp. The water is gone, the pool is clear, the sky is condensed with faint clouds, and the mountains are purple in the twilight. Driving a carriage on a high mountain road, visiting the scenery in the mountain. I came to Changzhou, Di Zi, and found the Wang Teng Pavilion built by Wang Teng.
The mountains overlap here, and the green peaks soar into the sky. A pavilion in the air, a Hong Ting Road is like flying in the sky, and the ground can't be seen from the pavilion. The small continent where white cranes and wild ducks stop, with winding islands, elegant palaces and continuous mountains set each other off.
This article comes from Wang Bo's Preface to Wang Tengting in the Tang Dynasty.
Extended data writing background:
Preface to Wang Tengting is a parallel essay by Wang Bo, a writer in the Tang Dynasty. The article was written for the banquet based on the terrain and talent of Hongzhou. Write about the magnificence of the Wang Teng Pavilion, with broad vision and bright autumn colors; Then, from banquet entertainment to life experience, express the feelings of life experience; Then the writer's experience and confession should be encouraged by himself, and finally end with poetry and self-deprecating words.
The full text reveals the author's ambition and resentment. Except for a few function words, the whole article is double. Syntax consists of four sentences and six sentences, arranged neatly; Almost a whole story, more natural and appropriate, elegant and skilled.
During the reign of Emperor Gaozong, Yan Mou, the governor of Hongzhou, rebuilt the pavilion, and hosted a banquet in Wang Tengting on the ninth day of February last year (675) to entertain the ministers and guests. The author went south to visit relatives and passed by here. He also attended the ceremony, improvised poems and wrote this preface.
About the author:
Wang Bo (650-676) was born in Longmen, Jiangzhou (now Hejin, Shanxi). Wen Zi, grandson of Wang Tong, a scholar at the end of Sui Dynasty, was a poet in Tang Dynasty. At the age of fourteen, he was named as a "sojourner" and "Chao Saburo". Offended by his composition, he lived in Sichuan and was exiled. Later, Zhou joined the army, committed a capital crime, was pardoned and dismissed. In 27 years, he drowned because he crossed the South China Sea to visit his father.
He is as famous as Yang Jiong, Lu and Liu, and is called "four outstanding men in the early Tang Dynasty". He is good at five laws and five unique skills, and his representative works include "Farewell to Vice Governor Du to Shu". The main literary achievement is parallel prose, and the representative work is Preface to Wang Tengting.