"Looking at Tianmen Mountain" depicts the confrontation between Tianmen Mountain and the Yangtze River, and the majestic and beautiful scenery of the Yangtze River.
From: "Looking at Tianmen Mountain" is a poem composed by Li Bai, a great poet of the Tang Dynasty, when he visited Tianmen Mountain on his way to Jiangdong in the 13th year of Kaiyuan (725).
Original text:
Looking at Tianmen Mountain
Tang Dynasty: Li Bai
Tianmen interrupts the opening of the Chu River, and the clear water flows eastward here.
The green mountains on both sides of the strait face each other, and a lonely sail comes from the sun.
Translation:
The Yangtze River is like a giant ax splitting open the majestic Tianmen Peak, and the green river water flows eastward and swirls here.
The beautiful scenery of the confrontation between the green mountains on both sides of the Taiwan Strait is indistinguishable, and you can see a solitary boat coming from the horizon.
Extended information:
Creative background:
"Looking at Tianmen Mountain" is the story of Li Bai who first left Bashu and took a boat to Jiangdong in 725 AD (the thirteenth year of Kaiyuan). I traveled to Tianmen Mountain on the way to Dangtu (now part of Anhui Province) and wrote it with emotion when I saw Tianmen Mountain for the first time.
Appreciation:
This poem describes clear water, green mountains, white sails and red sun, which form a colorful picture. But this picture is not static, but flowing. As the poet rows, the mountains break and the river opens, the water flows eastward and returns, and the green mountains come out facing each other.
The lone sail sails towards the sun, and the scenery unfolds from far to near and then to far. Six verbs are used in the poem: "break, open, flow, return, come out, come". The landscape and scenery present an exciting dynamic, depicting the majesty and vastness of the Tianmen Mountain area.
The first and second sentences describe the majestic, steep and unstoppable momentum of the Tianmen landscape, giving people a thrilling feeling. Three or four sentences describe the vast and far-reaching water potential fully and vividly. "Tianmen interrupts the opening of the Chu River, and the clear water flows eastward here."
These two sentences describe the poet's view of the confrontation between Tianmen Mountain and the river. The river passes through Tianmen Mountain, and the water is rushing and swirling. The first sentence closely follows the title, always writing about Tianmen Mountain.
Looking around, Liangshan Mountain and Bowang Mountain, which stretch in the Chu region, seem to have been opened by the rushing river, forming a natural portal from which the surging river water surged.
Author introduction:
Li Bai, whose courtesy name was Taibai, lived in the first year of Chang'an (701). His birthplace is generally believed to be Qinglian Township, Changlong (later changed to Changming to avoid Xuanzong's taboo) in Mianzhou (Brazil County), Jiannan Road, Tang Dynasty. His ancestral home is Tianshui, Gansu. His family background and family are unknown.
According to the "New Book of Tang", Li Bai is the ninth grandson of Emperor Xingsheng (Liang Wuzhao King Li Hao). According to this statement, Li Bai has the same clan as the kings of Li and Tang Dynasties, and is the younger brother of Tang Taizong Li Shimin. . It is also said that his ancestor was Li Jiancheng or Li Yuanji.
In the second year of Qianyuan (759), due to a severe drought in Guanzhong, the imperial court announced a general amnesty, stipulating that the deceased should be exiled, and those below were fully pardoned. After a long period of wandering around, Li Bai finally gained freedom.
He immediately drove down the Yangtze River, and the famous song "Early Departure from Baidi City" best reflected his mood at that time. When he arrived in Jiangxia, Li Bai stayed for a while because his old friend Liang Zai was working as a prefect there.
In the second year of Qianyuan, at the invitation of a friend, Li Bai once again went boating with Jia Zhi, who had been demoted, to admire the moon in the Dongting, thinking about the ancient feelings, and composing poems to express his feelings. Soon, I returned to my old travel places of Xuancheng and Jinling.
For almost two years, he traveled between the two places, still relying on others to make a living. In the second year of Shangyuan (761), Li Bai, who was in his early sixties, returned to Jinling due to illness. In Jinling, his life was quite difficult, and he had no choice but to seek refuge with his uncle Li Yangbing, who was the county magistrate in Dangtu.
In the third year of the Yuan Dynasty (762), Li Bai was seriously ill. He gave the manuscript to Li Yangbing on his sick bed, composed the "Death Song" and passed away. Li Bai lived in the prosperous period of the Tang Dynasty. He had a heroic character, loved the mountains and rivers of his motherland, and traveled all over the north and south.
Write a large number of magnificent poems praising famous mountains and rivers. His poems are bold and unrestrained, fresh and elegant, rich in imagination, wonderful in artistic conception, and brisk in language. People call him the "Poetic Immortal".
Li Bai's poetry not only has the typical romantic spirit, but also has the typical romantic artistic characteristics from image creation, material intake, genre selection and the use of various artistic techniques.
Li Bai successfully shaped himself in the poem, expressed himself strongly, and highlighted the unique personality of the lyrical protagonist. Therefore, his poems have distinctive romantic characteristics.
He likes to use majestic images to express himself, and expresses his emotions in poems without concealment or restraint, expressing his joy, anger, sorrow and joy. Li Bai's poems are majestic and elegant, and his artistic achievements are extremely high.
He eulogized the mountains, rivers and beautiful natural scenery of the motherland, with a majestic and unrestrained style, handsome and fresh, full of romantic spirit, and achieved the unity of content and art. He was called the "Exiled Immortal" by He Zhizhang, and most of his poems mainly described landscapes and expressed inner emotions.
Li Bai's poems have the artistic charm of "the pen falls in the storm, and the poem becomes the weeping ghosts and gods", which is also the most distinctive artistic feature of his poems. Li Bai's poems are full of self-expression and have a strong subjective lyrical color.
The expression of emotion has an overwhelming momentum. He and Du Fu are called "Big Li Du" (Li Shangyin and Du Mu are called "Little Li Du").