The author’s name is Laihu
Xia Yun has a strange shape and changes erratically. "Xia Yun has many strange peaks" is a famous saying that has been recited throughout the history. But the author of the poem seems to be quite disgusted with Xia Yun's leisurely manner. This is because the author's mood is not leisurely in the first place, and his intention is different.
The first sentence puts aside Xia Yun's various specific images and uses the four words "thousands of shapes" to describe it in one stroke, followed by the words "actually still empty", which have a lot of emotional weight. It turns out that the poet was watching the changes in the wind and clouds with the anxiety of looking forward to the rain after a long drought. For him, Xia Yun's various postures had no practical significance, and of course he couldn't think of describing them. Different angles of concern about things naturally lead to different ways of describing them. Although the description of Xia Yun in this sentence is abstract, it is completely consistent with the poet's feelings at this time. It describes a process: the clouds continue to transform into various images, and the poet continues to repeat his hopes and disappointments. Finally, the clouds drift away with the wind and disappear into nothing, and the poet's hope is finally completely disappointed. The words "It turned out to be empty" contain both the deep disappointment that things went against our expectations, and the resentment that comes from feeling teased.
The second sentence writes about the situation that occurred after "it was still empty". Although the clouds change and even disappear, those who are eager for the rain are still looking for its traces. It seems to be deliberately playing hide-and-seek with people: it can't be found everywhere. Suddenly, when you lower your head, you find its reflection reflected in the water; when you suddenly look up, you see that it is hiding behind the mountain. It also seems to be deliberately playing tricks in front of you: sometimes the clouds are light, sometimes they are heavy and overlapping. This further describes the cloud's appearance, leisurely appearance, contentment, and pretentious posture. It is easy to imagine what kind of feelings a poet who has experienced disappointment and the feeling of being teased would have when facing the flattering Yun.
"The infinite drought is almost drying up the seedlings, and there are strange peaks in leisurely places." The third sentence is the background of the whole poem. According to the natural order, it seems that it should be placed in the first sentence. The poet arranged it here, on the one hand, to make this very narrow poem also have suspense and waves; on the other hand (and more importantly), it is to make it appear at the juncture of emotional development, so as to connect with the fourth chapter. The sentences form a sharp contrast and achieve a stronger artistic effect. The third sentence obviously contains a lot of anxiety and resentment. It is raised very high and the words are very strong. When the fourth sentence is put down, it is very light and almost emotionless on the surface. On one side, there are large swathes of drought-stricken seedlings that are about to wither and die, eager for the rain. On the other side, they are high up, leisurely and relaxed, turning into strange peaks to admire themselves. It is in the ups and downs of contrasting descriptions that the poet adds the finishing touch to the image of Yun, pushing the feeling of hating Xia Yun to a climax.
A poem about things that does not rely on description and characterization as its main purpose and allusion can always inspire people to think and think with its vivid images. This poem does not seem to simply express the feelings of longing for rain and hating dry clouds. The image of "cloud" in the poem not only has the characteristics of summer clouds in nature, but also summarizes the characteristics of a certain type of people in social life. The ever-changing clouds that seem to give people hope of rain, actually have no intention of rescuing the dry seedlings. When people are anxiously looking forward to the rain, it is "laid back and making strange peaks". It goes without saying that this is exactly the look of those powerful people in the old days who seemed to be able to "relieve the people", but in fact "had no regard for the common people".