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Xiao Shi Tang Ji appreciates Liu Zongyuan's writing, but it is not one-sided. He not only absorbed the simple description techniques in Zuo Zhuan and Historical Records, but also paid great attention to the image description techniques in Ci Fu and poetry, paying attention to image description and pursuing the creative realm of "washing everything and keeping it in a cage". Therefore, his travel works are extremely poor in depicting natural scenery, with wide objects, exquisite carving without injury, beautiful without floating, good at depicting the nuances of mountains, rivers, trees and stones with clear words and beautiful sentences, and sketching out the overall image with bright strokes, so that the nuances can be presented in detail. No matter from the whole to the details, the article is full of strong poetry. This feature is particularly striking in the novel "Little Stone Pond to the West of the Hill". Xiaoshitang is another scenic spot discovered by Liu Zongyuan behind the mountain. "120 steps west of the hill" is Xiaoshitang, not far from nature. Tracing back to the edge of the pool, people are "separated by bamboo" and can't see the water in the pool, but they can clearly "smell the sound of water like a ring" and know that there is a stream winding through and then injecting it into the pool. Like a village girl with hundreds of tender feelings, in her spare time, the jade ring she wears is swaying with the wind, and it sounds elegant and melodious, lingering in the bamboo forest and above the clear water. This kind of music brings a quiet and pleasant suspense to the tourists who are separated by bamboo forests and have not yet met Shitan, and triggers a strong desire to see the elegant demeanor of the pool. Here, the author uses a novel and wonderful metaphor, which makes the underwater sound appealing to people's hearing become a concrete image that can be examined and appreciated, arousing readers' aesthetic synaesthesia, which is naturally due to the author's clever writing style. When the author was in a hurry to "cut bamboo to take the road" and went straight to the pond, "Look at the small pond below, the water is particularly clear." This word "Qing" is extremely accurate. You not only wrote the clear water quality, but also the cool water temperature, which made readers feel the charm of the pool visually and tactilely. The clear pool water gives a panoramic view of the bottom of the pool paved with all the rocks. Amazingly, near the shore, the edge of the bottom of the stone rolled up out of the water, "for the land, for the island, for the mountain, for the rock", as if the shore stone was deliberately vying for the favor of tourists. They are either highlands in the water, islands in the waves, or rugged, steep, and sharp ... All kinds of rocks are reflected in a pool of clear water, and the scenery is beautiful and dazzling. What is more gratifying is that there are "green trees and green vines" by the pool, which are "hidden and distorted" in the gust of mountain wind. Here, the posture of Brawly by the pool is very distinctive: the trees are lush, the branches are green and intertwined, and the height is uneven and fluttering in the wind. This is in harmony with the neighboring rocks and lakes. Faced with this scene, it is no wonder that Liu Zongyuan wants to sigh: "The heart is happy!" He likes Leshan, Leshui, Yueqing and Le Cuiman. At this point, it seems that only this kind of understanding can naturally bring him heartfelt joy! In particular, there are more than 100 swimming fish in the water, which makes him feel the joy of natural scenery: because the water in the pool is clear and dust-free, the fish look like swimming in the air, with clear sunshine and shadows on the stones. Don't move, don't move, don't die, and suddenly come back and forth ... "This passage about a fish swim has always been praised by critics. For the article, the metaphor is true, and the special line drawing, especially grasping the characteristics of the fish's shallow bottom, is described in detail, which makes the fish feel comfortable in the sun and sometimes shoots like an arrow, showing it incisively and vividly, making the fish's gesture of stopping and dying look real. The vivid image of a fish swimming freely seems helpless in the air, which sets off the clarity of the pool water. This description obviously uses the brushwork of Wu Jun's "With Zhu Yishu", saying that "the water is blue, the water reaches the bottom of thousands of feet, and the fish is fine and the stone is clear. "However, the dynamics of the fish, the brightness of the sun and the shape of the pool are obviously better. They are more detailed and vivid. Words and objects are subtle and ingenious. Throughout the whole article, although Liu Zongyuan only used the word "clear" for the pool water, the side writing of "where fish swim in the air" vividly reflected the degree of this clarity. In the face of such clear pool water, Liu Zongyuan felt more cheerful. He felt that he was swimming in his tail and tail, as if he were "entertaining himself with swimmers". This is a kind of happiness that fish and water get together, and it is also the happiness that the author feels after temporarily getting rid of troubles. Liu Zongyuan stood by the pool, and the sound of water was like "Pei Huan", which still came from time to time, which made him look curiously to the southwest of the sound. The article "looking southwest" shows that the author first heard the sound of water, and then approached the small pool to find the source of the sound beside the small stone pool. He saw a "broken, visible" stream, rushing. Here, Liu Zongyuan used the brushwork of reflecting each other's movement and contrast between light and dark to describe this beautiful water in Xiaoshitang: "buckle" means that the valley is as tortuous as the Big Dipper, which means writing quietly; Serpentine "means that the stream swims briskly like a snake in the quiet and tortuous valley." This is writing. The whole thing is moving and static, moving and static, moving and static. At this time, staring at the stream flowing from the pool and from the bamboo forest, the bright and shiny stream is a stream of singing and laughing. Due to the twists and turns of the valley, the bamboo forest blocked the sun, and the stream suddenly became bright and dazzling, and suddenly lost its luster, just like a fluttering flame, flickering. This is a wonderful landscape painting! Even a generous painter, I'm afraid it's hard to draw the tone, luster, shape and momentum in this painting so accurately, but Liu Zongyuan did it! Moreover, only eight words were used, and the purpose of using words to cut and cook was truly achieved, and the song was described to the extreme! Looking up from the mountain stream again, "the shore potential is different from each other, and its source is unknown. "This is written from the stream to the stream. To write a stream ontology, you still have to rely on images to catch people. Uneven and patchy rocks gradually blocked the author's view, so the source of Xiaoshitang could not be confirmed. Liu Zongyuan sat quietly by the pool. "Surrounded by bamboo forests, there is no one." An inexplicable sense of silence and sadness came quietly, which made him feel "sad, sad and quiet", and his mood suddenly changed from joy to unspeakable sadness. In fact, this kind of emotional ups and downs is not surprising for Liu Zongyuan. Because he boarded the landscape as an official, the quiet and profound scenery of Xiaoshitang can make him feel the beauty of nature and rejoice; Shan Ye's empty and barren atmosphere can also trigger his sadness and sadness. As he himself said, "When the time comes, it's good to build a good stone. You can laugh for a while, but you're not happy anymore." This reminds us of "I can't sleep at night, sit up and play the piano, watch the bright moon with a thin curtain, and the breeze blows on my chest." "The lonely image in Ruan Ji's" Yong Huai "reminds me that although Liu Zongyuan loves mountains and rivers, he just thinks that" the seaside mountains are like swords and mangs, and Qiu Lai cuts his worries everywhere "("Seeing the mountains off with the great master at first "). The pent-up emotion is surging up and down, and the scenery is only the medium to stimulate its heat and velocity. When my mood turns pale, I naturally feel that Xiaoshitang's "land is too clear to stay long, but I remember to leave". Although the author left Xiaoshitang, Xiaoshitang remained in the memory of future generations for a long time. Gong Liu wrote The Story of Little Stone Pond, which was very indifferently written. But the feelings are profound, the artistic conception is muddy, and there are some fiery feelings under the light. Su Shi said that Liu Wen: "The exterior is dry and the interior is milky, which seems clear and beautiful" (Dongpo Inscription Volume II), and "The hair only grows in the ancient times and is sent to the lake" (after Huang Zisi's poetry anthology), which is an appropriate comment. How many exquisite, rich and beautiful poems are contained in this simple and concise travel note.