The Poem of Looking at Lushan Waterfall and Its Interpretation

The poem Looking at Lushan Waterfall is generally believed to have been written by Li Bai when he visited Lushan Mountain for the first time on his way to Jinling around 725 AD (13th year of Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty). This paper sorts out the original poem and translation of Wang Lushan Waterfall. Welcome to reading.

The original poem "Looking at Lushan Waterfall"

The purple mist is illuminated by sunlight, and the waterfall hangs in front of the mountain.

On the high cliff, it seems to be thousands of feet high, which makes people think that the Milky Way has fallen from heaven to earth.

Translation of Looking at Lushan Waterfall

The censer peak produces a purple mist under the sunlight. From a distance, the waterfall looks like white silk hanging in front of the mountain.

There seem to be several waterfalls in thousands of feet on the high cliff, which makes people suspect that the Milky Way fell from the sky to the ground.

Appreciation of Lushan Waterfall

Three thousand flies, nine days in a row. With such boldness of vision and infinite imagination, I'm afraid Li Bai is the only one in ancient and modern times. In this poem, three words are skillfully used: a word "Sheng" not only brings the incense burner peak to life, but also shows the scene of mountains and clouds rising; a word "Hanging" depicts the image of a waterfall pouring in Yuanwang; A word "falling" points out the majestic momentum of the waterfall. Through the integration of these three words, it seems that Lushan Waterfall is just around the corner. Inside, outside. I want to fall from the sky, with both form and spirit. This is the ancient people's evaluation of this poem, which can be described as a masterpiece among many poems looking at waterfalls.

Introduction of Li Bai

Li Bai (70 1-762), the word Taibai, was a romantic poet in the Tang Dynasty and was praised as a "poetic immortal" by later generations. Born in the western area of Broken Leaf City, the ancestral home of Ji Cheng in Longxi, he moved to Mianzhou in Jiannan with his father at the age of 4. Li Bai has more than 1000 poems, among which Li Taibai Ji has been handed down from generation to generation. He died in 762 at the age of 6 1. Its tomb is in Dangtu, Anhui, and there are memorial halls in Jiangyou, Sichuan and Anlu, Hubei.