The first half of this poem focuses on the scenery. "In the cold autumn of independence, the Xiangjiang River goes north, at the head of Orange Island." From the beginning, the author places himself in the broad background of autumn water and long sky.
At the same time, it also brings readers into a lofty realm of late autumn. Looking from a distance: "Thousands of mountains are red, and the forests are dyed." The author not only sees the maple forest in Yuelu Mountain in front of him, but may also think of the Fragrant Mountain in Beijing. Cotinus cotinus, and the green cypress, metasequoia, maple, live oak, pistacia chinensis in the countless mountains of the motherland... Those mountains and layers of trees are dyed bright red with a touch of the color pen of the God of Nature. , more beautiful than the spring flowers blooming in February, more magnificent than the dancing clouds in June. A closer look: "The river is full of clear blue, and hundreds of boats are vying for the current."
The autumn water is clear, and the autumn river has blue waves under your feet. The Xiangjiang River is even more clear and crystal-clear in autumn, like green emeralds and transparent crystals. On the river, thousands of sails compete, hundreds of boats compete to cross, there is movement in the silence, and it is full of vitality. Looking up, "eagles strike the sky", and there are no clouds in the sky. In the autumn sky, the eagle flutters its feathers and flies freely. Looking down, "fish fly to the shallow bottom". In the transparent and clear river, fish swing their fins and tails and swim freely.
The author writes: Just four lines of poetry depict a three-dimensional and colorful autumn scenery in the south of the Yangtze River, just like the colorful ink landscape paintings of Guan Shanyue, a famous contemporary master of the Lingnan School of Painting. It is worthy of being "driving mountains and seas before your eyes" ( Li Bai's "Song of Landscape Paintings Painted by Zhao Yan Shaofu") and "Such a Thousand Miles Away" (Du Fu's "Song of Landscape Paintings Painted by Wang Zai") are generous works. It is similar to another poem by the author "Spring Snow in Qinyuan" The northern scenery described in "Thousands of miles of ice and thousands of miles of snow" is a majestic and majestic panoramic landscape painting unprecedented in classical poetry.