It means: We got on the boat and wandered on the blue waves, and saw the beautiful scenery on both sides of the strait. It was like we were traveling in a beautiful painting.
From: "Zhouzhuang River", a work by the famous poet and painter Wang Wei of the Tang Dynasty, original text:
Zhouzhuang River
Tang Dynasty: Wang Wei
The breeze blows the green willows, and the white water reflects the red peaches.
The boat is sailing on the blue waves, and people are swimming in the painting.
Translation:
The breeze gently blows the green willows, and the clear lake reflects the bright red peach blossoms.
We got on the boat and wandered on the blue waves. We saw the beautiful scenery on both sides of the strait, and we felt like we were traveling in a beautiful painting.
Extended information:
Appreciation of "The boat is sailing on the blue waves, and people are swimming in the painting":
The cruise boat is sailing on the green river, and the tourists on the boat are like Tour in a beautiful picture. It expresses the author's praise for Guilin's landscape.
The title of the poem "Zhouzhuang River" should be the place name: Zhouzhuang, a small town in the south of the Yangtze River, known as "China's No. 1 Water Town" and one of the first batch of 5A-level scenic spots in the country.
The old name of Zhouzhuang Town is Zhenfengli. From the Spring and Autumn Period to the Han Dynasty, there was a saying of "Shao City" in the Zhouzhuang area. According to legend, King Wu's youngest son Yao and Han Yuebo were granted this place. The writer Zhang Han of the Western Jin Dynasty and the poets Liu Yuxi and Lu Guimeng of the Tang Dynasty once lived in Zhouzhuang.
Introduction to the author:
Wang Wei (701-761, some say 699-761) was a native of Puzhou, Hedong (now Yuncheng, Shanxi), and his ancestral home was Qi County, Shanxi. A famous poet and painter in the Tang Dynasty, his courtesy name was Mojie and his nickname was Mojie Jushi.
Wang Wei was born in the Wang family in Hedong, and passed the first prize in the 19th year of Kaiyuan (731). Li Guanyou collected relics, censored the censor, and made the judge during the Hexi Festival. During the Tianbao period of Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty, Wang Wei paid homage to the official doctor and gave him a job.
When An Lushan captured Chang'an, Wang Wei was forced to take a pseudo post. After Chang'an was recovered, he was awarded the title of Prince Zhongyun. During the Qianyuan period of Emperor Suzong of the Tang Dynasty, he served as Shangshu Youcheng, and was known as "Wang Youcheng" in his later life.
Keywords for the style of the work: painting shadows and shapes, which has the beauty of freehand brushwork and vivid expression, with both form and spirit. "There are paintings within poems, and poems within paintings." Wang Wei creates an artistic conception of "painting in poetry, poetry in painting" and "Zen in poetry" with his fresh, distant, natural and refined style.
Most of Wang Wei's landscape poems were written in the later period. Compared with his predecessors, he expanded the content of this type of poetry, added its artistic style, and brought the achievements of landscape poetry to unprecedented heights. This is His outstanding contribution to Chinese classical poetry.
Among them, the pastoral poems about rural scenery and farm life are full of pastoral mood, expressing his leisurely and leisurely taste and tranquil and comfortable mood. Wang Wei had a variety of talents, and the mutual penetration of different arts had a profound impact on his poetry.
He incorporated painting into poetry, making his landscape poems have the basic characteristics of being rich in poetry and painting. The language of Wang's poems is implicit, fresh and lively, the sentence patterns and rhythms are varied, the phonology is loud and harmonious, and it has musical beauty.
In terms of ideological content, Wang Wei's poems are far from comparable to those of Li and Du; but in terms of art, Wang Wei does have his unique achievements and contributions. The poems of Liu Changqing of the Tang Dynasty, the Ten Talents of Dali, and even Yao He, Jia Dao and others were all influenced by Wang Wei to varying degrees.